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Amanda (AJ) Langley
@medievalmystics.bsky.social
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PhD. in medieval History from QMUL, studying mysticism & lived experience in the work of Agnes Blannbekin. Host of the My Favourite Mystic podcast. Co-founder of the Mysticism and Lived Experience Network. (she/her)
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www.medievalshewrote.com/blog/2025/2/...

#Skystorians #MedievalSky 🗃️
February 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Check out our new Mapping Medieval Women Writers project blogs.surrey.ac.uk/medievalwome...
New Project: Mapping Medieval Women Writers | Women's Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon
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January 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
medievalmystics.bsky.social
A new episode is finally out! Thanks to @aspencerhall.bsky.social for being a wonderful guest (and just a generally great person).
myfavouritemystic.bsky.social My Favourite Mystic Podcast @myfavouritemystic.bsky.social · Jan 9
After a lengthy delay (apologies) - A new episode has been released! I was joined by the wonderful @aspencerhall.bsky.social, to speak about Christina the Astonishing (c. 1150-1244). Listen on any of your favourite podcast apps, or shorturl.at/Iz57g
My Favourite Mystic 56: Alicia Spencer-Hall on Christina Mirabilis
My Favourite Mystic · Episode
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January 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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I’m now inviting applications for 2 postdoc roles to work with me on on my UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project ‘Global Music Technologies: Collaboration and Cultural Exchange’. Closing date 26th Jan. Please share!!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLD914/r...
Research Fellow in Humanities at Northumbria University
Apply now for the Research Fellow in Humanities role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
www.jobs.ac.uk
December 19, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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Come one, come all to the Medieval Twitter book launch at @ucl-ias.bsky.social

📅 29 Jan 2025, 6-8 pm (UK time)
📍 Online & in person
💸 Limited stock of books for £50 - 60% off RRP! Email me by *19 Dec* to secure your copy

👉 Full details www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

#MedievalSky #skystorians 🗃️
IAS Book Launch: Medieval Twitter
Join us for the launch of Medieval Twitter by Alicia Spencer-Hall.
www.ucl.ac.uk
December 9, 2024 at 11:55 AM
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📣 2 PhD positions at Leiden - book- and/or art historians to join the NWO OC Research Project "Images on the Move. Early Modern Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks (1550-1700)"
Deadline 8 December. #BookHistory #ArtHistory #EarlyModern #PhD
www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...
2 PhD - NWO OC-L project IMAGES ON THE MOVE
Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for 2 PhD positions within the NWO OC-L project IMAGES ON THE MOVE. Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks in Early Moder...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
November 27, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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I was reviews editor for this fabulous journal under the most excellent, erudite & #SRSlyGood @jennyrichards.bsky.social & @kevinkilleen.bsky.social & enjoyed every minute of it. Do consider applying — if you’re half as good as the previous editors, you’ll be formidable! 🙌 🐦‍🔥 🔥
srsrensoc.bsky.social Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Nov 15
*VERY EXCITING VACANCY*

Join our team behind the superb Renaissance Studies as editor -- guided expertly by Wiley.

Ability to combust into flames and shrug it off not a requirement. #EarlyModern excitement is

