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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 12d

The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies is hiring three postdoctoral researchers.

We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts.

Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!

3 Postdoctoral Positions (100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years)

full-time, Temporary, EG 13, Reference number: 2025/152

www.uni-bonn.de

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Robert Gallagher @hwaetspur.bsky.social · 13d

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate

Are you passionate about early medieval Britain? Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing? If yes, then you may be interested in this f...

jobs.kent.ac.uk

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Sarah Parkhouse @sarahparkhouse.bsky.social · Sep 10

We are looking for a one-year full-time Research Associate to work on Coptic manuscripts in Manchester as part of a wonderful project that connects mss with local communities. Requires strong skills in Coptic, English, & Arabic. Deadline 31/10. Please share! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Associate – Coptic in Manchester (UKRI):John Rylands Library

Key collaborators are the Coptic Church in Stockport, Manchester, and the Coptic Church in Llandudno, Wales. The project has an extensive and international advisory board. A PDRA seeking an academic career may find the balance between traditional research and co-creation appealing.

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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magistraetmater.bsky.social @magistraetmater.bsky.social · Aug 26

Any UK-based PhDs working on medieval women interested in giving a lighting talk to this seminar? It'd be good to get some premodern representation.

IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social · Aug 4

@ihr.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social ‪@dralanagharris.bsky.social‬

(Standing) Xavier Jou-Badal (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) on Gender and Mobility in the Chocolate Factory. Barcelona, 1910-1914; Jenny Smart (Cambridge) on Climacteric Insanity in the Derbyshire and Norfolk county asylums, 1845-1914; Jennie Kiff (Lincoln) on Unravelling “...a knot of women…”: women’s networks and the Bradford branch of the Women’s Social and Political Union; Kate Hart (Birkbeck) on Marching for Change: How Have Women’s Experiences of Local Masculinities Influenced Their Protest Agency in France and Britain? Case Studies from 1981-1983; (Sitting) Florentine Friedrich (Lincoln) on ‘Take Thee to a Nunnery': Women, Convents, and Public Good Provision in Nineteenth Century; Louise Dobson (Sussex) on Janet Flanner, New Journalism, and the Politics of anti-Communism at the New Yorker

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Ed Roberts @ecroberts.bsky.social · Jul 24

Delighted to say that I've been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2025-26, and we are hiring a 1-year full-time lecturer in early medieval history to replace me. Deadline 7 August. Please get in touch with me if you have any questions about the role! jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Lecturer in Early Medieval History (c.400-1100)

Are you an experienced Lecturer who can teach British and European Early Medieval History? Do you have a passion for Medieval History and are you available for a fixed term contract to start in Septe...

jobs.kent.ac.uk

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jul 21

'The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show.' 1/3

‘Student-led’ AHRC PhD places ‘to fall by at least 60 per cent’

Internal modelling released under Freedom of Information enquiry reveals extent of PhD scholarship cuts, with academics fearing impact could be greater still

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Mateusz Kusio @mateuszkusio.bsky.social · Jul 17

IMC '26 CfP for a new strand

Future Insight and Its Discontents in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (200–900 CE)

We invite proposals for papers interrogating the methods and outcomes of acquiring future insight in the cultures of Late Antiquity and early Middle Ages. +

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Becca Grose @beccagrose.bsky.social · Jul 17

Here but untaggable because no display name, non? bsky.app/profile/magi...

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Jul 16

📣 call for applications 📣
Two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop.

Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.

Please share widely!

www.historyworkshop....

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025

History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Becca Grose @beccagrose.bsky.social · Jul 16

And, for anyone with @imc-leeds.bsky.social catch-up, it was a great paper (as were all our contributions and the response from @lisakaarenbailey.bsky.social .) I had no idea that early Islamic scholars had the same problems as some Carolingian penitential authors when it comes to sex positions...

DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · Jul 6

Heading to the IMC? Tomorrow Sheida will be presenting on 'Early Islamic Sexual Taboos: The Boundaries of Permissibility in al-Ṭabarī and al-Ṭabarānī's Narratives', as part of @beccagrose.bsky.social and Grace Stafford's panels on 'Sex Education and Late Antiquity'. 11:15-12:45, Esther Simpson 2.08

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Becca Grose @beccagrose.bsky.social · Jul 16

Our latest Land & Loyalty update isn't about late Roman land grants, or confiscation - instead, my colleague Giordana won the “Giuliano Crifò” prize for her PhD on John Lydus's De Magistratibus.

research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/...

One of the best things about L&L is such expert colleagues!

Dr Giordana Franceschini awarded international “Giuliano Crifò” prize

On 25 June 2025 at Spello, Perugia, Dr. Giordana Franceschini was awarded the international “Giuliano Crifò” prize by the Accademia Romanistica Costantiniana for her dissertation, a critical commen…

research.st-andrews.ac.uk

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Becca Grose @beccagrose.bsky.social · Jul 11

And of course our amazing three moderators who kept incredible time and fought tech, heat and a bounty of questions, so we could sit back and enjoy listening!

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Becca Grose @beccagrose.bsky.social · Jul 11

This was so fun! I enjoyed the papers + micrunning too much to take photos, but immense gratitude to @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social and @lisakaarenbailey.bsky.social for taking this forward, all speakers for their diversity of gendered approaches + Shane for showing how weird the Merovingians were.

Session: 1016 Newlyn Building: GR.07
Title: NARRATING GENDER AND LIFE CYCLES IN MEROVINGIAN GAUL, I:
LANGUAGE
Organisers: Lisa Bailey, Faculty of Arts & Education, University of Auckland and
Michaela Selway, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard
Karls Universität Tübingen
Moderator: Guy Halsall, Department of Archaeology, Durham University
1016-a: Don't Offend the Queen: A Gendered, Narratological Analysis of
the Death of Leudast (Language: English)
Nelson Bennett, Department of Historical Studies, Central European
University, Budapest/Wien
1016-b: Tamquam novus: Drawing Biblical Models into the Merovingian
Present (Language: English)
Michaela Selway, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard
Karls Universität Tübingen
1016-c: 'Excellentiae vestrae Christianitas': The Merovingian Queen, Her
Roles, and Their Dynamics in 6th-Century Letters (Language:
English)
Julia Wilm, Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Freiburg

Session: 1116 Newlyn Building: GR.07
Title: NARRATING GENDER AND LIFE CYCLES IN MEROVINGIAN GAUL, II: POWER
Organisers: Lisa Bailey, Faculty of Arts & Education, University of Auckland and
Michaela Selway, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard
Karls Universität Tübingen
Moderator: Yaniv Fox, Department of General History, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat
Gan
1116-a: Venantius Fortunatus and the Exaltation of Feminine Figures of
Power (Language: English)
Amélie Belleli, Institut National de Recherche Archéologiques
Préventives (INRAP), Paris
1116-b: Voices of the Populus: Gender and Epistolary Influence in
Merovingian Episcopal Successions (Language: English)
Anne Sieberichs, Departement Talen, Literatuur en Communicatie,
Universiteit Utrecht
1116-c: History, Narrative, and Mutability in One Vita from Merovingian
Gaul: A Woman for the Age or an Age for the Woman?
(Language: English)
Carole Ann Pinnington, Department of History, University of Liverpool

Session: 1216 Newlyn Building: GR.07
Title: NARRATING GENDER AND LIFE CYCLES IN MEROVINGIAN GAUL, III: TIME
Organisers: Lisa Bailey, Faculty of Arts & Education, University of Auckland and
Michaela Selway, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard
Karls Universität Tübingen
Moderator: John Merrington, All Souls College, University of Oxford
1216-a: Nocturnal Visions in the Hagiography of Aldegund (Language:
English)
Lisa Bailey, Faculty of Arts & Education, University of Auckland
1216-b: Two Anonymous Late Antique Women and a Moment in Time
and Space (Language: English)
Ralph Mathisen, Department of History, University of Illinois Urbana-
Champaign
1216-c: Beyond the Hour: Gendered Miracles and Temporal Distortions
at Faremoutiers (Language: English)
Yaniv Fox, Department of General History, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat
Gan

