Name: Daniel Wakelin

Events this person is organising:

Monday 10 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

The Leofric Missal: what can a historian learn from a liturgical book?
Date: 10 February 2020, 14:15 - 15:15 (Monday, 4th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Helen Gittos
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Horton Room
Organisers: Martin Kauffmann, Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Monday 17 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Teaching and healing at St Frideswide’s priory in 12th-century Oxford
Date: 17 February 2020, 14:15 - 15:15 (Monday, 5th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Andrew Dunning
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Horton Room
Organisers: Martin Kauffmann, Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Why collect hundreds of songs without any musical notation? The case of MS. Douce 308
Date: 24 February 2020, 14:15 - 15:15 (Monday, 6th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Elizabeth Eva Leach (University of Oxford)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Horton Room
Organisers: Martin Kauffmann, Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Scientific identification of pigments in medieval manuscripts: how, when, and why to do it
Date: 9 March 2020, 14:15 - 15:15 (Monday, 8th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker s: Richard Gameson, Andrew Beeby
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Horton Room
Organisers: Martin Kauffmann, Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 13 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Hoccleve's Community of Practice: Clerks, Scripts, and London Literature
Date: 13 October 2021, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Professor Sebastian Sobecki (University of Groningen)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, Faculty of English, Oxford
Organisers: Daniel Wakelin, Andy Orchard
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 20 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Richard Methley’s “new Manner of Writing – to the Moment”: Narrative Time and Mystical Theology in Late Fifteenth-Century England
Date: 20 October 2021, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Laura Saetveit Miles (Bergen)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty
Organisers: Daniel Wakelin, Andy Orchard
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 27 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

On Killdeer and Codicology: The Provenance of the Corpus Troilus
Date: 27 October 2021, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Kathleen Kennedy (Bristol)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 3 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Ideas on Language and Biblical Heritage in Early Medieval Insular Thought
Date: 3 November 2021, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Ciaran Arthur (NUI Galway)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 10 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

A New Setting for the Pearl Poet
Date: 10 November 2021, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Sarah McNamer (Georgetown)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 17 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

‘The Manuscripts of Alcuin’s Carmina’ and ‘Drawing the Reader’s Attention: Dryhthelm’s Vision of the Otherworld and the Archangel St Michael in CCCC, MS 41’
Date: 17 November 2021, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker s: Colleen Curran, Patricia O Connor
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, Faculty of English, Oxford
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 24 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

MS Junius 11: A Poetic Manuscript
Date: 24 November 2021, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Carl Kears (King’s College, London)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 1 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

‘Psalms and Psychogeography in the Old English Solomon and Saturn’ and ‘Science and Literature – a Marriage of Ideas: “The Sun in the South” Revisited’
Date: 1 December 2021, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker s: Rachel Burns, Anthony Harris (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

‘Flickers of past practice: The poetic lexicon of cremation in Old English’ & ‘The composition of Old English hagiographic verse: the Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium) as micro-library’
Date: 18 January 2022, 11:30 - 12:30 (Tuesday, 1st week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker s: Glenn Cahilly-Bretzin (Lincoln College), Tom Revell (Balliol College)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, Faculty of English, St Cross Building, Manor Road
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

CANCELLED ‘Beowulf and the hunt’
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 25 January 2022, 11:30 - 12:30 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker : Francis Leneghan (St Cross College)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, Faculty of English, St Cross Building, Manor Road
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 1 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

‘“Sounding different” in medieval Wales according to its poets’ & ‘Song and space: movement, navigation, and the fifteenth-century English carol’
Date: 1 February 2022, 11:30 - 12:30 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker s: Llewelyn Hopwood (Corpus Christi College), Micah Mackay (Balliol College)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, Faculty of English, St Cross Building, Manor Road
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 8 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

‘Collecting and annotating Old Norse texts: on the library of Thormodus Torfæus’
Date: 8 February 2022, 11:30 - 12:30 (Tuesday, 4th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker : Katarzyna Anna Kapitan (Linacre College)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, Faculty of English, St Cross Building, Manor Road
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 15 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

The true portrait of Christ: origins and afterlife of a medieval forgery’
Date: 15 February 2022, 11:30 - 12:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker : Michael Kuczynski (Tulane University)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, Faculty of English, St Cross Building, Manor Road
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 22 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

‘Light metaphysics and contingent poetics in Chaucer’s House of Fame’ & ‘The mythology of trauma in Chaucer’s Anelida and Arcite’
Date: 22 February 2022, 11:30 - 12:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker s: Peter Buchanan (Lady Margaret Hall), Pamela Kask (Mansfield College)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, Faculty of English, St Cross Building, Manor Road
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 1 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

‘This word in Latyn: late-medieval religious macaronic lyric’
Date: 1 March 2022, 11:30 - 12:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker : Jane Griffiths (Wadham College)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, Faculty of English, St Cross Building, Manor Road
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 8 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

‘Dragons in Old English’
Date: 8 March 2022, 11:30 - 12:30 (Tuesday, 8th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker : Paul Acker (St Louis University)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, Faculty of English, St Cross Building, Manor Road
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 27 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

