Past events
Events @UGent 2016
International Conference Finding the Present in the Distant Past: The Cultural Meaning of Antiquarianism in Late Antiquity
20-21 mei 2016
MSS Lunch Meeting Emilia Jamroziak: Late Medieval Cistercian Communities and the Cult of Saints as a Trans-European and Regional Phenomenon.
20 Mei 2016
MSS Lunch Meeting Suraiya Faroqhi: The emergence of guilds in an Ottoman setting
29 april 2016
The medieval hospital, an epistemological workshop for historians (North-Western Europe, 13th-16th centuries)
15 april 2016
MSS Lunch Meeting Anne Breitbarth & Melissa Farasyn: A parsed Corpus of Historical Low German (CHLG)
14 April 2016
MSS Bronnenseminar: Oorkonden van de Vroegste Communale Instellingen in Vlaamse steden
1 april 2016
Study day on Iran and literature Classical heritage, literary modernity and beyond
25 maart 2016
Workshop ERC: Compilations and Excerpt Collections of Historiographical Texts
24-25 maart 2016
MSS Lecture: Vasileios Syros: Political Pragmatism and Ethics in Medieval and Early Modern European and Ottoman Advice Literature
24 februari 2016
International conference ERC Holy Hero(in)es: Literary Constructions of Heroism in Late Antique and Early Medieval Hagiography
18-20 maart 2016
Stephanos Efthymiadis: The Disabled in the Byzantine Empire (MSS Lunch Lecture)
17 februari 2016
2nd Symposium on the History and the Philosophy of Science: The Arab-Islamic sciences (9th-14th centuries) in the longue durée: The “Scientific Revolution” in question
12 februari 2016
MSS Lunch Meeting: FWO applications
22 Januari 2016
Events @UGent 2015
International Conference: Noble warriors or warring nobles? The complications of knightly identity in the High Middle Ages
10-11 December 2015, Ghent
Kinderworkshops Dag van de Wetenschap
22 November 2015, Ghent
Launch Database Diplomata Belgica
16/11/2015, Rijksarchief, Gent
21st Dutch-Flemish Medieval Studies Day: Civitas
30 October 2015, Ghent
Autumn School 2015: Law / Germanic Languages
19-23 October, UGent
MSS Lunch lecture Kriston Rennie: From Kings to Apostles: Freedom and Protection in Medieval Monasteries
16 October 2015, Ghent
Study Day: Medieval Studies as Academic Discipline
28 May 2015, Ghent
Third symposium on Middle Dutch Studies
22 May 2015, Ghent
Workshop: Towards new thinking in urban Historiography
20-21 May 2015, Ghent
MSS 20/01/2015
- Dr. Erik Kwakkel, Leiden University: The Art and Science of Dating Medieval Script: The Case of the Long Twelfth Century
- Tineke Van Gassen, Ghent University: The archive of the city: the social memory of late medieval Ghent
MSS 17/02/2015
- Dr. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenshaften: Calculating the Middle Ages? Proxies, networks, equations and other quantitative approaches towards medieval history in a comparative perspective
- Emerance Delancenserie, Ghent University: The reception of "The ecclesiastical history" of Socrates in the Early Byzantine historiography
MSS 17/03/2015
- Dr. Fiona Griffiths, New York University: “Brotherly husbands” and “sister wives”: Remaking marriage in medieval religious life
- Sofie Vanherpen, Ghent University: Tracing the textual trails of Auðr/Unnr djúp(a)uðga
MSS 21/04/2015
- Dr. Alexander Andree, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto: Biblical Commentaries from the School of Laon in the Twelfth Century
- Ine Kiekens, Ghent University: Vanden twaelf dogheden in changing contexts: different spiritual trends in late-medieval thinking
MSS 19/05/2015
- Dr. Alex Novikoff, Fordham University: The Ars Disputandi and the “Art” of Disputation
- General Meeting and presentations new PhD students
MSS 16/06/2015
- Dr. Marie Bouhaïk-Gironès, Université Paris-Sorbonne: Pour une histoire sociale du théâtre (15e-16e s.)
- Marta Bigus, Ghent University: The Ten Commandments in late-medieval Low Countries
Events @UGent 2014
Workshop: Institutions of Popular Mobilisation / Les institutions de mobilisation populaire
5 December 2014, Ghent
Autumn School 2014: Latin Paleography and Medieval Liturgy
20-22 October 2014, Ghent
Conference: Whither the Early Modern State? 15th-Century State Formations across Eurasia
10-12 September 2014, Ghent
Conference: Perception and Performance of Social Identities in the Nascent Urban Societies of the High Middle Ages in North-western Europe
22-24 May 2014, Ghent & Brussels
Colloquium of the Commission Internationale de Diplomatique: Pushing boundaries in diplomatics Why expand the range of activities of the CID?
24-25 April, Ghent
Conference: The Ten Commandments in medieval and early modern culture
10-11 April 2014, Ghent
Workshop: Cosmopolitan languages and their literatures
25 February 2014, Ghent
MSS 22/09/2014: Opening lecture
- Prof. Jan M. Ziolkowski, Harvard university: The Romantic Range of Romanness (5-6 pm, Jozef Plateauzaal, Jozefplateaustraat 22)
- Reception: from 6 pm, Dhondtzaal, DHondt zaal, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35 (UFO), 2nd floor
MSS 14/10/2014
- Prof. David Crouch, University of Hull: Conduct Literature in the Twelfth Century: A problematical genre in changing times
- Xavier Baecke, Ghent University: The Sacralisation of Knighthood. A study of religious knightly identity in the Southern Low Countries during the High Middle Ages
MSS 18/11/2014
- Prof. Samuel Cohn, University of Glasgow: Popular Revolt in Europe, ca 1300-1750: Crossing the late Medieval/Early Modern Divide
- Ewoud Waerniers, Ghent University: Perceptie en performance van stedelijke identiteit in de volle middeleeuwen / Perception and performance of social identity in the nascent urban societies of the High Middle Ages
MSS 16/12/2014
- Prof. Robin Fleming, Boston College: Five Communities of Roman Pot and Glass recyclers in Early Post-Roman Britain
- Frederica Van Dam, Ghent University: Flemish migrant artists in England between 1560 and 1620
Events @UGent 2013
Workhop Mamluk History and Culture, 1250-1517
3-5 November 2013
See the programme
Contributions to external events
IMC Leeds 2015: Reform and Renewal
6-9 July 2015, Leeds
Keynote lecture Jan Dumolyn - Summer course of the study of the Arts of Flanders 2015
1 July 2015, Brussels
Doctoral Seminar by Rosamond McKitterick: The Uses and Communication of the Past
in the Middle Ages
21-22 May 2015, Leuven
Constructing the self: Linguistic and historical perspectives on identity and authenticity in egodocuments and other writings ‘from below’
25 April 2015, Brussels
Mary of Burgundy: The Reign, the ‚Persona’, and the Legacy of a European Princess
4-7 March 2015, Bruges/Brussels
Symposium on Paintings and Miniatures in the Southern Low Countries
12 December 2014, Lille
Sessions at IMC Leeds, 7-10 July 2014
- Building an Empire: Theory and Practice under the Mamluk Sultanate, 1250-1517, I and II
- Authorship in Middle Dutch Spiritual Literature: Jan van Leeuwen, Godfried van Wevel, and Hadewijch
- Immigrants in the Empire, 10th-12th Centuries (Conventus)
- Bishops' Modes of Inclusion and Exclusion in the Long 11th Century: Rituals, Performances, Enactments (Conventus / Episcopus)
- Bishops and Lords in Pursuit of Social Order: Loyalties in Peace and Reform (Conventus / Episcopus)
- Setting Up an Emperor's Church: Henry II and His Bishops (Conventus / Episcopus)
- The Ten Commandments in Medieval Vernaculars
Workshop: New Approaches to Tenth- and Eleventh-Century Reform
20 June 2014, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York.
Programme and more information
Zintuigen Op Scherp: Middeleeuwse Sensorialiteit Interdisciplinair Benaderd
19 May 2014, Université Saint Louis, Brussel
Organised by the Vlaamse Werkgroep Mediëvistiek and the Réseau des médiévistes belges de Lange française.
Ugent contributions by An-Katrien Hanselaer - De conditionering van het alledaagse gevoelsleven in vrouwelijke gemeenschappen van de Moderne Devotie and Ine Kiekens (UGent) - Afgescheiden of verenigd? De receptie van Meister Eckharts Reden der Unterweisung via Vanden twaelf dogheden in de laatmiddeleeuwse Nederlanden
3rd Ruusbroeck Lecture
25 April 2014, 2-4 pm, Antwerpen University
Ine Kiekens: Dat al clene is, dat ic uu scriven mach. De Middelnederlandse overlevering van de excerpten van Vanden twaelf dogheden
International Conference: ‘Medieval Documents as Artefacts, 1100-1600’
Maastricht, The Netherlands, February 5-6, 2014