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Yup

This comment is perfect

Yes!!!

Honestly wish I could make world leaders take a bloody history class. I’m a medieval Middle East specialist and even I could have explained the ramifications.
Yeesh. Real people are dying.

"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous." - George Orwell

Where is the so-called humanitarian purpose in attacking civilians who are already victims of a blood-thirsty regime? A missile struck a girls’ school earlier today, killing at least 80 people. Many more unnecessary casualties are to be expected. Stop the hemorrhage already!

The news this morning is unbelievable and my god I am worried for friends in Iran.

This piece of yours…I keep going back to it. Now rewatching Twin Peaks. And it is almost a visceral experience.

Damn right. So many men need to stay in their lane and worry about themselves.

Perfect

I just can’t even with this.

I've learned many disturbing things from this thread. whoo boy

I was just thinking about this!

Well back to the regularly scheduled program that everything is shit

in a terrible world during an awful week personally...this.
This. This.

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

Omg!!!!!!

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Today was almost entirely a day I could have lived without. Thank goodness for my students! But seriously universe...enough already.

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Carney uninvited to join Trump’s ‘Board Of Peace’ alongside Putin, Netanyahu, Lex Luthor, Megatron WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. President Donald Trump disinvited Prime Minister Mark Carney from his newly-established "Board of Peace", comprised of Trump, various war criminals, authoritarian strongmen, and...

Carney uninvited to join Trump’s ‘Board Of Peace’ alongside Putin, Netanyahu, Lex Luthor, Megatron

Jeez I love him

🎞️ Restoration work has begun on the Ottoman mosque located in Çengeller Village of Akyazı District, Sakarya, which had been on the verge of collapse.

CFP - CSM Sessions at ACCUTE's 2026 conference in Montreal, 4-7 June

Submit your paper proposals on
• Medieval Magic
• Medieval Masculinities

for two CSM-sponsored sessions. Deadline 15 Nov. 2025. Details here www.canadianmedievalists.org/CSM-at-ACCUT...

Call for Papers / Appel à communications MEDIEVAL ENGAGEMENTS WITH DISABILITY 2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF MEDIEVALISTS / RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DES MÉDIÉVISTES 2026 The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity, and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session that will explore disability in the medieval past and/or the ways in which disability studies and medieval studies fruitfully intersect. Papers might consider: • Constructions of disability and difference, and the power structures they engage • Mobility impairments and aids, and/or responses to them • Sensory impairments and/or responses to them • The temporality of disability • How disability intersects with other axes of identity Presentations may be in either English or French and should be 15-20 minutes in length. Please submit proposals by email by January 5, 2026. For inquiries or proposal submissions, please contact Emma-Catherine Wilson at emma-catherine.wilson@hertford.ox.ac.uk.

**CFP** for Session at the 2026 annual conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, 26-29 May 2026 in beautiful Antigonish, NS!

Medieval Engagements with Disability: see attached for details or visit our webpage www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Pa...

CALL FOR PAPERS 2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF MEDIEVALISTS / RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DES MÉDIÉVISTES 2026 QUEER WORLD-MAKING The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity, and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session on queer world-making in medieval studies. This session takes as its starting point the idea that queerness is a mode of imagining, creating, and inhabiting other worlds. We are interested in how medieval texts envision alternatives to normative ideals, and in how queer approaches to these texts might open transformative possibilities. LENGTH: 15-20 MINUTES LANGUAGE: ENGLISH OR FRENCH Please submit proposals by email by January 5, 2026. For inquiries or proposal submissions, please contact Gavin Foster at gavin.foster@dal.ca.

**CFP** for Session at the 2026 annual conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, 26-29 May 2026 in beautiful Antigonish, NS!

Queer World-Making: see attached for details or visit our webpage www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Pa...

CALL FOR PAPERS UNDERSTANDING MEDIEVAL RACE-MAKING 2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF MEDIEVALISTS / RÉUNION ANNUELLE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DES MÉDIÉVISTES 2026 The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session on medieval race-making. THIS PANEL ASKS THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: • HOW DID WE UNDERSTAND THE IDEA OF RACE BEFORE MODERN DISCOURSES ON IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALISM? • HOW DO MODERN DISCOURSES ON IMPERIALISM, COLONIALISM, AND RACE HELP US UNDERSTAND MEDIEVAL RACE? • ALTERNATIVELY, HOW DOES MODERN DISCOURSE ON RACE SHAPE HOW RACE-MAKING OR RACE IS ENGAGED WITHIN MEDIEVALISM? • HOW DID THE PREMODERN IMAGINE ALTERITY? HOW DID THEY DEFINE THEMSELVES? • HOW DID THE PREMODERN UNDERSTAND THE INDIGENOUS VS THE COLONIZER? Presentations may be in either English or French and should be 15-20 minutes in length. Please submit proposals by email by January 5, 2026. For inquiries or proposal submissions, please contact Arkaprabha Chakraborty at arkaprabha.chakraborty@mail.utoronto.ca.

**CFP** for Session at the 2026 annual conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, 26-29 May 2026 in beautiful Antigonish, NS!

Understanding Medieval Race-Making: see attached for details or visit our webpage www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Pa...