Birkbeck, University of London, is seeking a Lecturer in Medieval Studies to join our dynamic team within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Autumn 2026.
As Lecturer in Medieval Studies you will contribute to the teaching of Medieval English literature and Medieval history across the Faculty, within our School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, and School of Historical Studies - this includes our BA English and BA History programmes, as well as postgraduate taught programmes in the two subject areas.
This post is offered on a permanent contract at Birkbeck, full time 35 hours per week, with a salary of £44,247 rising to £60,858 per year. Teaching hours will vary from 6pm - 9pm, Monday to Friday.
To be successful, you will bring research expertise in the literature, history and culture of the Late Medieval period (c.1300-1500), and demonstrate a capacity to contribute to interdisciplinary research and teaching, participate actively in curriculum development, supervise doctoral students, and help shape the intellectual life of our vibrant academic community.
We would also welcome applicants who would be able to contribute to collaborative teaching programmes or research in the Faculty, in areas such as identity, race/ethnicity, or gender - experience of collaboration with cultural institutions, whether through research or teaching, is also welcome.
Core responsibilities will initially include programme/module administration, teaching, supervision, assessment, student support and pastoral care. You will also be equipped to supervise doctoral students.
With a PhD in any area of Medieval Studies, you will contribute the Faculty’s and Schools’ research impact and culture, and to the intellectual and cultural life of the institution and the various communities and partners with whom we work and serve.
Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended.
They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision.
Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
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texte à https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/page-18160
texte à https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/page-18160
texte à https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/page-18160
Prolongation jusqu'au 15 jan pour propositions aux sessions EDID et études médiévales:
- Vous êtes sur une terre indigène: les études médiévales sur l'ile de la tortue
- Création d'un monde LGBTQ+
- Engagements médiévaux vis-à-vis du handicap
***Détails 👇 ou à www.canadianmedievalists.org/page-18160
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See details in text format at https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Papers-EDID-2026
See details in text format at https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Papers-EDID-2026
See details in text format at https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Papers-EDID-2026
!!! Deadline extension to 15 Jan for EDID and Medieval Studies Sessions !!!
- You Are On Native Land: Understanding Medieval Studies in Turtle Island
- Queer World-Making
- Medieval Engagements with Disability
***See details below or at www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Pa...
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Photo du magnifique campus de l'université St Francis Xavier à Antigonish, en Nouvelle-Écosse, avec texte superposé, Conférence annuelle 2026, du 26 au 28 mai 2026.
REJOIGNEZ-NOUS pour la conférence annuelle du CSM à l'université St F-X à Antigonish, en Nouvelle-Écosse, le 26 à 28 mai 2026 ! Nous acceptons les propositions de sessions ou d'articles individuels. Date limite de soumission : 15 janvier 2025.
Détails: www.canadianmedievalists.org/conference-fr
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Picture of the beautiful campus of St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, with text superimposed, 2026 Annual Conference, May 26 to 28, 2026.
JOIN US for the CSM's annual conference at St F-X University in lovely Antigonish, NS, 26-28 May 2026! We welcome proposals for sessions or individual papers. Submissions due 15 January 2026.
Details: www.canadianmedievalists.org/Annual
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Appel à communications
VOUS ÊTES SUR UNE TERRE INDIGÈNE: COMPRENDRE LES ÉTUDES
MÉDIÉVALES SUR L'ÎLE DE LA TORTUE
RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DES MEDIÉVISTES 2026 / 2026
La commission EDID de la SCM / CSM lance un appel à contributions sur l'indigénéité et le médiéval. Plus d'une décennie s'est écoulée depuis que la Commission de vérité et de réconciliation a publié son rapport et 94 appels à l'action. Le monde universitaire a été appelé à décoloniser, réconcilier et indigéniser son approche à la recherche, l'érudition et la salle de classe. Cette séance s'appuie sur les excellentes conversations de la table ronde « Slow Engagement » du Congrès international d'études médiévales 2025, qui a demandé aux à la communauté de recherche médiévale de réfléchir à la manière donton a ralenti pour être responsables et réciproques dans son apprentissage, son approche et son engagement avec les études indigènes.
• Comment pouvons-nous nous engager de manière respectueuse et appropriée avec les méthodologies indigènes dans nos approches des études médiévales?
• Comment les communautés indigènes ont-elles réagi, se sont-elles engagées, ont-elles subverti ou se sont-elles approprié les études médiévales ou le médiévalisme?
• A quoi ressemblent les engagements personnels et/ou de recherche avec les communautés, les identités et la préservation du savoir indigène pour différentes personnes en études médiévales, et quels sont les enseignements tirés de ces engagements?
• Quel a été l'impact du colonialisme sur la discipline des études médiévales? Ou encore, comment les études médiévales ont-elles été un outil essentiel du colonialisme?
