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Stephan Bruhn @stebruhn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just a quick personal update, as it is official now: During the winter term I will cover the professorship for Medieval History @tudresden.bsky.social. Looking forward to meet new colleagues and students! If you have any last minute advice how to do lectures properly, do let me know! 😊😉

Eingang des Gebäudes Zellescher Weg 17, wo das Historische Institut der TU Dresden seine Büros hat.

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Super thrilled that my PhD 'Inscribing Conquest. Trauma and Diaspora after the Conquest of Constantinople in 1453' will be published on 2 November 2026 as OpenAccess with @dgb-mem.bsky.social: www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/... ! Thanks so much to everyone who was part of the way.

Cover der Dissertation Eroberung einschreiben. Trauma und Diaspora after the Conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Rike Szill, published with DeGruyter on 2 November 2026.

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Brepols @brepols.net · 07/07/2026

Bastiaan Waagmeester came by our #IMC2026 booth and was happy to find a copy of his 'Pastoral Works. Priests, Books, and Compilatory Practices in the #Carolingian Period' during @imc-leeds.bsky.social ! More Info: bit.ly/4vi3GyL #MedievalSky

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

We are super happy to have gathered wonderful colleagues to talk about the possibilities and challenges of Medieval Intersectional Studies at this year’s @imc-leeds.bsky.social with the mighty @basilaprice.bsky.social as respondent! Come and join us tomorrow - we also have stickers…

$Picture of the presentation slide based on with a fractured image of the Mosaic of Justinian I, Basilica San Vitale, Ravenna credits: wiki commons.$ Picture of the stickers made for the collaborative for intersectional medieval studies

Picture of the stickers made for the collaborative for intersectional medieval studies

Screenshot of the IMC Programme with three sessions on intersectional approaches - session 1: producing and contesting knowledge, session 2: bodies, species, and politics of temporal difference, session 3: indigineity, ethnicity, temporal dissonance, all taking place online and in Maurice keyworth building, room 1.33.

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Utterly excited having received this in the mail today! Merci mille fois to everyone who participated in this project - it was an absolute pleasure! @revue-traverse.bsky.social @isabelleschuerch.bsky.social @queebees.bsky.social

The Picture Shows the Cover of the Revue Traverse whose title is “wer Macht Geschichte / qui fait l’histoire?”

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Merle Eisenberg @merleeisenberg.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Excited for our (@rorynaismith.bsky.social and Paolo Tedesco) upcoming conference: "Our Daily Bread: The Making of Sacral Economies in Western Eurasia," with papers from @woodjamie.bsky.social, @historiantillo.bsky.social & others. If you're around Cambridge (UK) & want to come, drop us a line!

Daily Bread Conference in Cambridge April-May 2026

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

EVEN MORE MIDDLE AGES! Come and join the Medieval Research Colloquium at @unituebingen.bsky.social digitally or in-person this summer! 🙂

Kolloquium zur mittelalterlichen Geschichte, Sommersemester 2026 - Link gern auf Anfrage

22.04. (Mittwoch! 18.15–19.45)
Ed Roberts (Kent):
Canon Law and the Changing Functions of Church Councils in the Tenth Century
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27.04. Christoph Haack (Tübingen):
Eine andere Geschichte. Rodulf Glaber (ca. 980–1047), die Umbrüche des 11. Jahrhunderts und Geschichtsschreibung als Gegenwartsdeutung

04.05. Franziska Quaas (Marburg):
Scribere cartas et epistulas. Praktiken formelhaften Schreibens in den frühmittelalterlichen Privaturkunden des Klosters Fulda

11.05. Becca Grose (St Andrews):
Co-writing a comparative history of sex education in Late Antiquity, 300-900 AD: questions and challenges

18.05. Derek Benson (Tübingen):
Neither Lord nor Peasant. Customary Tenure and Social Differentiation in Twelfth-Century Lower Occitania

01.06. Benjamin Scheller (Duisburg-Essen):
Risiken übernehmen - Risiken loswerden: Beispiele aus der spätmittelalterlichen Seeversicherungspraxis

08.06. Maria Kammerlander (Freiburg):
Gegenstand(slos)? Zur Notwendigkeit und Nutzung der Libri Sententiarum im Pariser Gelehrtenmilieu des 12. Jahrhunderts

15.06. Antonia Anstatt (Tübingen):
Der König weint – und die Königin? Autorität, Emotionen und Gender in England, ca. 900–1100

