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new 3-year position for a postdoctoral research fellow as part of the ERC project INSULAR (funded by UKRI) based in Göttingen, Germany

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Early Medieval Manuscript Studies and Germanic Philology

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Stellenanzeigen - Georg-August-University Göttingen
Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen
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June 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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PhD position available in the field of history of astronomy from Late Antiquity to the End of the Middle Ages

Università di Pavia, Italy

Deadline June 30, 2025

More details available at the following webpage: phd.unipv.it/call-41/

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Call for applications to access PhD courses – 41st cycle – a. y. 2025/2026 – Dottorati di Ricerca
Phd University of Pavia
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June 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Join us on 13 June to figure out what is possible for you in July, August, and September, including how that will change as the new teaching year approaches. academicwritingstudio.co.uk/plan-july-au...
Planning Q1 of 2024-25 (July, August, Sept) - Academic Writing Studio
Supporting your research and writing journey
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June 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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The longer the time horizon the harder it is to plan. Don’t let uncertainty about later in the year prevent you from making progress on your writing projects over the summer.
June 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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May 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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On 17 June, Tim Noad will talk about his career as a calligrapher, including his work for the royal coronation. Book now for this lecture at the University of London, sponsored by the Irene Wellington Trust 👇 📝 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Calligraphy: A Living Tradition
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May 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Do you like medieval rolls? Well who doesn’t! Don’t forget to register for Elaine Treharne’s lecture on mortuary rolls, whic is in person, at Senate House in London, on June 11th 👇📜

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John Coffin Memorial Lecture in Palaeography 2025
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May 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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A Meeting With Your Writing is introvert-friendly. You don’t have to speak. You don’t even have to turn on your camera. There is help available if you get stuck, but it’s mainly a way to help you protect time for your writing regularly. academicwritingstudio.co.uk/a-meeting-wi...
May 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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📜 There is still time to apply for the remaining few spots at the Digital Medieval Studies Institute UK edition, a one-day event on digital methods for medievalists, sponsored by Digital Medievalist!

📆 July 11 2025, University of Leeds
▶️ Info and registration: tinyurl.com/yeyhact4

