Events

The Centre runs a fortnightly seminar series throughout the first two terms of the year, incorporating two public events (the Barton Lecture in the autumn, and the Orme Lecture in the spring, the latter of which is accompanied by a postgraduate seminar). If you would like to attend any of the other seminars and are not on the Centre for Medieval Studies mailing list, please contact the convenors, Thomas Hinton and Gregory Lippiatt.

We're excited to announce the programme for the spring 2026 Medieval Research Seminar. Individual events are listed below, and the entire programme can also be downloaded as a PDF. Note that the PDF details the main Research Seminar events only, and as such does not include several workshops and symposia that are included in the list below.

Posters from previous years' seminar series are also available for autumn 2025, summer 2025, spring 2025, autumn 2024, spring 2024, autumn 2023, spring 2023, autumn 2022, and spring 2022.

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Members of the Centre run a number of reading groups in their areas of study, to which any and all members of the University (and anyone with an interest in the field) are more than welcome. We currently run the following groups; anyone interested in getting involved is warmly invited to email the convenors.

• The Medieval French Reading Group (convened by Thomas Hinton and Edward Mills, and meeting on Wednesdays at 9:30am in Xfi Conference Room 2) meets to explore and translate collaboratively a work written in French during the Middle Ages. This term, we're exploring the Anglo-Norman prose Brut, a lively history of Britain., best-known as the language of the troubadours. All are welcome! 
• The Medieval Latin Reading Group (convened by Gregory Lippiatt and Naomi Howell. and meeting on Wednesdays at 11:30am in IAIS Seminar Room 2) likewise focuses on developing attendees' experience and familiarity textual material -- in this case, Latin material -- that met with popularity during the Middle Ages. This term's text is the Thebaid of Statius.