Guess who's hosting the next @anzamems.bsky.social conference?! Can't wait to see you all @flindersuniversity.bsky.social in 2027!
07.12.2025 01:31 โ ๐ 65 ๐ 11 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 2@anzamems.bsky.social
Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (anzamems.org). Posts by Matt Firth, BlueSky novice extraordinaire.
Guess who's hosting the next @anzamems.bsky.social conference?! Can't wait to see you all @flindersuniversity.bsky.social in 2027!
07.12.2025 01:31 โ ๐ 65 ๐ 11 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 2#anza25 keynote, A/Prof Kate Franklin, Tufts University: "Time Travels and the Possibility of Redemption in a Fragmented Armenian Manuscript"
04.12.2025 21:56 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Photo of Prof Ros Smith introducing the plenary panel
Photo of Dr Ruby Lowe
Photo of Dr Jennifer McFarland
Photo of Dr Samuel Cardwell
#anza25 @parergon.bsky.social Next gen plenary panel conference.anzamems.org/parergon-nex...
04.12.2025 23:03 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Photo of Prof Emma Dillon speaking
#anza25 keynote, Prof Emma Dillon, Kingโs College London: "Belonging with Songs: Towards an Historical Anthropology of Medieval French Song"
05.12.2025 05:07 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0On the sidelines of #anza25 in Melbourne, it was wonderful for past, present, and incoming members of the Cerรฆ committee to meet in person and talk about our own research. L-R:
@ohwowbee.bsky.social
@mattfirth.bsky.social
@mlcseah.bsky.social
@ericasteiner.bsky.social
Natasha Bailey
Andrea Wait
Hamza Surbaland @monashuniversity.bsky.social on public health in Mughal India 1707-1719 @anzamems.bsky.social
05.12.2025 00:48 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Prof. Helen Young on the horror of the extreme Right. But also on the horror of their poetry @anzamems.bsky.social
05.12.2025 00:34 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Olive the bestest conference doggo โฅ๏ธ
Olive the conference doggo attending a keynote panel
Conference doggo Olive says welcome to day 3 of #anza25 @anzamems.bsky.social !! ๐ถโฅ๏ธ
04.12.2025 23:17 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Melclaire Sy Define @deakinuniversity.bsky.social on the impact of colonialism on Indigenous Tagalog Poetry at @anzamems.bsky.social
04.12.2025 23:00 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Prof. @medievalafterlives.bsky.social on the role of literature - and especially medievalist tropes - in extremism at @anzamems.bsky.social
04.12.2025 22:49 โ ๐ 39 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0New issue of @parergon.bsky.social edited by @mattfirth.bsky.social, Dr Cassandra Schilling and me!
04.12.2025 12:17 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Our publishing manager Guy Carney is currently attending the @anzamems.bsky.social 15th Biennial Conference in Melbourne, Australia!
Be sure to stop by the Brepols booth to say hi and learn more about publishing with us.
More info: brepols.net/Authors
#Medieval #EarlyModern #Renaissance #History
Maimonides Scholarship Flyer
Applications Open: The Maimonides Scholarship #medieval #earlymodern anzamems.org/applica...
04.12.2025 10:30 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Siรจge du palais des Tuileries le 10 aoรปt 1792. Estampe de J. Chรฉreau conservรฉe au musรฉe de la Rรฉvolution franรงaise. (Vizille)
CFP Reminder: George Rudรฉ Seminar in French History and Culture #medieval #earlymodern anzamems.org/cfp-rem...
04.12.2025 08:54 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Logo of the Centre for Early Modern Studies at Australian National University
CFP: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches in Early Modern and Medieval Studies #medieval #earlymodern anzamems.org/cfp-cro...
04.12.2025 07:15 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Photo of the ANZAMEMS conference registration desk
Photo of the publishers table at the ANZAMEMS conference
Day 2 of #anza25 has begun! @anzamems.bsky.social
03.12.2025 23:14 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Ouch! @ericasteiner.bsky.social discussing tattooing in the ancient/early medieval world, why people got tattoos, what they looked like and the (painful looking) implements they may have used @anzamems.bsky.social
03.12.2025 23:58 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Great seminar yesterday & first #anza25 day today with @anzamems.bsky.social. If youโre around at @unimelb.bsky.social & want to hear about Montaigne, possibility, & early modern multilingual theatre, including Shakespeare, Iโd love to see you in the first panel of tomorrow, featuring yours truly!
