Dr Basil Arnould Price

In case you missed it, last month saw the publication of a volume based on a project where I worked as a postdoctoral researcher. The volume as a whole can be found here (in open access), & I will add links to the articles which I co-authored: www.brepols.net/products/IS-....
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CfP for IMC Leeds, 6-9 July 2026 The Endless Scroll: Digital Approaches to Medieval Time Sponsor: Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts, Iceland Submission deadline: 1 September 2025 The Icelandic Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts invites contributions that explore how digital methods and tools can illuminate, represent, and reinterpret medieval temporalities. While we particularly welcome research with a focus on the Northern World, this call is open to comparative or globally situated projects across disciplines, periods, and geographies that approach time as both a subject of inquiry and a structuring principle. Possible topics may include (but are not limited to): Visualising medieval perceptions or structures of time Tools and technologies for measuring, representing, or distorting medieval time Digital editions of computus texts Digital reconstruction of objects or texts, lost or transformed over time Manuscript temporality (e.g. mise-en-page, palimpsests, gloss traditions, marginalia) using computational approaches Modelling temporal rhythms in liturgy, agriculture, politics, or narratives Analysis of long-term temporalities in environmental, climatic, or landscape data Artificial intelligence and the automation of temporal interpretation Temporal modelling in metadata, databases, markup languages, and DH infrastructures Interface design and user experience in projects that convey or manipulate medieval temporalities Re-mediating or reimagining medieval time in games or immersive digital environments Temporal poetics and the aesthetics of time in digital medievalism Please submit an abstract of around 200 words, a short bio including affiliation and contact information, and indicate your preferred mode of participation (in-person or virtual). Proposals and queries should be sent to Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir (kll@hi.is) no later than 1 September 2025.

CfP for #IMC Leeds 6–9 July 2026
“The Endless Scroll: Digital Approaches to Medieval Time”
Sponsored by @mshl-cdha.bsky.social

How can digital methods help us study or represent medieval ideas of time?

Submit by 1 Sept 2025
#IMC2026 #DigitalHumanities #MedievalSky
IMC Padlet: tinyurl.com/52dbx5ey

En route to saga conference ! 🩷✈️

“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out.

The Medieval Foremothers Society invites proposals for two hybrid sessions honoring Sharon Kinoshita (UC Santa Cruz) at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI in May 2026. Full CFP below!👇✨

🌟MOTHER IS CALLING! 🌟

Delighted to announce a new online research group, MATER: Medievalists Against The Extreme Right, under the @errnetwork.bsky.social umbrella! If you were at @themamoconf.bsky.social & enjoyed my workshop, you might find this new venture interesting. Do email me to sign up. 🗃️

Where are my Masculinities scholars at??

Call for papers for the 2026 Leeds IMC for "Old English in the Long 19th Century". Deadline 1 Sept. 2025. Description reads: Throughout the long 19th c., various advances were made in the study of Old English, ranging from the 1st edition of Beowulf (1815) the outlining of OE metre by Eduard Sievers, as well as discoveries of such OE texts as the Vercelli Book, the Épinal-Erfurt Glossary and the Brussels Cross. When approaching OE in the 21st c., it is impossible to deny the impact of 19th-c. scholarship. When we refer to titles of such OE poems as The Wanderer, The Seafarer and The Wife’s Lament, we are using titles bestowed on these texts by 19th-c. scholars. Several standard editions of OE texts were made in the 19th c. or heavily rely on earlier, 19th-c. editions. Lexicographical tools with a relevance for OE, including Bosworth and Toller’s An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, A Thesaurus of Old English and the Oxford English Dictionary, also have their roots firmly in 19th-c. philological practices and how OE is taught still relies on paradigms and set texts from the 19th c. Thus, when studying OE, we often have to engage with material on multiple temporal levels, considering not just our own concepts of the early medieval period but also how that period was understood by 19th-c. scholars. Paper proposals are welcome from scholars from all academic backgrounds. Possible topics include but are not limited to: - Discoveries of OE texts - Disputes about linguistic or literary interpretations of OE - Disciplinary developments in the field of OE studies - Personal, religious, political and ideological motivations for the study of OE - Biographical contributions about scholars of OE - Scholarly correspondence on OE matters - Editing and printing of OE texts - Teaching of OE Please send an abstract (300 words) to Rachel A. Fletcher (r.a.fletcher@hum.leidenuniv.nl), Ellen Gallimore (ellen.gallimore@york.ac.uk) and Thijs Porck (m.h.porck@hum.leidenuniv.nl).

