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Laura Kalas

@laurakalas.bsky.social

Literary historian, author, cultural critic, intersectional feminist, Associate Professor @swanseauni. Medieval literature, women, medicine, health, religion, science. All views own etc.

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Laura Kalas @laurakalas.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Thanks Lucy!

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Mirabelle Dominé-Walley @mirabelledomine.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Very happy to be speaking with @drlauravarnam.bsky.social and @lukeewalker.bsky.social at her Gender & Medieval Studies conference this September, along with her Margery Kempe Society co-founder @laurakalas.bsky.social and @hellomizk.bsky.social and Teresa Pilgrim. Thank you Laura x

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Laura Kalas @laurakalas.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Please encourage your graduate students to submit to this year’s GMS essay prize! Deadline is 30th April. medievalgender.co.uk/prizes-bursa...

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Prizes & Bursaries – Gender and Medieval Studies

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Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

So many lovely faces on screen for the launch of @laurakalas.bsky.social and Roberta Magnani’s wonderful new book, Women in Christianity in the Medieval Age 💕

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Laura Kalas @laurakalas.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The next GMS conference is on the topic of Gender, Charity and Care, to be held Canterbury Christ Church University. Please consider submitting an abstract and share widely! We are looking for colleagues to host at their institutions in 2026 and 2027 so please do get in touch if you’re interested.

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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This year's conference is organised by @medievalcanter.bsky.social at Canterbury Christ Church, 2-5 July. Theme is "Gender: Charity and Care". Plenty of time to get your abstract in--they're due March 31 Full info 👉 medievalgender.co.uk/2025-canterb... #MedievalSky #Skystorians 🗃️ #CfP

Save the Date! Wednesday 2 – Saturday 5 July 2025. Be inspired by love, charity and care to consider gendered literary, political/historical, and theological texts and responses, all forms of religious belief and none, and social/socio-economic, and environmental explorations of the subject from caring to apocalyptic climate emergency.
Topics might include:
• Religious devotion and almsgiving globally (including generosity in Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism (d̄āna),
• Jewish philanthropy (tzedakah) and Islamic charitable giving (sadaqa)
• Gift-giving and donations in texts, documents, material culture, drama and depictions from saints to chuggers, lay piety, and non-normative medieval beliefs, including the opposites of charity and care - cupidity and neglect.
• Charitable locations: leperhouses, hospices and hospitals, and the care of the sick and dying, childbirth and childcare.
• Charity in urban and rural domestic settings and gardens, guilds, church ales and help ales.
• Charity and care for bodies, feelings and nature: emotions, senses, sensualities, sex, chastity, and inclusive genderings.
• Convenor: Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh, Centre for Kent History & Heritage, Canterbury Christ Church University
• Kindly email abstracts and questionsto GMS 2025 Liaison Dr Diane Heath, Diane.Heath@ScienceMuseum.ac.uk
• AbstractDeadline: Monday 31 March 2025
PLEASE PUT ‘GMS 2025 ABSTRACT’ IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR EMAIL – THANK YOU
• Abstracts 200 words max (+ bio) for papers (20 mins); panels, poetry, performance, posters and art also welcome
• ECR travel bursary aid available on receipt of tickets (post attendance) via the Kate Westoby Fund.

• Location: Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1QU
• Conference begins Wednesday 2 July; Conference Dinner on Thursday; Conference ends Saturday am.

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