Reading Group
Committed to fostering inclusive, exciting conversations, NetMAR runs a reading group open to all researchers and scholars interested in some of the different aspects covered by the project.
The reading groups run under the broad theme of Arts & Rituals in the Medieval Period and Beyond.
Reading Group 3: Spring 2023 – Fall 2023, organised by CeMAR, UCY
For the NetMAR Reading Group 3 Poster, click here.
Location: Online via zoom
Preregistration Required. For Registration and info, please send email to Andria Andreou at [email protected]
Meeting 1 – 27 April 2023
Ronald R. Grimes, The Craft of Ritual Studies (Oxford, 2014)
Introduced by Stavroula Constantinou (UCY)
TIME: Thursdays, 4 – 6pm CET
Meeting 2 – 25 May 2023
Simon Coleman, Powers of Pilgrimage: Religion in a World of Movement (New York, 2022)
Introduced by Simon Coleman and Aspasia Skouroumouni-Stavrinou (UCY)
TIME: Thursdays, 4 – 6pm CET
Meeting 3 – 21 September 2023
Pentcheva P. Bissera, Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium (Pennsylvania, 2017)
Introduced by Andria Andreou (UCY)
TIME: Thursdays, 4 – 6pm CET
Meeting 4 – 12 October 2023
The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity (3rd c.) and Sharon Olds, Satan Says (1980)
Introduced by Stavroula Constantinou and Christos Hadjiyiannis (UCY)
TIME: Thursdays, 4 – 6pm CET
Reading Group 2: Fall 2022 – Spring 2023, organised by ZeMas, UNI BA
Meeting 1 – 27 October 2022
David Matthews, Medievalism: A Critical History (Cambridge, 2015)
Introduced by: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Bennewitz and Michaela Pölzl (UNI BA)
TIME: Thursdays, 4 – 6pm CET
Meeting 2 – 08 December 2022
Gert Althoff, Rules and Rituals in Medieval Power Games: A German Perspective (Leiden, 2019)
Introduced by: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Bennewitz and Michaela Pölzl (UNI BA)
TIME: Thursdays, 4 – 6pm CET
Meeting 3 – 26 January 2023
Anne Derbes, Ritual, Gender, and Narrative in Late Medieval Italy: Fina Buzzacarini and the Baptistery of Padua (Brepols, 2020)
Introduced by: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Bennewitz and Michaela Pölzl (UNI BA)
TIME: Thursdays, 4 – 6pm CET
Meeting 4 – 16 February 2023
Sophia Labadi and William Logan (eds), Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability: International Frameworks, National and Local Governance (London and New York, 2015)
Introduced by: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Bennewitz and Michaela Pölzl (UNI BA)
TIME: Thursdays, 5 – 7pm CET
Location: Online via zoom
Preregistration Required.
For more info and Preregistration Requirements, please send email to Michaela Polzl at [email protected]
For the NetMAR Reading Group Poster, click here.
Reading Group 1: Fall 2021 – Spring 2022, organised by CML, SDU
Reading group 1 run under the broad theme of Arts & Rituals in the Medieval Period and Beyond and was organised by SDU.
The first meeting of the NetMAR Reading Group took place on 16 September 2021 at SDU, with some members joining online. The conversation centred around Jan Assmann’s Religion and Cultural Memory (trans. Rodney Livingstone; Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006). The text was introduced by Dr Nils Holger Petersen (SDU).
The next three meetings are all taking place online, via Zoom (through the following link: https://syddanskuni.zoom.us/j/68473138609) and each is focusing on a different author and text.
The sessions have been scheduled as follows:
- Thursday, 9 December 2021 – Caroline Walker Bynum
- Thursday, 10 February 2022 – Nils Holger Petersen
- Thursday, 24 March 2022 – T. S. Eliot
For the NetMAR Reading Group Poster, please click here.
Should you wish to become involved, please e-mail Dr Chiara D’Agostini ([email protected])