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Amanda (AJ) Langley

@medievalmystics.bsky.social
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PhD. in medieval History from QMUL, studying mysticism & lived experience in the work of Agnes Blannbekin. Host of the My Favourite Mystic podcast. Co-founder of the Mysticism and Lived Experience Network. (she/her)

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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
🚨 Transcript now available 🚨 www.medievalshewrote.com/blog/2025/2/... #Skystorians #MedievalSky 🗃️
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Podcast Transcript: My Favourite Mystic Ep 56, "Alicia Spencer-Hall on Christina Mirabilis" — Medieval, She Wrote
If you’re not already listening to My Favourite Mystic , AJ Langley’s podcast for scholars to confess their fannish devotion of all things mysticism, then you’re missing out. I’ve been a long-time ...
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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Check out our new Mapping Medieval Women Writers project blogs.surrey.ac.uk/medievalwome...
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New Project: Mapping Medieval Women Writers | Women's Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon
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Amanda (AJ) Langley @medievalmystics.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
A new episode is finally out! Thanks to @aspencerhall.bsky.social for being a wonderful guest (and just a generally great person).
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Dr Rachael Durkin @rachaeldurkin.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I’m now inviting applications for 2 postdoc roles to work with me on on my UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project ‘Global Music Technologies: Collaboration and Cultural Exchange’. Closing date 26th Jan. Please share!! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLD914/r...
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Research Fellow in Humanities at Northumbria University
Apply now for the Research Fellow in Humanities role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Come one, come all to the Medieval Twitter book launch at @ucl-ias.bsky.social 📅 29 Jan 2025, 6-8 pm (UK time) 📍 Online & in person 💸 Limited stock of books for £50 - 60% off RRP! Email me by *19 Dec* to secure your copy 👉 Full details www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... #MedievalSky #skystorians 🗃️
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IAS Book Launch: Medieval Twitter
Join us for the launch of Medieval Twitter by Alicia Spencer-Hall.
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
📣 2 PhD positions at Leiden - book- and/or art historians to join the NWO OC Research Project "Images on the Move. Early Modern Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks (1550-1700)" Deadline 8 December. #BookHistory #ArtHistory #EarlyModern #PhD www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...
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2 PhD - NWO OC-L project IMAGES ON THE MOVE
Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for 2 PhD positions within the NWO OC-L project IMAGES ON THE MOVE. Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks in Early Moder...
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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I was reviews editor for this fabulous journal under the most excellent, erudite & #SRSlyGood @jennyrichards.bsky.social & @kevinkilleen.bsky.social & enjoyed every minute of it. Do consider applying — if you’re half as good as the previous editors, you’ll be formidable! 🙌 🐦‍🔥 🔥
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Michael Brown @medhistoryman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
📢 @jbhist.bsky.social & I are very pleased to announce that we are seeking a f/t 2-year Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History to join our major @ahrcpress funded research project on the Victorian Hand. Closes 6 December. Spread the word!!! hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History
The Department of History at Lancaster University are seeking to appoint a Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History. We are looking for a talented scholar of Victorian culture to ...
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Amanda (AJ) Langley @medievalmystics.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
Three weeks left to submit proposals for our panel series on Emotions in medieval Mystical/Devotional Texts for IMC 2025!
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Amanda (AJ) Langley @medievalmystics.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
Getting ready for #IMC2025! Rowan Wilson and I have issued a call for papers about emotions in Mystical and Devotional Texts. Let's talk about feelings (or the lack thereof). Deadline for abstracts is September 20th!
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Amanda (AJ) Langley @medievalmystics.bsky.social · 23/05/2024
I am excited to be giving one of the Spring Lectures at the Ruuesbroec Institute tomorrow, May 24th, at 2pm CEST (1pm BST). If you would like to attend online, you can register at: www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-...
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Spring Lecture May 24th 2024 | Research centre Ruusbroec Institute | University of Antwerp
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Amanda (AJ) Langley @medievalmystics.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
The deadline was extended but is now only one week away! Get your proposals in by February 15, 2024!
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Amanda (AJ) Langley @medievalmystics.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
It is very normal for the footnotes of a dissertation chapter to have an equal (or greater) word count to the chapter itself, right? #phdlife
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My Favourite Mystic Podcast @myfavouritemystic.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
AJ Langley is joined by Lee Irwin to talk about the Lakota mystic and healer Heȟáka Sápa/Black Elk. We talk about the differences between Native and Christian visionary experiences, ritual, embodied spirituality, and putting visions into action. Listen here: shorturl.at/nsCHZ, or on any podcast app!
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Mysticism & Lived Experience Network @mlen.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
The deadline swiftly approaches! #medievalsky #mysticism
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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Save the date for the 2024 Gender and Medieval Studies conference: 26-28 June 2024 (note the new summer date). C4P and more info to come soon! medievalgender.co.uk/conferences/ #MedievalSky #AcademicSky 🗃️
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Conferences – Gender and Medieval Studies
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Amanda (AJ) Langley @medievalmystics.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
I really enjoyed this interview and I am so glad to have it out!
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Amanda (AJ) Langley @medievalmystics.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Very excited about this conference!
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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
You asked for it, and it's finally here... Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography is now out in paperback! 👉$39.95 / € 35,95 / £31.95 + VAT 🔗 www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... // all good book sellers lol 💸 We're also Open Access bb! bit.ly/TGQS-OA #AcademicSky #MedievalSky 🗃️
A parchment-coloured (ie beige-ish) book cover, with an ornate gilded border (the image is from a medieval manuscript. The border features photos from pride marches and two saints with haloes in pride flag colours (trans and non-binary). Inside the border is an image of a saint with a pink glittery background behind their halo, holding a trans flag. Collaged over their eyes are the eyes from a photo of a drag queen. The title of the book is Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, and it's edited by Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt. It's published by Amsterdam University Press, in the series Hagiography Beyond Tradition.
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Einat Klafter @medievalk.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
Excited to share this CFP for IMC Leeds 2024! The Mysticism & Lived Experience Network (M&LEN) is organizing a series of panels with the Blurred Boundaries of Religious Dissent Research Initiative on "Crisis of Faith or a Faith in Crisis?". Deadline: Sept. 15th! Please contact me for more info
Crisis of Faith or a Faith in Crisis?
Call for Papers for a series at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds University, July 1-4, 2024
Sponsored by: The Mysticism & Lived Experience Network & Blurred Boundaries of Religious Dissent Research Initiative
We seek proposals for 15-20-minute papers. Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words along with a short bio
to lifeandmystics@gmail.com or blurredboundariesofdissent@gmail.com by September 15, 2023.
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