Come and do an MA in Medieval Studies at @leedsims.bsky.social! This year we have *two scholarships* specifically for UK students from underrepresented groups. Apps due 9 June: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/s.... Get in touch with us if you have any questions! #MedievalStudies #Scholarships #Leeds #MA

Poster for a workshop by me on "Digital Approaches to Manuscripts" on 10 April 2025 at the University of Gdańsk, featuring digital images of manuscripts taken by me with a digital microscope under different lights.

Poster for a lecture by me on "The Fragmentary History of the Book: Insights from Remnants of Medieval Manuscripts" on 11 April 2025 at the University of Gdańsk, featuring a detail from Lawrence, KS, University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, MS E282 which shows fragments from a parchment manuscript repurposed as separate sewing guards and primary tackets in another fifteenth-century paper manuscript.

I am at the University of Gdańsk and having the best time talking about #manuscriptstudies #digitalhumanities #bookhistory and #fragments! Grateful for the invitation by @emijami.bsky.social! ♥️📚💻 + It's snowing and there's a flamingo statue in front of the Faculty of History building!🦩

#MedievalSky

History UK Disability and History Project The History UK Disability and History Project was launched in November 2023 in response to the History UK EDI report which identified disability as an important aspect of EDI work worthy of further…

History UK are recruiting disabled historians (and historians who work on disability history) to take part in focus groups to inform their fantastic Disability and History Project - do consider signing up! www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...

My colleagues Lada Kolimiyets, Victoria Somoff, & Karina Madzari did pioneering work with their elementary Ukrainian students. They worked with students in Ukraine to create an "impermanent [digital] collection" of Ukrainian museums destroyed by Russia. www.library.dartmouth.edu/news/imperma...

Congratulations!

I am so sorry Leonie that you and your colleagues have to experience that. The whole "HE UK" is one great expercise in self-destruction, cruelty and pointlessness for totally unclear outcome. Sending all my good wishes and thought although all our good intentions and words make no difference.

The János Bak Research Fellowship board offers awards of 2000 EUR each to support study in one of the medieval tracks in Historical Studies at CEU.
historicalstudies.ceu.edu/bak-award?fb...

Anti-Putin does not mean anti-imperial. Why the romanticisation of Russian dissidents is misleading In the German debate on the Russian anti-Putin camp, the problematic aspects of this milieu are often ignored. The Russian perspective continues to be prioritized other those of the colonized.

Today's "Anti-War March" in Berlin, led by Navalnaya, Kara-Murza & Yashin seems an appropiate day to re-publish my essay on why the West and in particular Germany should take a closer look at the self-proclaimed leaders of the Russian opposition in English:

Eine sehr wichtige Initiative der TU Berlin: Ein Call for Papers für eine Tagung zum Thema #Machtmissbrauch an den Hochschulen. Hier kann man sich noch bis zum 22 April als Vorstragssprecher*in oder Workshopleiter*in melden: #metoohistory

🤩CRAFTING DOCUMENTS PROJECT LAUNCH🤩
If you are interested in medieval relic labels, parchment and ink production, this project is officially launching in Oxford.

📅2 February, 3-4 PM GMT
🚩Oxford and Zoom

#medievalsky

#IMC2024
International Medieval Congress 2024 programme is avaliable as a pdf
www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2024/imc...

Ankündigung Abend-Salon "Ukraine im Fokus" am Mittwoch, 24.1.2024 um 18 Uhr in der Dreikönigskirche in Dresden mit Franziska Davies und Lars Rohwer. Thema: "Die Bedeutung der Krim in der Ukrainischen Debatte". Veranstaltung des Ukrainischen Hauses Dresden mit dem Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung und der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.

#Ukraine nicht vergessen! Am kommenden Mi, 24.1. 18 Uhr der Abendsalon "Ukraine im Fokus" zur Bedeutung der Krim u.a. mit @efdavies.bsky.social in der Dreikönigskirche #Dresden. Eine Veranstaltung des Ukrainischen Hauses zusammen mit HAIT Dresden und der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung ⬇️
#dd2401
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Quantum Sauce - Valentine's Special @ The Old Woollen, Sunny Bank Mills - Feb 13, 2024, 7:00PM £6 + Booking Fee. Doors 7pm. Starts 8pm. Unreserved Seating. SCIENCE + ART + BEER = MIND EXPANSION It's a Quantum Sauce Valentine's Love In!!! Three experts talk for thirty minutes each, including: P...

If you are in Leeds - do join us!
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‘Unthinkable cruelty’: Kenyan expert working at Bristol University denied visa for six-year-old ... Furious colleagues denounce decision that there are ‘no compassionate grounds’ to allow the child to join her mother

Disgusted by the Home Office's treatment of my brilliant colleague @DoselineKiguru, whose six-year old daughter has been denied a UK visa. This decision needs to be reversed immediately. Please repost and share. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...

The Future of Hamas after October 7, 2023 – Part 2 From the blog of Gershon Baskin at The Times of Israel

"We, Israelis and Palestinians need new leaders, a new generation who stand up and say “NO MORE!” We need people with new visions, new ideas, new hopes" blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-future-o...

This Friday at the University of Gdańsk.

Co-teaching is a great thing! Very rewarding.

I think everything should be now printed with such Inpressum.

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