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The Long Middle Ages @thelongmiddleages.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In TWO WEEKS, Thurs 1st October, we have our first seminar of term! The seminar will be from 17:30-19:00 online (via Teams). Please follow the link to register to attend: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon... #medievalsky #thelongmiddleages

In two weeks, we have our FIRST AUTUMN SEMINAR on Thursday 1st October from 17:30-19:00. This time, all the talks will be ONLINE (via Teams). We will start the Teams call a few minutes before 17:30 for everyone to get settled before beginning the seminar.

The two speakers of this seminar are:
Tham Chui Jun (Independent Scholar)

Governing the Dead: Spirit Pacification, the Water-Land Retreat, and Rulership in Medieval East Asia

Caroline Bourne (University of Reading)

Sailing the Severn Sea: The Establishment of a Maritime Cultural Zone

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The Long Middle Ages @thelongmiddleages.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We are happy to announce our full term-card for Autumn 2026 for The Long Middle Ages. This interdisciplinary seminar series will run fortnightly and online this term with two speakers each seminar from across the globe! #medievalsky

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The Long Middle Ages @thelongmiddleages.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Check your emails! All decision emails about the next series have been sent out and we look forward to sharing our schedule soon! Still wanting more? A reminder that our IMC 2027 CFP closes on FRIDAY 4th SEPTEMBER and we encourage all PGRs and ECRs to submit! #medievalsky

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The Long Middle Ages @thelongmiddleages.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Still want to join in on the Long Middle Ages but missed out on the seminar series deadline? Well, do we have news for you! There's TWO WEEKS left to get abstracts in for the Long Middle Ages panel series at @imc-leeds.bsky.social in 2027! #medievalsky #thelongmiddleages #imc2027

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Grant Jones @grantosjones.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

CALL FOR PAPERS! Alastair Forbes (@areforbes.bsky.social) and I are seeking papers for our proposed Leeds #IMC2027 session: 'Ordered and Disordered Communities in Clerical Thought' All disciplines and career stages welcome - abstracts due 14 September. @imc-leeds.bsky.social #MedievalSky

A call for papers for Leeds International Medieval Congress 2027 on the topic of 'Ordered and Disordered Communities in Clerical Thought'. This panel examines how medieval clerical and monastic cultures defined communities and situated them within social or religious order. We seek to explore how these cultures understood disorder within or between communities, as well as how their judgements shaped ideas about communal identity and belonging. Communities considered might range from individual institutions to wider social order and communities, across the entirety of Christendom in the Middle Ages.

We welcome proposals from colleagues in any discipline of medieval studies and at any career stage, including postgraduate and early career researchers. Although papers should engage substantively with clerical or monastic understandings of order, they need not be confined to clerical communities or clerically authored sources. Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words for a 20-minute paper, along with a short biography, to Dr Alastair Forbes and Dr Grant Jones at: a.r.e.forbes@durham.ac.uk and grant.jones@durham.ac.uk no later than Monday 14 September 2026.

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Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

What made a medieval self? CFP, Leeds #IMC2027, July 5-8: ‘Constructing Selves, Constructing Communities’. We would love to hear from graduate students and early career researchers who may like to join us at @imc-leeds.bsky.social! See CFP for more info. Abstracts due September 7 #medievalsky

Call For Papers: IMC Leeds 2027
Constructing Selves, Constructing Communities
What made a medieval self? Augustine’s noverim me, noverim te (“May I know myself; may I know You”)
suggests that knowing oneself depended upon relationships with both God and other people. Taking this insight
alongside Paul Ricoeur’s distinction between idem (sameness) and ipse (selfhood), this panel asks how medieval
people negotiated selfhood through their relationships with communities, institutions, and the divine.
This panel aims to explore how selves and communities were imagined, enacted, negotiated, and transformed
through material culture, texts, language, and social practice. We are particularly interested in the significance of
belonging, memory, and authority in shaping both individual and collective experience.
Papers may consider, among other themes:
• Communities of belonging:
• Embodied and material expressions of selfhood
• Texts, rituals, and discourse: how rhetoric,
narrative, images, and language mediated
relationships between individuals, communities, and
the divine.
• Authority, spaces and social order: how hierarchy,
sacred or social spaces, exclusion, and reputation
structured medieval selves and communities.
We welcome interdisciplinary approaches from across
medieval studies.
We invite submissions of a 150–250 word abstract,
accompanied by: a paper title; a brief personal biography
including your current institutional affiliation (if any) and
academic title (if any); your full contact details (email and phone); any equipment/accessibility requirements
and scheduling requests; and whether you intend to participate in person or virtually.
Submissions must be sent to ceraejournal@gmail.com by 11:59 PM (GMT) Monday 7 September 2026.
All submissions will be reviewed by the Ceræ Committee. Decisions will be communicated to all applicants
within 5 days of the deadline.

