These include an annual 'themed' programme of visiting speakers; a summer symposium, and a special series of public lectures on medieval art and architecture with guided visits to sites of special interest.

Programme of Visiting Speakers

Summer Term

10 May

HUMSS G74 at 14.00 hosted by the Department of Archaeology

Professor Kaspars Klavins (Riga Technical University)

'Positive and negative perceptions of Baltic nature in the medieval and early modern written sources'.

HUMSS G74 at 16.30

Dr Ian Forrest (Oriel College, Oxford)

'Trustworthiness and the Church'

24 May

HUMSS G74 at 16.30

Dr Rosa Maria Medina Grande (Oviedo, Spain)

'The attempt to recontextualize medieval texts in Romance languages as acts of communication: An hermeneutical task'. 

29 June

Palmer 109 All Day

Summer Symposium:

The Mysteries of Love -  Medieval metamorphoses of the Song of Songs

Organized by Dr Paola Nasti (University of Reading)

Postponed until Thursday 24th January 2013

Professor Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, University of London)

'The Case of William of Norwich and the Challenges of Cultural History'

Summer Symposium

For details of flyer and speakers see Speaker_List_12

For how to register see Payment_docs_12

For further information, please contact:

p.nasti@reading.ac.uk

gcms@reading.ac.uk.

See our GCMS - Noticeboard page for current information on events planned for

this session.