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Announcing a symposium on gender in medieval insular literature to be held 29-30 May in Aberystwyth.

Less than a month to submit an abstract!
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Sign the Petition Keep the Classical Languages Major at the University of Iowa

🚨Higher Ed Petition🚨 to save a thriving & growing classics program at U Iowa from unnecessary shutdown. Crushing the humanities is closed-minded politics wanting grads to be obedient workers not critical thinkers. HELP PUSH BACK. #HistSky #MedievalSky #HigherEd

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Join us on Tuesday 10th. February from 17:30 GMT to hear @elenarossi.bsky.social speak about families in the middle ages as their children left for university and international travel.
We will be at the IHR in London. You may meet us there or online.
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A medieval manuscript image of two men holding hands. Annouces a Symposium in Gender in Medieval Insular Literature, held 29-30 May in Aberystwyth, Wales.

You're going to see this from me a lot for a while. Please share, and contribute if you are a medievalist working in this area! It's going to be great. #medievalsky #genderstudies
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The declyne of readinge ys caused by manye thinges. One major cause ys a systematic & decades-long devaluinge of literature at all levels of educacioun. We kan not put instrumentalitye above meaninge and still thrive. Fundinge the humanityes ys key to a just societye of well-informed citizens.

Today at 1pm in Dublinia!

🚨 SCE Student prizes announcement!
We warmly invite submissions for the Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß Prizes of the Societas Celtologica Europaea in two categories:
- Best Scholarly Article in Celtic Studies
- Best PhD Thesis in Celtic Studies
More info below or at: celtologica.eu/gb/prizes/

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Poster advertising H M. Chadwick Memorial Lecture, Cambridge, 19 March 2026. See link.

Léacht ar an mborradh a tháinig faoin litríocht Breatnaise i dtréimhse Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (c. 1173-1240).
A lecture on the flourishing of Welsh literature in the age of Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (c. 1173-1240).
Cambridge, 19 Máirt/March 2026.
#DIASdiscovers
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The Survival of Roman Education in Early Medieval Britain - Medievalists.net Roman rule ended in 410, but Latin education did not. Nicholas J. Higham explores elite learning and literary culture in post-Roman Britain.

The Survival of Roman Education in Early Medieval Britain www.medievalists.net/2026/02/roma... #medieval #earlymiddleages

A medieval manuscript image of two men holding hands. Annouces a Symposium in Gender in Medieval Insular Literature, held 29-30 May in Aberystwyth, Wales.

You're going to see this from me a lot for a while. Please share, and contribute if you are a medievalist working in this area! It's going to be great. #medievalsky #genderstudies
wp-research.aber.ac.uk/medievalgend...

A small red dragon with gold wings and blue horns. It is quite skinny.

A small dragon for your viewing pleasure. (Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig IX 5, fol. 104v)

Are you a scholar working on cool gender stuff in Britain and Ireland? Would you like to come hang out by the seaside for a weekend while talking about your awesome research? Then have I got a symposium for you! #medievalsky #cfp

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I'm pretty forgiving, but I'm going to be furious at the 'throw everyone else under the bus because Harris can't snap her fingers and fix Gaza' people for a long time.

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

This is cool as hell: An app designed to ping people about nearby smartglasses.

Also cool: The creator was inspired by @404media.co coverage, a great illustration of why their journalism is so essential. This kind of work is funded by paid subscribers so become one of those if you can.

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Maynooth University Sanctuary Scholarship applications open. Deadline 20 March!

"Scholarships are open to: 
international protection applicants in Ireland; and  refugees, beneficiaries of subsidiary protection, and those with leave to remain in Ireland."

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Don't give your information to companies. At the very least make them work for it.

'How do you know this reference?' I assume the correct answer is not actually 'we met 15 years ago at the pub' but given this field, it could be.

After my wonderful official launch of SHE IS HERE, it seems as though the world woke up and got caught up: after 4 years as hardcover, SPEAR is finally out in paperback, and just 12 years late, HILD is at last reviewed in the NYT...

I expect medievalists are not the intended audience but this was fun anyway!

We are pleased to invite researchers to submit their original work for consideration in our upcoming 2026 issue of Studia Celtica Posnaniensia. We welcome high-quality submissions that cover all aspects of Celtic linguistics, literature, culture, and history. Submission deadline: 30 May 2026.

Research-Creation in the early Middle Ages: the example of Hibernicus Exul : Find an Expert : The University of Melbourne <p> The pivotal role played by Irish scholars in preserving and transmitting ancient learning during the early Middle Ages is well known even beyond the academy, thanks to popularising works such as ‘How the Irish Saved Civilization’. Yet a great deal of work remains to be done on individual Irish figures working in continental Europe during the eighth to tenth centuries in order to establish more rigorously the Irish contribution. The shadowy figure known as ‘Hibernicus Exul’ (‘the Irish exile’) provides an ideal test-case for this work: the author of thirty-eight Latin poems, on scholarly, political, and comic topics, his works appear in a single manuscript, Vatican Reg. Lat. 2078. This is an important and influential poetic anthology from the heart of the Carolingian Renaissance, a period of intense cultural and intellectual activity in eight- and ninth-century Europe during which the literature and learning of the ancient Graeco-Roman world was rediscovered and concerted efforts were made to standardise and widen access to educational systems, with significant consequences for the intellectual history of western Europe. The PhD student recruited will write the first monograph-length study of Hibernicus Exul, setting his work in the context of the manuscript, addressing the controversial question of his possible identification with the better- known Carolingian scholar Dúngal, and demonstrate how the poet exemplifies the nature of medieval Irish literature, which simultaneously aims to educate and to entertain, and can in many ways be seen as a predecessor of today’s Research-Creation. </p> <p> <strong>Please note below additional requirements when submitting your Expressions of Interest:</strong> </p> <ul> <li>Additional requirements: <ul> <li> <strong>Statement of research interest [max. 1000 words]</strong> </li> <li> <strong>MA in a related field, or equivalent, to be completed by the programme start date.</strong> </li> <li> <strong>Evidence of at least six semesters of Latin, or equivalent, with grades of B+ or higher, or equivalent</strong> </li> </ul> </li> </ul>

#MEDIEVAL #LATIN #PHD OPPORTUNITY:
Co-supervised by myself and Cillian O'Hogan, University of Toronto

Project start: September 2027, with time in #Toronto, France, & @unimelb.edu.au. #Scholarship includes tuition fees, living allowance, health insurance, and relocation support.

Get in touch!

To be fair a lot of universities don't seem to know how they work either.

Yeah, that's way too technically advanced for Wales. 😆

#FairyTaleTuesday
One of the more epic feasts in Welsh mythology is described in the Second Branch of the Mabinogi, when the survivors of the war against Ireland return to Britain.
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That this is held up by later poets as a model of the genre also means it becomes ripe for parody - sure, some people want a fine horse who believes it can fly, but a lazy fellow might prefer a swaybacked one, slogging along! Maybe that one is for another year. 🔥🐎 #firehorse #welsh #medievalsky

Thematically for the day, this horse he's asked for has 'draed yn gwau drwy dan gwyllt' (feet weaving through wild fire); Aled describes it leaping through the air, following the path of lightning and thunder, sparks exploding from its hoofbeats.

Request poems for horses aren't uncommon from the cywyddwyr, but this one is notable for 1) organising the avalanche of descriptive metaphor at least in order of where it appears on a horse, and 2) being written by someone clearly really into horses.

Welcome to the Year of the Fire Horse! A good excuse to draw your attention to Tudur Aled (fl. 1480-1525), master of the cywyddau meirch (horse poems) and noted 'friend to the horseman'. His request poem for a stallion who 'loosed a leap at heaven' is in Clancy's Medieval Welsh Lyric.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.