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Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social · 2h

There are so many book I want to read and all of them are written by people

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

you know what season it is motherfuckers

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Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#medievalsky - are you still hunting for a session to join at #IMC2027? A late change to our presenters means we have just one spot left on our panels! Come and join us!

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The deadline for @kzooicms.bsky.social has been extended to September 22! 🎉 Make sure you get your last minute papers in to Hunter and I's exciting sessions on rethinking ecological entanglements (pleasurable and otherwise) in the medievla world. #medievalsky #cfp

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You still have time to submit to Hunter and I’s sessions on rethinking medieval ecocriticisms @kzooicms.bsky.social - untangle the entangled, and feel bad about the past with us ! 🌲 #medievalsky

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Samuel Rowe @samdrowe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don't circulate this again with much hope, but as we have had a speaker drop out, there is one last opportunity to send me something by 6 PM CEST today; at that point, the submission is being sent "sí o sí". #medievalsky #imc2026

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Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

higher education is the LARGEST employer in 20 states and in 60 of the 100 top cities; when the regime attacks students and faculty it is sabotaging local economies, local restaurants, local services, local real estate.

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Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

JOB!! The Department of History at the University of Ottawa invites applications for a position in medieval and/or transregional history, 7th-16th centuries. French or English, bilingualism an asset. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Never getting NEH funding 😌 (Although I’m not surprised by “”””gender ideology”””” , the blacklisting of environmental justice is crazy)

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Such a “gender-critical” move, too—leaning on the authority of “biology.” It’s one thing to do interdisciplinary work, to school oneself in different fields and/or study them critically. To lean on cherry-picked “science” as self-evident proof, a guarantor of crap ideas, is something very different.

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#academicsky What is an edited book chapter you're particularly proud of or you think deserves more readers? I’d love for more folks to read my open access and strange chapter on coercion, suicide and feminism in Svarfdæla saga. www.brepolsonline.net/content/book.... #celebratebookchapter

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Suicide as Speech: The Antisocial Feminism of Svarfdæla saga* | Brepols Online

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

On Sept 28, from 13:00 to 14:00 EST, the editors of Medieval Feminist Forum are hosting a FREE virtual workshop on how to prepare and publish a journal article. Graduate students and ECR welcome ! Please register to attend no later than Sept 24 HERE (bit.ly/4qcwurp). #medievalsky

Register here: http://bit.ly/4qcwurp

AN ONLINE WORKSHOP
GETTING IT PUBLISHED!
SEPT 28 13:00-14:00 EST
Join the editors of Medieval Feminist Forum, Dr. Lucy Barnhouse (Arkansas State) and Dr. Basil Arnould Price (SUNY) for a FREE virtual workshop on how to prepare and publish a journal article.
We welcome any scholars of the Middle Ages interested in attending, especially graduate students and early career scholars.

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

You have just over a month to apply to the sessions Hunter Phillips and I organised at @kzooicms.bsky.social on either DISENTANGLING ECOCRITICISMS ( tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S1) or DISAPPOINTING ECOCRITICISMS (tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S2). (Sponsored by Medieval Ecocriticisms) Join us! #medievalsky

CALL FOR PAPERS: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES 2027 (MAY 13-15). RETHINKING ECOTHEORY, SPONSORED BY MEDIEVAL ECOCRITICISMS This pair of sessions questions 'entanglement' as the predominant idiom of ecocritical thinking, arguing that the medieval past both yields and necessitates alternative ways of thinking about our ecological investments, both affective and ontological. Drawing upon recent critiques (Swarbick and Tremblay 2024), this pair of sessions interrogates the limits of 'enmeshment' as the predominant idiom for ecocritical approaches to the premodern past. Although the (specifically European) premodern past is often identified as 'The Green Middle Ages' (e.g. Chavannes- Mazel 2023, Kehnel 2024), these sessions question the recuperation of this period as one of ethical, reciprocal, and harmonious relations between humans and the natural world. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: SEPT 15 Organised by Hunter Allen Phillips (hap48@cornell.edu) and Basil Arnould Price (basil.price@oneonta.edu).