03.12.2025 08:02 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0McCaughy Professor of Early English Literature and Language @sydney.edu.au Daniel Anlezark closes Day 1 of @anzamems.bsky.social!
03.12.2025 11:38 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This week i am at the @anzamems.bsky.social conference in Melbourne! On Tuesday, i attended the wonderful PG/ECR palaeography workshop (decided I love Bรขtard). Yesterday I presented my paper on prophecy in Shakespearean romance (it went well thanks!) and the brilliant keynote by Leah DeVun.
03.12.2025 19:50 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0@flindersuniversity.bsky.social ARC DECRA Fellow in Medieval History, @mattfirth.bsky.social speaking at @anzamems.bsky.social on political friendships in Wessex!
03.12.2025 05:53 โ ๐ 22 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Flinders PhD candidate, @danclaggett.bsky.social, presenting his research on ship burials at the @anzamems.bsky.social 2025 conference. (Note here his use of @flindersuniversity.bsky.social alumna, Dr Claire Ratican's, new book!)
03.12.2025 05:42 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Prof. Dan Anlezark opens the first of the panels presenting research from our #ARC project "Finding Friendship" at @anzamems.bsky.social 2025 conference!
02.12.2025 23:12 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Photo of A/Prof Matthew Champion welcoming delegates to the ANZAMEMS conference
Photo of Associate Dean of Research, Prof Sally Young adr welcoming delegates to the ANZAMEMS conference
Photo of ANZAMEMS President Prof Andrew Brown welcoming delegates to the ANZAMEMS conference
The @anzamems.bsky.social conference is officially open! #anza25
02.12.2025 23:22 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Dr James Kane @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on ideas of friendship (or their absence) in the narratives of the First Crusade @anzamems.bsky.social conference 2025.
02.12.2025 23:32 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0ANZAMEMS 2025 conference begins! @erinsebo.bsky.social on friendship in Beowulf and trying to understand the titular characters seemingly very unfriendly act of allowing his friend to be eaten by Grendel ๐ค @anzamems.bsky.social
03.12.2025 00:03 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A/Prof. Claire Wlaker on objects and spaces of friendship in early modern convents @anzamems.bsky.social conference!
03.12.2025 01:14 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Photo of the ANZAMEMS conference registration desk
Photo of the Parergon display
All ready for day 1 of the @anzamems.bsky.social conference! @parergon.bsky.social #anza
02.12.2025 21:09 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1A flyer that reads: premodern healthscaping at ANZAMEMS 2025 Elizabeth Burrell: โSounds, Smells and Touches: The Sensory Experience of Caregiving in Middle English Medical Texts.โ wednesday 3 december: Session 1.D, 10:00-11:30 Public Health and the Premodern World: Affordances and Constrictions I Friday 5 December: Session 6.B, 9:30-11:00 Aydogan Kars, โHearing and Healing: Public Health in Light of Sonic Cultures of Learning.โ Guy Geltner, โUnder(mining) Public Health Histories: Anthropogenic Change and Preventative Action in Europe, 1200-1550.โ Megan Cassidy-Welch, โHoly Land Landscapes and the Health of Medieval Travellers, 1100-1400.โ Public Health in the Premodern World: Affordances and Constrictions II Friday 5 December: Session 7.B, 11:30-13:00 Hamza Surbuland, โPublic Health in Mughal India (c.1707-1719).โ Lola Digard, โBetween Salvation and Corruption: The Ambiguity of Medieval Cemeteries, 1250โ1600.โ Rose Byfleet, โReassessing the Use of Scent in Plague Prevention Practices in Sixteenth-Century Italyโ
Several of the team is going to be presenting at @anzamems.bsky.social this week! We're excited!
See the following link for a more detailed breakdown of our panels, focusing on premodern public health across Italy, Mughal India, and England premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org?p=1568#more-...