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The Long Middle Ages @thelongmiddleages.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Two more weeks to get us your abstracts for the Autumn 2026 run of #thelongmiddleages! #medievalsky #earlymodern #lateantique

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The Long Middle Ages @thelongmiddleages.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

But wait, there's more! We plan on sponsoring a series of panels at @imc-leeds.bsky.social next year on 'Communities in the Long Middle Ages'. If you are interested, please send an abstract, title, and bio to thelongmiddleages@gmail.com by 4th September! #medievalsky #thelongmiddleages

Communities in the Long Middle Ages call for papers

Following the success of the Long Middle Ages Seminar Series, hosted at the University of Leeds, we invite proposals for 20 minute papers at the Leeds International Medieval Congress (5-8 July 2027). This will be a space to establish connectivity between scholars working on a variety of disciplines within the traditional boundaries of the late antique, medieval and early modern periods. Considering the Long Middle Ages prompts us to think critically about the continuities and commonalities between historical periods and across disciplines.

We welcome a range of research approaches including traditional methods and interdisciplinary methodologies and frameworks. Speakers are welcome to present their work in any format on historical, literary, archaeological, art historical, linguistic, or any other specialisations under the remit of the Long Middle Ages. Accepted speakers may also be asked to join a roundtable on the topic.

Please send abstracts of c. 250 words, paper title and a short bio to thelongmiddleages@gmail.com by 4th September 2026.

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Dr Ellen Gallimore @emgallimore.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Please circulate! We're looking forward to receiving abstracts from #medievalsky, #georgian, #victorianstudies, #romanticism, #18thC, #19thC, and #antiquarian!

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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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Natalie Hopwood @nrhopwood.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

For those already excited for #IMC2027, @marycoconnor.bsky.social and I are organizing sessions on 'The Literary Communities of Old Norse and Icelandic Romance'! 🌟If you would like to get involved, please submit a 250 word abstract and short bio by 18th September 🌟 #medievalsky

The Literary Communities of Old Norse and Icelandic Romance
Through the translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britannaie and the efforts of Hákon Hákonarson, king of Norway (r. 1217-1263), romance reached the Medieval North where it soon took hold of the Scandinavian imagination. Old Norse translations of Old French romances were copied and transmitted from Norway to Iceland. These romances soon inspired a wave of new literary creations, leading to the production of Icelandic chivalric romances and later ballads and rimur, alongside potentially influencing other literary genres. These narratives were amongst the most popular stories read and received amongst medieval and later Icelandic communities as the manuscript preservation attests. And yet they continue to be amongst the most understanded communities of texts within Old Norse literary studies. This session seeks to respond to this gap in scholarship and invite papers which investigate these texts, challenging former assumptions and opening up new avenues of scholarship on these texts.

Suggested themes and topics may include but are not limited to:

· Chivalric romances, fornaldarsögur
· Translation (Old Norse and Old Swedish)
· Literary communities
· Gender
· Emotions
· Genre
· Families/ genealogies
· Travel/ geography
· Marginalised identities
· Manuscript reception and transmission
· Society and hierarchy
· Ethnicity and religion
· Monsters
· Transgression
Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief biography by Friday 18th September to Mary Catherine O’Connor (mary.oconnor@balliol.ox.ac.uk) and Natalie Hopwood (ennrho@leeds.ac.uk)

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Saaleha Iqbal @saalehaiqbal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

We are looking for speakers for a second series! Do share to anyone who might be interested in presenting (online) a 30min paper!

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Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

My first IMC was exhausting but so much fun! Personal highlights inc: - Fayrouz Ibrahim's paper at @saalehaiqbal.bsky.social's fab panel - meeting some @mideastmedieval.bsky.social people - so many great PhD papers - @aspencerhall.bsky.social's keynote - the Mongol World exhib and round table 😍

Photo of a large fragment of a stunning gold robe from the "Genghis Khan: How the Mongols Changed the World" exhibition at Leeds' Royal Armouries

Photo of two beautiful miniature paintings from the "Genghis Khan: How the Mongols Changed the World" exhibition at Leeds' Royal Armouries

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Saaleha Iqbal @saalehaiqbal.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Looking forward to talk about Muslim women in the Old French Crusade Cycle in session 1344 this afternoon @imc-leeds.bsky.social! #IMC2026

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EPOCH History Magazine @epoch-history.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

⏰ CALL FOR PAPERS ⏰ Our September issue is 'Hidden Histories', so we'd love to hear from scholars working with subaltern studies, decolonial histories, or marginalised groups. We also welcome pitches from scholars working in all areas of historical research! Submit! 👇 tinyurl.com/2ryzusup

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Saaleha Iqbal @saalehaiqbal.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Really excited to finally get started on @nicmorton.bsky.social’s new book, The Crusader Storm!