Deadline: 31 Jan 2025
All info: rensoc.org.uk/vacancy-edit...
Renaissance Studies is one of the leading journals in the field of Renaissance studies, with an interdisciplinary emphasis, and a worldwide readership. Established in 1987, Renaissance Studies is published in partnership by the Society for Renaissance Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Wiley). The Council of the Society for Renaissance Studies (SRS) seeks to appoint an Editor for Renaissance Studies to succeed Professor Kevin Killeen, who retires as Editor in December 2025. It is hoped that the new editor(s) will be able to take over responsibility from 1 January 2026 and serve for a 5-year term until 19 December 2031. Interviews will be held online in February/March 2025. The Editor is responsible for the editorial content of the journal, for obtaining peer reviews of articles submitted, and for the supply of edited copy to Wiley. The Editor works with, and leads, a team consisting of an Associate Editor (whose main responsibility rests with the Special Issues of the journal), Book
November 15, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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📢 @jbhist.bsky.social & I are very pleased to announce that we are seeking a f/t 2-year Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History to join our major @ahrcpress funded research project on the Victorian Hand. Closes 6 December. Spread the word!!! hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History
The Department of History at Lancaster University are seeking to appoint a Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History. We are looking for a talented scholar of Victorian culture to ...
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November 18, 2024 at 7:52 AM
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Three weeks left to submit proposals for our panel series on Emotions in medieval Mystical/Devotional Texts for IMC 2025!
medievalmystics.bsky.social Amanda (AJ) Langley @medievalmystics.bsky.social · Jul 31
Getting ready for #IMC2025! Rowan Wilson and I have issued a call for papers about emotions in Mystical and Devotional Texts. Let's talk about feelings (or the lack thereof). Deadline for abstracts is September 20th!
August 31, 2024 at 6:20 AM
medievalmystics.bsky.social
Getting ready for #IMC2025! Rowan Wilson and I have issued a call for papers about emotions in Mystical and Devotional Texts. Let's talk about feelings (or the lack thereof). Deadline for abstracts is September 20th!
July 31, 2024 at 5:51 PM
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I am excited to be giving one of the Spring Lectures at the Ruuesbroec Institute tomorrow, May 24th, at 2pm CEST (1pm BST). If you would like to attend online, you can register at: www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-...
Spring Lecture May 24th 2024 | Research centre Ruusbroec Institute | University of Antwerp
www.uantwerpen.be
May 23, 2024 at 11:57 AM
medievalmystics.bsky.social
The deadline was extended but is now only one week away! Get your proposals in by February 15, 2024!
mlen.bsky.social Mysticism & Lived Experience Network @mlen.bsky.social · Oct 3
Less than two weeks left until the deadline for our Annual Conference CFP. Our 2024 theme is "Mystics and Work" and, as always, the conference will be held online with no conference fee. Downloadable version here: mysticismlivedexperience.wordpress.com/cfp-mlen2024/
February 8, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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It is very normal for the footnotes of a dissertation chapter to have an equal (or greater) word count to the chapter itself, right? #phdlife
October 26, 2023 at 2:45 PM
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AJ Langley is joined by Lee Irwin to talk about the Lakota mystic and healer Heȟáka Sápa/Black Elk. We talk about the differences between Native and Christian visionary experiences, ritual, embodied spirituality, and putting visions into action. Listen here: shorturl.at/nsCHZ, or on any podcast app!
October 5, 2023 at 10:26 AM
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The deadline swiftly approaches! #medievalsky #mysticism
mlen.bsky.social Mysticism & Lived Experience Network @mlen.bsky.social · Oct 3
Less than two weeks left until the deadline for our Annual Conference CFP. Our 2024 theme is "Mystics and Work" and, as always, the conference will be held online with no conference fee. Downloadable version here: mysticismlivedexperience.wordpress.com/cfp-mlen2024/
October 10, 2023 at 2:50 PM
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Save the date for the 2024 Gender and Medieval Studies conference: 26-28 June 2024 (note the new summer date). C4P and more info to come soon!

medievalgender.co.uk/conferences/

#MedievalSky #AcademicSky 🗃️
Conferences – Gender and Medieval Studies
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October 5, 2023 at 4:56 PM
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I really enjoyed this interview and I am so glad to have it out!
myfavouritemystic.bsky.social My Favourite Mystic Podcast @myfavouritemystic.bsky.social · Oct 5
AJ Langley is joined by Lee Irwin to talk about the Lakota mystic and healer Heȟáka Sápa/Black Elk. We talk about the differences between Native and Christian visionary experiences, ritual, embodied spirituality, and putting visions into action. Listen here: shorturl.at/nsCHZ, or on any podcast app!
October 5, 2023 at 10:33 AM
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Very excited about this conference!
mlen.bsky.social Mysticism & Lived Experience Network @mlen.bsky.social · Oct 3
Less than two weeks left until the deadline for our Annual Conference CFP. Our 2024 theme is "Mystics and Work" and, as always, the conference will be held online with no conference fee. Downloadable version here: mysticismlivedexperience.wordpress.com/cfp-mlen2024/
October 3, 2023 at 10:51 PM
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You asked for it, and it's finally here...

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography is now out in paperback!

👉$39.95 / € 35,95 / £31.95 + VAT

🔗 www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... // all good book sellers lol

💸 We're also Open Access bb! bit.ly/TGQS-OA

#AcademicSky #MedievalSky 🗃️
A parchment-coloured (ie beige-ish) book cover, with an ornate gilded border (the image is from a medieval manuscript. The border features photos from pride marches and two saints with haloes in pride flag colours (trans and non-binary). Inside the border is an image of a saint with a pink glittery background behind their halo, holding a trans flag. Collaged over their eyes are the eyes from a photo of a drag queen. The title of the book is Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, and it's edited by Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt. It's published by Amsterdam University Press, in the series Hagiography Beyond Tradition.
September 18, 2023 at 1:09 PM
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Excited to share this CFP for IMC Leeds 2024!
The Mysticism & Lived Experience Network (M&LEN) is organizing a series of panels with the Blurred Boundaries of Religious Dissent Research Initiative on "Crisis of Faith or a Faith in Crisis?".
Deadline: Sept. 15th!
Please contact me for more info
Crisis of Faith or a Faith in Crisis? Call for Papers for a series at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds University, July 1-4, 2024 Sponsored by: The Mysticism & Lived Experience Network & Blurred Boundaries of Religious Dissent Research Initiative We seek proposals for 15-20-minute papers. Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words along with a short bio to lifeandmystics@gmail.com or blurredboundariesofdissent@gmail.com by September 15, 2023.
September 13, 2023 at 1:58 PM