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The Medieval & Early Modern Research Network sponsored by CHASE DTP (AHRC). We provide a supportive and relaxed space for academic collaboration between postgraduate students. DM us and join the mailing list!

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To apply, please send a CV and a statement of interest to our email, specifying which role you'd like to apply for in the subject line of your message. Deadline Friday 20th February.
To see the full role profiles or ask questions about the committee positions, please get in touch with us. If you would like to apply to join our team, please send a CV and a brief statement of interest (max. 500 words) to our email inbox, stating which role you are applying for in the subject line of your email before Friday 20th February. Email chasememrn@gmail.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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We're looking for creative and enthusiastic people, who work well as part of a wider creative team.
We are looking for people who are: Passionate about the MEMRN ‘vibe’ MEMRN’s unique communication style and the playful and welcoming atmosphere we create at our events are an essential part of our organisational identity. Often lacking in academic spaces, this relaxed feel is something we are committed to maintaining. Willing to commit to regular attendance of the MEMRN monthly meetings Able to deliver tasks with specified deadlines We know that making deadlines isn’t always possible though, and we’re pretty flexible! Excited about the prospect of working as part of a creative and collaborative team. Running MEMRN is a team sport! We’d love to meet people who enjoy working in a relaxed team environment and who enjoy spit-balling creative ideas in a group. Confident communicators both in person and via email Ambitious with big ideas! We have massive plans for the future of MEMRN! We want to help collapse boundaries between academic, heritage and public engagement spaces. If grand plans, wild dreams, advocacy for our discipline, and the thought of being involved in building something special appeals to you – you’re the right kind of person for us! For full role descriptions, email us at chasememrn@gmail.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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For full role profiles and more information, please email [email protected]
Programming Assistant Our Programming Assistant will support the work of the Online Events Co-Ordinator and work with the rest of the committee to design a range of online and in-person events for MEMRN, working with the social media team to promote our programme. It would be amazing if our new committee member had... A good understanding of online meeting softwares Incredible organisation and admin skills! An appetite for networking and scoping out new opportunities Lots of new ideas for expanding our events offering! For full role descriptions, email us at chasememrn@gmail.com Social Media Officer Our social media officer will assist our Social Media and Communications Lead with delivering MEMRN’s social media strategy in our signature style across platforms, creating imaginative and playful content for our Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, and LinkedIn with a focus on promoting our events. It would be amazing if our new committee member had... Strong knowledge of systems across the main social media platforms Understanding of social media trends and formats that could be used to increase the network’s visibility Confident Canva and social media video editing skills with lots of creativity! For full role descriptions, email us at chasememrn@gmail.com Committee Support Officers Our Committee Support Officers will assist other members of the MEMRN Committee in their duties, stepping in to help out when there’s a lot to do! They will take minutes of meetings, help with the design and delivery of the annual Winter Conference, provide logistical support at in-person and online events, and support the team in their work to boost MEMRN’s online profile and reach. If you would like to join the committee but require a lower-commitment and flexible role, this could be the perfect role for you! It would be amazing if our new committee members had... Flexibility and enthusiasm A talent for working as part of a creative team For full role descriptions, email us at chasememrn@gmail.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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We have three roles up for grabs: Programming Assistant, Social Media Officer and Committee Support Officer
