Reflections on Studying the Past – Meddyliau ar Astudio’r Gorffennol
Simon John – In the first semester of 2022/3, I was on research leave from Swansea, which enabled me to take up a visiting fellowship at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. The aim of the Käte Hamburger Centres – a number of universities…Continue Reading The Crusades and Apocalyptic Thought in the Middle Ages
Online Workshop, 5-6 October 2022 ALL TIMES ARE IN BRITISH SUMMER TIME (UTC +1hr) Register at our Eventbrite page Contact: monumentalmedievalism@gmail.com Wednesday 5 October (Join sessions via Zoom: HERE) 12:45-13:00 Welcome Euan McCartney Robson and Simon John 13:00-14:45 Session 1: Monumental Medievalism in Modern Japan Chair: Simon John (Swansea University, UK) Sven Saaler…Continue Reading Monumental Medievalism: Public Monuments and the (Mis)Use of the Medieval Past
On 6 & 7 September 2021 Swansea University and Nicolaus Copernicus University (Toruń, Poland) co-hosted this interdisciplinary conference welcoming registered delegates, both historians and art historians from Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Finland, England, Wales, Ireland, Spain and Brazil. Delegates discussed, from a variety of cultural and historical perspectives, the complex relationships that existed…Continue Reading A Path-Breaking International Conference: ‘Race’, Law and Group Identity in Medieval Europe
Dr Matthew Stevens has launched a new podcast. It investigates episodes in history that highlight the worst and best of the human condition. He says: History can tell us about past ideas and events, and in doing so it tells us something about the universal. When we hear voices from the past, that say what…Continue Reading Darkness & Light: A New Podcast