Each semester the Centre holds a series of monthly lectures to which all members, their guests, and members of the public are cordially invited. The lectures are delivered by local medievalists and visiting scholars, on a variety of Medieval Studies topics, in a manner accessible to those without specialist knowledge. Lectures normally begin at 5.00 for 5.30 p.m. on the last Thursday of the month, in the Common Room, N480, John Woolley Building, Science Road, University of Sydney. Occasional lectures and papers are given at other times. Entry is free and all are welcome.

Special Lectures

Wednesday 26 August
Mark Everist, Professor of Music, University of Southampton
"Medieval music in the matrix of medieval textualities"

Wednesday 25 November
Professor Jacques Dalarun, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris
"Robert of Arbrissel and the foundation of Fontevrault"

Evening Lectures in 2009

Thursday 26 March
Dr Hannah Burrows, University of Sydney
"Side-splitting stories : humour in the Sagas of Icelanders"

Thursday 30 April
Professor Wendy Scase, University of Birmingham
"Rhetorical education and responses to Piers Plowman in the fifteenth century"

Thursday 28 May
Professor Robert Rouse, University of British Columbia
"Writing the world : itinerary, geography, and intercultural relations in medieval Romance"

Thursday 6 August
Dr Louise Marshall, University of Sydney
"Bodies and buboes: the cult of St Roch in Renaissance Italy"

Wednesday 16 September
Dr Karen Pratt, King’s College, London
"Voice, gender, and authority in late medieval French literature"

Thursday 29 October
Dr Maurizio Campanelli, Sapienza University of Rome
"Describing Rome in the Middle Ages"