Ashley Castelino
@ashleycastelino.bsky.social
Food & Medieval Dogs
Public Humanities Fellow at Notre Dame
Public Humanities Fellow at Notre Dame
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Happy Halloween! May it be spooky
Today's the last day to reach out to ceraejournal@gmail.com to join in as a committee member for our thirteenth volume! This is not scary at all and is in fact a delightful experience. Come join!
#medievalsky #historysky #medieval
ceraejournal.com/2025/10/02/c...
Today's the last day to reach out to ceraejournal@gmail.com to join in as a committee member for our thirteenth volume! This is not scary at all and is in fact a delightful experience. Come join!
#medievalsky #historysky #medieval
ceraejournal.com/2025/10/02/c...
Call for New Committee Members
Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is an open-access, award-winning, peer-reviewed journal directed by a committee of international graduate students and early caree…
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October 31, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Happy Halloween! May it be spooky
Today's the last day to reach out to ceraejournal@gmail.com to join in as a committee member for our thirteenth volume! This is not scary at all and is in fact a delightful experience. Come join!
#medievalsky #historysky #medieval
ceraejournal.com/2025/10/02/c...
Today's the last day to reach out to ceraejournal@gmail.com to join in as a committee member for our thirteenth volume! This is not scary at all and is in fact a delightful experience. Come join!
#medievalsky #historysky #medieval
ceraejournal.com/2025/10/02/c...
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My blog post with the ADAM network has now been published. It's about precarity, the future of small subjects, and communal approaches to academic work. I hope it will resonate with some. #IchBinHanna #KleineFaecher #SkandiRetten
difficultmedieval.com/2025/10/23/h...
difficultmedieval.com/2025/10/23/h...
Hard Times and Trial Approaches: Old Norse-Icelandic Studies Between Precarity and the Future
Dr Rebecca Merkelbach reflects on her keynote speech at the most recent Saga Conference. Held every three years, Saga Con is the most important meeting of Old Norse scholars, bringing together acad…
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October 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
My blog post with the ADAM network has now been published. It's about precarity, the future of small subjects, and communal approaches to academic work. I hope it will resonate with some. #IchBinHanna #KleineFaecher #SkandiRetten
difficultmedieval.com/2025/10/23/h...
difficultmedieval.com/2025/10/23/h...
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Goooood morning! There's still quite a bit of (heh) time to submit an abstract for our sessions at the 2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social. We very much encourage post/graduate students to apply. Details and PDF CFP at the link:
ceraejournal.com/2025/09/02/c...
#medievalsky #earlymodernsky #historysky
ceraejournal.com/2025/09/02/c...
#medievalsky #earlymodernsky #historysky
CALL FOR PAPERS: Ceræ at IMC 2026
CERÆ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies invites submissions for hybrid panels at the Leeds International Medieval Conference 2026 (July 6-9) on the theme of Premodern Tim…
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September 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Goooood morning! There's still quite a bit of (heh) time to submit an abstract for our sessions at the 2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social. We very much encourage post/graduate students to apply. Details and PDF CFP at the link:
ceraejournal.com/2025/09/02/c...
#medievalsky #earlymodernsky #historysky
ceraejournal.com/2025/09/02/c...
#medievalsky #earlymodernsky #historysky
The Oxford Centre of the National Trust is looking for a volunteer to take over managing their website (oxfordcnt.co.uk).
This is ideal for someone based in Oxford, but can be done remotely too.
This is ideal for someone based in Oxford, but can be done remotely too.
OCNT
oxfordcnt.co.uk
August 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The Oxford Centre of the National Trust is looking for a volunteer to take over managing their website (oxfordcnt.co.uk).
This is ideal for someone based in Oxford, but can be done remotely too.
This is ideal for someone based in Oxford, but can be done remotely too.
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♦️ Job opportunity at UCC! ♦️ 5-year Lecturer in Old English position, commencing in September. This will be a great opportunity for someone to join a thriving department, and to really put their own mark on the discipline. Please share widely!
www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...
www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...
Lecturer in Old English | University College Cork
UCC wishes to appoint a scholar with a proven commitment to excellence in teaching and research to the role of Lecturer in Old English.
www.ucc.ie
June 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
♦️ Job opportunity at UCC! ♦️ 5-year Lecturer in Old English position, commencing in September. This will be a great opportunity for someone to join a thriving department, and to really put their own mark on the discipline. Please share widely!
www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...
www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...
I recently wrote a somewhat personal piece for the Oxonian Review reflecting on the colonial and culinary histories of Catholic India and my attempts to connect to this heritage by learning to cook some of its iconic dishes.
Read it at oxonianreview.com/articles/coo...
Read it at oxonianreview.com/articles/coo...
