Sara Ellis-Nilsson (she/her), PhD 🕊️

Thanks, Alicia! I'll send a message.

How inquisitive was medieval inquisition? Kaarel Sikk, David Zbíral, and Reima Välimäki have published a new study in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities that examines how Peter Zwicker's inquisition in Stettin (1393–94) utilised informatio...

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Have you wondered how medieval inquisitors gathered the names of suspected heretics?

We have some answers based on a quantitative study of the Stettin inquisition (1393-94).

News on DISSINET home page:
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Link to the research article: doi.org/10.1093/llc/...

I have been wrestling with these questions, in light of my work on understanding local medieval pilgrimage. Great to have some fresh insight and perspectives!

Oh this looks brilliant! And I see @hopesteffen.bsky.social is taking on the challenge Margaret of Roskilde! :) Does one have to register?

Haha! And on the bus... 🤣

Yes, a similar situation then.

My comment was in no way denying what you wrote above in terms of funded HE and completion rates!

Part of this is true. However, we in Sweden are currently suffering cutbacks and the third-party funding race is definitely on. We are also having to cut back on courses and programs based on our expertise. The question is how long we can keep it up.

I really want to stress that this is not some form of wishful thinking. It is an understanding of higher education that stands in opposition with the model that brought us graduates in crippling debt, adjuncts being fired for teaching difficult subjects, and a rat race for third party funding.

All universities note. 👇

In the Canary Islands Candlemas is also the Feast of Our Lady of Candelaria - a miraculous image of the Virgin holding a green taper that washed up on the coast of Tenerife in 1392 and, according to legend, united the warring Guanches long before their Christianisation

Definitely!!

My thoughts exactly!

In 2021 I was telling people in my field of art history to stop legitimizing the use of image recognition, to stop applying for grants to use AI in identifying the subjects of portraiture bc this was what such work was being used to further. All this was obvious. theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...

Absolutely devastating news. RIP

Join us för session # 1036 - The Chronoscapes of Vikingisms: Problems, Perspectives, and Potential!

(Or my colleague for her related paper in session # 740).

Riktigt intressant om allmänningen (the commons) och resultat från ett pågående projekt vid Malmö universitet.

New scam journal alert for #DigitalHumanities! Digital Humanities and Society Studies - not just predatory, but fully AI-generated with fake authors (or in at least one case, a recognizably stolen name). The publisher's been flagged before as being shady, but this journal is particularly egregious.

It is good to know (and be reminded) that more people are doing this! :)
That is a tough question! It is a limited public but it is still somewhat public - so I would say it is in a way.

Totally agree it's a shame!

Proficiency in a non-English language was a requirement at UBC for your BA before. Different options, including taking a Grade 12 non-English language credit. Otherwise, you had to take a course or pass a language proficiency exam.

I checked. They took the language requirement away in 2024 at UBC!

Isn't that still a general requirement for your undergrad degree in BC? I agree that it's awesome and important, and that requirement should never disappear! :)

Yes, of course. I'm not quite sure what you mean (?), but my post was a response to the general outcry of "if you aren't saying anything about current affairs you are complicit"... to say I am actually doing something. Just maybe not constantly posting on social media.

Back to teaching this week, more than I have had in years due to the saints project. Bit of an adjustment. In my first-year-level course on historical theory & method, I may have mentioned my take on current events & issues with commercial gen-ai. Hopefully can make a small difference this way...

Strangely enough I was waxing poetic (with enthusiasim) about Norwegian electric ferries again today... Enjoy Bergen!

‘This is all our family’: Nunavummiut rally to support Greenland, as Inuit leaders also speak up | CBC News Nunavummiut rallied on Saturday in Iqaluit to show their support for Greenland, as thousands of others did the same in Greenland and Denmark.

#Nunavut
‘This is all our family’: Nunavummiut rally to support Greenland, as Inuit leaders also speak up
Dozens of people participated in rally and walk in Iqaluit on Saturday

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1017) at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History (293057) | University of Oslo Job title: Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1017) at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History (293057), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 22, 2026

An interesting PhD opportunity (i.e. job!) at Oslo on the project POLYCHROME: "Candidates should propose a research project that examines, in one form or another, historical sources that shed light on changing attitudes to medieval objects after the Reformations in the Scandinavian countries."

RFSU informationsbroschyr

I behov av något att pigga upp i januarimörkret?
Lösningen finns på Scandia blogg!

Nytt inlägg av Peter Bauer om 'Sexualpolitikens folkliga dimension': journals.lub.lu.se/scandia/anno...

The suspense!! Happy 2026!

I tell my students explicitly to NOT do this and then I explain why - full of hallucinations, stolen material, mischaracterizations.