Eneko is an early career scholar in the University of the Basque Country, department of Art History. He did my Ph.D. in a cotutel program between the University of Nevada and the University of the Basque Country. His dissertation titled, ‘Painting Heaven and Hell in the Wake of the Plague. A contribution to the Study of Parish Church Wall Paintings in the Kingdom of Navarre between 1348 and 1387’, deals with the art of mural painting done inside parish churches in the rural area of Navarre during the second half of the 14th century, from an interdisciplinary perspective. He gathered, a detailed local historical context, patronage of local elites and craft by painters, material used in the murals, as well as iconographic programs.

Now he is expanding my research towards the general scenario of painting in this period of havoc.

Lorenz Hindrichsen is a historian/cultural critic working primarily on anglophone texts (Chaucer to the Romantics) with a wide range of interests: colonial discourse, gender, visual arts, scientific writing, and travel accounts. He loves exploring new theory (CRT, temporality, spatiality, materiality, trauma theory, eco-criticism, affective turn), and he is currently working on pandemic literature (medieval/early modern), graphic trauma narratives, and religion and race in Romantic texts.

Gender, Symbolic Blackness and Demons in early Christian Hagiography from the Greek East.

Andrew Moore successfully defended his PhD thesis, “Manorial Regulation and Negotiation in a Late Medieval Environment: Land and Community at Herstmonceux, 1308-1440,” on 17 November 2021. His dissertation examines the role that environment played in the negotiation of rights and responsibilities on a fundamental socioeconomic institution of rural communities in late medieval England — the manor. It analyzes all of the extant documentation generated by the manor, especially a series of fourteenth-century court rolls, and uses it as a lens through which to observe this process. What emerges is a picture of continuous negotiation of power that affected, and was affected by, the environment. Some effects of this negotiation included the creation of new bureaucracies, the increasing standardization of procedure and documentation, and regulations promoting intensive, rather than extensive, land use. This occurred during a period of significant environmental crises, including marshland flooding, disease, and the increasingly unsustainable clearing of woodlands.

Andrew is currently teaching a fourth-year seminar at St. Jerome’s University (SJU) in the University of Waterloo, and is coordinating research internships for UW’s Digital Research Arts and Graphical Environmental Networks (DRAGEN) Lab. Housed at SJU, the lab as part of the SSHRC-funded Partnership Grant, Environments of Change, directed by Dr. Steven Bednarski. Andrew is next planning to explore publication opportunities for his thesis. He is also investigating post-doctoral fellowship opportunities, with the aim to expand the geographical scope of his research to more coastal North Sea regions, and to analyze the relationship between environment and conflict in those areas during the Hundred Years’ War.

The Tri-University Program in History was a great support to Andrew during his time at UW.

Aleksandra Urbaniak

Lecturer at the Adam Mickiewics University, Poznán

COURSES COORDINATED

2022/SZ - Literature and culture of Italy I (Middle Ages) 09-LKW1k-1LW-16

2023/SL - Litarature and culture of Italy: Baroque, Classicism, Enlightenment 09-LKW4k-4LW-46

2023/SZ - (in Polish) Literatura i kultura Włoch - średniowiecze 09-LKWŚ-1LW-SNJL-11

2023/SZ - (in Polish) Literatura i kultura włoska - średniowiecze 09-LKWŚ-1LW-WN-11

2023/SZ - Literatura i kultura włoska - średniowiecze 09-S1FWL01-P13314

COURSES CONDUCTED

2022/SZ - Literature and culture of Italy I (Middle Ages) 09-LKW1k-1LW-16: discussion seminar (group 1)

2023/SL - Litarature and culture of Italy: Baroque, Classicism, Enlightenment 09-LKW4k-4LW-46: discussion seminar (group 1)

2023/SZ - (in Polish) Literatura i kultura Włoch - średniowiecze 09-LKWŚ-1LW-SNJL-11: discussion seminar (group 1)

2023/SZ - (in Polish) Literatura i kultura włoska - średniowiecze 09-LKWŚ-1LW-WN-11: discussion seminar (group 1)

2023/SZ - Literatura i kultura włoska - średniowiecze 09-S1FWL01-P13314: discussion seminar (group 1)

À Conversa com Isabel Drumond Braga

Professora auxiliar com agregação da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, na área de História, onde leciona desde 1990.

Tem desenvolvido investigação e lecionado nas áreas de História Social, História de Género, História Cultural e História das Práticas do Quotidiano, em especial História da Alimentação, das épocas Moderna e Contemporânea.

