Megan Cassidy-Welch

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Thank you to Stephanie DeMarco from Drug Discovery News for putting together this lovely podcast about our research on the antimicrobial activities of vinegars and honey www.drugdiscoverynews.com/the-antibiot...

The antibiotics hidden in medieval recipeswww.drugdiscoverynews.com Could the solution to antibiotic resistance already have been discovered? Microbiologists and historians probe medieval and ancient texts to find out.

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Baylor University History Department seeks to fill a tenure-track faculty position in the History of Medicine at the Assistant Professor level Deadline September 6, 2024, 11 pm CDT. #histsci #HistMed 🗃️ apply.interfolio.com/148215

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We are delighted to have Elizabeth Stephens as our keynote speaker, of the Australasian Health and Medical Humanities network. Presenters include Guy Geltner, Megan Cassidy-Welch @megancw.bsky.social, Aydogan Kars, Rose Byfleet, ++. Please share w/ interested folks. #publichealth #healthscaping

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The Journal of Medieval History is now publishing book reviews. If you hold or are working toward a PhD and you’d like to be on the list of potential reviewers, please email review editor philippa.j.byrne at gmail.com with a description of your interests. 🗃️medievalsky

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The premodern world held possibilities and imagined futures: the physical and metaphysical systems that were actively built and contested then continue to inform the world in the present. Read our statement on the value of Renaissance & Premodern Studies: www.rensoc.org.uk/statement-on...

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The University of Melbourne is looking to appoint a Lecturer (equivalent to tenure-track Assistant Professor) in early modern Italian Studies (14th-17th centuries): See details here: jobs.staff.unimelb.edu.au/ci/en/job/91...

Details : Lecturer in Italian Studies : The University of Melbournejobs.staff.unimelb.edu.au Careers at The University of Melbourne

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New issue of Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association Vol. 19, No. 2 (2023) search.informit.org/toc/jaema/19/2

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MEM is pleased to announce its biennial prize for the best dissertation on the medieval Middle East (roughly 500-1500 CE). In an effort to recognize excellent doctoral research in the field, MEM will award the second biennial prize at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association.

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This Friday; 12 April! Dr Romney Smith (ANU) on "Diplomacy in the Shadows. A lost Christian-Muslim Alliance in the 12th c Mediterranean?" 10am AEST on Zoom. Email us for the link (details in image/alt) #medievalsky

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Hoping to put together a panel on Catholic religious households for #SCS2024. My paper would look at the generative possibilities of imagining the convent as a household & how the non-religious members of that household transform the use of convent space. Ping me if interested! #earlymodern

The #CfP for #SCSC2024 is now live! #twitterstorians #earlymodern #Toronto www.sixteenthcentury.org/conference

Conference — Sixteenth Century Societywww.sixteenthcentury.org

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🚨🚨🚨 IT’S DONE! ❗️The ARC Review Response Bill just passed parliament❗️ No more political interference in individual ARC grants! The ARC will get a Board, who will approve individual grants. It’s a wonderful day for Australian research!

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Opportunity in the Parker Library! 1-year Fellowship in manuscript and rare book studies Parker Library Stipendiary Early-Career Research Fellowship tenable for one year from 1 October 2024. DL: 6 March 2024 www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/about/opport... #BookHistory #medievalsky

Academic vacancieswww.corpus.cam.ac.uk Parker Library Stipendary Early-Career Research Fellowship 2024 Corpus Christi College invites applications for a Parker Library Stipendiary Early-Career Research Fellowship tenable for one year from ...

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Flinders History Research Seminar, Semester 1, 2024. Join us on campus/ online from March 8. Programme features Barbara Baird, Skye Krichauff, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, Lee Rippon, Shvetal Vyas Pare, Adrian Shubert & Boyd Cothren, Peter DeGabriele, @megancw.bsky.social and Valerie Munt.

Thrilled to be taking up the role of Dean of Research Strategy at the University of Divinity in April and very much looking forward to helping support and build excellent research across all the University’s disciplinary areas. vox.divinity.edu.au/news/profess...

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Sharing a job ad: the Faculty of History and St John’s College, University of Oxford seek to appoint to the Hillary Rodham Clinton Professorship of Women’s History. Any aspect of women’s history from any period and region after 250 CE. Deadline 4 March. 🗃️

Hillary Rodham Clinton Professorship of Women's History at University of Oxfordwww.jobs.ac.uk Discover Hillary Rodham Clinton Professorship of Women's History jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

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new Modern Medieval newsletter by me on my experience on the teevee talking about the Templars we need much more of scholars in public spaces because if it ain't us, it'll be someone (and people pay attention to that) free to read, so please share widely medievalsky 🗃️

The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templarbuttondown.email Some thoughts on TV history and expertise (and the Templars)

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🗃️ So excited to post the call for papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on incarceration (broadly defined—eg prisons, asylums, penal colonies, detention camps etc) in French & francophone histories. Co-edited by Sophie Fuggle and me. Papers are due 15 Aug 2024. Please share!!

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Delighted to share news of the publication of the Routledge Handbook of French History, ed. David Andress! Alongside my essay on ‘France and the Crusades in the Later Middle Ages’, it includes pieces by 3 of my ANU colleagues (Drs Gemma Betros, Ben Mercer, and Robert Wellington) and over 50 others.

The Routledge Handbook of French Historywww.routledge.com Aimed firmly at the student reader, this handbook offers an overview of the full range of the history of France, from the origins of the concept of post-Roman

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Article of the Week: Eric Böhme, 1174: A Letter of Condolence from Saladin to Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, in: Transmediterranean History 4.2 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh... #medievalists #medievalsky

1174: A Letter of Condolence from Saladin to Baldwin IV of Jerusalem | Transmediterranean ...doi.org

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Friends, there is a 5-year position in Italian Renaissance history going at Monash, in my department! Please share widely >> medievalsky skystorians earlymodern careers.pageuppeople.com/mob/513/cw/e...

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Italian Historycareers.pageuppeople.com Contribute expertise in Italian Renaissance history and broader European/transnational contexts to our dynamic academic environment!

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📚 google preview of forthcoming _Representing Rome's Emperors: Historical and Cultural Perspectives Through Time_ eds. Caillan Davenport, Shushma Malik [OUP 2024] books.google.com.au/books?id=IP3... - plenty of local talent inside (@drcdavenport.bsky.social)

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I am delighted that my new book series, ‘Monarchy, History, and Culture’, published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social with @erikagaffney.bsky.social, is now live! The series welcomes books on any aspect of premodern monarchy. Please share widely & get in touch with ideas www.aup.nl/en/series/mo...

Monarchy, History, and Culturewww.aup.nl

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As of the beginning of the month, Jerry Singerman and I are now editing Journal of Medieval History. We welcome article submissions and proposals for special issues. We will also be adding book reviews so keep us in mind when your publisher asks where to send the book! 🗃️#medievalsky

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England's (and Wales's) medieval Franciscan friaries (map by Jens Röhrkasten): 2024 is the 800th anniversary of the Franciscans' arrival in England

Loving Peter Brown’s autobiography, Journeys of the Mind. Did you know that when he was three he fed to a hippo in the Khartoum Zoo his most prized possession - a Mickey Mouse handkerchief? 🦛💕

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Finally got around to deleting my twitter account. It was getting ridiculously full of nastiness and negativity. So here’s to blue skies ahead and a more friendly and collaborative 2024!

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Latest from the British Library: "disruption to certain services is expected to persist for several months." blogs.bl.uk/living-knowl...

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🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!