Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies seminars

The Centre hosts a seminar series which takes place throughout the academic year and is open to staff, students and the general public

Semester 1 2026/27

Please check below for times, dates and venues. Please note that speakers without affiliations indicated are the University of Edinburgh.

DateSpeakerTopicTime and Venue
Tue 22 SepCMEMS Welcome EventAn informal reception for anyone interested in the activities of the CMEMS5:00pm, Centre for Research Collections, Floor 6 of the Main Library, George Square
Tue 6 OctEmanuela Patti, Lucy Byatt, Robin Baillie, Steven Reid (Glasgow) Book Launch and Discussion of 'David Rizzio at the Scottish Court'5:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square
Tue 13 OctTaylor Aucoin, Sam Leggett, Gianluca Raccagni, Charlie SpraggCMEMS Autumn Roundup (mini-seminars)5:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square
Wed 21 OctJudith Evans Grubbs (Emory University)'An Illegal and Dishonorable Deed': the Sale of Children by their Parents in the Roman Empire (200-600 CE) (2026 Gender & History Lecture)4:30pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School
Tue 27 OctCMEMS Reading GroupTBCTBC
Tue 3 NovRoger CollinsFrom the Caliph to the Count: Unpublished Diplomatic Letters from the  Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba (c.950)5:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square
Tue 17 NovCMEMS Reading GroupTBCTBC
Tue 24 NovStratis Papaioannou (Oxford)The Synaxarion of Constantinople as Literature (co-badged with CLAIBS)TBC
Wed 25 NovElizabeth Lambourn (De Montfort)Mobility, Portability, Recycling: Genizah Documents from a Metals Workshop in 12th-Century Malabar (ECGH Seminar)4:00pm, venue TBC
Fri 27 NovNaomi Baker (Manchester)'Clothed with the Sun': Apocalyptic Women of the Seventeenth Century (English & Scottish Lit Research Seminar)Project Room, 50 George Square

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