Tessera
Folgen

Hannah Armstrong

@hjparmstrong.bsky.social

ECR | Medieval(ism)ist | Old Norse, North Atlantic Islands, Place and Travel Writing | Access and Engagement | She/Her.

220 Posts1877 Follower642 Folgt
Juliane Witte@julianewitte.bsky.social · 3w ago

So I've had a speaker drop-out last minute from the session dedicated to Old Norse female networks and communities! I still need to figure out next steps but is there coincidentally anyone who'd like to present in this session? #MedievalSky #OldNorse

Juliane Witte@julianewitte.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I'm organising sessions about medieval female networks and communities for next year's (2027) @imc-leeds.bsky.social!! The CFP is purposefully broad and open, so do share with whoever you think might be interested and hit me up with any questions! #MedievalSky

In line with IMC’s thematic focus on communities, this series of sessions will explore female networks and communities in the Middle Ages from a variety of methodological, theoretical, and disciplinary angles. While many medieval sources focus expressly on men and male characters, relationships between women and female characters exist, even if they are sometimes hidden away at the margins. The goal of these sessions is to put female networks, communities, and relationships at the centre of our focus and thereby gain a more nuanced insight into the Middle Ages and our engagement with the time period and its various outputs. In this context, both “network” and “community” are defined as broadly as possible, namely as relationships of any sort between medieval women, female characters in texts, and/or female audiences (both medieval and modern, both scholarly and popular). The aim of these sessions is to explore where and how such networks and communities can be located, how they are depicted, what effect they have upon their narratives or their historical surroundings, and how we connect to them now. The desire is for these sessions to be as broad and exploratory as possible, inviting scholars from a variety of disciplines. Papers could address intersectional communities, religious networks, the performance of community, inclusion/exclusion, and much more in historical, literary, and/or material contexts. Doctoral Candidates, late-stage MA students, and Early Career Researchers are actively encouraged to send in proposals. I am planning an edited volume based on these sessions. Please send an abstract (max. 300 words) and a short biography to juliane.witte@uni-tuebingen.de by the 31st of July 2026. Please do state whether you’d prefer to attend in person or online. Feel free to also reach out with any questions!
NECRON - Network of Early Career Researchers in Old Norse@necron-network.bsky.social · 4w ago

Reminder that our online panel discussion will be taking place this coming Tuesday! We're also currently looking into the possibility of recording it and making it available for a period afterwards. So if you're interested but can't make the live event, do still sign-up!

Hannah Armstrong@hjparmstrong.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 Calling all Old Norse PGRs and ECRs! 📣 On 29 September @necron-network.bsky.social will be hosting an online panel discussion on the theme of ‘Navigating Old Norse Careers in the 21st Century’. The event is free and you can sign-up here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/h0CAucG0y7 #medievalsky #oldnorse

Poster is black with blue and white text and read as follows: Network of Early Career Researchers in Old Norse NECRON Navigating Old Norse Careers in the 21st Century or What to do with a degree in Old Norse Studies A panel discussion with former NECRON board members 29th September via Zoom 13.30 GMT / 14.30 CET
Natalie Hopwood@nrhopwood.bsky.social · last mo.

Reminder to all Old Norse PGRs and ECRs! The next NECRON event is happening NEXT WEEK! Hope to see many of you there 🌟

Hannah Armstrong@hjparmstrong.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 Calling all Old Norse PGRs and ECRs! 📣 On 29 September @necron-network.bsky.social will be hosting an online panel discussion on the theme of ‘Navigating Old Norse Careers in the 21st Century’. The event is free and you can sign-up here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/h0CAucG0y7 #medievalsky #oldnorse

Poster is black with blue and white text and read as follows: Network of Early Career Researchers in Old Norse NECRON Navigating Old Norse Careers in the 21st Century or What to do with a degree in Old Norse Studies A panel discussion with former NECRON board members 29th September via Zoom 13.30 GMT / 14.30 CET
Helen Czerski@helenczerski.bsky.social · last mo.

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

Hannah Armstrong@hjparmstrong.bsky.social · last mo.

I had no idea Robert Louis Stevenson had Old Norse interests! Definitely one for my growing reading list of Scottish receptions of medieval Iceland.

Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk · last mo.

“This is a tale of Iceland, the isle of stories, and of a thing that befell in the year of the coming there of Christianity” —So begins Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story “The Waif Woman” – unpublished in his lifetime, & found among the papers of his wife after her death in 1914 #WyrdWednesday 💙📚

A copy of a very slim, old, hardback book, with a torn paper cover. The title can just be made out as THE WAIF WOMAN. Below that is the author's name – ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON – and some text: A folk tale of old Iceland in the author's best manner, which has lately been discovered among the papers of the late Mrs. Stevenson, and is now for the first time issued in book form. Beneath the text is a large monogram: RLS
Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk · 2mo ago

…I’ve seen the arc of the earth, From the Birsay shore, like the edge of a planet, And the lifeboat plunge through the Pentland Firth To a cosmic tide with the men that man it. —Robert Rendall, “Angle of Vision” from The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (EUP, 2005) #RNLI #poem

Angle of Vision Robert Rendall But, John, have you seen the world, said he, Trains and tramcars and sixty-seaters, Cities in lands across the sea – Giotto’s tower and the dome of St Peter’s? No, but I’ve seen the arc of the earth, From the Birsay shore, like the edge of a planet, And the lifeboat plunge through the Pentland Firth To a cosmic tide with the men that man it.
Ruth Watson@ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 2mo ago

The courage of those who set out to save those at risk of drowning can never be overestimated. Each rescue is a challenge. I used to watch the Orkney lifeboat head out into rough seas with my heart in my mouth. Remarkable bravery. Donate to the #RNLI here: shop.rnli.org/products/don...

Dr Jo Kershaw@mthrjo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The RNLI have some of the best people in Britain volunteering for them. They put their lives on the line when they are called on and they will rescue anyone who needs them. Because every life matters, and offering help is the right thing to do. You can donate here: rnli.org

RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea

The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.

rnli.org

Hannah Armstrong@hjparmstrong.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Good news can feel few and far between as an ECR these days, so I'm very grateful and excited to share that I've signed a contract for my first book 'Island Medievalism and the Sagas of the Norse North Atlantic' (title tbc) with Oxford University Press.

The top of a publishing agreement listing the name of the publisher, Oxford University Press, and the author, Hannah Armstrong.
Bathsheba Demuth@brdemuth.bsky.social · 4mo ago

On the long American tradition of buying sovereignty, Greenland, colonialism, an AI penguin, and the grimy history of the president’s grandfather in the far north www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Strategic Amnesia | Bathsheba Demuth

Denying that history could have been otherwise or making conquest subject to some unwritten statute of limitations are both ways of cloaking not just the US’s imperial past but its continuation into t...

nplusonemag.com

David Henig@davidheniguk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This, in particular. Increasingly of the view that government policy towards universities is the test case of whether it really has a wider economic policy.

Bild
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"A closed country will be poorer. A country that underinvests will not grow. A state that refuses to reform tax will ration ambition. And a Labour government afraid to say these things will discover once again that caution, too, has costs." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hannah Armstrong@hjparmstrong.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Still coming down from all the excitement of #imc2026! Always so energising and inspiring to hear about the amazing research which is happening despite the difficulties of the current political/cultural moment. Imagine what we could do with more funding and less fascism!

Screenshot of a powerpoint title slide reading There is Hope for One Buried in Ice: Medieval Pasts and Futures in the Island Writing of Hugh MacDiarmidThe poster, Hannah Armstrong, stands at the front of a seminar room presenting her conference paper.
Dr Francis Young@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 4mo ago

As it gets harder and harder for people to resist using AI, we need new awards that recognise and celebrate the very worst of human-made writing, saluting people who didn’t know wtf they were doing but had the courage and resilience to press ahead and write without running anything through an LLM

Alasdair Beckett-King@misterabk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We did it, lads. We banned trans people from toilets. Now to sit back and watch house prices come down and vegetables stop rotting on supermarket shelves and we'll all come together and feast on Cadbury's Creme Eggs as big as your head, m'boy, And we'll watch Morecambe and Wise, who did NOT die

👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻@oldenoughtosay.com · 5mo ago

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera@pantibliss.bsky.social · last yr.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should