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Susannah Bain
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PhD student in History. Connections, political communication and history-writing in the 13th/14th-c. Mediterranean. Also do environmental things.
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Lovely to see that the #IMC2024 program has been published! Looking forward to seeing all the papers in the three panels me, Sussanah Bain, Bee Jones and Amanda Power have organised, and a roundtable!
Session: 620 Title: MEDIEVAL STUDIES AND THE CRISES OF THE PRESENT, I: PLENTY, POSTMORTEM PERAMBULATION, AND PANDEMIC Organisers: Susannah Bain, Jesus College, University of Oxford and Gwenffrewi Morgan, School of History, University of St Andrews Moderator: Amanda Power, Faculty of History, University of Oxford 620-a: The Land of Cockaigne: A Medieval Image in a Modern Crisis (Language: English) John Sabapathy, Department of History, University College London 620-b: What if the Angel of History Were a Walking Corpse?: Reading Augustine's Second Death as an Ecological Disaster (Language: English) Polina Ignatova, Institutionen för kultur och samhälle, Linköping universitet 620-c: Communities in Crisis: An Archaeological Project Tracking the Justinianic Pandemic in France (Language: English) Solenn Troadec, Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean, Harvard University and Isabelle Catteddu, INRAP, Dijon Session: 720 Title: MEDIEVAL STUDIES AND THE CRISES OF THE PRESENT, II: FOOD, TIME, AND CARE Organisers: Bee Jones, Faculty of History, University of Oxford and Amanda Power, Faculty of History, University of Oxford Moderator: Susannah Bain, Jesus College, University of Oxford 720-a: Mete(les) Mythologies: Vegan Prehistories in the Middle English Gawain Romances (Language: English) Caitlin Kelly, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford 720-b: Periodising from the Anthropocene: Reapproaching the Age of the Saints (Language: English) Gwenffrewi Morgan, School of History, University of St Andrews 720-c: Past and Present Care: The Contemporary Crisis of Care and the Role of Medieval Studies (Language: English) Charles Rhodes, Independent Scholar Session: 820 Title: MEDIEVAL STUDIES AND THE CRISES OF THE PRESENT, III: COMMUNITIES AND ECOLOGIES Organisers: Amanda Power, Faculty of History, University of Oxford and Susannah Bain, Jesus College, University of Oxford Moderator: Gwenffrewi Morgan, School of History, University of St Andrews 820-a: Birds in Global Crisis: Toward a (Bio)Diverse Avian History, c. 600-1400 (Language: English) Ryan Mealiffe, Faculty of History, University of Oxford 820-b: Writing Crisis in 15th-Century Portugal: The Chronicles of Fernão Lopes and Manipulation of the 'Common Good' (Language: English) Iona McCleery, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds 820-c: Environmental Crises and Accessing Common Pastures in 14th- Century Provence (Language: English) Patrick Hegarty-Morrish, Faculty of History, University of Oxford Session: 920 Title: MEDIEVAL STUDIES AND THE CRISES OF THE PRESENT, IV: A ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION Organisers: Susannah Bain, Jesus College, University of Oxford and Gwenffrewi Morgan, School of History, University of St Andrews Moderator: Bee Jones, Faculty of History, University of Oxford In an era of intensifying human-caused crises - of climate, biodiversity, politics, society, health, economy - why does knowledge of the medieval period matter? In what ways can medievalists bring our understanding of past societies to speak to today's complex, urgent problems? What insights are missing when longer-term historical perspectives and humanities expertise are not part of public understanding, scientific discussions, and policy formulation? How can the world tackle crises without a robust grasp of their deep-rooted and persistent causes? How can strategies for adaptation and climate justice benefit from a careful analysis of examples from earlier societies? ...
January 23, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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I am speaking at the Environmental History Working Group on Thursday 25th January (Week 2), 12.30-2pm in the History Faculty, Uni of Oxford. My paper is on 'The Accounts of a Genoese Aqueduct: Tapping the Social History of Water in Medieval Cities'. All welcome!
January 16, 2024 at 11:10 AM
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The PowerPoint I am making for my class on chivalry tomorrow features far more Shrek references than I initially intended...
November 1, 2023 at 4:06 PM
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Thesis writing mood (from Field, Field and Gaposchkin's translation of the Gesta Philippi Augusti, obvi)
October 4, 2023 at 4:29 PM
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Happy bisexual visibility day to all who can see me! I will return to being under a blanket soon (sleepy Saturday)
September 23, 2023 at 2:05 PM