Cooking through Catholic India
Ashley Castelino dives into his family's Catholic Indian heritage by recreating some of its classic dishes.
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May 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I recently wrote a somewhat personal piece for the Oxonian Review reflecting on the colonial and culinary histories of Catholic India and my attempts to connect to this heritage by learning to cook some of its iconic dishes.
Read it at oxonianreview.com/articles/coo...
Read it at oxonianreview.com/articles/coo...
OMS is looking for a new Social Media Officer to take the reins after I've left - if you're at all interested, please do reach out!
📯OPPORTUNITY: Oxford Medieval Studies Social Media Officer📯
As I prepare to depart soon, we're looking for someone to take over the social media reins. If you're interested in this role, have a look at my retrospective at medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/21/o... and do consider applying!
As I prepare to depart soon, we're looking for someone to take over the social media reins. If you're interested in this role, have a look at my retrospective at medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/21/o... and do consider applying!
Oxford Medieval Social Media: A Retrospective – Oxford Medieval Studies
medieval.ox.ac.uk
April 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
OMS is looking for a new Social Media Officer to take the reins after I've left - if you're at all interested, please do reach out!
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A recording of Professor Heather Sharkey's brilliant Hilary keynote on 'Food Studies: Surveying the Field through Potatoes' is now online!! Watch it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXnT...
@torchoxford.bsky.social
@torchoxford.bsky.social
Food Studies: Surveying the Field through Potatoes
YouTube video by TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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April 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
A recording of Professor Heather Sharkey's brilliant Hilary keynote on 'Food Studies: Surveying the Field through Potatoes' is now online!! Watch it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXnT...
@torchoxford.bsky.social
@torchoxford.bsky.social
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The #CFP for articles for Volume 12 of CERÆ is still OPEN!
Theme: Dreams, Visions, and Utopias
Deadline: April 30
Word count: ~5-8k
Graduate/ECR essays are eligible for an AUD$200 prize
Further details:
ceraejournal.com/2024/12/17/2...
#medievalsky #earlymodernsky #litsky #historysky
Theme: Dreams, Visions, and Utopias
Deadline: April 30
Word count: ~5-8k
Graduate/ECR essays are eligible for an AUD$200 prize
Further details:
ceraejournal.com/2024/12/17/2...
#medievalsky #earlymodernsky #litsky #historysky
2025 Ceræ Call For Papers – Conference & Journal
We are pleased to announce that the theme for our second annual online Conference next year as well as for Volume 12 of the journal is Dreams, Visions, and Utopias, and we invite submissions to bot…
ceraejournal.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The #CFP for articles for Volume 12 of CERÆ is still OPEN!
Theme: Dreams, Visions, and Utopias
Deadline: April 30
Word count: ~5-8k
Graduate/ECR essays are eligible for an AUD$200 prize
Further details:
ceraejournal.com/2024/12/17/2...
#medievalsky #earlymodernsky #litsky #historysky
Theme: Dreams, Visions, and Utopias
Deadline: April 30
Word count: ~5-8k
Graduate/ECR essays are eligible for an AUD$200 prize
Further details:
ceraejournal.com/2024/12/17/2...
#medievalsky #earlymodernsky #litsky #historysky
Join me for a quick look at some therapeutic medieval dogs! 🐕
The latest addition to the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social coffee morning playlist is the brilliant @ashleycastelino.bsky.social talking about dogs in medieval manuscripts! Check it out on the @oxmedstud.bsky.social youtube channel
youtu.be/kiGFH9LTrGI
youtu.be/kiGFH9LTrGI
Dogs in Medieval Manuscripts at the Weston Library Coffee Morning (Ashley Castelino)
YouTube video by Oxford Medieval Studies
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April 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Join me for a quick look at some therapeutic medieval dogs! 🐕
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For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources.
On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.
dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”
munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”
mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.
dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”
munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”
mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
January 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources.
On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.
dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”
munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”
mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.
dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”
munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”
mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
Reposted by Ashley Castelino
The eleventh volume of Ceræ journal is now live! This volume features three articles themed on 'Metamorphosis, Transformation, and Transmutation', two varia, and a record nineteen book reviews! Please, #medievalsky and #earlymodernsky, read on: ceraejournal.com/2025/01/22/c...
Ceræ Volume 11: Published!
2025 is upon us, and with it comes the publication of Ceræ’s eleventh volume, featuring three themed articles, two creative varia, and a record nineteen book reviews. This issue follows the theme o…
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January 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The eleventh volume of Ceræ journal is now live! This volume features three articles themed on 'Metamorphosis, Transformation, and Transmutation', two varia, and a record nineteen book reviews! Please, #medievalsky and #earlymodernsky, read on: ceraejournal.com/2025/01/22/c...