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London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🗣️ The London Society for Medieval Studies seeks new committee members. If you are a PGR or ECR interested in joining the committee, fill in the form 👇 One of the longest running @ihr.bsky.social seminars, the LSMS is a peer-organised series showcasing latest research in the of medieval studies 1/4

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London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The LSMS is recruiting new committee members for the 2026/2027 term! Apply now here: forms.gle/xnU6dtn6fSky...

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MAMO Conference 2027 @themamoconf.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

❗It's here! The Call For Papers for MAMO 2027❗ - Seeking a broad range of proposals for papers and events, focusing on aspects of medievalism in the modern world. - Featuring some very special events and keynotes... - You can find a plaintext version of this CFP at shorturl.at/0FJjY.

CFP for MAMO 2027. You can find a plaintext version of this CFP at <https://shorturl.at/0FJjY>

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 26/06/2026

📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. 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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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Looking forward to presenting some of my research next week @ihrmedievalism.bsky.social—>

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Dr Rory MacLellan @rorymaclellan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Call for papers for an online conference on medievalism, 9-10 October: medievalisms.org/conferences/ #medievalsky

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MEDIEVALISM IN TIMES OF (MIS)INFORMATION – 2026 International Conference for the Study of Medievalism

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The last @londonmedieval.bsky.social seminar of the year and the last I‘ll attend as a convenor ! It has been SO good working with this committed, creative, smart group of postgrad & early career medievalists. Its also been an important space of learning, collaboration, & shared purpose 🤝

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London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Get ready for another term of amazing seminars! As always, free! Just remember to sign up here: bit.ly/londonmedieval #medievalsky #skystorians

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

It’s (already) the FINAL paper of what has been an expansive & exciting term of seminars @londonmedieval.bsky.social

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London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Medieval medicine just got visionary 🌿✨ On 17 March, Lauren Cole @medievallauren.bsky.social will present: ‘Transforming Medical Knowledge in Medieval Europe: Hildegard of Bingen’s Physica'! 🗓️ 17 March ⏰ 17:30 GMT 🏛️ IN PERSON @ihr.bsky.social & 💻 ONLINE Sign up now: bit.ly/londonmedieval

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London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Make Ready! 🏰 On 3 March, Isobel Barnard from @kingshistory.bsky.social will present: ‘The Castle in 14th Century Scotland: A Sociological Study of Masculine Identity'. 🗓️ 03 March ⏰ 17:30 GMT 🏛️ IN PERSON @ihr.bsky.social & 💻 ONLINE Sign up now: bit.ly/londonmedieval

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Louise Bourgeois, The Hour is Devoted to Revenge, 1999

Oval made of steel and lead engraved with the words ‘The Hour is Devoted to Revenge’

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London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Next week join us online for a double bill ✨ with curators Helena Lahoz Kopiske & Anushka Hosain discussing representing medieval Islamicate art at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid and @mfahouston.bsky.social 🏺🏛️☪️ www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #arthistory #medievalsky #museumsky

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London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

LSMS winter programme 2025/26 ft. researchers across the 🌎 speaking on medieval art/environment/medicine/architecture Tuesdays, 17:30 (GMT) at the @ihr.bsky.social in Bloomsbury or on Zoom. All welcome, register here 👉 bit.ly/londonmedieval #medievalsky #skystorians

Grey poster with the details of this term’s LSMS seminar. There is an image on the right hand side of a fragment of an early medieval Iraqi wall painting (OA+.10621) from the British Museum with a male face in black pigment looking right

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LONDON SOCIETY FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES
Winter 2026
Curating Medieval Islamic Art: Re-presenting Medieval
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Islamicate Worlds
Feb Anushka Hosain (Museum of Fine Art, Houston) & Helena Lahoz Kopiske (Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid)
Online
'Out of the Mouths of Babes':
17 Reassessing the Lost Miracle Statue Feb of Saint Rumwald at Boxley Abbey
Lucy Beall Lott (St Andrews)
The Castle in Fourteenth
03 Century Scotland: A Sociological
Mar Study of Masculine Identity
Isobel Barnard (King's College London)
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Transforming Medical Knowledge in Medieval Europe: Hildegard of
Mar Bingen's Physica
Lauren Cole (Northwestern University)
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Harvesting water: traditional ecological knowledge
Mar
from Medieval Spain in practice and in research
Camila Marcone (Yale)
ALL WELCOME!
Please book via
bit.ly/londonmedieval

INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH
SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Tuesdays, 17.30
Institute of Historical
Research

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Bump for my CFP for Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Deadline 14 February! Have had a few abstracts already and it's shaping up to be great. 🗃️

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Call For Papers: Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present | UON

Centre for Historical Studies, University of Northampton, UK Monday 15 – Tuesday 16 June 2026 Nostalgia, defined most simply as a wistful or...