Membro de diversos projetos de investigação em Portugal, Espanha e Brasil, do qual se destaca, no presente âmbito, o projeto DIAITA: Património Alimentar da Lusofonia. Orientadora de projetos de pós-doutoramento, doutoramento e mestrado, nas áreas História da Inquisição, da História das Práticas Culturais e da História da Alimentação. Neste último âmbito tem trabalhado sobre produtos (doces, gelados, peixe e diversos produtos provenientes do continente americano); receituários (de origem leiga e conventual), literatura (provérbios e autores como Armando Ferreira), dietética e gastronomia (dietas alimentares das minorias, vegetarianismo em Portugal, gastronomia e turismo), sem esquecer a história dos menus e da sociabilidade e etiqueta à mesa, a publicidade alimentar e a economia doméstica.

Publicações selecionadas

BRAGA, Isabel Drumond, Das Origens do Vegetarianismo em Portugal: Amílcar de Sousa (1876-1940), o apóstolo verde, Lisboa, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, 2018, no prelo.

​BRAGA, Isabel Drumond, Sabores e Segredos. Receituários Conventuais Portugueses da Época Moderna, Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, Annablume, 2015, 412pp. ISBN 978-989-26-1079-5. ISBN Digital 978-989-26-1080-1.

​BRAGA, Isabel Drumond, Os Menus em Portugal. Para uma História das Artes de servir à Mesa, Lisboa, Chaves Ferreira Publicações, 2006, 240 pp. ISBN 972-794-264-4. Versão inglesa sob o título Menus. Towards a history of the art of serving at table, Lisboa, Chaves Ferreira Publicações, 2006, 240 pp. ISBN 972-8987-07-2.

BRAGA, Isabel Drumond, Do Primeiro Almoço à Ceia. Estudos de História da Alimentação, Sintra, Colares Editora, 2004, 160 pp. ISBN 972-782-070-0.

BRAGA, Isabel Drumond, “Carne e Peixe: Uma Hierarquia de Consumos Alimentares”, Animais e Companhia na História de Portugal, coordenação de Isabel Drumond Braga e Paulo Drumond Braga, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 2015, pp. 35-85.

BRAGA, Isabel Drumond, “Confeiteiros na Época Moderna: Cultura Material, Produção e Conflituosidade”, Ensaios sobre o Património Alimentar Luso-Brasileiro, coordenação de Carmen Soares e Irene Coutinho de Macedo, Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2014, pp. 165-192.

Vanessa’s research explores the medieval understanding and appreciation of magic tricks, particularly sleight-of-hand and chemical tricks, preserved in medieval manuscript recipe collections as a form of domestic play and popular science, meaning a general rather than specialist engagement with science and scientific principles, in the Middle Ages. As both material chemical practices and interpersonal performances, magic tricks are a valuable tool for interrogating how late medieval Europeans negotiated their relationships with the physical world, deceit, and each other. Medieval magic tricks intersect with artisanal craft practices; elite dining culture and cooking practices; theatre and public performance; literature; and alchemy, science, and technology. They offer an avenue for the analysis of play and experimentation across a broad spectrum of medieval society, showing how the display and collection of chemical knowledge was integrated into the popular culture of medieval Europe.

Medieval magic tricks had a broad audience that cannot be differentiated by social or occupational setting. Recipes for entertaining chemical tricks were present in universities and monasteries, in the home and on the stage, at the banquet and in the kitchen. The experience of these tricks, and related phenomena such as pranks, required a specific relationship between the performer and audience. Combining the theory of active disbelief pioneered by modern magicians and the presentation of deceit in medieval literary genres, Vanessa argues that this relationship was predicated on a shared understanding of possibility underpinned by a willing consent to be deceived. Finally, Vanessa addresses the practical reality of magic tricks demonstrating that the properties of substances manipulated for magic tricks, such as mercury’s reactivity, were the same as those used by specialist craftsmen and alchemists. Across art technology, alchemy, and magic tricks, the same chemical process could be understood functionally, analytically, and ludically and consumed on a spectrum from practical procedure to intellectual record.

Dr. Eric H. Cline is Professor of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology, the former Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the current Director of the GWU Capitol Archaeological Institute. He is a National Geographic Explorer, a Fulbright scholar, an NEH Public Scholar, a Getty Scholar, and an award-winning teacher and author. In May 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctoral degree (honoris causa) from Muhlenberg College.

An archaeologist and ancient historian by training, Dr. Cline’s primary fields of study are biblical archaeology, the military history of the Mediterranean world from antiquity to present, and the international connections between Greece, Egypt, and the Near East during the Late Bronze Age (1700-1100 BCE). He is an experienced and active field archaeologist, with more than 30 seasons of excavation and survey to his credit since 1980 in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus, Greece, Crete, and the United States. He is perhaps best known for his work on collapse and resilience in the ancient world, specifically at the end of the second millennium BCE and the early first millennium BCE in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, epitomized by the best-selling 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Princeton 2014; revised edition 2021).