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Higher Ed institutions across the US are trying to figure out how to accommodate to these stupid new hoops they’ll have to jump through in order for their students to be eligible for federal financial aid. One of the more galling parts of this is the role of the IRS… www.npr.org/2026/06/30/n...

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Under a new federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid

If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A (belated) cfp for #IMC2027 FORGET THE VIKINGS: Other raids, raiders, & raiding practises of the Early Medieval Period Read below for details, and if you're interested (or know anyone who might be), please submit your proposal of 150 words to the attached e-mail (also in alt text) before 1/9/26

A Call-for-papers for IMC 2027 which reads:

'Forget the Vikings!
CFP: Other raids, raiders, and raiding practises of the Early Medieval Period

There are good reasons why Scandinavian raiders - or ‘Vikings’ - occupy a much-coveted space in popular perceptions of early medieval warfare. But enough about them. What about everyone else?
This CFP is seeking submissions from scholars interested in exploring other, non-Viking raiding groups from c. 400 - 1100. This could include (but is not limited to): Avars, Huns, Hungarians, Slavs, Frisians, Saxon and Frankish pirates, Saracens, Welsh and Irish cattle-rustlers, Balts, Oesellians, Narentanians, Dál Riatans, as well as the military activities of major hegemonies such as the Carolingians, Ottonians, West Saxons, Byzantines, even Normans, and so on.
Chiefly, this is to fashion some new notions of how identity, political practice, and belonging were fostered within raiding communities. Of particular interest would be any papers keen to explore how other, non-Viking groups used raiding as part of regular military affairs. Analogies and comparisons with Viking studies are also welcome, if they are used to shine a light on lesser-known groups. Like the Vikings, many other communities engaged in more than just raiding, so explorations of trade, exchange, and other political dynamics alongside raids, would be ideal.

Please send proposals (150 words or less) to:
alexharvv@gmail.com before 1/9/26'

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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is simply wonderful news for the Migration Museum and its ongoing project to create the UK's first permanent museum exploring migration to and from the UK. The new Museum will be in the City of London, but is already working with collaborators outside London and outside England. 1/3

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The Wolfson Foundation commits £600,000 to the UK’s ‘Missing Museum’

The Migration Museum is delighted to announce that The Wolfson Foundation has become a Founding Partner of the UK’s first permanent museum dedicated to exploring how the movement of people to and from...

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Thrilled that this is out ! Read our OPEN ACCESS article to learn why Kash Patel eulogized Charlie Kirk with “see you in Valhalla,” and the long history of Valhalla as a phantasm that organises desires for masculinity, militarism, and whiteness. #medievalsky

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Blair Apgar @blairapgar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Hi all! Just a reminder the CFP deadline for MAMG's annual asynchronous conference is approaching (3 Aug)! Our theme this year is 'Possible Worlds’ and ‘Possible Pasts’. The link below has the full CFP #MAMG #medieval #gamestudies @midagesmodgames.bsky.social tinyurl.com/MAMG2026

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

One of the most fun writing experiences in recent memory. Thank you @liamh2os.bsky.social and @postmedieval.bsky.social !

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

My bestie Robyn Stewart is organising some fabulous sessions at @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2027! If you want more medieval science at the IMC, you know where to apply. ☀️

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

How many medievalists are here because of the Lord of the Rings ? How many students do we have in our classrooms who love D&D? I want more medievalisms and medievalana ! 🗡️

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 23/07/2026

We are hiring a new Editorial Fellow who specialises in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe 🌍 👉 this 2-year fellowship runs from October 2026 - September 2028 👉 this role is paid and part-time (3 hours per week) 👉 the application deadline is Friday 7 August Please share widely!

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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026

History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.

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Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A year ago we received a big CLIR grant for digitizing Islamic mss AND integrating them into k-12 education. Madly impressed with the work of our grad student in curriculum development Atiyeh Taghiei and the 7th grade history of paper module she is sharing now. www.library.ucla.edu/about/news/u...

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UCLA Library awarded CLIR grant to increase accessibility and deepen understanding of primary source material and the Islamic World | UCLA Library

The UCLA Library creates a vibrant nexus of ideas, collections, expertise, and spaces in which users illuminate solutions for local and global challenges. We constantly evolve to advance UCLA’s resear...