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

😮‍💨 check out this term’s programme at the LSMS - material ! textual! visual! culture - big range of temporalities, scales, environments, disciplines. Lets go! Hybrid sessions, Tuesdays, 5.30pm Register here 👉 bit.ly/londonmedieval #medievalsky #skystorians

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London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Looking forward to welcoming Dr Tim Pestell from @norwichcastle.bsky.social for this term's last seminar! Tim will be speaking about the redesign of Norwich Castle's Royal Keep! 🗓️ Tues 9 December ⏰ 17.30 GMT 💻 ONLINE Remember to sign up here 👉 bit.ly/londonmedieval

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London Society for Medieval Studies

Founded in 1970/1, the London Society for Medieval Studies seeks to foster knowledge of, and dialogue about, the Middle Ages (c.500–c.1500 CE).

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Institute of Employment Rights @ieruk.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

General Strike 100 National museums, libraries, archives, community groups, and individuals across the UK are marking the centenary of the 1926 General Strike. All the details here: generalstrike100.com #GeneralStrike100

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

TOMORROW!! Come & hear the excellent Olivia Baskerville (@ies-sas.bsky.social) about the book trade in London & the national & local claims to #medieval material culture TUES 25 NOV 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): bit.ly/londonmedieval #MedievalSky #Manuscripts #Skystorians

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Institute of Historical Research

The Institute of Historical Research is the UK's national centre for history

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London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Our next seminar on 11 Nov (5.30pm) Joanna Tucker @uofglasgow.bsky.social presents on multi-scribe cartularies and chronicles from medieval Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✍️📖 Hybrid session - join us online or at the Senate House @ihr.bsky.social Book here ➡️ bit.ly/londonmedieval #medievalsky #skystorians

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

@londonmedieval.bsky.social have the excellent Olivia Baskerville @ies-sas.bsky.social, medievalist by training, presenting her research on the 20C trade in &nationalist discourse around medieval manuscripts📖 25 Nov! AS EVER free & open to all, book here ➡️ bit.ly/londonmedieval

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London Society for Medieval Studies

Founded in 1970/1, the London Society for Medieval Studies seeks to foster knowledge of, and dialogue about, the Middle Ages (c.500–c.1500 CE).

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Waltham Forest Archives @lbwfarchives.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

London local history and heritage organisations starter pack, now updated to welcome @londontopsoc.bsky.social to Bluesky! go.bsky.app/6ZX5gxf

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 08/10/2025

70,000 HE academic staff. Almost half of teaching only staff. Two-thirds of research-only academic staff. ALL on fixed term contracts. This isn’t flexibility, it’s exploitation. Live tomorrow at 7 PM we expose the hypocrisy at the top of HE: youtube.com/live/rZRbCP0YJ…

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

*Call for Contributors* The Medieval in Museums @archumanities.bsky.social Check out the full CfP via link ➡️ bit.ly/CfPMiM Welcoming chapters/dialogues/critical-creative texts from scholars, museum professionals, creative practitioners deadline: Mon 3 Nov (5pm GMT) #MedievalSky #MuseumSky #CfP

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The Medieval in Museums: call for contributions We invite short abstracts (100-200 words) in response to our call for chapters for an edited volume, ‘The Medieval in Museums’. Please send abstracts b...

