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MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social · 4h

We are delighted to announce the full schedule for the MEMRN Winter Conference is here! Head over to our website to check out all the amazing speakers and exciting events we’ve got lined up! While you’re there, use the link to sign up for virtual attendance!
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MEMRN Winter Conference 2025

MEMRN Winter Conference 2025 The MEMRN Committee are delighted to announce the return of the Winter Conference after the huge success of last year’s inaugural in-person event in Norwich. The …

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 7d

🚨Internship Alert!

An opportunity is available for a @chase-dtp.bsky.social-funded PhD student to join Wasafiri on a year-long editorial placement, providing invaluable experience within an academic and literary journal.

DEADLINE: Midnight, Sunday, 2 November 2025

Internship Opportunity: CHASE Editorial Placement at Wasafiri

An opportunity is available for a CHASE-funded PhD student to join Wasafiri on a year-long editorial placement.

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 15d

A Late Summer Secondment in the World of OLH Tech / @janewayolh.bsky.social: Read the blog post by Emily Gresham Beamer, CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership Intern: www.openlibhums.org/news/856/

A Late Summer Secondment in the World of OLH Tech

A blog post by Emily Gresham Beamer, CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership Intern. I began my editorial placement with the OLH hoping to develop a specific editorial skillset, and chose the …

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 22d

Wasafiri and Tagore's Salon are delighted to be co-hosting an event with writers Dur e Aziz Amna and @farah-ali.bsky.social, titled Writing Through Pain: On Labour and Literature.

When: Wed, 15 October, 7pm
Where: @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social, London
Tickets: £6

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MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social · Sep 4

Just over ONE WEEK to go! The deadline for submitting an abstract for the Winter Conference is Friday 12th September! Share the news with your friends and come on down and join us in Norwich 🏰

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · Sep 2

Join us for a conversation with Khaled Esguerra, Juan Gonzales, and Carlos Páez González – contributors to Wasafiri 122: The UAE Issue – with accompanying song & theatre performances, on Saturday, 13 September at Project Space, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai.

Free tickets and full details: buff.ly/Qs27N8o

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · Aug 21

3 DAYS LEFT! Wasafiri is open for creative submissions on the theme SOLIDARITIES until 24 August. Please share with your networks. We can't wait to read your work ✊

Full details and how to submit: buff.ly/6nOSBon

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CHASE DTP @chase-dtp.bsky.social · Aug 19

We're hiring: Senior EDI Officer – CHASE (Part-Time, Fixed-Term) Are you passionate about shaping inclusive academic communities? Your main duties include coordinating and consolidating EDI best practice relating to Postgraduate Research and additional research where necessary.
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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · Aug 18

Our Autumn issue – Wasafiri 123 – is available to preorder now!

Includes interviews with @abagoo.bsky.social and Christina Sharpe, our 2024 Essay Prize winners, and a Tibetan writers and artists showcase, alongside our usual mix of fiction, poetry, reviews, and more.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · Aug 11

We're thrilled to unveil the cover of our upcoming issue, Wasafiri 123!

This gorgeous work is from Tibetan artist Tenzing Rigdol's 'Biography of a Thought' (2024) – the subject of our autumn 2025 issue's Art piece.

Subscribe to Wasafiri here: buff.ly/O1mPej0

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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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CHASE DTP @chase-dtp.bsky.social · Jul 24

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CHASE DTP @chase-dtp.bsky.social · Jul 24

Brief Encounters, CHASE DTP researcher-led journal, is recruiting the Editorial Board for Issue 10 (publishing summer 2026). A fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience in academic publishing, develop skills, & collaborate with fellow researchers across CHASE tinyurl.com/25h4mtdw

Brief Encounters journal is seeking applications to join its Editorial Board for Issue 10, for publication in summer 2026. — CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership

Brief Encounters journal is currently seeking applications to join its Editorial Board for Issue 10, for publication in summer 2026.

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MEMRN @memrn.bsky.social · Jul 17

ICYMI yesterday - we've got an absolute belter of a session coming up for our July monthly meeting!

