4 PhD funded positions at Swansea University on history, heritage, archives and museums.
#PublicHistory #Museums #Archives #Heritage

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That happens all the time to most of us I'm sure! But I understand your pain.

Postdoctoral Researcher (History of Everyday Nationalism, CoE NARS) / Tutkijatohtori

2 history 🗃️ Postdocs in Tampere up for grabs: tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

en riktig skandal är att inte satsa på järnvägen.

The cover and a spread of History Today. The cover story is Servants on the Grand Tour. An early modern engraving shows a man, standing next to some ruins and gesturing up at a statue.

🚨 Job alert! History Today is hiring a PT freelance copy editor, either remote or in the office. Please share widely! www.historytoday.com/jobs

And then there is the liturgical year...!

Annat bra som också är modernism: byggnormer! Att ditt kök har fönster, och att köksbänken är 85 cm hög snarare än 73: modernism. Att din lägenhet har ett städskåp och en avställningsyta intill spisen: modernism. Viska ett ”tack!” till Hemmets forskningsinstitut varje gång du diskar osv. Modernism!

*my current issue...

I wish! Hope it goes well!

That is a good trick! I do something similar! But a list of points. The issue is finding any time to write...

Hahaha! Almost as if there isn't an entire field dedicated to this? *looks at her bookshelf*

Det var inte bara hon, det här rådet etablerades under 1800-talet och fortsatte spridas. Anna W var bara en liten pusselbit.

/barndomshistorikern

New open-access volume for historians of medieval travel, pilgrimages, and the Crusades - a critical edition of Rorgo Fretellus’s 12th-century "Descriptio de locis sanctis" (text in Latin and Italian): www.sismel.it/publications... #MedievalSky

UNIVERSITY OF BERN, SWITZERLAND PhD position Medieval English Literature Starting 1 February 2027 Gross Starting Annual Salary: CHF 50’042 p.a. Professor Annette Kern-Stähler aims to select a doctoral student (with an MA or equivalent degree) interested in pursuing a PhD in Medieval English Literature under her supervision in the Department of English at the University of Bern, Switzerland. The successful candidate will be attached to the research project ‘Searching for the Medieval Aesthetics of Revulsion (SMEAR): Disgust in the Middle English Literary Tradition’, which is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The PhD student will be working alongside Professor Kern-Stähler and PD Dr Mary Flannery, the senior researcher on the team. SMEAR will investigate the aesthetics of disgust (i.e. strong aversion or repugnance) in the medieval English literary tradition in order to (1) recover the lost Middle English language of revulsion and (2) understand what makes disgust such an attractive—and effective—literary and rhetorical device. The project focuses on three medieval genres that frequently draw on disgust: devotional literature, satire, and travel narratives. The doctoral student will pursue a thesis topic that focuses on the language and aesthetics of disgust in Middle English travel narratives (e.g. the language and imagery of seasickness; disgust and food culture; the role of specific senses like smell or taste in conveying disgust in these texts). POSITION PhD position starting 1 February 2027 and lasting for 4 years. While the majority of working hours will be devoted to research and writing connected with the doctoral project, the duties of the PhD student are also expected to include: • presenting the results of their ongoing research independently or alongside other team members at conferences, workshops, and seminars; • submission of 1 article to a peer-reviewed journal with the support and guidance of Prof. Kern-Stähler;

• contribute a short methodology section to a short monograph to be co-authored with Prof. Kern-Stähler and PD Dr. Flannery; • leading the compilation and construction of an online lexicon of disgust with the support of Prof. Kern-Stähler and PD Dr. Flannery (as well as members of UNIBE’s digital humanities team); • assisting with administrative and research tasks linked to the team project (e.g. set-up of project website, blog, and social media). CONDITIONS Doctoral research in Switzerland – as in much of Europe – is thesis-driven and relies on students being mature, self-reliant, motivated, and well organized. You work under the supervision of a dedicated faculty advisor/mentor and are expected to participate in the research culture of your home department and faculty (e.g. Graduate School of the Arts and Humanities, Berner Mittelalterzentrum). By the same token, you will find yourself with a lot of freedom, independence and collegiality, quickly becoming a valuable member of the department’s academic faculty/staff. For more information about life (including cost of living) in Bern, see: https://www.unibe.ch/university/organization/welcome_center/accommodation/living_in_bern/index_eng.html For more information about the Department of English: www.ens.unibe.ch/content/index_eng.html REQUIREMENTS AND FURTHER INFORMATION • The University of Bern strives to become an equal opportunities employer. • You must hold an MA (or equivalent) in Medieval English Studies or English Literature with a specialization in Medieval Literature. DEADLINES To apply for this post, please submit by 31 August 2026 the following materials as a single pdf: • a cover letter, outlining your motivation in applying for the position (addressed to Prof. Annette Kern-Stähler)

