Academic

  1. Events
  2. Academic

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

Jews and Jewishness in English Renaissance Literature and Culture

on-line

Weekly via Zoom, 16 Mar – 18 May 2022.
This course, will tackle complex themes by reading and discussing canonical and lesser-known English Renaissance texts that feature Jewish characters and Jewish questions.
Topics that range from medieval literary precedents to Elizabethan theater conventions will be examined, reading excerpts from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, and much more.
This class is open to anyone interested in the topic.

THIRD Annual Pilgrim’s Progress Challenge 2022

Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom

The Pilgrim's Progress Challenge is a fun way to get out on the trail to Canterbury over the month of April as we get back into action for the upcoming event season!

Medieval Window Workshop

Collin County Farm Museum 7117 County Rd 166, McKinney, TX, United States

The Medieval Glass Window teaches the basics of soldering with a soldering wand, using flux, metal, copper tape, and other tools/supplies to create the quintessential medieval window. the workshop focuses on the formation of the window rather than cutting glass. Preshaped diamond and triangle beveled glass will be used.
This is an in-person workshop. There are no kits and no videos available.

Bill Arnott – Gone Viking

Banyen Books & Sound 3608 W 4th Ave, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Bill Arnott discusses 'Gone Viking' and 'Gone Viking II', guiding us on an epic literary odyssey following history’s most feared and misunderstood voyageurs: the Vikings. Prepare yourself for an armchair adventure like no other!

Society for Renaissance Studies Annual Lecture 2022

St Cecilia's Hall: Concert Room & Music Museum 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The lecture brings together scholars to explore the connectedness of Scotland and sixteenth-century Continental Europe.

Coffee with a Codex: Ethics

St Cecilia's Hall: Concert Room & Music Museum 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The event is informal and everyone is welcome to attend. Registration required to attend.

Medieval Huntingdon Walk

Huntingdon War Memorial High Street, Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire

An entertaining and informative walk and talk by Richard Meredith starting at The Market Square, High Street, Huntingdon

Celtic Sociolinguistics Symposium IV & 4th Poznań Conference of Celtic Studies 2022

Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland Wieniawskiego 1, Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

A forum for high quality papers on a variety of aspects of Celtic Studies, including histories of the Celtic regions, Welsh / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Manx / Cornish / Breton literatures, Celtic folklore, archaeology, teaching of Celtic languages, and cultures of the Celtic countries.

Stage d’enluminure 2022

La Foye-Monjault, France 22 Rue Centrale, La Foye-Monjault, France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

L'art insulaire sera mis à l'honneur avec la création d'une lettrine insulaire, inspirée du livre de Kells (VIII - IXème siècle), livre dont je me suis également inspiré pour mon manuscrit.

Hildegard of Bingen: Medieval Herbalist (3-week series)

on-line

You are invited to join us for this three-part series exploring some of the herbal remedies recorded by Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century German Benedictine Herbalist and Natural Healer. We will be using excerpts from her great works, Physica and Causes and Cures.

Introduction to Dendrochronology in Maritime Archaeology

Stoney Cove, the Official UK National Diving Centre Sapcote Rd, Stoney Stanton, Leicester, United Kingdom

Through a balance of short lectures, demonstrations, practical hands-on sessions and underwater practicals, participants will gain an understanding of the role of dendrochronology within the discipline.

Hildegard of Bingen: Medieval Herbalist (3-week series)

on-line

You are invited to join us for this three-part series exploring some of the herbal remedies recorded by Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century German Benedictine Herbalist and Natural Healer. We will be using excerpts from her great works, Physica and Causes and Cures.

Hildegard of Bingen: Medieval Herbalist (3-week series)

on-line

You are invited to join us for this three-part series exploring some of the herbal remedies recorded by Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century German Benedictine Herbalist and Natural Healer. We will be using excerpts from her great works, Physica and Causes and Cures.

Journeys to the Underworld 2022

on-line

Our online concerts return! We launch with 'Journeys to the Underworld', the first in our winter series of themed online concerts, combining storytelling, poetry, folklore and more.

Myrddin – the Welsh Merlin by Dr Mark Williams

on-line

Casting an eye at some early Welsh poems (one spoken by Myrddin to his pet piglet) and some high medieval texts which let us glimpse the lost Celtic saga of Merlin.

GBP5.00 – GBP10.00
Featured Featured

The Museum of Drugs: Under the Influence – A History of Drug Use

on-line

In modern times, drugs have become synonymous with crime and disorder; vilified in the media as the root cause of many of our social ills, and lambasted by politicians who are keen to demonstrate they are tough and uncompromising. Yet the history of narcotics and the use thereof, is not so cut and dry.

GBP5.00 – GBP10.00

Featured Featured

Jól, Vikingajulbord på Birka 2022

Birka Birka Viking Museum, Adelsö, Björkö, Sweden

The Yule celebration is back due to successful evenings from last year with a guided night tour with much to do! Book your seat

SEK1350

The Gjellestad Ship Project – On-line

on-line

Follow the analyses, results, and interpretations of the Gjellestad excavation, the first ship burial to be excavated in Norway since 1904!

Featured Featured

Musicke in the Ayre: Emerging from the Shadows

The Charterhouse The Charterhouse London, Charterhouse Square, London, United Kingdom

Join Musicke in the Ayre in their first 2023 concert at the Charterhouse in London.

GBP11.00 – GBP12.00

How Culhwch Won Olwen and tales of Arthur by Dr Mark Williams

on-line

This fantastical and varied story features giants, horror, love, and adventure, and is the earliest Arthurian story to survive in any language. Arthur is a Celtic figure in origin, and here we get a glimpse of a stranger, less comfortable Arthur than the one we know.

GBP5.00 – GBP10.00

Deirdriu of the Sorrows by Dr Mark Williams

on-line

One of the most famous heroines of Irish literature, whose story was turned into numerous plays in the Irish Revival of the turn of the 20th century. Deirdriu – sometimes called ‘the Irish Helen of Troy’ – is a heroine of great vividness

GBP5.00 – GBP10.00

New Report

Close