Session: 1316 Newlyn Building: GR.07
Title: NARRATING GENDER AND LIFE CYCLES IN MEROVINGIAN GAUL, IV:
MATERIALITY
Organisers: Lisa Bailey, Faculty of Arts & Education, University of Auckland and
Michaela Selway, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard
Karls Universität Tübingen
Moderator: Becca Grose, School of Classics, University of St Andrews
Respondent: Shane Bjornlie, Department of History, Claremont McKenna College,
California
1316-a: Perpetual Presents: The Sarcophagus of Chrodoara and the
Miraculous Temporalities of Women Donor-Saints (Language:
English)
May Peterson, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
1316-b: Fabricating Gender: Textiles in Late Antique Literature
(Language: English)
Hope Williard, Departement Talen, Literatuur en Communicatie,
Universiteit Utrecht

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michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · Jul 11

What a wonderful Merovingianist day we had on Wednesday at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social ! Thanks to my coorganisers @beccagrose.bsky.social and @lisakaarenbailey.bsky.social and to all our speakers. Thanks especially to our respondent Shane Björnlie. I feel challenged and inspired #medievalsky

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Becca Grose @beccagrose.bsky.social · Jul 11

@lisakaarenbailey.bsky.social :)

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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · Jul 6

Heading to the IMC? Tomorrow Sheida will be presenting on 'Early Islamic Sexual Taboos: The Boundaries of Permissibility in al-Ṭabarī and al-Ṭabarānī's Narratives', as part of @beccagrose.bsky.social and Grace Stafford's panels on 'Sex Education and Late Antiquity'. 11:15-12:45, Esther Simpson 2.08

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Becca Grose @beccagrose.bsky.social · Jul 6

Utrecht is beautiful! I did my MA there - so you've picked a great place to do it!

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Ian Bonze @ianbonze.bsky.social · Jun 30

Tomorrow I'll be presenting a paper in the First St Andrews Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop in Late Antique and Early Medieval Studies at the @staclassics.bsky.social I'm looking forward to this great initiative!

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michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · Jun 26

@imc-leeds.bsky.social is almost upon us and since the app is now out, I thought I’d remind everyone of our 4 panels on the Merovingians happening all day Wednesday. We finally rallied everyone together so be there or be square! #merovingian #imcleeds2025 @beccagrose.bsky.social

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Becca Grose @beccagrose.bsky.social · Jun 24

IMC 2025: Merovingianist Mixer

We'll be at the Library bar, where campus meets Hyde Park, to avoid interrupting the Euros at Old Bar again.

All welcome, whether you work on late antique or Merovingian Gaul or want to meet people who do.

Plz RSVP to @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social for table space!

Becca Grose @beccagrose.bsky.social · Jan 29

Calling all #IMC2025 Merovingianists and late antique Gaul people!
Sunday 7th July 25, ca 5pm onwards
@michaelajaneruth.bsky.social and I will be hosting the second annual Merovingianists Mixer!

All welcome for a chill pre
@imc-leeds.bsky.social
drink, especially postgrads, ECRs & first-timers.

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Becca Grose @beccagrose.bsky.social · Jun 23

(see I was beaten there by someone else to the Adams ref to follow up)

Becca Grose @beccagrose.bsky.social · Jun 23

I'm not sure by a man or if it's just pejoratives, but in classical Latin I think cunnus and viscera both can do this?

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The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social · May 22

Combined Classics Library Bursaries (up to £300) now accepting applications to assist unfunded scholars who wish to visit the Combined Classics Library in summer 2025 in order to advance or complete a project of research or scholarship.

Details here: https://shorturl.at/XRjqg

Combined Classics Library Bursaries

shorturl.at

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St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · May 22

#Seminar, Wednesday 28 May 2025 at 3pm:
“On societal leave: potential factors explaining the presence of harvest contractors in the Roman world.”

Speaker: Lluís Jerez i Bertolín (Birmingham)

Hybrid: Rm S3 Swallowgate, and Teams
For meeting link, email [email protected]

#AllWelcome

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