22.06. Aaron Vanides (Heidelberg):
Von der Nordsee nach Nordamerika: Auf der Suche nach Adam von Bremen

29.06. Sixt Wetzler (Solingen):
ME FECIT SOLINGEN – Klingen : Stadt : Geschichte

13.07. Daria Safronova (Tübingen): Assemblies in Northern Iberia, c. 900–1100

20.07. Paolo Tedesco (Tübingen): Working for Saint Peter: Ecclesiastical Economy and Peasant Labour in Early Medieval Italy

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I am very much delighted to talk about visions, sign and dreams in the late Byzantine period tomorrow in the online lecture series Medievalia hosted by Cristina Andenna and Julia Zimmermann. Come and join, if you like! 🙂

Die Professur Geschichte des Mittelalters der Universität des Saarlandes und der Arbeitsbereich Germanistische Mediävistik der Universität Graz laden wieder herzlich zur digitalen Vortragsreihe Medievalia. Schwerpunkt:
Träume und Visionen im Mittelalter

Mi., 22. April 2026, 18.30 Uhr
Rike Szill (Geschichte des Mittelalters, Universität Tübingen)
Mal alle Fünfe gerade lassen. Verbotenes Wissen im späten Byzanz

Mi., 6. Mai 2026, 18.30 Uhr
Manuel Kamenzin (Geschichte des Mittelalters, Universität Würzburg)
Heldengeschichten aus dem “Sultanskerker”? Johannes von Rupescissa, die Vision von Zayton und Briefe aus China

Mi., 27. Mai 2026, 18.30 Uhr
Abdoulaye Samaké (Germanistische Mediävistik, Université Yambo Ouologuem de Bamak/Universität Graz)
Geburtsräume in der altfranzösischen und mittelhochdeutschen Epik

Mi., 24. Juni 2026, 18.30 Uhr
Theresia Heimerl (Religionswissenschaft, Universität Graz)
Ein Blick in die Hölle. Visionen und Imaginationen der Hölle im Mittelalter

Link auf Anfrage bei den Veranstalterinnen

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Collaborative for Intersectional Medieval Studies @cimedievals.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Let's start off with a banger: Our call is now live! What do you want to contribute to intersectionality and medieval studies? cims.hypotheses.org/412 Please share widely and send us your abstract until 31.08.2026.

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Call for Papers

CIMS BLOG. Mediävistik intersektional Dr. Alan van Beek (Germanistische Mediävistik/Digital Humanities, Salzburg), Prof. Dr. Anja Rathmann-Lutz (Mittelalterliche Geschichte/Kunstgeschichte, Erfurt), D...

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Katharina Mersch @katha-m.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Ich möchte freundlich Werbung machen. Ich kann aber auch nicht an mich halten und will erwähnen, dass ich da anno dazumal über female (visual) cultures vorgetragen habe, lange bevor es cool war. 👵

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Christian Hoffarth @chhhoff.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Bis morgen nehmen wir sehr gerne noch Vorschläge für Workshop-Beiträge zum Reisen, Pilgern, Migrieren und zu anderen Formen der Mobilität in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit entgegen. 🙂 Motivierend vielleicht: Es gibt keinen Publikationszwang!

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Simone Wagner @speriola.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

We are very much looking forward to this exciting talk by @rachelschine.bsky.social. If you would like to join, just DM or email me.

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

We are super thrilled that @rachelschine.bsky.social is holding an online lecture on March 4th! DM or email @speriola.bsky.social of you want to join us 🙂 #cims

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Super excited for the workshop on war, migration and social reorganization tomorrow at @unituebingen.bsky.social ! You are more than welcome to join us! Photo Credit: @ The Bodician Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Barocci 170, fol. 23v.

Flyer Workshop Bewegte Zeiten. Krieg, Migration und soziale Reorganisation im tormodernen Euromediterreaneum. Photo Credit: photo Credit: @ The Bodician Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Barocci 170, fol. 23v.

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Zum #historysongfriday gibt es von mir eine sehr eindrückliche Version von Feivel, dem Mauswanderer: open.spotify.com/intl-de/trac... @historysongfriday.bsky.social

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

🎄This is the pre-Christmas present you have been waiting for!🎄After a smashing workshop on Friday, the mighty Tess Wingard (Dublin) will give a paper @unituebingen.bsky.social about Transness and Secular Law in the Late Medieval World which you also can join online. DM or Mail for Zoom-Details.

Poster for the Research Colloquium of the Department for Medieval Studies of Tuebingen University. Photo Credit: Paris BNF NAF 16251, fol. 76r.