• a full Curriculum Vitae • the names and email addresses of two academic referees (no letters are needed at this point) • a research proposal (750-1000 words) In addition, please send a representative sample of your academic writing in English (e.g. your MA thesis or a substantial stand-alone paper/essay of 4000-7000 words). If your writing sample is part of a larger piece of writing, please briefly situate it within the context of that larger work. In your cover letter, please explain what your writing sample is and why you have chosen to submit it. Please also explain who your referees are and why you have chosen to ask them for a possible recommendation. Please clearly indicate your citizenship and whether you will be able to begin on 1 February 2027. Your materials should be emailed to annette.kern-staehler@unibe.ch. Please feel free to contact Prof. Kern-Stähler or PD Dr. Mary Flannery in advance of the deadline if you have any questions about this position: annette.kern-staehler@unibe.ch; mary.flannery@unibe.ch

Come do a PhD with Prof. Annette Kern-Stähler in Bern!!

I’m *thrilled* to announce that we’ve secured funding for a 4-year project on disgust starting Feb 2027 which includes a PhD studentship—please share widely!!

*for dessert obvs. (doe?!)

hahaha! I know though. Are they actually available anywhere else??

I am very happy to hear that.

What? No, that is so sad. My condolences, Steffen.

Brilliant! Maple Leaf cookies doe dessert? 🤔

Drought, Conflict and the Use of Historical Data and Methodologies in Interdisciplinary Palaeoclimatic Research - Climatic Change Climatic Change - A major challenge in the interdisciplinary study of past climates is ensuring that evidence and data relating to different disciplines are analysed effectively using appropriate...

History without historians is doomed to fail. With an interdisciplinary team of scholars we show how the purported link between late Roman conflicts and drought has been misunderstood. We also outline a path forward in the use of sources in paleoclimatic research.

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I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

Quite.

This is the food thread I didn't know I needed today. Thanks! 😁

Oh, my word...! There are lots of actual illustrations and pictures even.

Happy Pesach! While you're busy searching the house for hametz and chopping up apples for charoset, please enjoy this absolutely unhinged illustration of the 4th Plague (wild beasts) from the Sarajevo Haggadah (from 14th-c. Spain):

Forskare: Att hugga ner naturskogar värre för klimatet än vi trott | Sveriges Radio Gammal orörd skog lagrar mycket mer kol än brukad skog – och betydligt mer än vad forskarna tidigare trott, visar en ny stor studie från Lunds universitet som publicerats i Science . Förlusten av kol ...

Gammal orörd skog lagrar mycket mer kol än brukad skog, visar en ny stor studie från Lunds universitet. Förlusten av kol från nerhuggna skogar beräknas vara större än alla Sveriges fossila utsläpp sen industrialiseringens början

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Logo of the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale's 71st conference, to be held in Baghdad on 29 March - 2 April 2026. It shows a detail of an Assyrian statue of a lamassu or winged bull in the background: the right half of its human face with curly beard and pointed bulls' ears. In cuneiform on the left are the symbols ki-en-gi ki-uri5, the signs for "Sumer and Akkad", the ancient name for the lands between the Tigris and Euphrates river.

It should have been the first day of a wonderful conference in Baghdad today - the first time ever that the International Association of Assyriology assembled in Iraq for its annual meeting.

This conference was to be the culmination of 4 years of hard work by Iraqi and international colleagues. 1/4

Twenty years since the four children of Canadian citizen Huseyin Celil had their dad taken away, and ten years since there has been any contact with him. amnesty.ca/campaigns/hu...

attn: paleographers. Modern science confirms what medievalists already know.
(For non-medievalists, most medieval 'cursive' is actually what we'd today call mixed bc it was developed in order to be faster.)

Forskare inom tidig musik tilldelas Birgittapriset - Nättidningen Svensk Historia Birgittapriset 2026 tilldelas Karin Lagergren för hennes forskningsinsatser inom tidig musik, med inriktning mot den birgittinska sången och annan medeltida musik.

Birgittapriset 2026 tilldelas Karin Lagergren för hennes forskningsinsatser inom tidig musik, med inriktning mot den birgittinska sången och annan medeltida musik. svenskhistoria.se/forskare-ino... #svhist