MAMO Conference 2027
@themamoconf.bsky.social
The 6th Middle Ages in the Modern World conference (MAMO). Lincoln College Oxford, 22-24 June 2027. themamo.org
Everyone who was at #NCS2026 should consider putting in papers for MAMO 2027 in Oxford! Join us!
MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf.bsky.social · last mo.❗It's here! The Call For Papers for MAMO 2027❗ - Seeking a broad range of proposals for papers and events, focusing on aspects of medievalism in the modern world. - Featuring some very special events and keynotes... - You can find a plaintext version of this CFP at shorturl.at/0FJjY.
*Cough* out just in time for the 30th September CFP deadline for MAMO: a 1381 Uprising film 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3YO...
The Uprising | Official Trailer (Andrew Garfield, 2026)
YouTube video by Entertainment Tonight
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❗It's here! The Call For Papers for MAMO 2027❗ - Seeking a broad range of proposals for papers and events, focusing on aspects of medievalism in the modern world. - Featuring some very special events and keynotes... - You can find a plaintext version of this CFP at shorturl.at/0FJjY.
This is my Glastonbury! And what a line-up!
MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf.bsky.social · last mo.❗It's here! The Call For Papers for MAMO 2027❗ - Seeking a broad range of proposals for papers and events, focusing on aspects of medievalism in the modern world. - Featuring some very special events and keynotes... - You can find a plaintext version of this CFP at shorturl.at/0FJjY.
❗It's here! The Call For Papers for MAMO 2027❗ - Seeking a broad range of proposals for papers and events, focusing on aspects of medievalism in the modern world. - Featuring some very special events and keynotes... - You can find a plaintext version of this CFP at shorturl.at/0FJjY.
MAMO IS BACK FOR 2027! Join us at Lincoln College, Oxford (@lincoln.ox.ac.uk) on 22-24 June 2027 for the 6th international Middle Ages in the Modern World conference. We can't wait to share more details. Watch out for a Call For Papers this summer, and you'll find updates on Bsky and at themamo.org
The Middle Ages in the Modern World
A multidisciplinary conference on medievalism in the post-Middle Ages
themamo.org
That’s the location of the next MAMO sorted, then 😍 @themamoconf.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘It’s back to the future’: the 13th-century castle built by hand in France
A quarter of a century after our first visit, the Guardian returns to Guédelon to find old-fashioned toil has built “thoroughly modern” architectural laboratory
theguardian.com
For those who may be interested ☺️ my slides and painting from my talk 'Gawain is Not a Hero' from the @themamoconf.bsky.social are available to view on the UAL research depository (no transcript as yet since its in peer review but plenty of information) ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/24...
Gawain is Not a Hero? Tensions Between the Heroic and the Complex Subject in Representations of Sir Gawain in Art - UAL Research Online
UAL Research Online is the online showcase of the research produced at University of the Arts London. We hold, manage, share and preserve the research material produced by the University's researchers...
ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk
Some more images from MAMO conference @themamoconf.bsky.social I’m with esteemed company here, Professor Sarah Salih (KCL), Dr Josh Davies (KCL), and the wonderful Dr Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social (Oxford). Such a rich experience for me and lots of new friends made 😊
back frm @themamoconf.bsky.social & inspired by 🌟 LOCAL MEDIEDVALISMS with co-pannelists @maiablumberg.bsky.social & @linseyhunter.bsky.social 🌟public interp of MA w/ @emilyrobinson.bsky.social & @krmaude.bsky.social 🌟 practical resistance to far-right MA use @menysnoweballes.bsky.social
Wow thank you Laura, it was a pleasure to meet you and hear your feminist reimaginings of Beowulf! Thank you to all the excellent speakers, listeners and questioners at @themamoconf.bsky.social and the talented team who put it together. A special few days back at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
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Dr Laura Varnam@drlauravarnam.bsky.social · last yr.SUCH a thrill to finally meet @mirabelledomine.bsky.social who, with @lukeewalker.bsky.social, is making a film about MARGERY KEMPE! 🥳 It’s going to be extraordinary! ✨😭 #TeamMargery
Thank you all! It was a great few days and a pleasure to be a part of it! Here’s to the next one!
MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf.bsky.social · last yr.Thanks so much for everything you brought to MAMO, Laura! We were lucky to have you there via GuMM and as a presenter. Love your slides here!
That's a wrap on MAMO 2025! Heartfelt thanks to everyone who attended, presented, chatted, and made it such an enjoyable conference. We welcomed nearly 150 across three days, heard over 100 papers, experienced 2 fire alarms, and had countless inspiring conversations on medievalism. Until MAMO #6!
1/3: Delivering the keynote @themamoconf.bsky.social 2025 has been a wonderful (if daunting) highlight of my research activity, the painting below was made as a response to the invitation, it and the plenary were attempts to understand the women of the poem as more temporally complex figures...
The plenary talk by @michaeledenart.bsky.social at @themamoconf.bsky.social on Gawain & the Green Knight was ✨MAGNIFICENT✨ Michael’s artwork- incl his painting here, Gawain between Two Deaths- is fantastic 👏 Also, a total pleasure to chat to Michael at the conf too! 😘
Such a pleasure to present at @themamoconf.bsky.social with the brilliant @daisyeblack.bsky.social and Sheila Passey. I’m in full flow here discussing my new poem in the voice of Princess Freawaru from Beowulf, inspired by Judith beheading Holofernes (while resisting girlboss feminism!!).
Thank you @themamoconf.bsky.social for a great conference! Really well curated programme. Sorry to leave early but I have @medievalgender.bsky.social next week and much to do in between!
I just made my very first edit to @wikipedia.org in Fran and Lucy’s #MedievalWiki workshop @themamoconf.bsky.social #DigitalSkillz
On my way to London right this very minute for an exciting session at MAMO 👀🔥✅ #MAMOmonth
MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf.bsky.social · last yr.Thursday 26th at MAMO kicks off with MedievalWiki – A Wikipedia citation-a-thon for MAMO 2025! Led by Fran Allfrey (York), Lucy Hinnie (@yclepit.bsky.social, Leeds and Wikimedia), Lucy Moore (York), and Richard Nevell (@richardnevell.bsky.social, Exeter and Wikimedia). #MAMOmonth
![Session 1A: Workshop [Room K016]
MedievalWiki – A Wikipedia citation-a-thon for MAMO 2025
Organised by Fran Allfrey (University of York), Lucy Hinnie (University of Leeds and Wikimedia UK), Lucy Moore (University of York), and Richard Nevell (University of Exeter and Wikimedia UK).
With billions of page-views every month, and its content scraped to power artificial intelligence, digital assistants, and search engines, there’s a case to be made that Wikipedia is one of the most effective ways to get the Middle Ages out into the modern world.
However, Wikipedia tends to reproduce biases and exclusions that exist in the real world. Work by women, BIPOC, and queer scholars is under-represented on medieval historical topic pages, which often rely on a limited number of cited sources.
In this hands-on workshop, we will introduce participants to key concepts and practical tools for Wikipedia editing. Participants will be split into folks who have edited before and first-time editors. Experienced editors will be invited to select existing Wikipedia pages to audit and improve, and to gather research to cite. First time editors will learn the basics of editing before moving to live editing to improve articles together.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3xv3r2tyxi54yayomcjzybtt/bafkreih4jgfgyvz3kngefexw45cr2kljxltxhlatoijbpt75zfiqxro7um)
It's the final day of MAMO! Expect it all: a Wikipedia workshop, mystics, Crusades, landscapes, Christianity, theory, pedagogy, scholarship... with a final plenary by @michaeledenart.bsky.social and a closing reception on the Terrace. See you there!
Three fantastic keynote roundtablers, who spoke beautifully on Public Chaucer. The historical Chaucer, literary Chaucer, creative Chaucer all overlapped in interesting ways. Caroline's book with ARC and Mary's with Manchester UP are for sale in the Council Room, along with many other MAMO speakers!
Dr Laura Varnam@drlauravarnam.bsky.social · last yr.We also had a fantastic Public Chaucers plenary with @euanroger.bsky.social @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social & Caroline Bergvall at @themamoconf.bsky.social yesterday! (Thanks for the shoutout for @guildmedmak.bsky.social 😘)
Some wonderful MAMO snaps from @drlauravarnam.bsky.social! MAMO Day 2 was stellar!
Dr Laura Varnam@drlauravarnam.bsky.social · last yr.A fantastic 2nd day at @themamoconf.bsky.social 🎉 Gorgeous performance of Yde & Olive by @daisyeblack.bsky.social. I really enjoyed @danielsawyer.bsky.social paper- buy his excellent book! Fantastic energising workshop wi @menysnoweballes.bsky.social & I enjoyed repping @guildmedmak.bsky.social
It was a pleasure chairing and speaking today at @themamoconf.bsky.social as part of the panel at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Strand Campus. Thanks to all the organisers for making this happen!
Fresh from their plenary yesterday at #MAMO2025, Angela Weisl and Robert Squillace stopped by our stand this morning! Learn more about their collection "Medievalisms in a Global Age": buff.ly/oBs96Fl @themamoconf.bsky.social #Medievalism
Fascinating @themamoconf.bsky.social so far and so nice to connect with both old friends and new contacts!
So sad to miss this year's @themamoconf.bsky.social, the program seems wonderful. If you're lucky enough to be there, feel free to share the various papers with us, and enjoy the conference! #médiévalisme #medievalism
![Wednesday 25th June
10:00-10:30
Arrival [with refreshments in the Council Room]
10:30-12:00 Parallel Sessions 1
Session 1A: Online Use and Misuse [Room K016]
Chair: Gwen Seabourne
• Kenna L. Olsen (Mount Royal University):
Beyond Medieval Mimicry to Chaucer's Wicker House: Evoking Medieval English Experientialiality via Immersive Performances of Medieval English Texts
• Andrew B.R. Elliott (Independent Researcher):
Amusing, Awful, and Artificial: Al & Medievalism
• Rachel Moss (University of Northampton):
Medieval chivalry, social media and the emotional drivers of radicalisation into extreme right online cultures
Session 1B: The Middle Ages in Modern Games](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5j3mhmbjjici3rdkyxuy2n7q/bafkreicddy6mj6vf4xw6sjbyob4r674pharypac7blfgrzb7grxv22qdzm)