We are pleased to announce that the second keynote at the Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers conference will be given by the inimitable Professor Miri Rubin! Details to follow with the programme.

Registration: buytickets.at/bordersbound...

And we're there! We have notified almost everybody who submitted a proposal already (there will be a short delay for the remainder until @medievaljews.bsky.social finishes work).

Registration is now open with a limited number of virtual tickets available: buytickets.at/bordersbound...

I don't mean to alarm anybody but we are very nearly there! For those who submitted proposals, keep an eye on your inbox next week. And if anybody wants to chair a session, get in touch!

We *really* appreciate your suffering though!

This is the kind of Border/Boundary/Barrier that we are delighted to leave to the good people @vch-home.bsky.social...

With the CFP now closed, and registration soon to open, we are delighted to announce our first Keynote Speaker. Prof. Pinchas Roth will explore how medieval English Jews were connected to, and influenced by, their continental co-religionists, and the implications of England being an Island.

And that's a wrap! The deadline has now passed for submitting proposal for 'Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers' has now passed. Over the past 3 months, we've received 156 proposals from 38 countries (mapped here). It may take us some time to shortlist these...

Talk amongst yourselves...

With just a day to go to get your abstract in to 'Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages', we've just received our 100th(!!!!!!!!) abstract. If you're not one of them, don't worry you still have a day for your chance to be included!

**FINAL ORDERS** Just four days to get your abstracts in the Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages. We've already had an amazing response to the Call for Papers, but don't miss you chance to be included!

10 days! Just 10 days to get your abstracts in for "Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages". We've already had such an amazing response to the CFP, with submissions from 22 countries, but we're excited to what comes in over the next... TEN DAYS!!!

Just 11 (ELEVEN!!!) days to get your abstracts in for "Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages". In honour of the occasion, we feel it only appropriate to deploy the Count: 11... ah... ah... ah!

With the end of Sept in sight (What?! How?! Already?!) there are just two weeks left to get your abstracts in for 'Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages'. Deadline is 15th Sept and won't be extended so make like Kermit and you're submission will be done in no time!

Just three weeks left to get your abstracts in for 'Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages'!

FOUR WEEKS!!! Just four weeks to get your abstracts in for Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages!

Just five weeks left to get your abstracts in for the 'Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages' conference!

Just five weeks left to get your abstracts in for the 'Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages' conference!

Bringing the history and the puns… We have high hopes for both!!!

The summer is going by super quickly (nearly August already???)! Make sure that the deadline for “Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined” conference doesn’t sneak up on you. Get them in by 15 September!

Now just under two months to get your abstracts in for Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages. Do get your thinking caps on because we've already received some great abstracts and are look forward to reading everybody's proposals in September!

For those medievalists heading to Leeds this weekend, what better way to pass the train journey than by writing your abstract for 'Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages'?!

We agree that this conference is the perfect place to resolve millennia old issues!

CFP for Borders, Boundaries, Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages (20-21 April 2026). Deadline 15 September 2025.