MEMRN is looking to recruit new team members for our committee! This is an opportunity to be part of an ambitious and creative group of volunteers working to: Offer early career MEMs scholars a relaxed and accessible space for skills development Foster collaborations between higher education, heritage institutions, academics of all career stages, and non-academic enthusiasts Advocate for the study of the medieval and early modern periods more widely through innovative public engagement work Create a safe and friendly community for scholars to draw upon away from the pressure of mainstream academia Email us on chasememrn@gmail.com for more information Our open positions are: Programming Assistant, Social Media Officer, Committee Support Officers. For full role descriptions, email us at chasememrn@gmail.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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JOIN US! 🏰 We’re looking for a few more enthusiastic and creative minds to join MEMRN’s growing team of volunteers!
Lord Kitchener is wearing a medieval jester's hat and is asking YOU to join the MEMRN team in 2026
January 27, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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Our crowning jewel has to be our Winter Conference, which boasted
three days filled with exciting panels, workshops, and plenty of excursions around our host city of Norwich.
Thanks to everyone who was involved this year, and if you want to participate in 2026 make sure to get in touch!
MEMRN 2025 Wrapped. Winter conference. Our crowning jewel of 2025: a three-day hybrid conference that saw 34 speakers presenting to an in-person and online audience that spanned over 30 academic institutions all over the world. Thanks to all our attendees! MEMRN 2025 Wrapped. Winter conference. In our workshops we developed our palaeography & Latin skills, as well as making our own medieval bestiaries, experimenting with creative writing, and visiting the nearby Sainsburys Centre for Visual Arts. Thank you to all our workshop facilitators! MEMRN 2025 Wrapped. Winter conference. We didn’t just have presentations and workshops though - we had activities too! We enjoyed walking tours, trips to archives, special collections, and historical places, plus a medieval combat club! Thank you to all the venues and staff who welcomed us! MEMRN 2025 Wrapped. We’re so proud of everything we’ve achieved this year and we hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as we have! We’ll be taking a programming break in January while we plan our events for 2026. If you’d like to present at one of our events this year then get in touch!
January 3, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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What a year it’s been for MEMRN so let’s have a look back at what we achieved with our MEMRN Wrapped!
Our research seminars reached further than they ever have before, with our guest speakers pulling our largest audiences ever! Meanwhile our Spring Showcase truly went global, spanning 4 continents!
MEMRN 2025 Wrapped. What a year! Now that 2025 is over, let’s revisit everything we got up to over the last 12 months. There’s quite a lot! So swipe to see our MEMRN Wrapped! Join us for an amazing 2026! MEMRN 2025 Wrapped. Research Seminars. We hosted 7 online research seminars, with 12 speakers across 5 countries presenting their WIP research to our global audience of scholars and enthusiasts. Thank you to everyone who presented their work! MEMRN 2025 Wrapped. A one-day conference event highlighting international MEMs studies. Our phenomenal line-up of speakers spanned 4 continents - it couldn’t get much more global! Thanks to everyone who got involved all over the world! MEMRN 2025 Wrapped. Guest Speakers. We welcomed two brilliant guest speakers: Kate McCaffrey and Will Sherwood. These fab presentations on Tudor Books of Hours and Romanticism’s influence on Tolkien pulled in the two largest audiences in MEMRN history! Thank you both for your time!
January 3, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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We’ve had a conference, now it’s time for our monthly meeting! Join us on Monday 24th November at 6pm GMT to welcome an exciting guest speaker for our November meeting.