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This is a flyer for the Digital Medieval Studies Institute at the University of Leeds (UK). The event takes place on July 11, 2025, and features a one-day workshop program focused on digital scholarly methods for medievalists. The flyer has a dark blue background with code/programming elements and includes a circular image of a medieval manuscript illustration showing a figure in blue clothing and a flower. The DMSI logo, the University of Leeds logo and the Digital Medievalist logo appear in the bottom right corner. The workshops offered include: Geospatial Tools for Mapping the Middle Ages (led by Carrie Benes) Cooperative Network Visualization with NetCreate (led by Nathan Howard) Artificial Intelligence: Image Analysis Applied to Medieval Manuscripts (led by Dominique Stutzmann) Foundations in Working with Medieval Manuscripts Using IIIF (led by Paul Mollahan and Tom Crane) Seeing Beyond: Practical and Low-Cost Multispectral Imaging (led by Helen Davies) The flyer includes a "Register Now" button, contact information (dmsi.hello@gmail.com), and a registration URL (https://tinyurl.com/DMSI-2025-UK). The event is organized by N. Kivilcim Yavuz and Laura Morreale.
April 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Excited to finally share the program for "Trans Sainthood in Translation, ca. 400-1500" at @ghilondon.bsky.social on 22-23 May 🏳️‍⚧️🌈 If you are interested in trans saints anywhere from late antique Egypt to late medieval Iceland, join us on zoom! Registration at wwwghil.ac.uk/events/confe...
Poster for the conference "Trans Sainthood in Translation, ca. 400-1500", 22-23 May 2025 at German Historical Institute London. More information at www.ghil.ac.uk. In the background behin the title, there is a 13th century depiction of a child looking at a monk (Saint Marina/Marinus) from the manuscript Zwettl, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 13, with an added visual effect that makes it look like white light is coming from the child's eyes and being refracted into rainbow colors by the saint's halo. At the bottom, the logos of the sponsors of the conference: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, German Historical Institute London, the Hagiography Society, and the Past&Present Society. Program for Day 1 of the conference "Trans Sainthood in Translation": 22 May Welcome and Introduction: 9:00–9:30 Stephan Bruhn (German Historical Institute, London) Session 1: 9:30–11:00 Jenny Albani (Greek Ministry of Culture, Athens): The Holy Memory of a Transgender Saint in the Christian East: The Cult and Image of Pelagia the Penitent Julie Van Pelt (Universiteit Gent): Trans Sainthood and Metaphrasis: Re-writing Gender in the Metaphrastic Life of Theodora/-us of Alexandria (BHG 1730) Charles Kuper (University of Tennessee, Knoxville): Translating the Lives of Trans Saints. Crossing Time and Space in the Greek, Latin, and Syriac Lives of Euphrosyne/Smaragdos Coffee Break: 11:00–11:30 Session 2: 11:30–12:30 Michael Eber (Universität zu Köln): Lost in Translation? Defusing the Lives of Trans Saints in Latin Translation Mariana Bodnaruk (Masarykova Univerzita, Brno): Pelagia*us’ Gender Performance in Church Slavonic Versions of the Life Lunch Break: 12:30–14:00 Session 3: 14:00–15:30 Gabrielle Bychowski (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland): Imago Transvesti: St. Marinos, the Images of a Transgender God Arietta Papaconstantinou (Aix-Marseille Université): Authorial authority. Who defines the gender of Marina/Marinos (and others)? Luis Josué Salés (Scripps College, Claremont): Exporting Greco-Roman Androprimacy? Perils of Translating Trans Saints Lives into Ethiopian and Syrian Contexts Coffee Break: 15:30–16:00 Keynote 1: 16:00–17:00 Roland Betancourt (University of California Irvine): Trans In/visibility in Byzantium: Resistance, Resilience, Refusal Conference Dinner: 19:00 Program for Day 2 of the conference "Trans Sainthood in Translation": 23 May Session 4: 09:00–10:30 Juliette Vuille (Université de Lausanne): “We are Family”: Familial Ties as Gender Correction in Old English Trans Lives Clovis Maillet (Villa Medici, Rome): Eugeni/e, Hiacynth and Prothus between Genders: Images and Texts in Latin, Greek and Old English James Davison (University of Liverpool): Ælfric, Eugenia*us, and Euphrosyne*Smaragdus: Trans saints in early Medieval England Coffee Break: 10:30–11:00 Session 5: 11:00–12:00 Robert Mills (University College London): Eugenia*us in Translation: Art, Liturgy, and Landscape in Iberia Leticia Ding (Université de Lausanne): Dieudonnée, Marine and Eufrosine: Three Shades of Gender Crossing Lunch Break: 12:00–13:00 Session 6: 13:00–14:00 Johannes Traulsen (Freie Universität Berlin): Age and Asceticism in the Medieval German Vitae of Trans Saints Natasha Bradley (Lincoln College, University of Oxford): Cross-Dressing Saints in Old Norse Translation: Marina the Monk and Pelagia the Penitent Keynote 2: 14:00–15:00 Alicia Spencer-Hall (University College London): Trans Monasticism and the Trans Hagiographic Impulse: Genders, Texts, Lives Concluding Remarks: 15:00–15:15 Michael Eber (Universität zu Köln)
April 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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I just became a member of the ACH, a group that understands and acts on the need to support scholarship throughout this country. If only the wealthy can have access to funding for scholarly initiatives, our scholarly communities will die. ach.org/news/2025/04...
April 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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FitMA is hiring! We are looking for a motivated PhD-candidate in medieval Latin philosophy to join our team @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social! Deadline for applications: 24 April
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PhD-candidate (4 years) for the project ‘Fluidity in the Medieval Aristotle. Readers and Readings of the Greek-Latin Translations’ (FitMA)
Interested in Greek-Latin translations of Aristotle?
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April 1, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Next month we have our last online palaeography course of this cycle - please tell your students about this introduction to Spanish Palaeography of the Middle Ages! 📚📝. #MedievalSky

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Introduction to Medieval Spanish Palaeography
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March 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Hello New Followers! MAFE has something fun to announce (so PLEASE spread the word on bluesky!)

On April 1, we open our new online competition,
"Imago Triumphator", and here's the pitch: middleagesforeducators.princeton.edu/announcement...
Imago Triumphator
Profs and lecturers — do you struggle to find high quality maps and pictures for teaching premodern history? Do your image-searches extrude nothing but AI slop? Middle Ages for Educators is working on...
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March 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Virtual seminars offered this summer by colleagues at The Mediterranean Seminar, based at the University of Colorado at Boulder: www.mediterraneanseminar.org/summer-skill...
Includes: Islamic Legal Texts: In Depth - Aun Hasan Ali (2024 & 2025) Medieval & Early Modern Cartography: An Introduction - Karen Mathews (New for 2025) Medieval Mediterranean Coinage: An Introduction - Alan Stahl (New for 2025) Mediterranean Magic: An Introduction - Veronica Menaldi (2024 & 2025) Reading Aljamiado Manuscripts - Nuria de Castilla (2017 & 2020—23 & 2025) Reading Arabic Manuscripts - Luke Yarbrough (2024 & 2025) Reading Archival Latin [formerly Introduction to the Archive of the Crown of Aragon] - Brian A. Catlos (2019—2025) Reading Medieval Catalan - John Dagenais (New for 2025) Reading Medieval Greek Manuscripts - Manolis Ulbricht (New for 2025) Reading Old French - Charles Samuelson (2023—25) Reading Ottoman Turkish - Oscar Aguirre Mandujano (New for 2025) Sephardic Culture: An Introduction - David Wacks (2024 & 2025) The Archivo General de Simancas: An Introduction - Rubén González Cuerva (New for 2025)
March 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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The Jane F. Gardner PhD Studentship in Roman History and/or Latin Language and Literature- University of Reading - Department of Classics #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ960/t...
The Jane F. Gardner PhD Studentship in Roman History and/or Latin Language and Literature at University of Reading
jobs.ac.uk are now advertising a The Jane F. Gardner PhD Studentship in Roman History and/or Latin Language and Literature. Discover exciting PhD opportunities on jobs.ac.uk.
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March 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Hey look it's a postdoctoral position to study the codicology of middle-eastern manuscripts in Leiden: www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...
Postdoctoral researcher in Codicology for the ERC Consolidator Grant project
The Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) is looking for apostdoctoral researcher in Codicology for the ERC Consolidator Grant project “QurCan -- The Canonization of t...
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March 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Lecturer in Middle Eastern History 
UCL - History Department #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ128/l...
Lecturer in Middle Eastern History  at UCL
Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in Middle Eastern History . Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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March 20, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Offre d’emploi – Poste de doctorant en Histoire 1 (Université de Genève) : « Forging consensus: dynamics of power and diplomatic practices in Medieval and Modern Europe »

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Offre d’emploi – Poste de doctorant en Histoire 1 (Université de Genève) : « Forging consensus: dynamics of power and diplomatic practices in Medieval and Modern Europe »
Dans le cadre du projet « Forging consensus: dynamics of power and diplomatic practices in Medieval and Modern Europe », unAdvanced Grant soutenu par le Fonds National Suisse (FNS) dans le cadre de…
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March 19, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Offre d’emploi – Poste de doctorant en Histoire 2 (Université de Genève) : « Forging consensus: dynamics of power and diplomatic practices in Medieval and Modern Europe »

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Offre d’emploi – Poste de doctorant en Histoire 2 (Université de Genève) : « Forging consensus: dynamics of power and diplomatic practices in Medieval and Modern Europe »
Dans le cadre du projet « Forging consensus: dynamics of power and diplomatic practices in Medieval and Modern Europe », unAdvanced Grant soutenu par le Fonds National Suisse (FNS) dans le cadre de…
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March 19, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Appel à contribution – Stratigraphies of Knowledge, Memory and the Self: Notebooks in the Medieval Euro-Mediterranean World

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Appel à contribution – Stratigraphies of Knowledge, Memory and the Self: Notebooks in the Medieval Euro-Mediterranean World
DFG, Historisches KollegMünchen11.12.2025 – 12.12.2025 We are inviting proposals for papers on medieval notebooks and collections of notes in any language of the Euro-Mediterranean realm. Res…
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March 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Just a reminder that registration is open for The French of the Celtic Worlds Conference (9-11th April)!

This promises to be a really brilliant conference, with a fantastic range of speakers and activities. Definitely not to be missed!

Find out more at: blog.mowlit.ac.uk/french-of-th...
March 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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A great opportunity to join a wonderful team of colleagues and work with excellent students:
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/109266-...
Senior Lecturer in French Language Education (AEP) and Director of French Language
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March 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Job alert!!
Come work with us @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social on my Pathway project, 'Power and patronage in medieval Ireland: Clonard from the 6th to 12th centuries' @researchireland.bsky.social. Apply below. Email me for details.
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February 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Offre d’emploi – Associate Professor in Byzantine History (University of Oxford)

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Offre d’emploi – Associate Professor in Byzantine History (University of Oxford)
Closes: 12th March 2025 Permanent upon completion of a successful review. The review is conducted during the first 5 years. Associate Professorship in Byzantine History with a Non-Tutorial Fellowsh…
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February 25, 2025 at 6:15 AM