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Ana Roda Sánchez @arodsan95.bsky.social · Aug 22

Two weeks left to get your abstracts in for #imc2026!!!
We look forward to hearing from you 🤗

@medievalgeorgie.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social

#skystorians #medieval #premoderncriticalracestudies #medievalsky #imc #premodernrace #cfp

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · Aug 13

Anglo-Saxons with West African roots: DNA analysis of 7th century burials reported in @antiquity.ac.uk today reveals long-distance connections reached across continents and cultures. Read about it @science.org:

Youths buried in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries carried West African DNA

Despite bearing remarkably far-flung genetic origins, a girl and young man were buried just like their peers

www.science.org

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georgie @medievalgeorgie.bsky.social · Aug 15

some how caught Covid during the height of summer - somehow managed to transcribe some early modern dutch documents now i need to switch off and read in the garden

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georgie @medievalgeorgie.bsky.social · Aug 11

really glad you enjoyed it! Moriaen is such a fantastic text - aside from what it can tell us about race, it showcases the depth of the dutch arthurian tradition; sadly there isn’t currently a verse translation, just a very bad 20th century prose rendering but it gets the basics of the story

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georgie @medievalgeorgie.bsky.social · Aug 10

an absolute joy to chat with Natalie about my research - i chat problems with discourse, representation in texts and approaching the use of codicological study in detangling race and race making … all fun things (to me)

Natalie Grueninger @onthetudortrail.bsky.social · Aug 10

It was a joy and so illuminating to speak with Georgie Anderson about her research into how race functioned in medieval Europe. Among other things, we discussed how ideas about race were disseminated and digested in the medieval world and what role chivalric texts played.
youtu.be/AugRwXol2-o?...

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MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social · Aug 5

CALL FOR PAPERS!!! The MEMRN Committee are delighted to share the call for papers for our second annual Winter Conference: Fragmented Worlds, Shared Histories.

Please share widely! Sponsored by @chase-dtp.bsky.social

We, the committee of the CHASE Medieval and Early Modern Research Network (MEMRN), are overjoyed to announce the return of our Winter Conference this year between the 14th and 16th November.

Join us at the University of East Anglia and online for three exciting days of workshops, papers, social events, and adventure through the historic cathedral city of Norwich.
We welcome papers on a range of topics within medieval and early modern studies for this interdisciplinary conference, including:

* History and politics
* Philosophy and theology
* Literature, drama, performance culture and music
* Latin and vernacular languages
* Art history, architecture and archaeology
* Manuscript studies and book history

For this year's conference, we particularly encourage papers engaging with marginalised histories and communities, global intercultural contact and exchange, or conflict and diplomacy.

We invite abstracts of up to 250 words for individual research papers of twenty minutes in length (or 700 words for a panel of three people presenting on a particular subject or sub-theme).

The CHASE MEMRN conference remains open to all UK and overseas postgraduates. This includes independent scholars who are unaffiliated at this time. When submitting your abstract, please include your institution (if applicable) and, if from a CHASE-affiliated university institution, whether or not you are directly funded by CHASE.
All proposals should be emailed to chasememrn@gmail.com by Friday
12th September with the subject line 'Conference Paper Submission' and your name. Priority will be given to those available to present in-person, but remote presentation applications will also be considered.

Please feel free to contact the MEMRN team via email or social media DM with any questions you may have. We look forward to welcoming you to Norwich as part of this proudly CHASE-funded event.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · Aug 5

I really needed this today.

Ayanna Thompson sent me a link to this jaw-dropping thing they built with a Mellon grant at @acmrs.bsky.social

You can get lost in it.

A spectacular reminder that digital resources don't have to be about surveillance, coercion, & disciplining the labor force.

Throughlines — Race in the premodern classroom

Created by field-leading scholars, Throughlines’ pedagogical approaches offer accessible and critical ways to incorporate discussions of race in the premodern studies classroom.

www.throughlines.org

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Aug 5

ACADEMIC READING ALREADY COMES WITH A SUMMARY IT IS CALLED THE ABSTRACT

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · Aug 5

The Appendix on an AI policy is actually quite bad. Having an AI deliver a summary before reading has major implications in terms of the experience of student learning. What we want students to do and how they do it is the question. The experience of reading is not the same as reading a summary.

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georgie @medievalgeorgie.bsky.social · Aug 2

heading to oxford tomorrow for the @dhoxss.bsky.social - very lucky to be a recipient of the Gale bursary! looking forward to improving my TEI skills and applying this to my thesis work going forward

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georgie @medievalgeorgie.bsky.social · Jul 22

Ana and I are so excited to be able to propose these sessions on such a rich and complex field - we cannot wait to see what you all come up with and as always please do not hesitate to ask if you have any questions!

Ana Roda Sánchez @arodsan95.bsky.social · Jul 22

New Call for Papers for more sessions on premodern race & racialisation at #IMC2026!!
@medievalgeorgie.bsky.social and I are looking forward to receiving your proposals 🙂
If you have any questions, please do reach out!
@imc-leeds.bsky.social
#premoderncriticalracestudies #medievalsky #skystorians

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · Jul 19

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza

Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone

www.telegraph.co.uk

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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · Jun 22

Call for Papers: Conference on Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages.
#jewishstudies
mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17730

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Dr Dean Irwin @medievaljews.bsky.social · Jun 18

Super excited to share the CFP for the 'Borders, Boundaries, Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages' conference. Organised by Tash Jenman (Oxford), Naomi Reiter (QMUL), and myself (Lincoln/OCHJS) this will be held in Oxford 20-21 April 2026. All welcome, please share!

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · Jun 6

#IMC2025 may be 4 weeks away, but the #IMC2026 Call for Papers is officially open!!! 🎉

This year our Special Thematic Strand is 'Temporalities'!
Click here: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2026/ to find out how to submit papers and sessions, and also to learn more about our Padlet page.😊

#MedievalSky

A red IMC Picture with the date of IMC 2026 of the 6th to the 9th of July. There are 5 roundles in the right hand corner displaying different historical ways on interpreting time.

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georgie @medievalgeorgie.bsky.social · Jun 4

this years mems fest is supported by @chase-dtp.bsky.social and in tandem with @memrn.bsky.social - registration is now open ! the event is free and hybrid so join us online or in person 13th-14th June
registration: forms.gle/4aMLnLrgQcVB...
provisional programme: www.instagram.com/share/BAwXaC...

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Lost Manuscripts @lostmss.bsky.social · Jan 13

Fragments suited and rebooted! We are thrilled to launch our brand new website with our growing database of medieval fragments and host volumes, IIIF images and project highlight pages. Check it out at the link below and follow for more updates! 📜🚀🎉

lostmss.org.uk/project

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Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social · Jan 11

Research fellowship for candidates "specialising in the ancient and early medieval Near and Middle East, the ancient and early medieval Mediterranean, the ancient and early medieval East, South, and South-East Asia, or early medieval Europe." 📜 #medievalSky

Matt Shaw @matthewshaw.bsky.social · Jan 11

www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/ju...

Junior Research Fellowship in Manuscript and Text Cultures - The Queen's College, Oxford

The Queen’s College, University of Oxford, is offering a fixed-term (non-renewable) Junior Research Fellowship in Manuscript and Text for candidates who hold, or are close to completing, a doctorate i...

www.queens.ox.ac.uk

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