It's that time of year! @imc-leeds.bsky.social has just begun but I'm thinking about #IMC2027! Please consider submitting an abstract for papers on Community in Romance to kirsty.bolton@ell.ox.ac.uk by 31st August.
Kirsty Bolton
@lusignanmermaid.bsky.social
Likes: medieval literature, sea swimming, plants, embroidery. Dislikes: transphobes, bigots, jelly. Leverhulme ECF at Oxford, researching identity and the sea in medieval romance.
Is anyone thinking of going to the NCS conference on Reading Chaucer Outside the Anglophone World (readingchaucer.com)? It sounds amazing and I’d love to go but Taiwan is a way away! Should I?!
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Join Harris Manchester Research Fellow @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social tomorrow ( 5 June) at Lady Margaret Hall where she will be in conversation with Professor Christine Gerrard. More info and booking 👇 www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/events/conve...
In Conversation: Janina Ramirez | Lady Margaret Hall
All are welcome to join LMH Principal Professor Christine Gerrard for an 'In Conversation' with medieval art historian and author Janina Ramirez
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How is it even possible to put together a budget for a conference before you have any idea of how many people might come?!
Has anyone gotten the Eurostar from St Pancras recently? I do *really* need to arrive 90 minutes before, or will an hour suffice?
Check out the newest Issue of TSW! #medievalsky #arthuriansky #academicsky #publichumanities The preview 🧵 starts NOW👇/1
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Very proud of these workshops that are part of my @leverhulme.ac.uk fellowship.
2/ up first we have “Exploring Medieval & Modern Experiences of Migration, and Why it Matters Now More Than Ever,” wherein @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social & @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social discuss a series of #zine workshops they led, events which drew together medieval & modern experiences of migration!
Nothing like creating an index to make you question the spelling of every word important to your research.
In our latest blog post, Kirsty Bolton reflects on her experience of claiming a space of her own and the ways mothers occupied and used space within #medieval romances. Read the blog 👉 buff.ly/ZGItAjv @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians #womenhistory
Very excited for the Medieval Insular Romance conference at Oxford in April. Look at the gorgeous programme! So many papers that I’m excited to hear and friends that I’m looking forward to catching up with 🥰 medieval.ox.ac.uk/medieval-ins...
Medieval Insular Romance Conference – Oxford Medieval Studies
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So very tempted to go to the New Chaucer Society’s ‘Reading Chaucer Outside the Anglophone World’ conference in Taiwan next year while I still have a research budget… anyone else considering? I don’t have much to contribute but it would be so interesting.
My book published yesterday! If it looks like your thing, maybe suggest your library buys a copy, or offer to review it for a journal, or you can get 35% off with code BB135 boydellandbrewer.com/book/motherh...
Look who popped over! The wonderful @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social (a former PhD student of mine, now doing great things as a Leverhulme ECF in Oxford), with a copy of her book #Motherhood and its Spaces in #Medieval #Romance! A must read! Thank you, Kirsty, and big congratulations! 🎉❤️
Look what arrived! Actual physical copies of my book! It’s so pretty 💕 As with any academic book, this has been quite a while in the making and wouldn’t have been possible without the support and expertise of so many amazing people. Thank you!
News! The submission deadline for www.uarcticcongress.fo/programme/ca... has been extended to 15th Jan! It would be amazing to see you there and hear about the brilliant watery research that you're doing. My sessions are 134, 162, and 174 - please join me!
Uarctic Congress 2026
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Meet my new (& newly landed in my postbox) friend, Medieval Twitter in PAPERBACK!!! Get your own fine flippable friend from @archumanities.bsky.social for the low(ish) price of £29.95 👉https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781942401957/medieval-twitter/
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Another call for abstracts for our sessions at the UArctic Congress in May. It's on the Faroe Islands and I'm really excited! Deadline for abstracts 15/12/25 medieval.ox.ac.uk/uarctic-cong...
UArctic Congress 2026 – Oxford Medieval Studies
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If you’re interested in Environmental Humanities, the Arctic, medieval lit/hist, or indigenous populations, submit an abstract for my sessions at the UArctic Congress in Torshavn in May! Sessions 134, 162, and 174 www.uarcticcongress.fo/programme/ca...
Uarctic Congress 2026
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Spread the word about this brand new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities with me and The Greenhouse crew in Norway. For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!
The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English. Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues! Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
Ready for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026? Submit an abstract to Dan Reeve and I's CFP: "BEYOND TOUCH: New Queer and Trans Temporalities" We invite submissions for 15-20 minute papers that examine queer and trans temporalities from new and unexpected angles. #IMC2026. Full CFP below 👇
Thank you, Rachel and the amazing GMS community. This was an brilliant experience, as was the whole wonderful conference.
Listening to @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social giving the ECR Plenary at @medievalgender.bsky.social - great stuff. I’m proud that I established this plenary & that it’s become an annual part of GMS: so important to centre our early career scholars.
I just made my very first edit to @wikipedia.org in Fran and Lucy’s #MedievalWiki workshop @themamoconf.bsky.social #DigitalSkillz
My proposal has been accepted for the New Chaucer Society congress in Freiburg next July! Who all else is going, #MedievalSky?
MAMO is this week! I’m so excited for so many amazing papers and workshops reflecting on how medieval research interacts with the modern world.
Continuing with our MAMO thread of reflecting on practices of medievalism, we look forward to our Thursday panel on 'Pedagogy and Practice'! With Kirsty Bolton (@lusignanmermaid.bsky.social, Oxford), Karen A. Winstead (Ohio), and Brendan O'Connell (Trinity Dublin). #MAMOmonth
I’ve started my PowerPoint for my ECR plenary at GMS in a few weeks 😂 🧜🏽♀️ Disclaimer: there are no actual mermaids in the paper. Yet. @medievalgender.bsky.social
I read a lovely book and wrote about it in the fantastic Medieval Feminist Forum: scholarworks.wmich.edu/mff/vol60/is...
English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400–1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood, by Alexandra Verini
By Kirsty Bolton, Published on 01/01/25
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Perhaps naively, I believe that most people think they are doing the right thing within their value system. But bloody hell, Starmer, give your head a wobble. You’re sorely testing this belief right now.