DrEdward Coleman

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Financial support for an international conference held in the School of History on 11-12 March 2016. This conference was the inaugural event of a project on the Senses in Medieval and Renaissance Europe. The conference theme was 'Sight and visual perception'. Subsequent conferences will address the other senese: hearing, smell, taste and touch. The conference brought together a mix of established scholars, early career researchers and postgraduates omes include a rolling series of publications arising from this and future conferences , and the creation of synergies between practitioners in humanistic and science disciplines. The conference was supported by UCD Seed Funding , the Forum for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Ireland, the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature and Four Courts Press.

The Bullough Fellowship is a research position awarded annually to visiting senior academic who becomes a member of the St Andrews University Institute for Mediaeval Studies for one semester. F or further information see https://saims.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/tag/bullough-fellowship/

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The award is to support collaboration with Professor Frances Andrews, University of St Andrews and Professor Trevor Dean, Roehampton College, University of London. Specifically it relates to the organisation of a workshop in UCD in 2010 which will be attended by Professors Andrews and Dean and other invited participants with relevant research and teaching interests. The aim is to provide a forum for discussion, debate and exchange of ideas related to the production of the new textbooks in the the area of Italian Medieval and Renaissance History that the the three principal collaborators are currently preparing.

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Dr Coleman has given recent public lectures in the Italian Institute of Culture Dublin ('The Italian Risorgimento in its Historical Setting. A contribution to a round table on 150 years of the unity of Italy', 7 February 2011), to the Dante Society, Belfast ('The Battle of Legnano and Italian national identity', 9 February 2012), and in the Wood Quay Venue, Dublin City Council, ( 'The Crusader's tale' , a contribution to 'Tales of Medieval Dublin' series, 18 Sepember 2012). He has also recently appeared on radio ( 2 September 2012, as a member of panel on the Borgias to the 'Taking History' programme, Newstalk FM, and 10 September, 2012, in an interview about the Crusades in the 'Looking Back' programme on Dublin City FM.)