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Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

What made a medieval self? CFP, Leeds #IMC2027, July 5-8: ‘Constructing Selves, Constructing Communities’. We would love to hear from graduate students and early career researchers who may like to join us at @imc-leeds.bsky.social! See CFP for more info. Abstracts due September 7 #medievalsky

Call For Papers: IMC Leeds 2027
Constructing Selves, Constructing Communities
What made a medieval self? Augustine’s noverim me, noverim te (“May I know myself; may I know You”)
suggests that knowing oneself depended upon relationships with both God and other people. Taking this insight
alongside Paul Ricoeur’s distinction between idem (sameness) and ipse (selfhood), this panel asks how medieval
people negotiated selfhood through their relationships with communities, institutions, and the divine.
This panel aims to explore how selves and communities were imagined, enacted, negotiated, and transformed
through material culture, texts, language, and social practice. We are particularly interested in the significance of
belonging, memory, and authority in shaping both individual and collective experience.
Papers may consider, among other themes:
• Communities of belonging:
• Embodied and material expressions of selfhood
• Texts, rituals, and discourse: how rhetoric,
narrative, images, and language mediated
relationships between individuals, communities, and
the divine.
• Authority, spaces and social order: how hierarchy,
sacred or social spaces, exclusion, and reputation
structured medieval selves and communities.
We welcome interdisciplinary approaches from across
medieval studies.
We invite submissions of a 150–250 word abstract,
accompanied by: a paper title; a brief personal biography
including your current institutional affiliation (if any) and
academic title (if any); your full contact details (email and phone); any equipment/accessibility requirements
and scheduling requests; and whether you intend to participate in person or virtually.
Submissions must be sent to ceraejournal@gmail.com by 11:59 PM (GMT) Monday 7 September 2026.
All submissions will be reviewed by the Ceræ Committee. Decisions will be communicated to all applicants
within 5 days of the deadline.

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Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy Halloween! May it be spooky Today's the last day to reach out to ceraejournal@gmail.com to join in as a committee member for our thirteenth volume! This is not scary at all and is in fact a delightful experience. Come join! #medievalsky #historysky #medieval ceraejournal.com/2025/10/02/c...

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Call for New Committee Members

Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is an open-access, award-winning, peer-reviewed journal directed by a committee of international graduate students and early caree…

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Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Goooood morning! There's still quite a bit of (heh) time to submit an abstract for our sessions at the 2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social. We very much encourage post/graduate students to apply. Details and PDF CFP at the link: ceraejournal.com/2025/09/02/c... #medievalsky #earlymodernsky #historysky

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Ceræ at IMC 2026

CERÆ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies invites submissions for hybrid panels at the Leeds International Medieval Conference 2026 (July 6-9) on the theme of Premodern Tim…

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Ashley Castelino @ashleycastelino.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The Oxford Centre of the National Trust is looking for a volunteer to take over managing their website (oxfordcnt.co.uk). This is ideal for someone based in Oxford, but can be done remotely too.

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NorseInCork @norseincork.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

♦️ Job opportunity at UCC! ♦️ 5-year Lecturer in Old English position, commencing in September. This will be a great opportunity for someone to join a thriving department, and to really put their own mark on the discipline. Please share widely! www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...

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Lecturer in Old English | University College Cork

UCC wishes to appoint a scholar with a proven commitment to excellence in teaching and research to the role of Lecturer in Old English.

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Ashley Castelino @ashleycastelino.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I recently wrote a somewhat personal piece for the Oxonian Review reflecting on the colonial and culinary histories of Catholic India and my attempts to connect to this heritage by learning to cook some of its iconic dishes. Read it at oxonianreview.com/articles/coo...

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Cooking through Catholic India

Ashley Castelino dives into his family's Catholic Indian heritage by recreating some of its classic dishes.

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Ashley Castelino @ashleycastelino.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

OMS is looking for a new Social Media Officer to take the reins after I've left - if you're at all interested, please do reach out!

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Critical Food Studies Network @oxcfsnetwork.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

A recording of Professor Heather Sharkey's brilliant Hilary keynote on 'Food Studies: Surveying the Field through Potatoes' is now online!! Watch it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXnT... @torchoxford.bsky.social

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Food Studies: Surveying the Field through Potatoes

YouTube video by TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

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Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The #CFP for articles for Volume 12 of CERÆ is still OPEN! Theme: Dreams, Visions, and Utopias Deadline: April 30 Word count: ~5-8k Graduate/ECR essays are eligible for an AUD$200 prize Further details: ceraejournal.com/2024/12/17/2... #medievalsky #earlymodernsky #litsky #historysky

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2025 Ceræ Call For Papers – Conference & Journal

We are pleased to announce that the theme for our second annual online Conference next year as well as for Volume 12 of the journal is Dreams, Visions, and Utopias, and we invite submissions to bot…

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Ashley Castelino @ashleycastelino.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Join me for a quick look at some therapeutic medieval dogs! 🐕

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources. On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names. dan rigiššu “loud is his bark” munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe” mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”

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Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The eleventh volume of Ceræ journal is now live! This volume features three articles themed on 'Metamorphosis, Transformation, and Transmutation', two varia, and a record nineteen book reviews! Please, #medievalsky and #earlymodernsky, read on: ceraejournal.com/2025/01/22/c...

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Ceræ Volume 11: Published!

2025 is upon us, and with it comes the publication of Ceræ’s eleventh volume, featuring three themed articles, two creative varia, and a record nineteen book reviews. This issue follows the theme o…

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