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Imagining University: communities of learning, the academy, and the city
Professor Constant Mews - Inaugural Lecture
In this lecture, Professor Mews reflects on the meaning of universitas in the Middle Ages, arguing that it was a broader concept than ‘University' in the modern sense. He explores the various kinds of community in which learning took place in the Middle Ages, including the universitas of teachers and students in Paris, and their implications for our own understanding of what ‘the academy' might mean.
Professor Mews is Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology at Monash University, where he teaches within the School for Philosophical, Historical & International Studies.
Date: Tuesday 31 May 2011
Time: 5:45pm for 6pm sharp
Venue: The Cumming Theatre (Building K, Third level, Theatre K321) Monash University,
Caulfield Campus 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield
RSVP: Friday 29 May 2011 to http://bit.ly/hhtUmI or telephone 9902 0116
or email kerrie.alexander@monash.edu
Please join us after to the lecture for Drinks & nibbles at Level 8, Building H, Caulfield Campus (across the Quad)
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December 2010
Book Launch: Interpreting Francis & Clare of Assisi
March 2011
Professor Constant Mews' Inaugural Professorial Lecture: The Idea of 'University': communities of learning, the cloister and the city. Wednesday 8 December from 5:30pm, Level 8, Building H, Caulfield Campus. Details & RSVP to be confirmed, enquiries to kerrie.alexander@monash.edu
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Monash-Münster Connections
On 17-18 June 2010 Prof Constant J Mews, Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology within SOPHIS, participated in a workshop on a theme that he had proposed to the University (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität) of Münster, Germany: Women's communities and Communities of Learning in the Middle Ages. This workshop was organised by the "Religion and Politics Excellence Cluster" at the WWU-Münster, an interdisciplinary grouping of over 200 scholars who work on aspects of religion and politics either in the modern or the pre-modern (ie ancient and medieval periods). The workshop also invited Rina Lahav, a Monash postgraduate working on religion and gender in thirteenth-century France, to attend the workshop.
Prof Mews spent two weeks at Münster, both pursuing his own research into the politics surrounding the relics of Thomas Aquinas in fourteenth-century France and Italy, and discussing the research of a number of doctoral and post-doctoral researchers at Münster. He worked closely with Prof Eva Scholotheuber, a specialist in women's religious communities in Germany in the later Middle Ages, who is keen to come to New Zealand (to attend the annual conference of the Australian and NZ Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, being held in Dunedin) and Australia in February 2011.
Prof. Mews is keen to establish reciprocal ties with Münster, involving exchange of both younger and senior scholars between Germany and Australia. Münster is a distinguished University town with a wealth of libraries, belonging to the various university departments as well as to the Church.