Les présentations peuvent être livrées en anglais ou en français et doivent durer de 15 à 20 minutes. Les propositions doivent être envoyées par courriel avant le 5 janvier 2026. Pour toute question ou soumission de proposition, veuillez contacter Brenna Duperron à l'adresse
suivante: brenna.duperron@unbc.ca.
Appel à communications pour une session de la conférence annuelle 2026 de la SCM, 2026.05.26-2026.05.29, Antigonish, N-É
VOUS ÊTES SUR UNE TERRE INDIGÈNE:
COMPRENDRE LES ÉTUDES MÉDIÉVALES SUR L'ÎLE DE LA TORTUE
Voir ci-dessus ou notre site web: www.canadianmedievalists.org/page-18160
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APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS
COMPRENDRE L'ÉLABORATION DE LA RACE AU MOYEN AGE
RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DES MÉDIÉVISTES 2026 /
2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF MEDIEVALISTS
Le comité EDID (Equité, diversité, inclusivité et décolonisation) de la
SCM/CSM lance un appel à communications pour une table ronde qui explorera l'élaboration de
la race au Moyen Âge.
CETTE SESSION POSE
LES QUESTIONS SUIVANTES:
COMMENT COMPRENIONS-NOUS L'IDÉE DE RACE AVANT LES DISCOURS MODERNES SUR L'IMPERIALISME ET LE COLONIALISME?
• COMMENT LES DISCOURS MODERNES SUR
L'IMPÉRIALISME, LE COLONIALISME ET LA RACE NOUS AIDENT-ILS À COMPRENDRE LA RACE MÉDIÉVALE?
• PAR AILLEURS, COMMENT LES DISCOURS MODERNES SUR LA RACE FAÇONNENT-ILS LA MANIÈRE DONT LA RACE EST CRÉÉE OU ABORDÉE DANS L'ÉPOQUE MÉDIÉVALE?
• COMMENT, AUX ÉPOQUES PRÉMODERNES, IMAGINAIT-ON L'ALTÉRITÉ? COMMENT SE DÉFINISSAIT-ON?
COMMENT, AUX EPOQUES PREMODERNES, COMPRENAIT-ON L'INDIGENE PAR RAPPORT AUX PEUPLES COLONISATEURS?
Les présentations peuvent se faire en anglais ou en français et doivent durer de 15 à 20 minutes afin de laisser suffisamment de temps pour la discussion. Les propositions doivent être envoyées par courriel avant le 5 janvier 2026. Pour toute demande de renseignements ou soumission de propositions, veuillez contacter Arkaprabha
Chakraborty à l'adresse arkaprabha.chakraborty@mail.utoronto.ca.
Appel à communications pour une session de la conférence annuelle 2026 de la SCM, qui se tiendra du 26 au 29 mai 2026 dans la belle ville d'Antigonish, en Nouvelle-Écosse !
COMPRENDRE L'ÉLABORATION DE LA RACE AU MOYEN AGE
Voir ci-dessus ou notre site web: www.canadianmedievalists.org/page-18160
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RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DES MÉDIÉVISTES 2026 /
2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF MEDIEVALISTS
Creation d'un
monde LGBQT+
Le comité EDID (Equité, diversité, inclusivité et décolonisation) de la SCM/CSM lance un appel à communications pour une session sur la création de mondes queers dans les études médiévales. Cette session part de l'idée que l'homosexualité n'est pas seulement une catégorie identitaire ou une perspective critique, mais aussi une manière d'imaginer, de créer et d'habiter d'autres mondes. Nous nous intéressons à la manière dont les textes médiévaux envisagent des alternatives aux idéaux normatifs, et à la façon dont les approches queer de ces textes peuvent ouvrir des possibilités de transformation.
15 À 20 MINUTES
EN ANGLAIS OU EN FRANÇAIS
Les propositions doivent être envoyées par courriel avant le 5 janvier 2026.
Pour toute question ou soumission de proposition, veuillez contacter Gavin Foster à l'adresse suivante: gavin.foster@dal.ca.
Appel à communications pour une session de la conférence annuelle 2026 de la SCM, qui se tiendra du 26 au 29 mai 2026 dans la magnifique ville d'Antigonish, en Nouvelle-Écosse !
CRÉATION D'UN MONDE LGBQT+
Voir ci-dessus ou notre site web: www.canadianmedievalists.org/page-18160
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Appel à communications / Call For Papers
ENGAGEMENTS MÉDIÉVAUX VIS-À-VIS DU HANDICAP
RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DES MÉDIÉVISTES
2026 / 2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF
MEDIEVALISTS
Le Comité EDID (Equité, Diversité, Inclusivité et Décolonisation) de la SCM / CSM lance un appel à communications pour une session qui explorera le handicap dans le passé médiéval et/ou les façons dont les études sur le handicap et les études médiévales s'entrecroisent de manière fructueuse.
