Congratulations to our student association, MEMSA, and particularly to conference co-convenors Ava Cohen and Joost Oosterhuis, on organising such a wonderful meeting of minds! 👏 📲 Follow @durhammemsa.bsky.social. to keep up with news and events from our postgraduate community.

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Earlier this month, Durham MEMSA was proud to host its 20th Annual Conference, ‘Connection, Conversation, Contention: Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern World’ at St. John's College, Durham, chaired by Ava Siena Cohen and Joost Oosterhuis! (🧵1/8)

Today, the #IMEMSSpotlight is on Professor Rik Van Nieuwenhove! 📖🏷️Throughout August, you can order Rik's latest book, 'Providence, Evil and Salvation: A Thomist Perspective' with a 20% discount: tinyurl.com/529xukt6 @universitypress.cambridge.org @ccshistorycatholic.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk

Fascinating article from our member Dr Alex Brown!

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Monks wrote chronicles about the devastating heat of the 13th century, and detail what happened.

👏 Huge congratulations to IMEMS member Dr Jacob Lollar, who has just had three publications appear, all in the same weekend! They include his third book, on the Syriac reception of the 'Acts of Thekla' and the cult of St Thekla, published by Mohr Siebeck.

🎉The first year of our flagship programme of research at IMEMS, Inventing Futures, is drawing to a close, and to say it's been a whirlwind would be an understatement. Read more about Inventing Futures, generously funded by Joanna and Graham Barker, here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

🌏💭 Last week, we hosted ‘Durham East Asia Postgraduate Research Conversations’. Organized by IMEMS member Sare Aricanli & theThinking East Asia (TEA) Research Cluster (@durhamhistory.bsky.social), the event also marked rthe inaugural meeting of the ‘East Asia in the North’ (EATN) network.

📍 This week, our Co-Director, Graeme Small, is at @uppsala for Things that Matter summer school. The summer school is a collaboration between @durham.ac.uk, University of Bern, University of Groningen, Tübingen University and @suhealthsci.bsky.social Read more: www.rug.nl/education/su...

It was a pleasure to welcome Anna Nsubuga, the UK Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO, to IMEMS this morning. @unesco.bsky.social Later, Anna will deliver the inaugural annual lecture for @durham.ac.uk's new Centre for Heritage (CHeri).

🎉 A new publication from the IMEMS Press with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social is on the way! Elise Watson's 'Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age' is released on June 30 and is available for pre-order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/print-a...

My book, PRESENCE: A Hidden History of the Female Body is out in June with Cape in the UK and with Astra House in the US. If you're an editor / reviewer / etc, let me know if you'd like to be on the list for an advance copy.

📸 Last week's @britishacademy.bsky.social and @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded conference brought together a global community of scholars to explore the enduring power and complexity of early modern representations of gendered violence. Read more: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Today, the #IMEMSSpotlight is on Dr Erin Maglaque! 📖 Find out more about 'Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body' here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/465296...

Session 3, 'Framing gendered violence in literature and art' is chaired by Corinne Saunders. Jessica Goethals (University of Alabama) is presenting 'The Gendered Sack of Rome'; (1/2)

Session 2,'Gendered violence in the historical record', is chaired by @tombhamilton.bsky.social (@durham.ac.uk) and includes a paper by Monica Calabritto (@huntercollege.bsky.social and @cuny.edu), 'Violence and Death in 16th-century Bologna: Issues of Gender'; (1/2)

Session 1, 'Gendered violence across literary genres', is chaired by Ioannis Ziogas (@durham.ac.uk), with a panel including Annalisa Perrotta ( Università della Sapienza), presenting 'Resisting Violence: Women, Weapons and Armour in Chivalric Poems from Pulei to Ariosto'; (1/3)

It's the first day of our @britishacademy.bsky.social-funded conference 'Daphne and her Sisters: Framing Gendered Violence in Early Modern Literature and Art', part of the IMEMS Inventing Futures project of the same name! Read more about the project here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

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Fabulous to be back in Durham this week for Places and Spaces of Devotion. Im very grateful for the opportunity to give my paper on the interpretations of silence in early Quaker spiritual practices and to hear so many other fantastic papers on EM religious worship @imems.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr

Career Development Fellow in French & Francophone Studies (2 years) at Durham University 'we are especially interested to receive applications from those with specialisms in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries' Deadline 21 June, start Sept 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRS327/c... @imems.bsky.social

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Publishing this month ➡️ Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age by Elise Watson reveals the hidden world of ephemeral Catholic print in the so-called Dutch Golden Age. Pre-order: buff.ly/Q25qoNR @ewatson.bsky.social @imems.bsky.social @catholicismsem.bsky.social

Exciting news: IMEMS' John O’Brien & Marc Schachter have been awarded an Amy Wygant Bursary by @semfsuk.bsky.social to support the publication, by @durham.ac.uk IMEMS Press, of 'The Right to Resist: La Boétie’s "Of Voluntary Servitude" and Three Monarchomach Treatises'! @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

Warmest congratulations to IMEMS member Dr Lorenzo Dell'Oso (@languagesdurham.bsky.social ) on being awarded the Pontremoli “Pier delle Vigne” Prize for Medieval Studies for 'Il poeta alle "scuole delli religiosi": Dante, Pietro delle Travi e il convento di Santa Croce (1294–1296)' (Carocci, 2026)!

Paolo Broggio discusses his new book, Criminal Justice and Peace-making in Early Modern Italy, with Tom Hamilton, Stuart Carroll, Amanda G. Madden and moderated by Krista Kesselring in this online book event. Watch here 👉 buff.ly/K6hULBz @imems.bsky.social @kjkesselring.bsky.social

Criminal Justice and Peace-Making in Early Modern Italy - Book Discussion

Author Paolo Broggio in conversation with Tom Hamilton, Stuart Carroll, Amanda G. Madden, moderated by Krista Kesselring. His work explores private peace pacts in early modern Italy, challenging…

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📢 Job Opportunity at @durham.ac.uk Bridging Fellow in Early Modern Italian Studies: durham.taleo.net/careersectio... IMEMS seeks to appoint a Bridging Fellow with research interests in the field of early modern Italian studies to the Inventing Futures research programme @languagesdurham.bsky.social

New publication alert for #ChristopherMarlowe scholars in the IMEMS community! 👇

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If you're interested in #ChristopherMarlowe, you might like to read my new note on Marlowe as an auditor of the ParkerLibrary's collections in Cambridge. Thanks to Tuija @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social for all your help! 🗺️📚🌎 @marlowemightyln.bsky.social @marlowestudies.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/note...

Tuesday saw our 'Imagining Alternatives' team participate in a workshop entitled 'Technologies of Wonder: Imagination and the History of Knowledge' at @qmul.bsky.social, where they were joined in a panel discussion by Professor David Colclough. Read more: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

On Monday, Prof Richard Scholar, Dr Robert Twiss & Dr Laura Mattioli attended a conference at @mfoxford.bsky.social, Utopianism & Early Modern Scientific Collaboration. Read about their project, 'Imagining Alternatives', supported by Joanna and Graham Barker: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

📅Next week the Inventing Futures team working on 'Imagining Alternatives: Utopia in the World' will present at @ox.ac.uk & @qmul.bsky.social 🧫Utopianism & Early Modern Scientific Collaboration| @mfoxford.bsky.social| 11 May 🧠Imagination & the History of Knowledge| @qmul.bsky.social| 12 May

UPCOMING CONFERENCE: 'Daphne and Her Sisters: Framing Gendered Violence in Early Modern Literature and Art' | Durham University| 10-11 June 2026 📅 📲 Register now: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...

Daphne and her Sisters: framing gendered violence in Early Modern literature and art

Daphne and her Sisters explores representations of gendered violence in 15th- and 16th-century European literature and art, and the enduring cultural power of works often shaped by male perspectives. ...

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Congratulations to Catherine-Rose Hailstone, whose book is now available to pre-order from Edinburgh University Press! *God, Demons, and Fear: Emotion, The Self, and Self-control in Gregory of Tours* edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-god-dem... @caterose.bsky.social @imems.bsky.social

God, Demons, and Fear

God, Demons, and Fear

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🎉 Book launch! Learn more about Criminal Justice and Peace-Making in Early Modern Italy by Paolo Broggio at an online book event on Tuesday May 19th! 📅 Tuesday, May 19, 4pm (GMT) 5pm (CET) 11am (EST) 🖥️ Online Teams Call - buff.ly/4pRQHSc @imems.bsky.social