CFP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social for July 2026: "Old English in the Long Nineteenth Century". Please share widely! Deadline for abstracts 1 September 2025. #IMC2026

Ready for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026? Submit an abstract to Dan Reeve and I's CFP: "BEYOND TOUCH: New Queer and Trans Temporalities" We invite submissions for 15-20 minute papers that examine queer and trans temporalities from new and unexpected angles. #IMC2026. Full CFP below 👇

Please send a title, a short biographical note, and an abstract of approximately 250 words to Basil Arnould Price (basil.price@oneonta.edu) and Daniel Reeve (danielreeve@ucsb.edu) by the 31st of August. Please note iwhether or not you would like to present your work in-person or remotely!

The use, or uselessness, of the past for queer and trans survival in the present; the past as a social and political resource in ongoing struggles for trans and queer liberation

The ethical implications of constructing the dead as touchable; critical explorations of a presumed reciprocity between the dead and the living.

Histories of untouchability, fugitivity, and loss as theorized at the intersections of Black, Indigenous, and queer-of-colour studies.

Readings of ‘exhausted’ methodological approaches (Deutscher 2017), which help us rethink and reexamine our engagements with the queer or trans Middle Ages.

Approaches to affective investments in queer and trans temporalities, or work which considers the host of bad affects which might accompany uncomfortable or unpleasant recognitions as well as irrecuperable pasts.

Frameworks for describing and examining sensorial engagements with queer and trans past other than that of touch.

Work which understands marginalized forms of life as class positions extended through time and articulated differently in different times and places (Chitty 2020; Amin forthcoming).

New queer historicisms, departing from the terms of earlier essentialist-constructivist debates.

The limits of identification, and related examinations of who touches the past and what material conditions potentiate or prevent touches of this kind.

We welcome work from any area of medieval studies and particularly encourage intersectional examinations of how (dis)ability, Indigeneity, race, and sovereignty are imbricated in our relationships and investments with the queerness or transness of time. Some topics include...

We invite submissions for 15-20 minute papers that examine queer and trans temporalities from new and unexpected angles.

How can engaging with a wider range of critical approaches to queer and trans temporalities help us think through the messiness of our affective and political investments in a distant, untouchable past?

How might touch – and its emphasis on transtemporal recognition, recuperation, and reconciliation – fail us, both as a critical method and as a political practice?

Despite the institutionalisation and productivity of this tactile metaphor and method within medieval studies, touch is just one of the senses we can bring to examinations of queer and trans temporalities.

We seek contributions for a panel or panels that depart from – or engage critically with – touch as a governing concept for queer and trans approaches to the Middle Ages.

In the face of a pressing need for tools of trans and queer survivance (to borrow a term from Gerald Vizenor [White Earth Ojibwe]), how can rethinking touch provide not just new methods for studies of medieval transness or queerness, but also for the uses and abuses of the past?

Alongside this, work in queer and trans studies more broadly has often taken different positions towards affective investments in the past , including prominent recent work that sees discomfort, misrecognition, maladjustment and illegibility as critical tools.

In a present in which queer and trans lives face increased institutional threat and social scrutiny, the possibility that a ‘touch across time’ can provide ‘emotional rescue’ (Love 2007, 31) is alluring, even as it feels increasingly remote.

In the twenty-five-odd years since the publication of Getting Medieval, medievalists working within trans and queer studies have elaborated this impulse into critically-rigorous and politically-astute scholarship, which emphasises attachment, connection and community.

This concept – derived from Carolyn Dinshaw’s Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern (1999) – informs the queer historical impulse, guided by a “desire […] for partial affective connections, for community, for even a touch across time.”

Scholarship in queer and trans medieval studies has often been guided by the concept of a “touch across time”, by which an affective identification with the distant past collapses chronological distance into temporal simultaneity – a move invested with liberatory, recuperative potential.

Ready for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026? Submit an abstract to Dan Reeve and I's CFP: "BEYOND TOUCH: New Queer and Trans Temporalities" We invite submissions for 15-20 minute papers that examine queer and trans temporalities from new and unexpected angles. #IMC2026. Full CFP below 👇