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I'm writing something about how gender is everywhere in historical studies--- even in, actually especially in, those places that are supposedly most removed from gender

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 18/07/2026

🎯 “An elite consensus that AI-assisted learning might be fine for hoi polloi but not for future leaders at the most selective institutions cannot be far-off now“ The coming class divide on AI: tech-free learning at elite institutions, AI-centered learning everywhere else.

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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

📣 #CallforContributions #medievalsky #OldEnglish 📜 Dynamics of Old English Scholarship in the Long Nineteenth Century: Discoveries, Disputes and the Development of a Discipline ✍️ Editors: Rachel A. Fletcher, Ellen Gallimore & Thijs Porck ⏰ Abstracts due: 1 Sept 2026 📆 Drafts due: end of Sept 2027

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Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Today we're launching Friends of Ceræ, a new initiative for our wonderful supporters and readers around the world! Check out all the benefits. We're also announcing a newly expanded essay prize! We'd love for you to be a friend of Ceræ!❤️ ceraejournal.com/2026/07/14/s... #medievalsky #earlymodernsky

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Support our journal and become a Friend of Ceræ

We’re pleased to introduce our Friends of Ceræ supporter program, a new initiative designed especially for our wonderful supporters and readers all over the world! Established in 2014, Ceræ is comm…

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Natalie Hopwood @nrhopwood.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

For those already excited for #IMC2027, @marycoconnor.bsky.social and I are organizing sessions on 'The Literary Communities of Old Norse and Icelandic Romance'! 🌟If you would like to get involved, please submit a 250 word abstract and short bio by 18th September 🌟 #medievalsky

The Literary Communities of Old Norse and Icelandic Romance
Through the translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britannaie and the efforts of Hákon Hákonarson, king of Norway (r. 1217-1263), romance reached the Medieval North where it soon took hold of the Scandinavian imagination. Old Norse translations of Old French romances were copied and transmitted from Norway to Iceland. These romances soon inspired a wave of new literary creations, leading to the production of Icelandic chivalric romances and later ballads and rimur, alongside potentially influencing other literary genres. These narratives were amongst the most popular stories read and received amongst medieval and later Icelandic communities as the manuscript preservation attests. And yet they continue to be amongst the most understanded communities of texts within Old Norse literary studies. This session seeks to respond to this gap in scholarship and invite papers which investigate these texts, challenging former assumptions and opening up new avenues of scholarship on these texts.

Suggested themes and topics may include but are not limited to:

· Chivalric romances, fornaldarsögur
· Translation (Old Norse and Old Swedish)
· Literary communities
· Gender
· Emotions
· Genre
· Families/ genealogies
· Travel/ geography
· Marginalised identities
· Manuscript reception and transmission
· Society and hierarchy
· Ethnicity and religion
· Monsters
· Transgression
Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief biography by Friday 18th September to Mary Catherine O’Connor (mary.oconnor@balliol.ox.ac.uk) and Natalie Hopwood (ennrho@leeds.ac.uk)

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 13/07/2026

All Hail one of the original Scream Kings who always gave it his all and was truly inimitable in every role he played. The immensely talented and charismatic Sam Neill. RIP. Thanks for the hours of enjoyment you gave me, and for guaranteeing your presence would always be a memorable one. 🖤📽️🩸

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

omg I don’t know why I thought September was the 11th month. APPLY BY 9/15 ecocritical babes 🌲

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NECRON - Network of Early Career Researchers in Old Norse @necron-network.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

A great opportunity for Early Career Researchers to publish! @jonasza4.bsky.social @marycoconnor.bsky.social

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Jessie Summerhayes @jessiesummerhayes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

IMC was wonderful… so wonderful that Sam Masters and I are excited to do it all again next year! Here is the CfP for next year on the theme of Communities. @imc-leeds.bsky.social

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I'm organising (with Hunter Phillips) 2 sessions at @kzooicms.bsky.social on RETHINKING ECOTHEORY! (Sponsored by Medieval Ecocriticisms) Please apply (by 11/15) for either DISENTANGLING ECOCRITICISMS (tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S1) or DISAPPOINTING ECOCRITICISMS (tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S2).

