Rebecca De Souza

The Gaza students with scholarships to UK unable to take up their places Visa obstacles threaten to dash the hopes of 40 students due to start in September. Here are some of their stories

Please write to your MP and demand that the Home Office act to help these students make it out of Gaza to study in the UK this September. Time is running out to get the government to move on this; they absolutely could take action and are — so far — choosing not to.

Vol 2 of Revista neomedieval is out! revistas.urjc.es/index.php/ne... featuring articles on 19th Century Romantic reworkings of the Iberian Middle Ages & one by me on travelling with neomedievalism across time & space 🌌

postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, volume 15, issue 4

while we are putting the finishing touches on our first issue of 2025, why don't you have another look at our 2024 winter issue?

Storm-thoughts and ice-songs: A creative-critical response to Old English eco-poetry - postmedieval This article looks at how ecocritical readings of The Wanderer, The Wife’s Lament, and Exeter Book riddles can inspire an ‘ecocreative’ way of rewriting and reimagining Old English verse. My creative-...

Delighted to see that my creative-critical Old English eco-poetics article is now out, Open Access, in Postmedieval (thanks to @postmedieval.bsky.social): link.springer.com/article/10.1... #medievalsky #oldenglish

‘Antonio Valladares de Sotomayor spent his life, talent and resources fighting for Spain’s Enlightenment. He worked to keep a broad public informed and to answer two fundamental questions: what are the causes of Spain's underdevelopment, and how can Spain elevate itself to the level of its European (enlightened) neighbours? This book tracks Valladares’s efforts through his major publication, the Semanario Erudito (1787–91), and reveals the contours of the many controversies and problems faced by liberal thinkers in the late eighteenth century. Valladares’s achievement was significant – so too is Sutherland-Meier’s in this excellent and compelling study.’ Emeritus Professor David T. Gies, University of Virginia

Out now!

Spain’s Eighteenth-Century Periodical Press is an in-depth study of one of the most important erudite periodicals and its editor in late eighteenth-century Spain.

Discover more: www.uwp.co.uk/book/spains-...

Black background with words on left / Palestinian flag on right Medievalists for Palestine Open Medieval Studies Conference, March 20-22, Registration Open, To view the program and register for the conference, visit linktr.ee/mfp_lestine

#MedievalSky OAMS is happening!

And we have some beautiful graphics! So watch us unveil a new one every day this week!

Registration, Program, and more MfP goodies available here:
linktr.ee/mfp_lestine

The Middle Ages in the Modern World A multidisciplinary conference on medievalism in the post-Middle Ages

Very excited to share that registration for the 5th Middle Ages in the Modern World (MAMO) conference is now open!
24-26 June, London.
Over 100 speakers will present on the reception of the medieval world across a variety of panels, keynotes, events, performances. Take a look:
themamo.org

The depoliticized Saracen and Muslim erasure In this article, I follow a powerful genealogy of BIWOC feminists who practice auto-ethnography critique, and I assert my presence in the audience of scholarship on Muslim representation in the Middl...

Has anyone written a takedown of the use of the term 'moro' in Spanish that is analogous to Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh's article on 'saracen'? doi.org/10.1111/lic3... @skimmel.bsky.social @homophonous.bsky.social @cleahy.bsky.social @agarciasanjuan.bsky.social @

Excited to be launching this initiative with @postmedieval.bsky.social - please share widely. Any scholars working in premodern studies (broadly defined) who haven't yet published in English (and whose first language is not English) are welcome to apply

I loved working on and indeed reworking this piece with @postmedieval.bsky.social, which remains the best venue for creative, risk-taking scholarship in contemporary medieval studies.

I found a way around this by blocking Microsoft on Whatsapp (although who knows how long this possibility will last!)

Friends, please help me spreading the word about this Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity at Penn for a scholar to work at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/160769

‘The pure springs of English literature’: Percy MacKaye’s eugenic medievalism - postmedieval The popular twentieth-century poet and playwright Percy MacKaye, a keen medievalist, was deeply embedded in the American ‘Progressive’ eugenics movement. This study uses MacKaye’s published work and h...

we published a new article by Maia Béar which unpacks the link between percy mackaye's medievalism and the twentieth-century american eugenics movement

read the article here 👇

#medievalsky

Entrance of a minor mosque in the neighborhood of Axares, today part of the Convent of Zafra (present-day Albayzin, Granada). According to the book "Paseos por Granada" by Velázquez de Echeverría (18th century), the lost inscription stated it was built during the reign of Ismail I (r. 1314-1325).

Talking about religious violence from medieval to present days, from the Andalusi borders to the discourses legitimizing the Israeli occupation, on the occasion of the publication of the book "Violencia interconfesional"

Historias de Bolsillo, podcast of U. Salamanca

www.ivoox.com/violencia-in...

Trans* & gender identity in the premodern Mediterranean - postmedieval This paper explores the intersection and imbrication of transness and Mediterraneaness in the premodern period. How did Mediterranean mobility, spaces, and creativity inform and make possible the ‘tra...

head over to our website for our newest article: Susan McDonough and Michelle Armstrong-Partida re-evaluate several case-studies of trans lives, exploring the connections between transing gender, mobility, and premodern mediterranean communities 👇

‎The Ancients: Witches on Apple Podcasts ‎Show The Ancients, Ep Witches - 28 Oct 2023

New Ancients Episode!
A special Halloween episode with
myself and my ancient novels colleague Dr Regine May, all about witches and witchcraft in Greco-Roman literature!

Circe, Medea, Thessaly, Erichtho, Apuleius and more!
AncientBlueSky

🎙️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Actually incredible to see professional historians openly endorsing population transfer in UK national newspapers

Scholars, activists and students stand in solidarity with Palestinians:

Please read, sign, and share widely.

Stumbled across Maggie Wall’s memorial, just outside of Dunning. The only known monument in memory of an accused witch in Scotland

An open letter to Routledge challenging the silencing of those speaking out about sexual misconduct in higher education- please sign and circulate www.buala.org/en/mukanda/o...

Zoom and on-line talks coming up at the Institute of Historical Research, London (@ihr.bsky.social)! First, @carolinepennock.bsky.social, @carriegibson.bsky.social & Montaz Marché discuss public history on Oct 6th. 🗃️ #18thC #SkyHistorians #EarlyModern

I & so many others could never have done a PhD without a UKRI stipend and fees waiver. Wish I could say I was shocked at the marketisation of CDTs to target "funding against evidence-based skills shortages" and the prioritisation of "strategic investments that fill specific sector-related gaps" 🤮

New here, so shouting into the ether. Hi Bluesky! I’m on the same handle at the ~former place~ but aiming to migrate permanently