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I was browsing Google Earth and found that the @castlestudies.bsky.social funded excavation at Knepp Castle back in April was caught on camera.
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![Screengrab of a call for papers, for Leeds International Medieval Congress 2027 (5-8 July 2027).
Title: CASTLE COMMUNITIES: ONTOLOGIES, AFFORDANCES AND TEMPORALITIES IN HISTORY & HERITAGE
Text: What is a castle community, in history and in heritage? What new things can we say about them?
The medieval castle has traditionally been understood as the domain of the elite - yet below the surface lie communities: cross-cutting relations of people, animals, things and ideas; multiple and at times contradictory ontologies; performances, traditions, tendencies, affordances, always in processes of becoming. A castle community today can also be defined in heritage terms- a place characterized and understood through the lens of a castle in care or afforded minimal legal protection; a monument locally prized or ignored. How do communities today reckon with castles within existing ontologies, entrapments and temporalities?
This panel welcomes proposals which examine the castle community in a medieval sense, and modern communities in some way defined by castles, drawing upon (among others) medieval studies, architecture, archaeology, history, heritage and medievalism.
Details: Papers of between 15-20 minutes, by researchers at all career stages and scholarly backgrounds, discussing any aspects of castle studies research including but not limited to the following, are welcome:
• Theories of castles communities: contentions, trajectories, legacies;
• Doubting, troubling and critiquing castle communities;
• Representing and reflecting castle communities
• Individuals in the castle community: patterns, recoveries, commitments;
• Connected and dissociated castle communities in history and heritage;
• The castle community of the future.
Call to action: Please send proposals (a title and abstract of no more than 200 words; short biography of 50 words or less), or any questions, to William Wyeth, William.wyeth [at] English-heritage [dot] org.uk by Monday 7 September 2026.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cufbyelmip22n2nfovzppjtw/bafkreigbza5c5o5kucsfks27nmuhhbmyvgzki2ttyhlq2fzg7p26jxkuvq)