Les communications pourront porter sur les points suivants:
• Les constructions du handicap et de la différence, et les structures de pouvoir qu'elles impliquent
• Les déficiences et les aides à la mobilité, et/ou les réponses qui leur sont apportées
• Les déficiences sensorielles et/ou les réponses qui y sont apportées
• La temporalité du handicap
• Comment le handicap croise d'autres axes identitaires
Les présentations peuvent être livrées en anglais ou en français et doivent durer de 15 à 20 minutes. Les propositions doivent être envoyées par courriel avant le 5 janvier 2026. Pour toute question ou soumission de proposition, veuillez contacter Emma-Catherine Wilson à l'adresse suivante:
emma-catherine.wilson@hertford.ox.ac.uk.
Appel à communications pour une session de la conférence annuelle 2026 de la SCM, qui se tiendra du 26 au 29 mai 2026 dans la magnifique ville d'Antigonish, en Nouvelle-Écosse !
ENGAGEMENTS MÉDIÉVAUX VIS-À-VIS DU HANDICAP
Voir ci-dessus ou notre site web: www.canadianmedievalists.org/page-18160
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Call for Papers
YOU ARE ON NATIVE LAND:
UNDERSTANDING
MEDIEVAL STUDIES IN
TURTLE ISLAND
2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF MEDIEVALISTS / RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ
CANADIENNE DES MÉDIÉVISTES 2026
The EDID Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers on Indigeneity and the medieval. It has been over a decade since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released their report and 94 Calls to Action. Academia was called to decolonize, reconcile, and Indigenize their apporach to research, scholarship, and the classroom. This panel builds on conversations from the 2025 International Congress of Medieval Studies' "Slow Engagement" Roundtable, which asked medieval scholars to consider how they've
'slowed down' to be responsible and reciprocal in their learning, approaching, or engaging with Indigenous Studies.
PAPERS MIGHT CONSIDER:
• How can we respectfully and appropriately engage with Indigenous methodologies in our approaches to medieval studies?
• How have indigenous communities responded to, engaged with, subverted, or appropriated medieval studies or medievalism?
• What do personal and/or scholarly engagements with Indigenous communities, identities, and Knowledge Keepers look like for diffferent medievalists, and what has been learned from such engagements?
• What has been the impact of colonialism on the discipline of medieval studies? Alternately, how have medieval studies been an essential tool in colonialism?
Presentations may be in either English or French and should be 15-20 minutes in length. Please submit proposals by email by January 5, 2026. For inquiries or proposal submissions, please contact
Brenna Duperron at brenna.duperron@unbc.ca.
**CFP** for Session at the 2026 annual conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, 26-29 May 2026 in beautiful Antigonish NS!
You are on Native Land: Understanding Medieval Studies in Turtle Island: see attached for details or visit our webpage www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Pa...
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CALL FOR PAPERS
UNDERSTANDING MEDIEVAL RACE-MAKING
2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF MEDIEVALISTS / RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DES MÉDIÉVISTES 2026
The EDID (Equity, Diversity,
Inclusivity and Decolonization)
Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session on
medieval race-making.
THIS PANEL ASKS THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
• HOW DID WE UNDERSTAND THE IDEA OF RACE BEFORE MODERN DISCOURSES ON IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALISM?
• HOW DO MODERN DISCOURSES ON IMPERIALISM, COLONIALISM, AND RACE HELP US UNDERSTAND MEDIEVAL RACE?
• ALTERNATIVELY, HOW DOES MODERN DISCOURSE ON RACE SHAPE HOW RACE-MAKING OR RACE IS ENGAGED WITHIN MEDIEVALISM?
• HOW DID THE PREMODERN IMAGINE ALTERITY? HOW DID THEY DEFINE THEMSELVES?
• HOW DID THE PREMODERN UNDERSTAND THE INDIGENOUS
VS THE COLONIZER?
Presentations may be in either English or French and should be 15-20 minutes in length. Please submit proposals by email by January 5, 2026. For inquiries or proposal submissions, please contact
Arkaprabha Chakraborty at
arkaprabha.chakraborty@mail.utoronto.ca.
**CFP** for Session at the 2026 annual conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, 26-29 May 2026 in beautiful Antigonish, NS!
Understanding Medieval Race-Making: see attached for details or visit our webpage www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Pa...
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CALL FOR PAPERS
2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF MEDIEVALISTS / RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DES MÉDIÉVISTES 2026
QUEER WORLD-MAKING
The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity, and Decolonization)
Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session on queer world-making in medieval studies. This session takes as its starting point the idea that queerness is a mode of imagining, creating, and inhabiting other worlds. We are interested in how medieval texts envision alternatives to normative ideals, and in how queer approaches to these texts might open transformative possibilities.
