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The Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group

Locality: Crawley

Phone: +61 8 6488 2075

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22.01.2022 To be (a part of the conference), or not to be? That's not really a question - you want to be a part of it!

20.01.2022 Don’t go to the Tav on Thursday night, come to the Perth and Tattersalls Bowls Club at 2 Plain Street for the PMRG Quiz Night! The quiz will run from 6:30-9:30PM, and the quiz will formally start at 6:45PM Sharp. Bring your family, friends, and quizzing partners, and bring a plate (there‘s no kitchen at the venue)! All drinks available at the venue. Bookings for tables of 6 can be made at:... https://www.trybooking.com/BGETB... See more

19.01.2022 Reminder: Public Lecture Tonight Time: 6PM-7PM Venue: Fox Lecture Theatre, UWA.... There are still seats available for the public lecture tonight by Professor Nicoletta Marconi, who is presenting her lecture tonight "Constructing the Baroque: women artisans on building sites in the seventeenth-century Vatican and Rome". We hope to see you there! For further details see: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/marconi

17.01.2022 Public Lecture - Tuesday March 3rd Don't miss out on the amazing opportunity to see Dr Richard Read present a talk on "Theories of Perception and the Aesthetics of Landscape Painting in Britain, Australia and the United States in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" The talk will be 6:00PM-7:00PM in The Circle at UWA's Reid Library. ... Further details on the talk, Dr Read and the venue can be found on the attached poster.

15.01.2022 The PMRG 2019 Quiz Night is finally coming! Thursday 21st of November, 6:30-9:30PM at the East Perth Bowls Club (a family friendly venue, with a family friendly quiz!) Bookings for tables of 6 can be made at: https://www.trybooking.com/BGETB... Buy a table and gather your family, friends and quizzing partners! Come along for the cheap bowls club booze, a battle of the wits and bonanza of prizes! We look forward to seeing you all there for this excellent event and a great new venue! Come wash your post-exam, pre-Christmas worries away.

09.01.2022 Excellent Zoom lecture coming up on this Wednesday 16 September. 6.30 pm, Perth time. GMT+8.

08.01.2022 Masterclass and Travel Bursary Opportunity! On Friday the 18th of October PMRG, the Institute for Advanced Studies and the Centre for the History of Emotions are running a Masterclass entitled "Social Wellbeing: Emotion and Community". (More details below) For those who live interstate or perhaps even overseas and are wanting some extra assistance, there are up to four bursaries of $250 (AUD) each available to assist scholars to travel to Perth to attend this masterclass. Th...ese bursaries have been generously sponsored by the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at UWA and the ARC Centre for the History of Emotions. Please visit http://www.historyofemotions.org.au//social-wellbeing-emo/ for more details on how to apply. Masterclass details: The masterclass is a half-day (9:30AM-12:30PM) and features participation from a wide range of national and international scholars, including: - IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Diana Barnes (English/CHE, University of New England) - Dr Riikka Miettinen (University of Tampere, Finland) - Dr Michael Champion ( Biblical and Early Christian Studies/CHE, Australian Catholic University) - Dr Michael Barbezat (Medieval and Early Modern Studies/CHE, Australian Catholic University). It will focus primarily but not exclusively on the medieval and early modern period.

07.01.2022 A belated happy new year to you all! We're back and raring to go! The Call for Papers for the 2020 PMRG Conference is out!! This year, PMRG is joining forces with a UWA based journal, Limina, to present a newly imagined conference...... Adaptation in the Humanities: Reimagining the Past, Present, and Future. This year we're looking at adaptation across time from the medieval to early-modern, right through to the modern. No time is off limits! It's proving to be a huge event spanning two days from the 3rd-4th of October (with a reception the evening of Friday 2nd). For more info and for the full CFP check out our conference website: https://conference.pmrg.org.au/ So what are you waiting for? Get thinking and get typing the CFP closes the 31st of May.

05.01.2022 Registration has been extended until Wednesday 16th October (5:00PM AWST) for the 'Mental Health in the Medieval & Early Modern World' Conference. The conference is this Saturday 19 October 2019, at The University of Western Australia. To register or find out more about the programme for Saturday please visit the conference website: https://conference.pmrg.org.au

05.01.2022 You are invited to join our new Middle English online reading group. We will meet by Zoom for an hour every fortnight on Tuesdays at 6pm WST, starting Tuesday June 30. The first text we'll read is Geoffrey Chaucer's ‘The Wife of Bath's Tale’ (found here: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/CT/1:3.2). We'll use this edition for line numbers, but you're welcome to read from any version with the original text. This group is for enjoying and learning Middle English literature and... reading it aloud, but there will no preparation required or pressure to read. To join in the fun please email: [email protected] You'll then receive the Zoom link and password. This group is not just for PMRG members, so please pass on this invitation to anyone and everyone who might be interested. We look forward to seeing you online!

03.01.2022 The PMRG 2019 Quiz Night is nearly here! Thursday 21st of November, 6:30-9:30PM at the East Perth Bowls Club (a family friendly venue, with a family friendly quiz!) Bookings for tables of 6 can be made at: https://www.trybooking.com/BGETB... Buy a table and gather your family, friends and quizzing partners! Come along for the cheap bowls club booze, a battle of the wits and bonanza of prizes!

02.01.2022 PMRG Online Public Lecture - Wednesday 16th of September This Wednesday (16/09) Dr. Richard Read will presenting a public lecture via Zoom entitled: "The Distant Origins of Modern Art: Reason, Madness and Reversal in Goya's Paintings and Works on Paper"... The lecture will run from 6:30-7:30 with a Q&A afterwards for those who are able to stay for it. Registration is required for the Zoom link and the contact email, and further information of the lecture and Richard Read can be found here: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au//the-distant-origins-/ We hope to 'see' some of you on the night!