MIMRA

 

MIMRA is a group founded by postgraduates in the School of Arts, Histories, and Cultures at the University of Manchester. It is for students and academics working in Medieval Studies in the Manchester area and met for the first time in October 2006. MIMRA’s principal aim is for medievalists to share ideas about their research.

Reading Groups

The Middle English Reading Group meets on Thursdays during semester at 4pm in Samuel Alexander S1.6. Please contact David Matthews if you wish to (re)join. No prior experience necessary.

Hwaet! (the Old English Reading Group) meets on Wednesdays 2-3pm in the Poetry Centre, Samuel Alexander S1.5. Contact Francisco Alvarez-Lopez for details (Fran.Alvarez@manchester.ac.uk). This year's schedule of events can be downloaded here:

Major events in medieval studies in 2010 

In March, English and American Studies hosts Professor Carolyn Dinshaw (New York University) as John Edward Taylor  fellow. Prof. Dinshaw is the author of Chaucer's Sexual Poetics (Wisconsin, 1989) and Getting Medieval (Duke, 1999). She will present a public lecture on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 5pm, 'How Soon is Now? Problems of the Present, Medieval and Modern'.
Prof. Dinshaw will also offer a research seminar for postgraduates. Places will be limited; contact David Matthews (david.matthews@manchester.ac.uk)

In April, under the auspices of Italian Studies in LLC, Prof. David Wallace (Penn) and Prof. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford) will be visiting. Further details will appear here in the new year.

In May the 4th annual Brook Lecture in Middle English, on Monday, May 17, will be given by Professor James Simpson (Harvard). Professor Simpson is the author of The Oxford English Literary History, Vol. 2: Reform and Cultural Revolution (Oxford, 2002) and Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents (Harvard, 2007). His lecture is entitled 'Learn to Die: Late Medieval English Images Before the Law.' He will discuss the fate of the image in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with particular reference to the 1563 Homily on the Peril of Idolatry and the first iconoclastic legislation of 153


The postgraduate conference takes place again on June 7-8. This year it is entitled 'Conflict and Controversy, c. 850-1550, and has as keynote speakers Dr Sarah Salih (King's College, London) and Manchester's Prof. Gale Owen-Crocker. Download a flyer here:






Further information from: David Matthews (David.Matthews@manchester.ac.uk)