Please share widely with all your Tudor and book-loving friends. MEMRN events are free and open to everyone! Proudly supported by @chase-dtp.bsky.social

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CHASE DTP @chase-dtp.bsky.social · Jul 22

Opening up the Family Album: an experiential approach, Sun 3 Aug, London - A training workshop led by Rosy Martin. This workshop for CHASE PGRs explores family photographs as the catalyst for investigating forgotten & buried memories, using skills of therapy and co-counselling tinyurl.com/5n7jx3z2

Opening up the Family Album: an experiential approach — CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership

This PhD Training Workshop explores family photographs as the catalyst for investigating forgotten and buried memories, using skills of therapy and co-counselling.

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CHASE DTP @chase-dtp.bsky.social · Jul 21

- open to all doctoral researchers across CHASE.

CHASE DTP @chase-dtp.bsky.social · Jul 21

New CHASE training listed: 'Medieval French' - this online course will introduce participants to medieval French materials, & offer the tools to read & interpret texts written in French between the 11th - 16th centuries. Beginners strand starts in the Autumn term & Improvers strand starts in Jan '26

Medieval manuscript page with a Gothic script and an illustration of a crowned figure seated, receiving instruction from a standing cleric. Decorative borders and patterned background complete the scene

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · Jul 17

Writing the Self, Writing Berlin is a new Wasafiri limited series led by our CHASE intern, @divyaghelani.bsky.social – stay tuned for writing, interviews, and meditations by various international writers who call this complex city home, at wasafiri.org

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CHASE DTP @chase-dtp.bsky.social · Jul 11

2) 'AuralPluralities Network x Full of Noises (FON)' 24 July, 14.00-18.00 - Hybrid - Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria & online | Guests: Jack McNeill, RL Wilson, FON Staff - Free bus available upon request. Find out more and register here tinyurl.com/546fp6ym

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CHASE DTP @chase-dtp.bsky.social · Jul 11

Two new 1) AuralPluralities added to the calendar and are open for registration: 'Listening Research and the PhD Journey' 16 July, 18.30-20.30, Hybrid - Goldsmiths UoL & online | Guests: Hardi Kurda . Chris Cook. Find out more and register here tinyurl.com/bdz8rrez (1/2)

Black-and-white drawing of a silhouetted figure holding a communication device, standing below an arch made of concentric, uneven lines forming ink drops at where the lines finish. Signed "Drawing by João Alves."

A woman and a boy wearing headphones crouch by a lake, listening and smiling. Backpacks and cables lie nearby on the ground.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · Jul 9

Happening tomorrow evening, 7pm BST!

Couple of spaces left so book quickly!

Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · Jul 8

There are still some spaces left for our online workshop 'Writing through Fugitivity' hosted by Lola Olufemi this Thursday! Four subsidised spaces remain specifically for Black writers. Other concession tickets are also available.

Book your spot: buff.ly/JpqsX04

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · Jul 9

In a bittersweet finale to our sub(VERSE)ive series, we have the final bonus episode with poet, lecturer, and Wasafiri Associate Editor, @mayacaspari.bsky.social on her debut pamphlet, ALMOST, WITH TENDERNESS, published by @outspokenpress.bsky.social.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · Jul 8

There are still some spaces left for our online workshop 'Writing through Fugitivity' hosted by Lola Olufemi this Thursday! Four subsidised spaces remain specifically for Black writers. Other concession tickets are also available.

Book your spot: buff.ly/JpqsX04

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CHASE DTP @chase-dtp.bsky.social · Jun 19

Sincere thanks to the organising team, speakers, panelists and attendees whose contributions made for an enriching day of research exchange and thoughtful dialogue

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CHASE DTP @chase-dtp.bsky.social · Jun 19

'Maroon Communities: Experiences of Problematizing'
Apex Zero & Ekua McMorris
Referencing Harney & Moten's description of the undercommons within universities, we hear about carving out space within the institution, forming communities within &beyond that space & how this blends with their practices

Apex Zero & Ekua McMorris speaking on stage in a lecture theatre.