‘“And bi þe bodi he him hent, | And al to peces here torent”: violent fragmentation and productive uncertainty in The Seven Sages of Rome’
Date: 27 April 2022, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 1st week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Hannah Bower (University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

‘Polemicising doubt in late medieval England: adaptations of Latin casuistry in Wyclif, Dives and Pauper and Margery Kempe’
Date: 4 May 2022, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Emily Corran (UCL)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

‘“If you will listen patiently”: conversion, conversation and cosmopolitanism in Old Icelandic sagas of Apostles’
Date: 11 May 2022, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Carl Phelpstead (University of Cardiff)
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

‘“In pious hearts, a tree must grafted be”: Mechthild of Hackeborn’s The Boke of Holy Grace and The Desert of Religion’
Date: 18 May 2022, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 4th week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Anne Mouron (Regent’s Park)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

‘On the work of the late Anne Hudson (1938-2021)’
Date: 25 May 2022, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker s: Helen Barr, Cosima Gillhammer, Vincent Gillespie, Elizabeth Solopova, Annie Sutherland
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 1 June 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

‘Preaching to the choir: a sceptical look at English Carthusian transmission of vernacular spiritual writings’
Date: 1 June 2022, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Vincent Gillespie
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Doing Justice: Who Read Middle English Romance and Why Does it Matter?
Date: 11 October 2022, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Nicola McDonald ((York))
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Daniel Wakelin, Prof. Marion Turner (University of Oxford), Dr Nicholas Perkins (English, St Hugh's)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

'The Wanderer and the Legacy of Pathetic Fallacy'
Date: 18 October 2022, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Harriet Soper (Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Daniel Wakelin, Prof. Marion Turner (University of Oxford), Dr Nicholas Perkins (English, St Hugh's)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

"Skelton and the Commonweal: Greek History in Quattrocento England’ , and ‘K-I-S-S-I-N-G: Erotic Obscenity and “Young Readers” of the Merchant’s Tale, 1930–2008
Date: 25 October 2022, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker s: Lucy Fleming (New College), John Colley (Jesus College)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Daniel Wakelin, Prof. Marion Turner (University of Oxford), Dr Nicholas Perkins (English, St Hugh's)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 31 October 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Astor Visiting Lecturer / Medieval Studies Lecture: ‘Do we mean lyric or song?
Date: 31 October 2022, 17:15 - 18:15 (Monday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Prof. Ardis Butterfield
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Prof. Marion Turner (University of Oxford), Dr Nicholas Perkins (English, St Hugh's), Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 8 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Reading the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda
Date: 8 November 2022, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Brittany Schorn (Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Daniel Wakelin, Prof. Marion Turner (University of Oxford), Dr Nicholas Perkins (English, St Hugh's)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 15 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Before Attenborough: Early Medieval Natural History, Animal Diversity and “Edutainment”
Date: 15 November 2022, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Megan Cavell (Birmingham)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Daniel Wakelin, Prof. Marion Turner (University of Oxford), Dr Nicholas Perkins (English, St Hugh's)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 22 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Syrian Silks: The Fabrics of English Identity
Date: 22 November 2022, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Eleanor Myerson (Cambridge)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Daniel Wakelin, Prof. Marion Turner (University of Oxford), Dr Nicholas Perkins (English, St Hugh's)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 29 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Synchronic histories of Older Scots Literature: the rewards and challenges of reconstruction
Date: 29 November 2022, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Rhiannon Purdie (St Andrews)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Daniel Wakelin, Prof. Marion Turner (University of Oxford), Dr Nicholas Perkins (English, St Hugh's)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 8 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Medieval English Research Seminar: ‘Humour and Horror in Ælfric ́s Passion of St Vincent’ (Chair: Rachel Burns)
Date: 8 March 2023, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 8th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker : Niamh Kehoe (University of Düsseldorf)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Prof. Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford), Dr Kantik Ghosh (University of Oxford), Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Medieval English Research Seminar: ‘Imagining Margery and Julian: a reading and Q and A’
Date: 17 October 2023, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Victoria MacKenzie
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 24 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Medieval English Research Seminar: ‘Gifts and Books’
Date: 24 October 2023, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Prof. Nicholas Perkins (St Hugh's College)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 31 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Medieval English Research Seminar: ‘Hidden Things: A Biblical Context for the Exeter Book Riddles’
Date: 31 October 2023, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Dr Rachel A. Burns (Hertford College)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 7 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Medieval English Research Seminar: ‘Christ’s Burial on the Late Medieval Stage’ / ‘“Hevenysh Revoluciouns”: The Complaint of Mars in motion’
Date: 7 November 2023, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker s: Sigrid Koerner (Jesus College), Shelley Williams (Jesus College)
Venue: Morriss Building,
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organiser: Daniel Wakelin
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 14 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Medieval English Research Seminar: Urban Humanism and Chaucer’s House of Fame’
Date: 14 November 2023, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Prof. Helen Fulton (University of Bristol)
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Daniel Wakelin, Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA