Campus at University of York today 🌼✨

We were pleased to support the 'Gender and Sainthood, 1100-1500' Conference Oxford History on 5th and 6th April

Here organisers Antonia Anstatt (@MertonCollege) and Ed van der Molen (@UonHistory) reflect on the event

pastandpresent.org.uk/reflections-up…

Medieval Iceland has a ton of tortured poets ! From the sagas alone, we have Grettir Ásmundarson, Gísli Súrsson, Egill Skallagrimsson, to say nothing of Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld (Troublesome Poet)…

A special treat for Passover, this lavishly illustrated Haggadah with texts in Hebrew and Aramaic, a Hebrew commentary, and a Ladino translation, was published nearly 400 years ago in Venice.
The vivid colours were added later on.

Apple wiped my Macbook when they repaired its screen and I've lost everything. How's your weekend?

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The CFP for this is in itself worth reading: a masterful, concise rebuke of many of the dominant pathologies of the discipline in the age of #twitterstorians .

We are thrilled to announce our newest board members, who bring expertise in a dazzling array of methods, theories, skills, and research specialties! You can find out more about them here 👉 sites.google.com/view/postmedie…

Really excited to talk about J. Logan Smilges’s Crip Negativity in this week’s Critical Theory (for medievalists) Reading Group ! Pictured here with a comically large cup of coffee.

The Cass Review denied trans history, in part, to invent an origin and espouse a 'social contagion' myth of being transgender so as to support restrictions for transgender healthcare. This inquiry will do the same. As heritage experts we have a moral duty to challenge that denial

We’re looking for a part-time, remote managing editor to join our team. The deadline for applications in 15 May. Please share and reach out to us on [email protected] if you have any questions! More info about the role here 👉 docs.google.com/document/u/0/d…

Today ⬇️✨

Over the past several years, it's been driving me a little insane that trans aesthetics seem to be reaching newfound heights of popularity as actual trans people are increasingly dispossessed. Finally wrote about it here them.us/story/trans-st…

Are you a postgraduate student in York Dept of English interested in the hows and whys of academic publishing?

5PM TOMORROW (at KM 159) SCRAMS @York CMS is hosting a panel demystifying publishing as a postgraduate student, led by the wonderful Hannah Armstrong Ed van der Molen and I. ✨

RE: The Cass Report

FYI, folk writing abt Slavery, race & Shax & new to 1st 2 subjects sld marry archival excitement w/ deep thinking. Suggest starting w/MargoH aka Elysabeth Grace, Updates mostly, 'Coloring the Past, Considerations on Our Future: RaceB4Race' muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…
#PCRS #ShakeRace #RaceBeforeRace . .