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Alan van Beek @thiliel.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Also, she will be holding a lecture on Monday 15.12. at 6.30pm: "sie hur als eynn man. Transness and Secular Law in the Late Medieval World" (also on Zoom, please text @chillrike.bsky.social for link). #medievalsky #transhistory

15.12. Tess Wingard (Dublin) "sie hur als eynn man. Transness and Secular Law in the Late Medieval World" montags 18.30-20.00 Hegelbau Raum 201 und on Zoom

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I am honoured and excited that Tess Wingard is giving a student workshop on Premodern trans history tomorrow @unituebingen.bsky.social! For those who cannot attend in person: Tess is also giving a paper in our research colloquium on Monday (15 Dec) which you can attend online.

Plakat mit Informationen zum Studierendenworkshop von Tess Wingard.

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The PhD Place - Academic Community @thephdplace.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Your mental health is more important than your PhD

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Katharina Mersch @katha-m.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Medieval Cats - präsentiert von @manuel-kamenzin.bsky.social medievalcats.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/cat-alogue/

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I wrote something! Thank You, @hsozkult.bsky.social and especially Daniel Menning and Claudia Prinz, for making this possible ! www.hsozkult.de/debate/id/fd...

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Geschichtstheorie am Werk @hist-theory.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

More #theoryofhistory at gtw.hypotheses.org ! We have a great post from Gion Wallmeyer form the University of Bielefeld on "Are the Times a-Changin‘? Argumentieren mit Zeit und Wandel in der Geschichtswissenschaft" Read the post here: 👇 gtw.hypotheses.org/32418

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Are the Times a-Changin‘? Argumentieren mit Zeit und Wandel in der Geschichtswissenschaft

Gion Wallmeyer - Die moderne Geschichtswissenschaft beschäftigt sich bereits seit ihren Anfängen mit der Frage, wie historischer Wandel rekonstruiert werden kann. In der jüngeren Forschung wird Wande...

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Alan van Beek @thiliel.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Nächste Woche ist diese Tagung zur Ästhetik von Naturorten im Mittelalter, veranstaltet von @chillrike.bsky.social und Jan Stellmann. Ich bin mit Barbie dabei: "Vnd spilt sich der stainen vels. Die Agency des Felsens in den mittelalterlichen Barbara-Legenden"! See you in Tübingen.

NATURA & ceTERRA
Zur Ästhetik von Naturorten
im Mittelalter
Tagungsort
Bibliothek des Musikwissenschaftlichen InstitutsPfleghofSchulberg 272070 Tübingen
Organisation
Rike Szill & Jan Stellmann
SFB 1391 Andere Ästhetik
https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/159334
Teilprojekt B7 Natur/lehren
https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/252047
Brackweder Arbeitskreis für Mittelalterforschung
https://brackwederarbeitskreis.wordpress.com/
Kontakt

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FobiM @fobim.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Erinnerung: Unser Call for Papers läuft bis zum 30. November. Gerne weitersagen! fobim.de/forum-2026

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🌿 Really looking forward talking about all things NATURE &ceTERRA at @unituebingen.bsky.social - we would be more than happy if you join us and/or forward this! 🌿

Plakat mit anthropomorpher Terra und Tagungsinformationen: 20.-22.11.2025, im Bibliothekssaal im Pfleghof Tübingen (Schulberg 2)

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Wer heute Abend gern gemeinsam an gut funktionierenden Strukturen für ein offenes deutsch-französisches Forum in der Mediävistik mitdenken möchte, ist ganz herzlich zum ersten online-Treffen von Quo Vadis eingeladen!

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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Liebe #EarlyModern #Skystorians, am 14.10.2025, 17 Uhr, werden meine Kolleginnen vom @ihb-oeaw.bsky.social und ich gemeinsam die Frage nach #agency von Frauen in der Geschichte diskutieren. Wir freuen uns auf euch! Online-Teilnahme ist möglich, gerne hier anmelden 👇 www.oeaw.ac.at/detail/veran...

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Wie lässt sich die Handlungsmacht von Frauen in der Geschichte erforschen?

Im Rahmen der hybriden "Gender & Diversity Lectures" geben Forscherinnen der ÖAW Einblick in ihre Projekte zur Handlungsmacht von Frauen in unterschiedlichen Epochen der Geschichte. Im Anschluss an de...

