@flindersmedieval.bsky.social
We are Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Flinders, across Literature, Language, History, Archaeology, Philosophy and Gender Studies, on Kaurna land.
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π¨ Help our State Library!
Executives are trying to cut 11 permanent librarian positions, meaning 10 frontline librarians would remain to run Australia's busiest library.
They are proposing to outsource the library's critical information technology team.
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...
So proud of my @flindersuniversity.bsky.social PhD researchers, Kate Lawrence and @danclaggett.bsky.social who gave their first ever @anzamems.bsky.social papers last week. Fantastic work!
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π’Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
πHere is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
πEM1060: The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060-1220
π² em1060.stanford.edu
βοΈOrietta Da Rold, Takako Kato, Jo Story, Mary Swan, and Elaine Treharne.
Β©οΈStanford University
Issue 42.2 is upon us! As some of you have noted, our book reviews are already available. Alongside the contents page for our special issue on England and the external world, and our frankly fabulous cover. Check out our website, articles available on Project Muse soon.
parergon.org/index.php/pa...
New issue of @parergon.bsky.social edited by @mattfirth.bsky.social, Dr Cassandra Schilling and me!
04.12.2025 12:17 β π 16 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0
Guess who's hosting the next @anzamems.bsky.social conference?! Can't wait to see you all @flindersuniversity.bsky.social in 2027!
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π’ #CfP #medievalsky #TOEBI
πTheme: All Kinds of People
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Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026
π«Host: University of Nottingham
β°Submission deadline: 30 March 2026
πTOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level.
Every opportunity politicians provide for you to tell them about how chronic underfunding of research in Australia is affecting your particular fields, people, working conditions etc. is extremely important.
Fill out the form here: lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG
π° New research finds miniature #Viking anthropomorphic figurines were "more than amulets", being active participants in their social and ritual lives.
πΊ #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @archaeologynews.bsky.social
archaeologymag.com/2025/11/viki...
Prof. Dan Anlezark opens the first of the panels presenting research from our #ARC project "Finding Friendship" at @anzamems.bsky.social 2025 conference!
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In "the most rigorous test to date of how AI would perform in the real world," researchers found that workers using AI completed tasks 19% slower than when working without it -- but thought they were faster.
#AI #GenerativeAI π§ͺ
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
ANZAMEMS 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 π€ @anzamems.bsky.social
03.12.2025 00:03 β π 10 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Dr James Kane @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on ideas of friendship (or their absence) in the narratives of the First Crusade @anzamems.bsky.social conference 2025.
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Flinders 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!)
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"Museum Dialogues: exchange and synergies on the future of SΓ‘mi objects" will be streamed 2/12! Link at the bottom of the page.
www.goethe.de/ins/fi/de/ve...
Can't wait for this special issue of @parergon.bsky.social! Always great to work with Dr Cassandra Schiling and @flindersuniversity.bsky.social DECRA Fellow in Medieval History, @mattfirth.bsky.social and of course, ANU's Prof. Rosalind Smith!
14.11.2025 08:06 β π 16 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
Here is an example of what a politics of temporality looks like in practice and why it is relevant today. It's fascinating that modern Iranian nationalism, which once suppressed its pre-Islamic past, now celebrates the pagan king Shapur I as a national symbol.
theconversation.com/a-roman-empe...
Fixed contract Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Islamic Archaeology position at UCL.
Deadline: 27 November
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK031/a...
Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Art History at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore with a scope for focus on the Islamic world www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR950/a...
Deadline: 11 November
Lecturer in the Study of Islam position at the University of Glasgow www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG786/l...
Deadline: 13 November
There's no stopping November 17th! Just three days left to submit an abstract!
14.11.2025 10:01 β π 6 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0MEM book prize goes to @rachelschine.bsky.social for her 'Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race'!
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The business meeting marks the official launch of the @alusuralwusta.bsky.social: journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/al....
A huge thanks to @zaydeantrim.bsky.social, @medievalqabq.bsky.social and the editorial board for all of their hard work in bringing this to fruition.
Huge thanks to Brennan Dew, Evan Parker and everyone at the South Australian Museum! #gallowayhoard
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An historian of early 20th century Spain laughing at a video of a scholar of medieval literature being interviewed.
Come and study with us. #Flinders #openday2025 #medievalsky
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Ok folks... it's that day when you get to #AskAnArchaeologist anything!
#Archaeology β±οΈ
