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Dr Sarah Corrigan
@corrigans.bsky.social
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She/Her. Latin Language & Literature @ UniMelb. Into Ancient & Medieval, Philology, Manuscripts, Compilation, Reception/Transmission, other cool stuff. Teach Latin and Underworld & Afterlife inter alia.
Work and live on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land.
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Dr Sarah Corrigan @corrigans.bsky.social · 9d
Registration deadline is 9 November - it's all coming up fast now!
anzamems.bsky.social ANZAMEMS @anzamems.bsky.social · 13d
ANZAMEMS Conference – Registration and Program Updates #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
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corrigans.bsky.social
Registration deadline is 9 November - it's all coming up fast now!
anzamems.bsky.social ANZAMEMS @anzamems.bsky.social · 13d
ANZAMEMS Conference – Registration and Program Updates #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
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November 2, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Clár Tionól na bliana seo!
Programme for Tionól 2025!
14-15 Samhain/November.
#DIASdiscovers
@dias.ie
www.dias.ie/celt/
Programme for Tionól conference 2025
October 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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anzamems.bsky.social
Fulcrum: Science and Tech before 1500 #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
Image: ‘Natura Animata’ Orchestrated in MidJourney ©TA 2024. The picture is of a bonzai tree but with mechanical instruments making up its trunk and some if its branches.
October 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
“Sisyphus thinks he can outwit death. But the company hive-mind pings him relentlessly, even on weekends, and so he stares at his phone on a Saturday and misses his daughter score her first goal at a soccer game.”
— Pindar, Olympian Ode
Sisyphus’s Inbox
“And I saw Sisyphus in agonizing torment, drafting a reply to Kayleigh’s ten urgent UX questions. He hit ‘send,’ and immediately received an autore...
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October 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
corrigans.bsky.social
New Far Side cartoons! 😱
The Far Side | TheFarSide.com
Visit the official online home of The Far Side comic strip by Gary Larson for your daily dose of Gary’s classic cartoons.
www.thefarside.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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niamhwycherley.bsky.social
How would be treated for a broken heart, menstrual cramps or infertility in medieval Ireland? Expert @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social takes us through the vast array of medical texts, the 11th c surge in scientific writing & evidence for drs & doctoring in the Middle Ages. open.spotify.com/episode/34oG...
Medieval Medicine with Prof. Deborah Hayden
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October 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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jonrosenberg.bsky.social
Twitter refugees, note well: they're not called "tweets" here. Call them tweets and you're likely to be yelled at. Posts on Bluesky are called "missives." Reposts are called "rememberances" and replies are called "addendums." Replying to a post with a single emoji is called a "turd drop"
October 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
corrigans.bsky.social
So much fantastic Near Eastern Studies news @unimelb.bsky.social

Congrats to my incredible colleagues - come and study Akkadian with us!
Announcing the Wright Lecture Series in Ancient Near Eastern Studies | Forum
The Classics and Archaeology program is delighted to announce the new Wright Lecture Series in Ancient Near Eastern Studies. The program has received a generous
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October 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.

- Virginia Woolf
#Womensart
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October 15, 2025 at 5:02 AM
corrigans.bsky.social
Really looking forward to this!
Nine Objects: An Encounter with the Collections of the University of Melbourne | Potter Museum of Art
potter-museum.unimelb.edu.au
October 15, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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medievalists.bsky.social
What is Hwæt? The Debate Behind Beowulf’s Opening Line www.medievalists.net/2025/07/hwae... #Beowulf
What is Hwæt? The Debate Behind Beowulf’s Opening Line - Medievalists.net
Discover the meaning of hwæt, the iconic first word of Beowulf, and explore the medieval and modern debates over how it should be translated.
www.medievalists.net
October 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
corrigans.bsky.social
What’s better than palaeography? Palaeography for kids!
#BeingHuman @unimelb.bsky.social
Writing like the ancients
Learn to write the way that people did in Ancient Greece and Rome! In this hands-on workshop for kids aged 8-12, discover how writing worked in Anc...
events.unimelb.edu.au
October 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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October 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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In the Treasures of the O'Gorman Special Collection blog series, we highlight volumes by the acclaimed poet and author Seamus Heaney including first editions, signed volumes and more. To read more, please visit: hardimanlibrary.blogspot.com/2025/10/treasures-of-ogorman-special-collection.html
October 14, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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jroberts.bsky.social
*weeps in accidental medievalist*
drbeard79.bsky.social Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 28d
Sometimes literary criticism is more fun to read than the literature it’s criticising.
rachelfeder.bsky.social Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 29d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 6:37 AM
corrigans.bsky.social
Only THREE places remaining!
anzamems.bsky.social ANZAMEMS @anzamems.bsky.social · Sep 19
As part of the 2025 ANZAMEMS conference, a one-day intensive palaeography workshop will be hosted at University of Melbourne on Tuesday 2 December for HDRs and ECRs. See the below flyer:
Flyer for the Intensive Palaeography Workshop to be hosted at University of Melbourne on 2nd December 2025. More details at https://conference.anzamems.org/anzamems-seminar/
October 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Ancient writers, especially physicians, had plenty to say about caring for genitals – but please don't try it at home.

👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/genital...
October 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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nmireland.bsky.social
Families Join us for an Open Day: Words on the Wave – Ireland & St. Gallen exhibition
🗓️ Sat 4 Oct | 11.00–16.00
📍 NMI, Kildare St
Talks: Maeve Sikora (11:30), Dr Ó Riain (12:30), Prof Ó Cróinín (14:30)
Take part in free Workshops & handle replica artefacts
🎟️ Free admission
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An Incipit (opening letter) with two birds from the St. Gallen manuscript Priscian Institutiones Grammaticae, Cod. Sang 904, p. 25. © Stiftsbibliothek St Gallen.
September 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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drbeard79.bsky.social
Reinventing conferences:

Organisers agree to produce a programme to show to your home institution for money but when you get there it’s all just coffee breaks, lunches, and wine receptions and there’s a room where you can do your paper if you really want to.
epiphenomenal.bsky.social Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · Sep 23
Reinventing conferences:

All talks begin with mandatory words: "This is part of a larger project I'll never finish."

Instead of coffee breaks, you get randomly assigned to a group where someone inevitably argues that Aristotle already solved your problem.

#academia #philsky #philosophy #philmind
September 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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We 💛 it here & want to thank so many of you for following us!

To celebrate, we’re raffling of this wonderful book:
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Like + repost to enter!
Graphic with yellow text on dark blue background saying "1K followers Thank you!", "Enter our book raffle!", and "1000" inside a yellow heart. De Gruyter Brill logo in lower left corner. Image of the book “Medieval Art, Modern Politics,” edited by Brigitte Buettner and William J. Diebold, published by De Gruyter in the series “Sense, Matter, and Medium.” The dark green cover features sculpted stone heads from the Gallery of Kings of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, now preserved at the Musée de Cluny (image: Wikimedia Commons/Connie Ma, CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic). The book is placed in front of a background with a dark blue to light green gradient. A dark blue circular label in the top right corner reads “Book Raffle”.
September 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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There is still much to be done to fix university governance but nonetheless a huge win for the thousands of NTEU members who have campaigned tirelessly to build better unis.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
'Rotten' Australian university culture lashed in long-running senate inquiry
Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", a senate inquiry has found.
www.abc.net.au
September 19, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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anzamems.bsky.social
Call for Proposals: ANZAMEMS Seminars 2026 #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
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September 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
corrigans.bsky.social
A reminder that EARLY BIRD registration closes Friday 10 October!

#anza25
corrigans.bsky.social Dr Sarah Corrigan @corrigans.bsky.social · Sep 5
Come and join us for a few days jam-packed with medieval and early modern keynotes, papers, roundtables, and events!

@anzamems.bsky.social Conference 2025 at the University of Melbourne, 3–5 December
September 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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jaema.bsky.social
While the Call for Papers for our annual conference may be closed, we are still open to submissions for our Journal!

JAEMA publishes scholarly articles on the Late Antique and Early Medieval world, see our website for details: aema.org.au/journal/
This call for submissions states that the Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association seeks submissions of scholarly articles on the early medieval period and late antiquity, from anywhere around the globe, between the fall of the Roman Empire and the end of the eleventh century. The Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association publishes articles that appeal to those interested in our period, whether these are focused on the historical, political, social, literary, cultural, religious, ethnic, geographic, and interpretive crossovers between.
August 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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mattfirth.bsky.social
Early English Queens, 850-1000 has just been reviewed in @jaema.bsky.social 20.2. McLeod states that it 'finds an ingenious structure to tell a difficult and timely story' & 'is highly recommended'.

Links to the review & the book (all formats):

Review → search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/...

Book ↓
Early English Queens, 850–1000: Potestas Reginae
This book offers a comprehensive, biography-led examination of queenship in England between 850 and 1000, tracing the development of the queen’s role from bed companion to institutional office. The pe...
www.routledge.com
September 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM