Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Flinders University
@flindersmedieval.bsky.social
We are Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Flinders, across Literature, Language, History, Archaeology, Philosophy and Gender Studies, on Kaurna land.
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Guess who's hosting the next @anzamems.bsky.social conference?! Can't wait to see you all @flindersuniversity.bsky.social in 2027!
December 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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🚨 Help our State Library!
Executives are trying to cut 11 permanent librarian positions, meaning 10 frontline librarians would remain to run Australia's busiest library.
They are proposing to outsource the library's critical information technology team.
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...
Executives are trying to cut 11 permanent librarian positions, meaning 10 frontline librarians would remain to run Australia's busiest library.
They are proposing to outsource the library's critical information technology team.
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...
Hands off our State Library!
Library workers deliver essential services to 2.8 million people in our community each year. They run information services, connect people online, hold free workshops, develop community connections an...
www.megaphone.org.au
December 1, 2025 at 4:01 AM
🚨 Help our State Library!
Executives are trying to cut 11 permanent librarian positions, meaning 10 frontline librarians would remain to run Australia's busiest library.
They are proposing to outsource the library's critical information technology team.
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...
Executives are trying to cut 11 permanent librarian positions, meaning 10 frontline librarians would remain to run Australia's busiest library.
They are proposing to outsource the library's critical information technology team.
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...
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So proud of my @flindersuniversity.bsky.social PhD researchers, Kate Lawrence and @danclaggett.bsky.social who gave their first ever @anzamems.bsky.social papers last week. Fantastic work!
December 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
So proud of my @flindersuniversity.bsky.social PhD researchers, Kate Lawrence and @danclaggett.bsky.social who gave their first ever @anzamems.bsky.social papers last week. Fantastic work!
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📢Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖EM1060: The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060-1220
📲 em1060.stanford.edu
✍️Orietta Da Rold, Takako Kato, Jo Story, Mary Swan, and Elaine Treharne.
©️Stanford University
📜Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖EM1060: The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060-1220
📲 em1060.stanford.edu
✍️Orietta Da Rold, Takako Kato, Jo Story, Mary Swan, and Elaine Treharne.
©️Stanford University
December 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
📢Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖EM1060: The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060-1220
📲 em1060.stanford.edu
✍️Orietta Da Rold, Takako Kato, Jo Story, Mary Swan, and Elaine Treharne.
©️Stanford University
📜Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📖EM1060: The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060-1220
📲 em1060.stanford.edu
✍️Orietta Da Rold, Takako Kato, Jo Story, Mary Swan, and Elaine Treharne.
©️Stanford University
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Issue 42.2 is upon us! As some of you have noted, our book reviews are already available. Alongside the contents page for our special issue on England and the external world, and our frankly fabulous cover. Check out our website, articles available on Project Muse soon.
parergon.org/index.php/pa...
parergon.org/index.php/pa...
November 28, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Issue 42.2 is upon us! As some of you have noted, our book reviews are already available. Alongside the contents page for our special issue on England and the external world, and our frankly fabulous cover. Check out our website, articles available on Project Muse soon.
parergon.org/index.php/pa...
parergon.org/index.php/pa...
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New issue of @parergon.bsky.social edited by @mattfirth.bsky.social, Dr Cassandra Schilling and me!
December 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
New issue of @parergon.bsky.social edited by @mattfirth.bsky.social, Dr Cassandra Schilling and me!
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Guess who's hosting the next @anzamems.bsky.social conference?! Can't wait to see you all @flindersuniversity.bsky.social in 2027!
December 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Guess who's hosting the next @anzamems.bsky.social conference?! Can't wait to see you all @flindersuniversity.bsky.social in 2027!
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📢 #CfP #medievalsky #TOEBI
📜Theme: All Kinds of People
📅Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026
🏫Host: University of Nottingham
⏰Submission deadline: 30 March 2026
📚TOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level.
📜Theme: All Kinds of People
📅Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026
🏫Host: University of Nottingham
⏰Submission deadline: 30 March 2026
📚TOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level.
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
📢 #CfP #medievalsky #TOEBI
📜Theme: All Kinds of People
📅Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026
🏫Host: University of Nottingham
⏰Submission deadline: 30 March 2026
📚TOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level.
📜Theme: All Kinds of People
📅Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026
🏫Host: University of Nottingham
⏰Submission deadline: 30 March 2026
📚TOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level.
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Every opportunity politicians provide for you to tell them about how chronic underfunding of research in Australia is affecting your particular fields, people, working conditions etc. is extremely important.
Fill out the form here: lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG
Fill out the form here: lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG
@ginaravenscroft.bsky.social & #NARF are collecting impact statements from Australian researchers
‘ Please consider sharing your story about the impact of Australia's chronic underfunding of science and biomedical research.’
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‘ Please consider sharing your story about the impact of Australia's chronic underfunding of science and biomedical research.’
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December 2, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Every opportunity politicians provide for you to tell them about how chronic underfunding of research in Australia is affecting your particular fields, people, working conditions etc. is extremely important.
Fill out the form here: lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG
Fill out the form here: lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG
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📰 New research finds miniature #Viking anthropomorphic figurines were "more than amulets", being active participants in their social and ritual lives.
🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @archaeologynews.bsky.social
archaeologymag.com/2025/11/viki...
🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @archaeologynews.bsky.social
archaeologymag.com/2025/11/viki...
Viking figurines were more than amulets: new analysis reveals their real roles
Viking figurines show complex life histories, revealing how they were made, used, altered, and placed in ritual and burial contexts.
archaeologymag.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
📰 New research finds miniature #Viking anthropomorphic figurines were "more than amulets", being active participants in their social and ritual lives.
🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @archaeologynews.bsky.social
archaeologymag.com/2025/11/viki...
🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @archaeologynews.bsky.social
archaeologymag.com/2025/11/viki...
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Prof. Dan Anlezark opens the first of the panels presenting research from our #ARC project "Finding Friendship" at @anzamems.bsky.social 2025 conference!
December 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Prof. Dan Anlezark opens the first of the panels presenting research from our #ARC project "Finding Friendship" at @anzamems.bsky.social 2025 conference!
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In "the most rigorous test to date of how AI would perform in the real world," researchers found that workers using AI completed tasks 19% slower than when working without it -- but thought they were faster.
#AI #GenerativeAI 🧪
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
#AI #GenerativeAI 🧪
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?
The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
In "the most rigorous test to date of how AI would perform in the real world," researchers found that workers using AI completed tasks 19% slower than when working without it -- but thought they were faster.
#AI #GenerativeAI 🧪
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
#AI #GenerativeAI 🧪
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
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ANZAMEMS 2025 conference begins! @erinsebo.bsky.social on friendship in Beowulf and trying to understand the titular characters seemingly very unfriendly act of allowing his friend to be eaten by Grendel 🤔 @anzamems.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
ANZAMEMS 2025 conference begins! @erinsebo.bsky.social on friendship in Beowulf and trying to understand the titular characters seemingly very unfriendly act of allowing his friend to be eaten by Grendel 🤔 @anzamems.bsky.social
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Dr James Kane @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on ideas of friendship (or their absence) in the narratives of the First Crusade @anzamems.bsky.social conference 2025.
December 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Dr James Kane @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on ideas of friendship (or their absence) in the narratives of the First Crusade @anzamems.bsky.social conference 2025.
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Flinders PhD candidate, @danclaggett.bsky.social, presenting his research on ship burials at the @anzamems.bsky.social 2025 conference. (Note here his use of @flindersuniversity.bsky.social alumna, Dr Claire Ratican's, new book!)
December 3, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Flinders PhD candidate, @danclaggett.bsky.social, presenting his research on ship burials at the @anzamems.bsky.social 2025 conference. (Note here his use of @flindersuniversity.bsky.social alumna, Dr Claire Ratican's, new book!)
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"Museum Dialogues: exchange and synergies on the future of Sámi objects" will be streamed 2/12! Link at the bottom of the page.
www.goethe.de/ins/fi/de/ve...
www.goethe.de/ins/fi/de/ve...
Podiumsdiskussion: Museum Dialogues - Goethe-Institut Finnland
Di., 02.12.2025 – Exchange and Synergies on the Future of Sámi Objects
www.goethe.de
November 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"Museum Dialogues: exchange and synergies on the future of Sámi objects" will be streamed 2/12! Link at the bottom of the page.
www.goethe.de/ins/fi/de/ve...
www.goethe.de/ins/fi/de/ve...
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Can't wait for this special issue of @parergon.bsky.social! Always great to work with Dr Cassandra Schiling and @flindersuniversity.bsky.social DECRA Fellow in Medieval History, @mattfirth.bsky.social and of course, ANU's Prof. Rosalind Smith!
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Can't wait for this special issue of @parergon.bsky.social! Always great to work with Dr Cassandra Schiling and @flindersuniversity.bsky.social DECRA Fellow in Medieval History, @mattfirth.bsky.social and of course, ANU's Prof. Rosalind Smith!
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Here is an example of what a politics of temporality looks like in practice and why it is relevant today. It's fascinating that modern Iranian nationalism, which once suppressed its pre-Islamic past, now celebrates the pagan king Shapur I as a national symbol.
theconversation.com/a-roman-empe...
theconversation.com/a-roman-empe...
A Roman emperor grovelling to a Persian king: the message behind a new statue in Tehran
The statue, titled Kneeling Before Iran, shows the emperor grovelling before Persian king Shapur I. Where did this imagery come from? And why now?
theconversation.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Here is an example of what a politics of temporality looks like in practice and why it is relevant today. It's fascinating that modern Iranian nationalism, which once suppressed its pre-Islamic past, now celebrates the pagan king Shapur I as a national symbol.
theconversation.com/a-roman-empe...
theconversation.com/a-roman-empe...
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Fixed contract Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Islamic Archaeology position at UCL.
Deadline: 27 November
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK031/a...
Deadline: 27 November
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK031/a...
Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Islamic Archaeology at UCL
Recruiting now: Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Islamic Archaeology on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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November 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Fixed contract Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Islamic Archaeology position at UCL.
Deadline: 27 November
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK031/a...
Deadline: 27 November
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK031/a...
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Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Art History at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore with a scope for focus on the Islamic world www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR950/a...
Deadline: 11 November
Deadline: 11 November
Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Art History at Nanyang Technological University
An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Art History is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Art History at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore with a scope for focus on the Islamic world www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR950/a...
Deadline: 11 November
Deadline: 11 November
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Lecturer in the Study of Islam position at the University of Glasgow www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG786/l...
Deadline: 13 November
Deadline: 13 November
Lecturer in the Study of Islam (LTS) at University of Glasgow
Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in the Study of Islam (LTS). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Lecturer in the Study of Islam position at the University of Glasgow www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG786/l...
Deadline: 13 November
Deadline: 13 November
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There's no stopping November 17th! Just three days left to submit an abstract!
November 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
There's no stopping November 17th! Just three days left to submit an abstract!