Project Spotlight

  • FESTIVAL OF THE VOICE
    30/03/12

    As part of the big Festival of the Voice to be held by Cambridge University from 18-20 May 2012, Prof. Rosamond McKitterick is going to give a pre-concert talk at Trinity College Chapel, mainly addressing questions that are under research by the whole CMRP research group. Please see the programme for further information.

  • The Popes and their Greeks in eighth-century Rome: The own people, the Others and the strangers
    26/03/12

    On 27 March, Clemens Gantner will be speaking at the Symposium "DAS EIGENE UND
    DAS FREMDE" of the Centre for Ancient World Studies of the Austrian Academy. (Language: German)

  • FROM WIDUKIND TO WILDERS
    26/01/12

    In this joint presentation, the project members of Utrecht will offer four brief contributions, comparing the uses of the past in early medieval texts with those of contemporary conservative populists. Of course the context, the media and the audience are all different, yet there are surprising similarities in the way in which a newly constructed past offered stability and solid authority in a rapidly changing world.

  • Third CMRP meeting
    28/11/11

    About event: The meeting will mainly deal with the coordination of the joint publication envisaged for 2013. Besides, the PhD students working in the project will have the opportunity to present their current work to the international PhD students meeting “Texts and Identities XV”.

  • Second CMRP meeting
    07/10/11

    About event: All junior members of the project were given the opportunity to present their current work in a few minutes and get input from the PIs and the other project members. Apart from this round, the meeting was mainly dedicated to find even more efficient ways of cooperation between the subprojects.

  • Cultural Memory and the Resources of the past / Learnig empire
    13/12/10

    About event: in conjunction with the Final Conference of the Wittgenstein Project 2005-2010 Ethnic Identities in Early Medieval Europe

  • International Medieval Congress
    22/10/10

    The International Medieval Congress (IMC) is organised and administered by the Institute for Medieval Studies (IMS). Since its start in 1994, the Congress has established itself as an annual event with an attendance of over 1,500 medievalists from all over the world. It is the largest conference of its kind in Europe.
    The CMRP project will have two sessions there annually, this year mainly to present the objectives of the project.

  • First CMRP meeting
    22/10/10

    The first project meeting was first of all an opportunity for the participants of the project to get to know each other. Apart from that some basic organisational issues had to be talked about, especially concerning the cooperative nature of the project. (short report to be put on the website soon).