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

📣 Call for Contributors: Edited Volume - The Medieval in Museums @archumanities.bsky.social 🖼️📜 🗓️ Abstract deadline: 3 Nov 2025 (17:00 GMT) ⏰ Full #CfP: bit.ly/CfPMiM

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London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

We warmly invite you to another term of exciting seminars - our programme this term explores manuscripts, identity, & heritage from Central Europe to the States, Scotland to the South East 📖 bit.ly/londonmedieval

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London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Next week join us for the first LSMS seminar of the term with @annamolnar.bsky.social speaking on late medieval women’s financial literacy! 🗣️Online & in-person @ihr.bsky.social 🗓️ Tues 30 September ⏰ 17.30 GMT ✍️ www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Institute of Historical Research

The Institute of Historical Research is the UK's national centre for history

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Loving the responses and how much people enjoy beautiful historical writing! Do have a look through the replies for excellent reading commendations and add your own, #SkyStorians 🗃️

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Pleased to share the LSMS programme for this fast-approaching term 👇 featuring academics & practitioners working across times, geographies, methods— as ever, *all are welcome* but booking required: bit.ly/londonmedieval @londonmedieval.bsky.social #skystorians #medievalsky

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London Society for Medieval Studies

Founded in 1970/1, the London Society for Medieval Studies seeks to foster knowledge of, and dialogue about, the Middle Ages (c.500–c.1500 CE).

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Ana Roda Sánchez @arodsan95.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

New Call for Papers for more sessions on premodern race & racialisation at #IMC2026!! @medievalgeorgie.bsky.social and I are looking forward to receiving your proposals 🙂 If you have any questions, please do reach out! @imc-leeds.bsky.social #premoderncriticalracestudies #medievalsky #skystorians

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I'm so proud to be part of the History Workshop project, supporting a brilliant team of Early Career historians who have built the best site for radical, engaged history online. Do consider applying for this opportunity! www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...

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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025

History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

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Naomi @naominar.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I’m co-organising a medieval conference next year in Oxford! Please take a look at the CfP and consider submitting an abstract, by the 15th of September, to bordersboundariesbarriers@gmail.com. We hope to be able to provide funding to help cover expenses of attendance. #medievalsky #skystorians

Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers have become increasingly prominent themes in historical scholarship. There is, therefore, a pressing need to examine how these
constructs have shaped the lived experiences of historically marginalised groups, as well as how they were
perceived, defined, and engaged with by those groups.
This conference seeks to reorient discussions around borders, boundaries, and barriers by foregrounding the
experiences and perspectives of marginalised groups and considering how these divisions were perceived from
the peripheries of societies. Rather than treating these concepts as abstract or solely geopolitical, we will explore
the ways in which they have operated — both historically and historiographically — as tools of exclusion and
differentiation.
Organised by Natasha Jenman (University of Oxford), Naomi Reiter (QMUL), and Dean A. Irwin (University
of Lincoln/OCHJS), the conference will focus on individuals, religious groups, social groups, societal
constructions, and natural phenomena. Participants are invited to explore the role played by evolving borders,
boundaries, and barriers in the medieval world as part of group identities; and how groups used them to their
advantage. Likewise, it will consider the extent to which borders, boundaries and barriers have been imposed
upon the medieval world by modern scholars. Possible topics for consideration include:
• Legal jurisdictions
• The natural and the supernatural worlds
• Socio-economic strata
• Ritual and religion
• Space, time, and the environment
• Gender and sexuality
• Disability
• Transgression, delinquency,
and the grey middle space
This conference adopts a broad chronological and geographical approach with submissions from all
historically-related disciplines being welcome. The conference will take place on 20 and 21 April 2026 in
Oxford. To submit, please send a title, abstract (c. 250 words), and a bio (c. 100 words) to:
bordersboundariesbarriers@gmail.com.

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Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

back frm @themamoconf.bsky.social & inspired by 🌟 LOCAL MEDIEDVALISMS with co-pannelists @maiablumberg.bsky.social & @linseyhunter.bsky.social 🌟public interp of MA w/ @emilyrobinson.bsky.social & @krmaude.bsky.social 🌟 practical resistance to far-right MA use @menysnoweballes.bsky.social

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MAMO Conference 2027 @themamoconf.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

There will be two panels at MAMO dedicated to Landscapes and Medievalisms! Our first panel (Thursday, 1-2:30pm) includes papers by Emma Nuding (@eknuding.bsky.social, York), Maia Blumberg (@maiablumberg.bsky.social, Queen Mary), and Linsey Hunter (@linseyhunter.bsky.social, UHI). #MAMOmonth