CALL FOR PAPERS: ICMS (KALAMAZOO) 2027
RETHINKING ECOTHEORY
This pair of sessions (sponsored by Medieval Ecocriticisms) questions ‘entanglement’ as the predominant idiom of ecocritical thinking, arguing that the medieval past both yields and necessitates alternative ways of thinking about our ecological investments, both affective and ontological. Drawing upon recent critiques (e.g. Swarbick and Tremblay 2024), this pair of sessions interrogates the limits of ‘enmeshment’ as the predominant idiom for ecocritical approaches to the premodern past. Although the (specifically European) premodern past is often identified as ‘The Green Middle Ages’ (e.g. Chavannes-Mazel 2023, Kehnel 2024), these sessions question the recuperation of this period as one of ethical, reciprocal, and harmonious relations between humans and the natural world.
Session 1: DISENTANGLING ECOCRTICISMS
How can ecocritical discourse benefit from attuning to bodies and environments in the Middle Ages for whom entanglement is either a problem or an impossibility? We welcome papers that “rethink nature as a limit” (Swarbrick & Tremblay, 2024), considering how the natural world or “Nature” in the Middle Ages makes demands on precarious bodies in a precarious world where uncomfortable boundaries trouble or refuse entangled thinking. APPLY: tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S1
Session 2: DISAPPOINTING ECOCRITICISMS
We invite papers which grapple with the disappointing, dissatisfying, and disconcerting relationalities embedded within medieval ecological imaginaries or practices, or the ways in which the premodern past eludes our desire for eco-motional rescue. We welcome papers from any area of medieval studies that explore the bad feelings that attend medieval relations with the environment, and problematize contemporary theorisations of a harmonious, reciprocal mesh. APPLY: tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S2
DEADLINE: SEPT 15
Contact: Hunter Allen Phillips (hap48@cornell.edu) and Basil Arnould Price (basil.price@oneonta.edu)

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This was a fabulous experience ! Danke für einen schönen Tag ☀️

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Had an amazing time at @imc-leeds.bsky.social - and a big shout out to some fantastic papers on queer and trans premodern studies and the wonderful series of Old Norse studies panels ! If you saw me at the disco, no you didn’t ! 🕺🪩

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The Medieval Academy of America @medievalacademy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Call for Papers IMC 2027 - Enviro-Political Ecologies of the Medieval City For the 2027 meeting of the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, we welcome proposals for papers addressin www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call…

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Sihong Lin @sihonglin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Glasgow is hiring a lecturer in medieval history (c.800-1500) on an open-ended basis. We are a lovely bunch in the medieval area, would be great to have a new colleague! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSF052/l...

jobs.ac.uk

Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) at University of Glasgow

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) on jobs.ac.uk!

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Jennifer Hemphill @jenhemphill.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

A reminder that the @pmpnconf.bsky.social call for paper’s deadline is 1 August 2026! The SEVENTH Performing Magic in the Pre-Modern North’s conference is open themed and will be 12-13 November 2026, online.

We invite abstract submissions to the seventh conference on Performing Magic in the Pre-Modern North, which will take place on 12-13 November 2026, online via Zoom.
Building upon the success of our previous conferences, which have explored a wide range of perspectives on magic in the pre-modern North, this year's conference will be open-themed. We welcome papers that engage with any aspect of magical belief, practice, representation, or experience in the pre-modern Nordic and North Atlantic worlds. Particular attention may be given to magic as something lived, practiced, performed, transmitted, or contested within specific social, cultural, and historical contexts.
The language of the conference will be in English and the entire event will take place online to allow for accessibility. Papers should not exceed 20 minutes and will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion and the opportunity for questions.
We encourage students, early career, established, and independent scholars to participate. If you wish to present a paper, please email an abstract of 250-300 words alongside a short personal biography that includes pronouns, name, area of study and institutional affiliation (if relevant) to performingmagicinthenorth@gmail.com by 1 August 2026.

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Dr Matt Firth @mattfirth.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

CFP: IMC Leeds (5–8 July 2027) Conquest, Invasion, Colonisation: Experience and Memory in Early Medieval Britain. Papers are invited for panels on the experiences and legacies of conquest in early medieval Britain and Ireland. Abstracts to matthew.firth@flinders.edu.au by 31 August 2026.

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