Working with renowned early music specialists Rosemary Hodgson (Lute), Kate Macfarlane (Soprano), Christopher Roach (Alto/Tenor) and Timothy Reynolds (Tenor), this event presented part songs (with lute) composed by one of the most significant English composers of the sixteenth century, John Dowland (c.1563–1626).

Rehearsals and performances involved practice-based and historical research on original sixteenth-century print editions of John Dowland’s works, and the poems which his music sets. Research-based decisions were reached relating to text setting and corrections of printing errors.This historically-informed performance also involved decisions relating to voicing and tuning practices.

The programme also involved close work on text interpretation of a range of poems by significant English Renaissance poets (e.g Sir Philip Sidney). Major questions addressed involved the treatment of seasonality, environments and the passage of time in both music and text.

Paper by Dr Grantley McDonald (University of Vienna). University of Melbourne, Arts West rm 555.

International Symposium of the ARC DECRA ‘The Sounds of Time”. Queen’s College, University of Melbourne.

Paper delivered at the ERC Symposium, Back to the Future, Antwerp University, 13–15 November

Material Histories Seminar, Old Treasury Building. Recording available here.

Programme

Arrival: 9:30am – 9:40am

9:40am: Dr Matthew S. Champion – University of Melbourne

Framing the History of Temporal Encounters

10:00am: Dr Beatríz Marin-Aguilera – University of Liverpool

Transcending Gender, Power, and Temporalities: Machis between Medical and Satanic Healing in Colonial Chile

10:40am: Prof. Francisco Bethencourt – King’s College London

Indigeneity and Temporalities in the Portuguese Empire

11:20am: Dr Jessica O’Leary – Monash University

Time, Temporality and Encounter in Early Colonial Brazil

12:00pm: Concluding Discussion

12:30pm: Lunch & Further Discussion

Venue: Arts West Room G20 (entry from inside Arts West Gallery, University of Melbourne)

A workshop discussing problems and methods in the history of temporalities in global contexts with participants from the University of Melbourne, Australian Catholic University and the École française d’Extrême-Orient.

With Assoc. Prof. Tessa Murdoch (University of Buckingham) and co-organised with Dr Sarah Bendall (ACU). Lunchtime seminar on the impact of the Huguenot diaspora on the history of timepieces in London and beyond.

In collaboration with scholars from Antwerp University and the ERC-funded project Back to the Future, this collaboratory asks what can new digital methods allow us to undestand about temporality and epistolary culture across the period 1400–1800?

On 7 July 2023, the workshop Sound, Time, Matter was held at the British Museum in London. Co-hosted by Matthew Champion (University of Melbourne) and Oliver Cooke (British Museum), this curated collaborative workshop featured presentations by Víctor Pérez Álvarez (London), Kat Hill (London), Susanne Thüringen (Germanisches Nationalmuseum) and Matthew Laube (Baylor), with participation from Ian Fenlon (Cambridge), Stefan Hanß (Manchester), Mary Laven (Cambridge), Harriet Lyon (Cambridge), and Philippa Ovenden (Toronto). For full details, see event page here.

Paper delivered by Matthew Champion for the History Brownbag Seminar at the University of Melbourne.

Seminar paper delivered by Dr Matthew Champion for the History Research Seminar, Monash University

Panel discussion at Queen Mary University of London to celebrate the publication of Paul Strohm and Gillian Adler’s Alle Thing hath Tyme (London: Reaktion, 2023). With contributions from Prof. Gillian Adler (Sarah Lawrence College), Dr Matthew Champion (Melbourne), Prof. Alfred Hiatt (Queen Mary), Prof. Miri Rubin (Queen Mary), Gabrielle Schwarzmann (Queen Mary), Prof. Paul Strohm (Columbia), and Prof. Dan Todman (Queen Mary).

Panel for the 2022 ANZAMEMS conference with Dr Matthew Champion (Melbourne), Assoc. Prof. Dolly MacKinnon (University of Queensland), and Prof. Andrew Brown (Massey), chaired by Assoc. Prof. Jenny Spinks (Melbourne)

Presentation by Dr Matthew Champion for the Queen Mary Medievalists Digital Seminar, Queen Mary University of London.

Paper by Matthew Champion as part of Temporality, Urbanity, and Religion: Reconsidering Sacred Time in Ancient and Modern Cities, hosted by Duke University and the University of Erfurt.

Friday December 10, 2021, 8-10am EST (East Coast) | 2-4pm CET (Germany) | 9-11pm (Singapore and Beijing) | Saturday December 11, 12-2am AEDT (Melbourne)

Zoom ID: 991 1215 9423 https://duke.zoom.us/j/99112159423

Jörg Rüpke on Ancient Rome
Matthew Champion on Medieval and Early Modern Middelburg
Christopher Witmore on Ancient Argos

Papers available upon request. Please email (anna.x.sun@duke.edu) or (joerg.ruepke@uni-erfurt.de).

This paper assembles a collection of images of clocks from the manuscript tradition of northern Europe across the long fifteenth century to investigate the possible relationships they suggest between sound, image and devotional practice. This was the period that the domestic wall clock became a commonplace in the interiors of courtly and urban elites, as is evident from the witness of wills and inventories, surviving objects and manuscript images themselves. These images of clocks testify to the clock’s rising importance in the practice of devotional time. They seem to provoke reflection on the gap between the silent image and the sounding bells of the clock and to signal the sensory complications of attempts to mediate time and eternity.

Presented by Matthew Champion. Medieval Round Table, University of Melbourne.

Material Culture, National School of Arts Research Seminar. Australian Catholic University, Melbourne.

Symposium of the Australian Research Council Discovery Project Albrecht Dürer's Material World.

Conference of the AHRC Network Early Modern Soundscapes.

Roundtable ‘Describing Devotion’, International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Michigan.