LENGTH: 15-20 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH OR FRENCH
Please submit proposals by email by January 5, 2026. For inquiries or proposal submissions, please contact Gavin Foster at gavin.foster@dal.ca.
**CFP** for Session at the 2026 annual conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, 26-29 May 2026 in beautiful Antigonish, NS!
Queer World-Making: see attached for details or visit our webpage www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Pa...
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Call for Papers / Appel à communications
MEDIEVAL ENGAGEMENTS
WITH DISABILITY
2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF MEDIEVALISTS / RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE
DES MÉDIÉVISTES 2026
The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity, and Decolonization)
Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session that will explore disability in the medieval past and/or the ways in which disability studies and medieval studies fruitfully intersect.
Papers might consider:
• Constructions of disability and difference, and the power structures they engage
• Mobility impairments and aids, and/or responses to them
• Sensory impairments and/or responses to them
• The temporality of disability
• How disability intersects with other axes of identity
Presentations may be in either English or French and should be 15-20 minutes in length. Please submit proposals by email by January 5, 2026.
For inquiries or proposal submissions, please contact Emma-Catherine Wilson at emma-catherine.wilson@hertford.ox.ac.uk.
**CFP** for Session at the 2026 annual conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, 26-29 May 2026 in beautiful Antigonish, NS!
Medieval Engagements with Disability: see attached for details or visit our webpage www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Pa...
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The Canadian Society of Medievalists - CSM at ACCUTE 2026
CFP - CSM Sessions at ACCUTE's 2026 conference in Montreal, 4-7 June
Submit your paper proposals on
• Medieval Magic
• Medieval Masculinities
for two CSM-sponsored sessions. Deadline 15 Nov. 2025. Details here www.canadianmedievalists.org/CSM-at-ACCUT...
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The Canadian Society of Medievalists - CSM at ACCUTE 2026
CFP - CSM Sessions at ACCUTE's 2026 conference in Montreal, 4-7 June
Submit your paper proposals on
• Medieval Magic
• Medieval Masculinities
for two CSM-sponsored sessions. Deadline 15 Nov. 2025. Details here www.canadianmedievalists.org/CSM-at-ACCUT...
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At the top: a sculture of a woman with one hand behind her head and the other reaching out, on a grey background. Below that on a gold background are the words, CSANA Virtual Book Launch (for) Bound and Free: Voices of Mortal and Otherworld Women in Medieval Irish Literature by Joanne Findon. With responses from Amy Mulligan (Notre Dame) and Kristen Mills (University of Oslo). Register here (but see registration link in post). Tuesday September 30 12 pm (CST) and 6 PM (BST)
CSM Member Dr. Joanne Findon's new book, Bound and Free: Voices of Mortal and Otherworld Women in Medieval Irish Literature, is being celebrated with a virtual book launch on September 30! All are welcome but registration is required here: uark.zoom.us/meeting/regi.... See the poster attached.
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Tudor tournaments were thus, Emma-Catherine argues "deeply rooted in Early English tournaments," not Burgundian models.
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Emma-Catherine Wilson discussed early Tudor Tournament letters arguing that rather than relying on Burgundian models as other scholars have suggested, the Tudors drew from "a long lineage of insular tradition" in issuing challenges and creating the literary pageantry of tournaments.
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Her work has traced the life of this textile fragment from an Islamic courtly setting in Grenada to a Christian Church in Castile. The fabric was eventually cut and survives now in fragments across the world. In its fragmented form these textiles served as book and treasure wraps.
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Next up was Iris Bednarski who shared her work on a textile fragment now housed at the McGill Museum of Fine Arts. The pic here was kindly provided by Iris. The project attempted "to reconstruct the life of [this] object". The fragment is probably from Grenada and was likely created in the 13th c.
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Another excellent panel from this year's CSM Annual Meeting. Chris Nighman spoke about two previously unknown sources for Robert of Naple's Sermo factus pro liga Lombardie, the Manipulus florum and John of Wales' Communiloquium. Much of Dr. Nighman's recent work has been exploring the manuscripts
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nothing has survived to the present day. Dr. Bacola also noted the importance of the Fenland in the area, allowing for isolated conditions for those (saints) seeking solitude. Using ArcGIS also brings to light local power dynamics between neighbouring monasteries.
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Finally Meredith Bacola described how she is using ArcGIS as a tool for understanding the development of Crowland Abbey. Amongst other fascinating findings, using ArcGIS made it clear that the geography supported the information found in hagiographies of St. Guthlac (and important finding since
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was being read, but in the libraries, not the infirmaries, he speculates. @winstonblack is on bluesky, so ask questions!
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kept in the infirmary not the library, and shows clear evidence of the incorporation of the textual knowledge in the MS into medical practice. Dr. Black also hinted that there was a distinction to be made between textual medicine and the medicine of the infirmaries. Constantine Africanus' new work
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