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And that's a wrap, thank you to everyone who has been involved in the conference this year!

Finally, we have closing remarks from this years MEMSA co-chairs Lottie Thompson and Isaiah Silvers!

While at the same time delegates are also hearing from Dr Victoria Burns-Price, Dr Daniella Zaidman-Mauer and Dr Grace Catherine Greiner on ‘More than Meets the Eye: Imagining and Imagined Connections between Magic and the Natural World;

It is now time for the final session of the conference. Our first panel is titled ‘Creatures of Power: Animals, Ecology and Humanity in the Medieval World’ with Rosalind Philips-Solomon, Jennifer Coulton and Amanda Boeing.

In the castle, we are also hosting a session on ‘Publishing Your Research For Postgraduate and Early Career Professionals’ in association with Boydell and Brewer.

After a busy morning, are are now at the fifth panel of the conference with ‘The Green Arcana: Herbs as Tools of Transformation in Magic and Ritual’ with Aphrodite Skarpa, Gretchin Kepplinger and Heather Taylor

Our keynote from Dr Yarí Pérez-Marín

We are now about to listen to the second keynote speaker of the conference from Dr Yarí Pérez-Marín who is delivering a talk on “The Hidden Nature: Observation and Vulnerability in Early Modern Surgical Writing”

Simultaneously in the Castle, there are papers from Emily Whittingham, Maria Del Mar Yunis and Kenzie Scott in the panel ‘Poetry as Natural Philosophy: Reimagining Life and Death in Verse’