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A thread on trends in violence against Muslims in the UK🧵 📆Since 2017, around 1/4 declared terror attacks in Britain have targeted Muslims or Muslim migrants ⌛Such attacks have become more frequent since 2022 ⚖️There have also been several plots targeting Muslims, including foiled attacks on mosques

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Spending today looking closely at images of the gorgeous al-Bawwāb Qur'an @chesterbeatty.bsky.social (which I will see in person next month!). The navigational features of this manuscript are brilliant. Here's the transition from Sura 3 to 4 (f. 43v): 🧵https://viewer.cbl.ie/viewer/image/Is_1431/82/

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Chetham's Library @chethamslibrary.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We are delighted to have recently welcomed two new resident PhD students who are undertaking research projects concerned with our collections 🥳 Welcome Harriet and Finch! 👏 Read our blog to find out more about these wonderful students and their research: library.chethams.com/blog/chetham...

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Saaleha Iqbal @saalehaiqbal.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Looking forward to talking about Islam and Muslims in Mandeville’s Travels and Matthew Paris’s chronicle (manuscripts of both texts are part of Chetham’s collection) later this week!

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Dr Meaghan Allen @morbidmae.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Beyond thrilled to share the my monograph proposal “Sanctity, The Body,& Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Popular Culture & Cryptomedievalism has *OFFICIALLY* been approved by @archumanities.bsky.social to be included in @aspencerhall.bsky.social new series “Intercessions: Sanctity in the Pre/Modern World”

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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Career Development Fellow in French & Francophone Studies (2 years) at Durham University 'we are especially interested to receive applications from those with specialisms in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries' Deadline 21 June, start Sept 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRS327/c... @imems.bsky.social

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Career Development Fellow in French & Francophone Studies at Durham University

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Natalie Hopwood @nrhopwood.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

So happy to see this one published, I had to watch over 100 TikToks for this and I don’t know if I can’t ever listen to Golden Brown ever again, so please all go read it to justify my choices

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Teaching Medieval Women @teachmedwomen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Want to learn more about Teaching Medieval Women? Come along to our free CPD day at Nottingham Trent University on Thursday 25 June! Check out our packed schedule below... Register via our Eventbrite before 19 June to secure your place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/teaching-m...

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Teaching Medieval Women Nottingham CPD Day

TMW's third annual CPD day for teachers will take place on Thursday 25 June.

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Saaleha Iqbal @saalehaiqbal.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Looking forward to talking about Islam and Muslims in Mandeville’s Travels and Matthew Paris’s chronicle (manuscripts of both texts are part of Chetham’s collection) later this week!

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Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Looking to connect with fellow researchers, students & anyone interested in Medieval Islamic History, political thought, Sufism & the Turkic/Arab/Persian worlds. Let’s share ideas, discuss histories & build a network. Feel free to reach out! 📚✍️ #Histodons #MedievalHistory #IslamicThought #Sufism

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Nic Morton @nicmorton.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It's publication day! It gives me great pleasure to announce that my new book The Crusader Storm is now available in the UK. Offering a history of the early crusades from around ten different cultural perspectives, you can find out more here: basicbooks.uk/titles/nicho...

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Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Medieval World: Conflict and Culture is now on Bluesky! Keep an eye out for some exciting announcements as well as some great content 👀 @medievalworldmag.bsky.social

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London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Join us for another amazing seminar! On 2 June, Saaleha Iqbal from @lcsleeds.bsky.social is presenting 'Reimagining the Status of Muslims and Muslim Women in Medieval French Culture'. More info linked⬇️ 🗓️ 2 June ⏰ 17:30 GMT 🏛️In person @ihr.bsky.social & 💻 Online Sign up now: bit.ly/londonmedieval

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H-Sicily on H-Net @hsicilyonhnet.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

NEW POST: ‘Legal cultures in Arab-Norman Sicily and Italy’ (29 –30 October 2026). Read the full post and call for papers on H-Net: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

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Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

We have one spot left on one of our three hybrid panels at the Leeds International Medieval Conference 2026 (July 6-9)! Theme of Premodern Timeliness and Timelessness. 🕰️ Late submissions received by 3 June will be considered. ✏️ #medievalsky #earlymodernsky www.facebook.com/CeraeJournal...

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The Long Middle Ages @thelongmiddleages.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The Spring Term of the Long Middle Ages has now come to an end after nine fantastic seminars and eighteen amazing speakers! We hope to be back with information on the next stage of the series over summer, so thank you all for your support and we will see you soon! #medievalsky #thelongmiddleages

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The Long Middle Ages @thelongmiddleages.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

On Thursday 21st May we have our LAST seminar of the term! We are happy to be joined by Inmaculada Villafranca (Universidad de Córdoba) and Erik Nilsson (Linné University). To attend, sign up here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... #medievalsky #thelongmiddleages

In just under two weeks, we have our LAST SEMINAR OF TERM (so sad, I know, but we will return next academic year, don't worry!) on Thursday 7th May from 17:15-19:00, either in Parkinson SR (2.20) or Online (via Teams). Thanks to the University of Leeds having its exam period until the start of June, we've had to change the room again, as our usual ones were not available. The first talk will begin at 17:30.

The two speakers of this seminar are:
Inmaculada Villafranca (Universidad de Córdoba)

From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages through a vine branch: Knowledge transmission or common roots? The case of vegetal decoration in Córdoba (Spain) from the 5th to the 10th centuries

Erik Nilsson (Linné University)

From Everywhere to Everywhere: Movement Corridors and Shared Spaces Between the Baltic and the Mediterranean (AD 0–500)

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North West Medieval Studies Postgrad Network @northwestmedieval.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

🎉 CFP for the annual NWMS Postgrad Symposium. To be held at Chetham’s Library Tuesday 4th August 2026. Open to any PG or ECR. This year we are particularly interested in research rabbit holes that you had to cut! Email title, ~150 abstract and short bio to nwmsreading@gmail.com by 17th July 🎉

This year's North West Medieval Studies PGR
Symposium is all about the rabbit holes. Bring the weird tangents, abandoned footnotes, and fascinating distractions that were outside the scope of your paper, the stuff your supervisor told you to cut but you couldn't stop thinking about.
We are open to any postgraduate student or ECR working on any topic whether that be medieval or medievalism and papers may come from any disciplinary background, whether that be history. literature, archaeology or any other.
Tuesday 4th August 2026 Chetham's Library, Manchester
Register Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfQUjQi17jv6Wa6Kk07uKKv6b0fr-rJqvirjJVMK4wAUhVE9g/viewform
Email abstracts of 150 words with a title and bio to nwmsreading@gmail.com by 17th July

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Saaleha Iqbal @saalehaiqbal.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Looking forward to presenting at ICMS in one of two sessions in honour of Sharon Kinoshita and especially to talk about how her book, Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature, has influenced my research. @kzooicms.bsky.social #Kzoo2026 #medievalsky

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Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The paperback version of ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME is coming out soon! And with an even more stunning cover 🥰

The paperback book cover of All Roads Lead to Rome: why we think about the Roman empire daily by Rhiannon Garth Jones. A full colour statue of Augustus is in the centre of a lovely cream mosaic background. Quotes promoting the book say "A fresh look at how Rome still shapes the world today" from Jonn Elledge and "This book will change the way you think about world history" from Raphael Cormack.

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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Leeds Institute for Medieval studies delighted to offer two £7000 scholarships for home applicants on low-income. Part- or full-time. Go to ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/s... and courses.leeds.ac.uk/7820/medieva.... #medievalsky #scholarships #doamasters

Photographs of four medieval bridges made of stone, three with multiple arches and one a flat clapper bridge constructed from large slabs. Largest photo is Pont St Laurent in Mâcon, France. Three smaller ones on right from top are Tarr Steps, Somerset; Ponte Velha in Mirandela, Portugal; Otley Bridge in West Yorkshire. Highlighted text says: Do an MA in Medieval Studies. Smaller text below says: Cross a bridge into a new way of thinking. Come and study in Leeds! Two scholarships available for low-income (home) applicants (deadline 8 June).

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The Long Middle Ages @thelongmiddleages.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Our next seminar will be on the 7th May with talks by Maria Sandali (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) and Carlo Scapecchi (Arden University). Sign-up to attend either online or in-person here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... #medievalsky #thelongmiddleages

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/05/2026

What does a university have that Google cannot offer its workers? Art History departments, Classics departments, History departments, Music Theory, etc. The humanities are what distinguishes universities in an AI economy. Universities defunding the humanities are digging their own graves.

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Norse in the North @norseinthenorth.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

For those wishing to join us in-person, registration closes NEXT FRIDAY (8th May). Online registration will be open until the 13TH MAY. Please follow the link to register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/norse-in-t... #medievalsky #nitn2026

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Norse in the North 2026: Mind and Body

Annual postgraduate student conference in the North-East of England on Old Norse and Viking Studies, held in 2026 at the University of Leeds

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Saaleha Iqbal @saalehaiqbal.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Happening today! Follow the link to sign up to attend online or in-person!

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