Session 2A: Landscapes and Medievalisms (I) [Room K016]
Chair: Simon Trafford
Emma Nuding (University of York): More Foreign than ‘Fellow’: Finding the Early Medieval with Charles Kingsley and St Guthlac of Crowland
Maia Blumberg (Queen Mary University of London): Local Medievalisms and ‘Nostalgia for the Ordinary’: The Case of Malmesbury
Linsey Hunter (UHI): Why here? Why now? An analysis of Identity and Place in retellings of the legend of Finella, Lady of the Mearns, c. 1900-c.1960

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Friendly reminder to send in your app to the London Soc for Medieval Studies by 21 June! the LSMS has been PG/EC researcher-led since 1970, showcasing the latest research on the Middle Ages by global scholars, committed to the critical & creative possibilities of interdisciplinary work & learning 🗣️

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

TONIGHT join us for the final @ihr.bsky.social LSMS seminar of the year: Rewriting the Middle Ages: Medieval Tropes and Postmodern Aesthetics in Iberian Fiction with Ana Rita G. Soares 💻 Online 📆 Tues 17 June ⏰ 17.30 - 19 ✍️ www.history.ac.uk/events/rewri... Join us!

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The London Society for Medieval Studies is recruiting for its 2025/26 committee! One of the longest running IHR seminars, we are also one of the few ECR-led. If you are a PGR or ECR based in London, working on anything medieval, please do get in touch! @ihr.bsky.social

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

QMUL is being transformed by a 1000 cuts without a clear vision and without staff input -- management only opening 'consultations' when it is too late & the only convo is about severance. Our university deserves a strategy, and deserves staff treated with dignity. Vote in the consultative ballot

front of the leaflet: stop job cuts
Protect jobs now. VOTE to ask management to commit to:
• NO COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES FOR AT LEAST TWO YEARS • INCREASED VOLUNTARY PAYOUT AVAILABLE TO ALL
• STOP OUTSOURCING IN-HOUSE ROLES
• CAP SENIOR SALARIES AT £100,000

back fo the leaflet:
Our job security and the university's
future are at stake
Departments have been asked to deliver cuts to improve financial targets. These cuts are being rushed through, without assessing the risks to the university and the workers, despite management declaring that Queen Mary is currently financially stable.
There are already existing proposals for compulsory redundancies in some departments, while a voluntary severance scheme targets others. The joint campus unions have been alerted to more formal consultations being underway.

What can we do?
1.JOIN a campus UNION
2. VOTE ONLINE BY 28TH APRIL
(This is a necessary step before moving to the postal ballot. Check your mailbox)
3. POSTAL BALLOT will follow
(Ensure your Union has your correct home address)

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

We are delighted to announce the launch of The Guild of Medievalist Makers (GuMM), a community for academic and academic-adjacent practitioners of creative-critical work. Read more about us and the society on our new website: www.guildmedmak.com

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I see a lot of you are worried about your stocks so I’m glad I invested all my money in the one asset that will NEVER decline in value: tulips

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Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Check out this podcast about NUN OTHER than Hildegard of Bingen with me & @medievallauren.bsky.social (link in 🧵) - written, edited, & produced by young historian, Mia Janett, from Universität Zürich on her year abroad at @qmul.ac.uk

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Medievalists for Palestine @mforpalestine.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Hey #MedievalSky, over a 100 of your peers have registered to the Open Access Medieval Studies conference. You can join too! This is the time to come and gather and be in solidarity. Take action! To view the schedule and register go: linktr.ee/mfp_lestine

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OPEN ACCESS MEDIEVAL STUDIES
March 20-22
Medievalists for Palestine
Conference Registration Open
To view the schedule and register, visit: linktr.ee/mfp_lestine

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MAMO Conference 2027 @themamoconf.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The Middle Ages in the Modern World conference is now on Bluesky! Stay tuned here and on our website for the upcoming 5th MAMO conference, at King's College London, 24-26 June 2025. See you at MAMO number 5! themamo.org

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The Middle Ages in the Modern World

A multidisciplinary conference on medievalism in the post-Middle Ages

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