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IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar @earliermiddleages.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

📣 The Earlier Middle Ages seminar @ihr.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Here's our autumn term schedule. First up is @rorynaismith.bsky.social on 8 October, giving the annual David Wilson Lecture (with @uclarchaeology.bsky.social). All welcome! Please sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Autumn 2025 schedule for the Institute of Historical Research's Earlier Middle Ages seminar. Full information available at https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/earlier-middle-ages

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Happy to share that my wonderful colleagues organise a hybrid conference on the use and understanding of the Lord’s Prayer at @unituebingen.bsky.social which is also attendable online! You can find all information on this webpage konferenz.libripendis.eu#programm made by @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social

Folium mit Pater Nester aus Düsseldorf, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Ms D 1, f. 216r. https://digital.ulb.hhu.de/ms/content/pageview/3665430

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15 SEPTEMBER! Please consider submitting an abstract to Daniel Reeve and I's proposed session(s) "Beyond Touch: New Queer and Trans Temporalities" for @imc-leeds.bsky.social (6-9 July 2026). Full CFP below and accessibly HERE: tinyurl.com/BT-IMC.

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Are you keen on exploring how the present was thought, told, and used in the Middle Ages? Then, join us at the #IMC2026 for talking about *Presentologies*! Deadline is 31 August 2025 - for further information, check out the file below which was designed by the wonderful Maria Kammerlander.

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Alan van Beek @thiliel.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

So excited! if you want to join (free, zoom): www.eventbrite.com/e/conference... #medievalsky

Conference: Trans Sainthood in Translation, ca. 400–1500 (Day 1)

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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Das dt. Wissenschaftssystem setzt auf künstliche Verknappung von Wertschätzung: Leute kleinhalten. Ihnen suggerieren, nichts zu können. Nahelegen, sie müssten dankbar sein, sogar für miese Bedingungen. So lassen wir uns alles Mögliche gefallen. Deshalb: Lobt einander, was das Zeug hält! #IchBinHanna

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Also, today is international #transdayofvisibility! Check out your local event calendar, buy a book to educate yourself or support and amplify the accomplishments of trans people and their knowledge.

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Wishing you all a happy #hugamedievalistday ! [Picture detail taken from the Morgan Picture Bible, © Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig I 6 (83.MA.55). CC0 1.0]

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I just received a copy of the conference volume on renunciation in the Middle Ages. Massive props to Philipp Winterhager for doing such a brillant job as organiser and editor - it was a pleasure contributing to it! Verzicht is available as OpenAccess: www.herder.de/wissen/shop/...

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I am very honored to have been awarded the faculty prize for gender aware research by Kiel University for my PhD on trauma and diaspora after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453. Thanks a lot to everybody who has been there both physically and mentally - you made this day very special to me.

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Alan van Beek @thiliel.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Super dickes Dankeschön an @chillrike.bsky.social, dass ich in Tübingen über trans reading von mittelalterlicher Literatur sprechen durfte! Es war eine tolle Diskussion. 💜🤓

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I am beyond excited that Alan Lena van Beek (Salzburg) @thiliel.bsky.social is doing a trans reading of Dietrich von der Glezze @unituebingen.bsky.social tomorrow! Please come and join, if you like!

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I am a bit excited to announce that “Eroberte im Mittelalter” (Being Conquered in the Middle Ages) was chosen to also be available as paperback @degruyterbrill.bsky.social - once again, a massive thanks to everyone who was involved in this project.

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Looking forward to the conference on multiple (group) affiliations in the Middle Ages organised by Marcel Bubert in Münster this weekend!

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Stephan Bruhn @stebruhn.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

Together with Mariana Bodnaruk and Michael Eber I’m organising a conference on „Trans Sainthood in Translation, c. 400-1500“ @ghilondon next May. You can find the CfP below! Please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested (and maybe isn’t on this platform)! 👇👇👇

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 26/06/2024

That was very much fun! Many thanks to Katharina and Margit Mersch for the invitation and everybody who shared sich a nice afternoon and evening with me #rub #mediterraneanhistory

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

Friendly reminder to participate in our round table discussion at the #IMC2024 @queebees.bsky.social @ Isa Schuerch @ Solveig Marie Wang www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

15 years of equality work at Kiel University – with loads of things achieved and still to go for. Massive thanks to the university’s and faculties’ gender equality teams and their work – and for letting me participate in this for the last years! Looking forward for what is yet to come!

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

What a ride #phdone and a massive thanks to everybody who rode this journey with me!

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Rike Chill @chillrike.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Looking forward to the conference of the Brackweder Arbeitskreis in Darmstadt at the end of November. This time, it is all about inscriptions – you can find the conference programme here ➡️ brackwederarbeitskreis.wordpress.com/2023/10/29/2...

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