Previous MARS programmes
2023-24
Semester 1
18 October: Nick Evans (Leeds), 'Socially distanced trade and medieval economic anthropology'
1 November: Graham Williams (English), 'Wassail! The origins and development of a medieval English drink salutation'
15 November: PGR Research Session
Lewis Dagnall (History), 'The Price of Empire? Subsidies in East Roman foreign policy in the Age of Justinian'
Eleanor Bailey (History), ‘The Pattern of Composite Monarchies: the case of the late-medieval English and French crowns'
29 November: John Bennet (Archaeology) 'A 19th century institution operating in the 21st century: Reflections on the activities of the British School at Athens past and present'
Semester 2
15 February: Tom McAuley (SEAS), 'The Poetics of Appropriation: Critical Attitudes to the Use of Sinitic Material in Early Mediaeval Waka Poetry'
28 February: Research Speed-Dating session
13 March: PGR Research Session
Maria Giner (Archaelogy), 'Identifying Turtles in Archaeology: implications for our understanding of mobility, trade and resource use in the Mediterranean'
Freddy Potts (History), ‘Until Lithuania is Conquered: Allegiance and Exile in the Late Medieval Eastern Baltic
17 April: Shazia Jagot (York), 'Chaucer, craft and the Arabic "science of the stars"'
+ UG/PGT workshop
1 May: Dilnoza Duturaeva (York), 'Women on the Move: Envoys and Travellers along the Silk Roads'
2022-23
Semester 1
5 October: MARS Welcome Back Event, University Arms, Dart Room
19 October: Justin Winslett (SEAS), 'Changing Foxes: The Shapeshifter in Mediaeval Chinese tales'
2 November: Charlotte Steenbrugge (English), 'Master Brundyche of Braban & 15th-century Anti-Flemish Sentiment'
16 November: Alaric Hall (School of English/Institute of Medieval Studies, Leeds), 'A hairy woman gives birth to a bald child… Eggs, birds, mothers, and more in (mostly) early medieval Arabic, Hebrew, Norse, Latin and Greek riddles' (WRoCAH Medieval Seminar)
23 November: Christoph Haack (Tübingen) and Charles West (History), 'Feudalism in debate'
Semester 2
15 February: John Bennet (Arch), 'A 19th century institution operating in 21st century: Reflections on the activities of the British School at Athens past and present' - To be rescheduled for 2023-2024 due to UCU Industrial Action, Spring 2023
1 March: PGR Research Session - To be rescheduled for 2023-2024 due to UCU Industrial Action, Spring 2023
8 March: Paul Roberts (Ashmolean Museum), 'Last Supper in Pompeii: The Roman Love Affair with Food and Wine'
29 March: Claire Burridge (Hist), 'Food for thought: Dietary advice and medical knowledge in the early medieval West
3 May: Sanja Vucetic (Arch), 'Sexual art on Roman lamps: a view from the provinces'
10 May: Decolonising the Study of the Pre-modern World Event/Book Launch for Mirela Ivanova (Hist) & Ben Anderson (Cornell)
24 May: Alice Hicklin (Hist), 'Family Values? Women and their Priestly Relatives in Western European Charters, 900–1100' - Rescheduled from 15 March due to UCU Industrial Action, Spring 2023
2021-22
Semester 1
27 October: Julia Hillner (University of Bonn), 'Helena Augusta: an interrupted life'
17 November: Sharon Kinoshita (University of California, Santa Cruz), 'What's in a name? Boccaccio's Decameron in the Medieval Mediterranean'
24 November: Verena Krebs (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), 'Of monks and marriage proposals: Ethiopian pilgrims and ambassadors in Latin Europe in the 15th century'
8 December: PGR Research Session
Kelsey Madden (Arch), 'From conquest to consumption: Identifying the sexualisation and trafficking of barbarian women in Roman conquest iconography (1st c BC-2nd c AD)'
Nick Groat (Arch), ‘Innovation at the Edge of Empire? The Role of Distillation and Technology in Constructing the 'Hellenistic East'
Semester 2
23 February: Sihong Lin (Hist), 'All Quiet on the Western Front? Latin Chronicles and the Roman-Persian War of 603–628'
9 March: PGR Research Session
Tianpeng Zhang (Hist), 'The German history of concepts (Begriffsgeschichte) and the study of early medieval history: the example of Einhard, Dhuoda and Nithard'
Hannah Lee (Arch), ‘A Social Bioarchaeological Examination of Collective Identities and Personhood at Corinth, c. 2000-500 BCE '
30 March: Alice Hicklin (Hist), 'Family Values? Women and their Priestly Relatives in Western European Charters, 900–1100' -- Cancelled due to UCU strike action in Sheffield, w/b 28 March
27 April: Paul Roberts (Ashmolean Museum): TBC : Cancelled - to be rescheduled in Autumn 2022.
11 May: Penny Coombe (Arch): Updated title! ‘Cycling and sculpture at the limits of the Roman Empire’
2020-21
Semester 1
14 October: Professor John Drinkwater (Arch), 'Sejanus, black-hearted villain or innocent victim of the paranoia of the emperor Tiberius?' (Jointly with the Classical Association to celebrate their Centenary in 2020)
11 November: Alexandra F. Johnston (University of Toronto), 'York City Entertainers'
9 December: Rowan Dorin (Stanford Univ.), 'Corpus Synodalium: Mapping Authority and Resistance in Late Medieval Church Law'
Semester 2
10 February: Daisy Black (Wolverhampton), 'Death Eating: Food, Consumption and Sin in Medieval Drama'
10 March: PGR research session
Diego Palombi (Hist), 'A fluid border. Genre and gender in the Old French Sept Sages'
Katie Libby (Arch), 'Dynamics of Identity: Metalworking in Early Medieval Lindsey'
24 March: British School at Athens North seminar
21 April: Tom Phillips (Manchester), 'Time and Again: Apollonius' Argonautica ' (Co-sponsored with the Classical Association)
5 May: Liz Goodwin (York St John), 'Visual Culture and the Crafting of Communities: English Nuns and the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period'
19 May: Paul Johnson (Arch), 'Conceptual geographies: exploring the articulation of urban spaces in the Provincial landscape of Roman Lusitania' (co-sponsored with the Hunter Society).
