Tin Cugelj
@tincugelj.bsky.social
MSCA postdoc at the University of Nottingham (soundship.uk) | PhD from University of Bern | historical sound studies | historical trombonist | co-founder of IMS Auditory History (auditoryhistory.musicology.org)
A bit of easy reading for Saturday morning, perhaps? Check out the new research blog post: soundship.uk/2025/11/15/a...
A 1453 Stop in Ragusa: Peter Rot, Musicians on Board, and Transcultural Encounters
1453 was admittedly a big year for Europe. Among numerous military and diplomatic conflicts, the Giant Bible of Mainz (or, more casually, Biblia latina) was finished in July – one of the last manus…
soundship.uk
November 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
A bit of easy reading for Saturday morning, perhaps? Check out the new research blog post: soundship.uk/2025/11/15/a...
Reposted by Tin Cugelj
I've got a voice - might as well use it! Standing up for music and modern language departments everywhere ...
#Nottingham karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/2025/11/08/u...
#Nottingham karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/2025/11/08/u...
University of Nottingham, you cannot drop Music and Modern Languages!
The above screenshot is of the University of Nottingham Music Department homepage. A flourishing department, which sadly hit the news for all the wrong reasons a couple of days ago. BBC News:- Univ…
karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog
November 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I've got a voice - might as well use it! Standing up for music and modern language departments everywhere ...
#Nottingham karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/2025/11/08/u...
#Nottingham karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/2025/11/08/u...
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Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
Reposted by Tin Cugelj
This is awful news to come out of Nottingham. MedRen-ers will be aware that Nottingham has hosted three MedRens in 2012, 1985, and the first ever MedRen in 1972.
Do consider signing the petition in the next post.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Do consider signing the petition in the next post.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
This is awful news to come out of Nottingham. MedRen-ers will be aware that Nottingham has hosted three MedRens in 2012, 1985, and the first ever MedRen in 1972.
Do consider signing the petition in the next post.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Do consider signing the petition in the next post.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yay! SOUNDSHIP website is now live and has a research blog — a home for all the shipboard stuff that never makes it into articles and much more: sources, sounds, awkward early modern packing lists. First post is up, new ones every fortnight. Come aboard 👉 soundship.uk
October 31, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Yay! SOUNDSHIP website is now live and has a research blog — a home for all the shipboard stuff that never makes it into articles and much more: sources, sounds, awkward early modern packing lists. First post is up, new ones every fortnight. Come aboard 👉 soundship.uk
Reposted by Tin Cugelj
@medren2025.bsky.social Another excellent musical evening, including Fretwork and voices performing consort music by Orlando Gibbons, and an unexpected Lampton Worm / dragon warded off with audience performance of chants to St Cuthbert 🐉
July 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
@medren2025.bsky.social Another excellent musical evening, including Fretwork and voices performing consort music by Orlando Gibbons, and an unexpected Lampton Worm / dragon warded off with audience performance of chants to St Cuthbert 🐉
This Thursday, 15 May 2025, the IMS SG Auditory History will meet to discuss sounds of conflict, transcultural communities and liminality through three super exciting and engaging readings! 🪖 💥
ℹ️ Read more: auditoryhistory.musicology.org/event/readin...
ℹ️ Register:
forms.gle/XnZdEnrsPL7x...
ℹ️ Read more: auditoryhistory.musicology.org/event/readin...
ℹ️ Register:
forms.gle/XnZdEnrsPL7x...
May 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This Thursday, 15 May 2025, the IMS SG Auditory History will meet to discuss sounds of conflict, transcultural communities and liminality through three super exciting and engaging readings! 🪖 💥
ℹ️ Read more: auditoryhistory.musicology.org/event/readin...
ℹ️ Register:
forms.gle/XnZdEnrsPL7x...
ℹ️ Read more: auditoryhistory.musicology.org/event/readin...
ℹ️ Register:
forms.gle/XnZdEnrsPL7x...
Coming Tuesday, I will be talking about ships, communities, the sea, sounds, and pilgrims at the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb - and I am absolutely delighted to! Join us if you are around on 29 April 2025 at 18:00. 🌊🔉
April 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Coming Tuesday, I will be talking about ships, communities, the sea, sounds, and pilgrims at the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb - and I am absolutely delighted to! Join us if you are around on 29 April 2025 at 18:00. 🌊🔉
This week in Athens, featuring cats, cassocks, food, stunning architecture and M. Prætorius's Polyhymnia Caduceatrix ✨
April 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This week in Athens, featuring cats, cassocks, food, stunning architecture and M. Prætorius's Polyhymnia Caduceatrix ✨
I'm sorry to have missed all the fun on here but I failed to recover my password for way too long 🤡
Here's a couple of photos from our fabulous Sensory Histories of Water conference last week in Barcelona—it was fabulous. 🌊
Co-organised with @discantor87.bsky.social & Antonio Arnieri
Here's a couple of photos from our fabulous Sensory Histories of Water conference last week in Barcelona—it was fabulous. 🌊
Co-organised with @discantor87.bsky.social & Antonio Arnieri
April 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I'm sorry to have missed all the fun on here but I failed to recover my password for way too long 🤡
Here's a couple of photos from our fabulous Sensory Histories of Water conference last week in Barcelona—it was fabulous. 🌊
Co-organised with @discantor87.bsky.social & Antonio Arnieri
Here's a couple of photos from our fabulous Sensory Histories of Water conference last week in Barcelona—it was fabulous. 🌊
Co-organised with @discantor87.bsky.social & Antonio Arnieri