Mailing list members have already received the meeting link but if you’d like to attend, drop us an email or social media DM.
MEMRN meeting on November 24th 2025, 6pm GMT. Kristen Vitale Engel from Fitchburg State University is presenting ‘Henrician Spectacle, History and Historiography’. Join us on Microsoft Teams. Email us or DM for the meeting link.
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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It's a busy month with our winter conference in a few weeks 🌨️ but we'll still be meeting as normal for our monthly online get-together on Monday 24th November. Join us to hear Kristen Vitale Engel (Southern New Hampshire University) on 'Henrician Spectacle, History and Historiography' 👯👯👯
MEMRN 24th November 2025 6pm GMT Henrician Spectacle, History and Historiography Kirsten Vitale Engel Join us on Microsoft Teams Email us or DM for the meeting link
November 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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It’s monthly meeting announcement time! We are so excited to welcome these two fantastic speakers to present their work for our community of listeners.

As always, MEMRN’s monthly meetings are free and open to all, so if you’d like to come along then simply drop us an email or social media DM!
MEMRN meeting on October 27th 2025, 6pm GMT. Emily Baines is presenting ‘Enochian Magic and the Elizabethan Influence on the Modern Occult’. Join us on Microsoft Teams. Email us or DM for the meeting link. MEMRN meeting on October 27th 2025, 6pm GMT. Marlee Merson is presenting ‘Death Becomes Her: Female Personifications of Death in Late Medieval French Manuscripts’. Join us on Microsoft Teams. Email us or DM for the meeting link.
October 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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We've had some really exciting proposals so far and can't wait to put together our program once submissions close 🧙

Here's Amelia giving her paper 'Inside the
Plant/Human Body in Early Modern Texts' at last year's edition 🪱
September 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Our CfP closes tomorrow 🫀🤖💭
Fragmented Worlds, Shared Histories Winter Conference: Save the Dates 14th - 16th November 2025 University of East Anglia, Norwich 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. 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.
September 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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We are delighted to announce our September meeting’s guest speaker, @willsherwood.bsky.social from @uofglasgow.bsky.social. Also the Education Secretary for @tolkiensociety.org, we can’t wait to hear him present!

Join us at 6pm BST on Monday 29th September via Teams. DM or email us to attend.
MEMRN meeting on September 29th 2025, 6pm BST. Will Sherwood from University of Glasgow is presenting ‘Tolkien's Romantic Medievalism’. Join us on Microsoft Teams. Email us or DM for the meeting link.
September 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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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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September 4, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Here's how to get involved!
September 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Some pics from our previous edition! 🐍
September 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Only two weeks left to submit your abstracts for our charming winter conference 🧙 sponsored by @chase-dtp.bsky.social

Come and join us in ye olde Norwiche on the 14-16 November!
September 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Are you thinking of applying to speak at our Winter Conference? Considering coming along to take part in the activities and enjoy the panels? If you do, you'll have a lovely time. Don't just take our word for it though...

Our Call for Papers is open until the 12th September!
August 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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You’ve seen the Call for Papers for our second annual conference (if not, check it out below) but now it’s time for conference teasers! Each image relates to one of the activities we’ve got planned for attendees… can you guess what they are before we release the schedule? Let us know your thoughts!
August 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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All this hot weather is making me miss our misty medieval weekend at the inaugural MEMRN conference in Norwich last year 🧙

good thing we have another one coming up soon... 🥰🥰
August 15, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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We’re delighted to announce the two speakers for our upcoming August meeting! Join us at 6pm BST Monday 25th August to hear Chandini Jaswal and @margeryksbabe.bsky.social present their research.
Members of our mailing list receive the meeting link beforehand, otherwise email or DM us to attend.
MEMRN meeting on August 25th 2025, 6PM BST. Chandini Jaswal from Panjab Univeristy is presenting ‘Becoming ‘Maryam’: Mothering in the Early Mughal World-- Understanding the Complexities of Motherhood in the Mughal Court Politics by Analysing Visual Culture’. Join us on Microsoft Teams. Email us or DM for the meeting link. MEMRN meeting on August 25th 2025, 6PM BST. Tris López Huicochea from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México is presenting ‘The Importance of Gender Performativity and Clothing in Le Roman de Silence’. Join us on Microsoft Teams. Email us or DM for the meeting link.
August 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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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.
August 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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BIG NEWS! We are delighted to share the dates for our second annual in-person Winter Conference.

Join us from the 14th - 16th of November at the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and online. The Call for Papers is available via the MEMRN website and our social media. We look forward to seeing you!
BIG NEWS! We, the MEMRN committee, are delighted to share the dates for our second annual in-person Winter Conference. Join us from the 14th - 16th of November at the University of East Anglia and online for three days of panels, social events, workshops, networking sessions, and adventure in the historic city of Norwich. The Call for Papers and details on how to apply to speak at the event are available via the MEMRN website and our social media. The deadline for submitting an abstract is Friday 12th September. We look forward to seeing you there!
August 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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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
July 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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As ever, MEMRN events are free and open to everyone. If you would like to join in, simply drop us a DM or an email at [email protected]. Join us for this special MEMRN Tudor extravaganza on Microsoft Teams, 6pm, Monday 28th July!
July 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM