We're proud to support Things That Matter Summer School again, this time at Uppsala University from 26-26 June 2026! Apply:💻 www.rug.nl/education/su... - 1 week intensive course - Expert-led & hands-on - Explore the possibilities & challenges of the digital age

📢 Calling all prospective PhD students: just 4 weeks left to apply to be part of one of our Inventing Futures project teams here in Durham with an Inventing Futures studentship! ⏳ Learn more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Registration is now open for our Online Winter Meeting on 10 January, 'Creeds, Councils & Canons'. All are welcome to attend. Please complete your registration by 5 January. We look forward to seeing you there! More info & programme: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me...

Congrats to Dr Lorenzo Dell'Oso, (IMEMS and @MLACdurham) whose forthcoming monograph, 'Il poeta alle “scuole delli religiosi”: Dante, Pietro delle Travi e il convento di Santa Croce (1294-1296)”' (Carocci, 2026) has won the Dante Society of America's Kleinhenz Prize! 🎉

Help @relish-he.bsky.social researchers identify young people’s perspectives on food habits, traditions & futures by taking 3 surveys!🍜 relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/youth_survey relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/futures_survey relish.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/futures_narr... RELISH: relisheu.org/about/

*DEADLINE*⏳ Just 6 weeks until our 16 January deadline to apply for one of our fully funded Inventing Futures PhD places! 🎓 🎨Daphne and Her Sisters: durham.ac.uk/research/ins... 🌎Imagining Alternatives: Utopia in the World: durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

7 more days 🥳 Join us next week in-person at the University of Cape Town or online! Register here: tinyurl.com/yhayw8zy. Our conference program can be found here: sites.google.com/view/memorie...

Another busy afternoon at IMEMS! Here's a photo from today's job application writing workshop, organised by our Co-Director for Early Career Researchers, Dr Venetia Bridges. 🖊️ 📆 Learn about our upcoming events: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Many congratulations from all at IMEMS on a wonderful book! 🎉

Hot off the IMEMS press...📚 This edition of Sir Tristram pairs a lively modern English verse translation with the complete Middle English text, offering a dual-language format that remains sensitive to the poem’s performance-driven origins. Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/.../sir-tris...

Yesterday we met these two! 🤖 From using computer-generated data to investigate the past to digitising marginalia & analysing pigments, our researchers often use cutting-edge tech.🔬 Learn about cross-faculty, interdisciplinary IMEMS projects: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

📢 IMEMS and University College (Durham Castle) are delighted to invite applications for the 2026/27 Slater Fellowship, a three-month residential, senior fellowship at @durham.ac.uk during Epiphany Term 2027. ✉ Read more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Feuding neighbours, adultery, defamation, witchcraft...👀 welcome to the wonderful world of Early Modern Church Court Records! ✒️ Learn to decipher these important historical texts and unlock unrivalled insight into Early Modern life, online and at your own pace: imemsdurhamlearn.com/working-with...

📢Fully Funded PhD Opportunities @thetimes University of the Year @durham_uni's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 🎓 durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

November To-Do List 🐗📆 - Thrash acorns - Fatten pigs - Book the new online short course from IMEMS: imemsdurhamlearn.com/books-of-dev... Learn about Books of Hours, the labour of the months and the history and manuscripts of the Medieval Latin Bible in our flexible 1-week online course!

Congrats to IMEMS Barker Senior Research Fellow Tom Hamilton, whose book, A Widow's Vengeance @oxfordunipress.bsky.social, has won the #NatalieZemonDavis Prize! 🎓 Read more about the book: academic.oup.com/book/55732/c... Learn about Tom's work with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/.../forging-...

Thinking of applying for Durham University's MA in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)? Click here to book onto a session to hear more about it! 👇🎓 durhamuni.eventsair.com/postgraduate...

So excited to see this one almost out there! 🎉🎉🎉

Know someone who works with early modern Church Court Records? 📖💻 Our online course is designed to help researchers, librarians, curators and students get the most from these fascinating early modern documents. Sign up to the mailing list: ✉https://mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d/imems-signup

📢 Share, share share! Our NEW online short course is launching soon! Learn essential skills for working with Medieval Bibles and Books of Hours 💻 Sign up to the mailing list to hear more: mailchi.mp/5a3c2ffd8f0d... Studying with IMEMS: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

For those attending the North American Conference on British Studies, our Honorary Fellow Professor Anne Thayer will be presenting tomorrow, Saturday, Nov 15, at 3:15 pm (Eastern time)!

The group also visited the University of Macau (澳門大學), meeting colleagues in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities to discuss shared interests in and further collaborations in transcultural East-West research. 🌏 (2/2)

This week, our Director Richard Scholar, along with @durham.ac.uk Vice Chancellor Karen O'Brien and Director of Philanthropy and Operations, Katie Harland-Edminson, visited Macao, a Renaissance city in East Asia, home to the 17th-century Ruins of Saint Paul's. (1/2)

Introducing another publication from the IMEMS Press with @boydellbrewer 📚 The first complete, scholarly edition of Curiosa Americana, offering transcriptions and annotations that illuminate Mather’s contributions to natural philosophy. Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/cotton-...

Last month we were delighted to host Memory Club, part of @universitypress.cambridge.org's Memories Come Alive project.🧠 Read more here: www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/mem... Take the Memories Come Alive survey here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Two funded PhDs here as part of the Inventing Futures programme at IMEMS! One on the project Utopia in the World and the other on the project Framing Gendered Violence, lead supervisors Richard Scholar and Ita Mac Carthy in Modern Languages and Cultures, details via the link...

A perfect pumpkin 🎃 from a collection of drawings of Chinese flowers, plants and fruits held at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 5292

📢Fully Funded PhD Opportunities @thetimes University of the Year @durham_uni's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 🎓 durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

To mark the annual @16csociety.bsky.social conference, there is 50% off and free shipping on all the books so far published in the series. Enter the code BB151 here: boydellandbrewer.com/books/series... #skystorians #Jesuits #nuntastic #Inquisition @imems.bsky.social @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

Attending the #SixteenthCenturyConference in Portland later this week? Our honorary fellow, Professor Anne Thayer, is presenting "From Personal to  Communal?: Direct Address in the Marginalia of Thomas Swalwell" at 8.30am (Pacific Time) on Saturday 1 November. #ThomasSwalwell #Marginalia

Today, we're shining the #IMEMSSpotlight on Professor Emily Williams and her work on African American tombstones for #BlackHistoryMonth. Read more about Emily's research here: www.durham.ac.uk/staff/emily-...

Congratulations to IMEMS member and short course tutor Dr Arnold Hunt, whose article on circumcision in the English Protestant Imaginary has been published in the latest issue of Reformation! Read online: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎉Another exciting publication! IMEMS Director Ita Mac Carthy's essay 'Icons in Time: Ariosto’s Orlando furioso and Chivalric Literature through the Ages' appears in The Oxford Handbook of Italian Literature, now available to read online: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

We're excited to be collaborating with @durhamhistory.bsky.social for a thought-provoking discussion with Dr Nicole Phillip-Dowe of the University of the West Indies this afternoon at IMEMS! #BeUWI 💭🌎

📢 Fully Funded PhD Opportunities The Times University of the Year Durham University's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies📢 www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins... 🎨Daphne and Her Sisters www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins... 🌎Imagining Alternatives www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Happy Diwali to all our members who celebrate! 🎇 This week, our IMEMS bulletin featured the gorgeous late 18th-century painting 'Radha and Krishna watching fireworks in the night sky' by the Kishangarh painter Sitaram. 💻Read more here: artsandculture.google.com/asset/radha-...

The Black Italian Renaissance is a critically acclaimed documentary that examines the presence of Black people in the Italian Renaissance and their contribution to its development and significance. Join us for a screening & discussion: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Don’t forget to register for virtual attendance to our Winter Conference! We’ve got three days of panels, which you can listen to from the comfort of your own home (or wherever you may be). Check out the full schedule and sign up to attend via our website: memrnchase.wordpress.com/memrn-winter...

Book launch October 23rd! Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...

🚨 Don’t forget! It’s not too late to register for Professor Bruce D. Malamud’s seminar today! 🌋 IHRR Seminar Series 2025/26 – Hazard Interrelationships and Dynamic Risk Scenarios 🌋

This week, Prof. Raphael Lyne (Cambridge University) presented on 'Remembering and Doubting Dreams in Shakespeare' to colleagues from across the disciplines. The first Research Showcase in a packed term of IMEMS events! 📅 Read about our upcoming events: durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

I'll be in #Durham this Saturday, 18 October 11am @durham.ac.uk talking about some of my current research for the Friends of the World of Bede & @durhamcathedral.bsky.social World Heritage Site @imems.bsky.social @imem friendsworldbede.com/friends-even...

📚Mary Carruthers' 'Meditation, Invention, and Designing Thought in the Augustinian Middle Ages' is the newest publication from the IMEMS Press with Boydell & Brewer. Find out more and order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/meditat...

For those looking forward to Thomas' talk on historical environmental medicine in a a couple of weeks, you can now sign up using the eventbrite link below. Looking forward to seeing you online at 1500 GMT on the 28th of October. eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Today we met with students from the 2025/26 Medieval and Early Modern Studies MA cohort - the largest to date! 🎉 🎓 Read more about Durham's Medieval and Early Modern Studies MA course here: www.durham.ac.uk/study/course...

Looking for a podcast for the commute home? Click the link to listen to IMEMS member and PhD student Ava Siena Cohen talking about Artemisia Gentileschi on the HERstory Project Podcast! 🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/6ddy...

A fantastic opportunity for researchers from the UK and overseas last week. 👏

Today, the #IMEMSSpotlight is on Dr Sare Aricanli! Read more about Sare and her research here: www.durham.ac.uk/staff/sare-a...

🍂Autumn Offer! 50% off 1-week Online Courses! To celebrate the success of our short courses and introduce a host of new students to learning with IMEMS, our 1-week short courses are just £100 each for a limited time! Follow the link or scan the QR codes: imemsdurhamlearn.com/ourcourses/

New from @imems.bsky.social, Criminal Justice and Peace-making in Early Modern Italy by Paolo Broggio is a study of private peace pacts in early modern Italy that challenges earlier notions of the place of these agreements in the development of the courts and state. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/njILu7r