Overseen by Dr Brid Phillips (project director) and Dr Steve Chinna (staging director), the Renaissance Moved Readings Project continues the tradition of informal, participatory, fast-paced and usually hilarious readings of Shakespeare’s plays. Events in 2019 included:

• Much Ado About Nothing (a witty battle of the sexes is waged; comedy ensues), 28 March 2019.
• King Lear (a king foolishly divides his kingdom among his daughters; tragedy ensues), 11 April 2019.
• The Tempest (on an enchanted island, magical and muggle characters meet; romance ensues), 16 May 2019.

• MEMS will host the ANZAMEMS (Australia and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies) conference in February 2021.
• IAS/MEMS/PMRG/CHE Public Lecture by Diana Barnes, ‘Margaret Cavendish's, Life of Newcastle (1667), a Wifely Intervention in the Making of History’, Wednesday 16 October, 2019.
• IAS/MEMS/PMRG/CHE Masterclass, Michael D. Barbezat (ACU), Diana Barnes (UNE), Michael Champion (ACU), Riikka Miettinen (Centre of Excellence in the History of Experience (HEX) at the University of Tampere, Finland), ‘ Social Wellbeing: Emotion and community’, 18 October 2019.
• Mental Health in the Medieval and Early Modern World’ MEMS/ PMRG Conference, 19 October 2019.
• PMRG AGM and Lecture: Dr Chris Mallan, ‘“Go Draw Your Gourds!”: Some Editors and Readers of Cassius Dio in the 15th and 16th Centuries’, 18 March 2019.
• Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Friday Talk, Co-Sponsored by CHE: Emeritus Professor Andrew Lynch from English and Literary Studies, ‘Starcraft and Cosmic Music’, 22 March, 2019.
• CMEMS Lund Seminar: Dr Kajsa Brilkman, ‘Luther in Transit. Translation, Compilation and Luther's Collected Works in Swedish during the 16th and 17th Century’, 1 April 2019.

• Dr Nicholas Bannan
  Music and liturgy; music in medieval life
• Dr Andrew Broertjes
  Medieval political history; Wars of the Roses; nationalism
• Professor Susan Broomhall
  Women and gender; history of emotions; material culture; cultural contact; heritage of the early modern world
• Associate Professor Steve Chinna
  Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre and performance; creative writing for stage and screen; postmodern and modern theatre
• Dr Kirk Essary
  Sixteenth-century intellectual and religious history; classical tradition; history of the Bible; Erasmus; Calvin; history of emotions
• Dr Marina Gerzic
  Shakespeare studies; performance studies; adaptation and reception studies; royal studies; comics and graphic novels; children’s literature; disability studies; music in film; and cultural studies.
• Dr Paul Gibbard
  early modern intellectual history; travel, science and the emotions
• Professor Yasmin Haskell
  Latin humanism, Jesuits, history of emotions and psychology, the reception of classical authors
• Professor Andrew Lynch
  Literature and culture of later medieval England (English, French and Latin); medievalism; post-medieval reception and imaginative recreation of the Middle Ages; war in medieval literature; history of emotions; modern Irish literature and Australian poetry
• Professor John Melville-Jones
  Ancient coinage; Byzantine and Venetian historiography
• Dr Susanne Meurer
  Art historiography, prints and printmaking, Northern Renaissance and Baroque
• Dr Jane-Heloise Nancarrow
  3D reproduction and visualisation for museums and heritage; material translation of classical world in the middle ages; Apulian architecture of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II
• Professor Alistair Paterson
  Archaeology; Dutch shipwrecks; maritime archaeology; museum collections
• Dr Brid Phillips
  Shakespeare, history of emotions, medieval and early modern literature
• Professor Richard Read
  European art history, particularly word-image oppositions, complex images in global contexts, European Grand Tour, Romantic art criticism, European origins of American and Australian landscape painting, medieval and Renaissance aspects of nineteenth-century and modernist art and art theory.
• Dr Stephanie Tarbin
  Late medieval and early modern social history; history of gender and sexualities; history of families and households; urban history; history of emotions; special interests include moral regulation, masculinities and children’s experiences
• Associate Professor Jacqueline Van Gent
  History of gender, body and the self in early modern Europe; cultural exchange; gender and religious change in Australia; history of emotions
• Dr Arvi Wattel
  Italian Renaissance art and architecture; early modern courts of northern Italy; Dutch-Asian cultural exchange in the seventeenth century
• Dr Bob Weston
  Seventeenth- to nineteenth-century European medical history
• Professor Bob White
  Shakespeare; Shakespearean cinema; Renaissance literature; pacifism and human rights in literature and film history; history of emotions
• Associate Professor Suzanne Wijsman
  Medieval musical iconography; medieval Hebrew manuscript artwork production and materiality; Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval visual cultures; history of the cello and early violin family; historically informed performance of pre-modern music