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The Medieval & Early Modern Research Network sponsored by CHASE DTP (AHRC). We provide a supportive and relaxed space for academic collaboration between postgraduate students. DM us and join the mailing list! https://linktr.ee/chasememrn
If you’re interested, or have questions, please get in touch via email or social media DM. All our info can be found in our bio or on our website.
If you’d like to see what the meetings are like, you can find some recordings of past meetings here:
memrnchase.wordpress.com/past-meeting...
🚨Call for Presenters🚨
Our monthly meeting presenter slots are filling up but there are still spaces available from April if you’d like to present!
These meetings are a great place to practice presenting and test your ideas in front of a friendly and welcoming audience. WIP research encouraged!
Don’t miss the fantastic Dr Steve Tibble at our meeting tonight! Dr Tibble has very kindly extended to MEMRN a discount on some of his most recent books - if you’re a member of our mailing list you will have already received them, if you aren’t and are attending tonight’s talk, please get in touch!
Is our first monthly meeting with guest lecturer Dr Steve Tibble already in your calendar? If not, why not? MEMRN events are free and open to everyone to attend, regardless of your level in or out of academia.
If you don’t have the meeting link then get in touch via email or social media DM!
The deadline for applications to join our team is tomorrow, Friday 20th February! If you’re interested in what we do at MEMRN and would like to be a part of our growing team, then make sure to check out the information below and get your application in!
We want to make MEMRN bigger and better and that means we want you! (To join our team of volunteers) If you’re enthusiastic about what MEMRN does, get in touch!
You can find all the info about the positions we’re looking to fill below so if a role sound right for you, what are you waiting for?
Join us via Microsoft Teams at 6pm GMT. MEMRN meetings are free and open to everyone, whether you are inside or outside academia. Our mailing list members are emailed the meeting link, but if you would like to participate, email or DM us to join the mailing list or get the meeting link!
MEMRN meeting on 24th February 2026, 6pm GMT. Dr Steve Tibble from Royal Holloway College, University of London is presenting ‘Assassins and Templars - A Battle in Myth and Blood’. Join us on Microsoft Teams. Email us or DM for the meeting link.
MEMRN are delighted to announce the first meeting of 2026 and it’s an exciting one!
Join us on February 24th 2026 to welcome Dr Steve Tibble, who will be delivering a guest lecture on the topic of his most recent book: Assassins and Templars - A Battle in Myth and Blood (2025).
To see the full role profiles or ask questions about the committee positions, please get in touch with us. If you would like to apply to join our team, please send a CV and a brief statement of interest (max. 500 words) to our email inbox, stating which role you are applying for in the subject line of your email before Friday 20th February. Email chasememrn@gmail.com
To apply, please send a CV and a statement of interest to our email, specifying which role you'd like to apply for in the subject line of your message. Deadline Friday 20th February.
We are looking for people who are: Passionate about the MEMRN ‘vibe’ MEMRN’s unique communication style and the playful and welcoming atmosphere we create at our events are an essential part of our organisational identity. Often lacking in academic spaces, this relaxed feel is something we are committed to maintaining. Willing to commit to regular attendance of the MEMRN monthly meetings Able to deliver tasks with specified deadlines We know that making deadlines isn’t always possible though, and we’re pretty flexible! Excited about the prospect of working as part of a creative and collaborative team. Running MEMRN is a team sport! We’d love to meet people who enjoy working in a relaxed team environment and who enjoy spit-balling creative ideas in a group. Confident communicators both in person and via email Ambitious with big ideas! We have massive plans for the future of MEMRN! We want to help collapse boundaries between academic, heritage and public engagement spaces. If grand plans, wild dreams, advocacy for our discipline, and the thought of being involved in building something special appeals to you – you’re the right kind of person for us! For full role descriptions, email us at chasememrn@gmail.com
We're looking for creative and enthusiastic people, who work well as part of a wider creative team.
Programming Assistant Our Programming Assistant will support the work of the Online Events Co-Ordinator and work with the rest of the committee to design a range of online and in-person events for MEMRN, working with the social media team to promote our programme. It would be amazing if our new committee member had... A good understanding of online meeting softwares Incredible organisation and admin skills! An appetite for networking and scoping out new opportunities Lots of new ideas for expanding our events offering! For full role descriptions, email us at chasememrn@gmail.com
Social Media Officer Our social media officer will assist our Social Media and Communications Lead with delivering MEMRN’s social media strategy in our signature style across platforms, creating imaginative and playful content for our Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, and LinkedIn with a focus on promoting our events. It would be amazing if our new committee member had... Strong knowledge of systems across the main social media platforms Understanding of social media trends and formats that could be used to increase the network’s visibility Confident Canva and social media video editing skills with lots of creativity! For full role descriptions, email us at chasememrn@gmail.com
Committee Support Officers Our Committee Support Officers will assist other members of the MEMRN Committee in their duties, stepping in to help out when there’s a lot to do! They will take minutes of meetings, help with the design and delivery of the annual Winter Conference, provide logistical support at in-person and online events, and support the team in their work to boost MEMRN’s online profile and reach. If you would like to join the committee but require a lower-commitment and flexible role, this could be the perfect role for you! It would be amazing if our new committee members had... Flexibility and enthusiasm A talent for working as part of a creative team For full role descriptions, email us at chasememrn@gmail.com
For full role profiles and more information, please email chasememrn@gmail.com
MEMRN is looking to recruit new team members for our committee! This is an opportunity to be part of an ambitious and creative group of volunteers working to: Offer early career MEMs scholars a relaxed and accessible space for skills development Foster collaborations between higher education, heritage institutions, academics of all career stages, and non-academic enthusiasts Advocate for the study of the medieval and early modern periods more widely through innovative public engagement work Create a safe and friendly community for scholars to draw upon away from the pressure of mainstream academia Email us on chasememrn@gmail.com for more information
Our open positions are: Programming Assistant, Social Media Officer, Committee Support Officers. For full role descriptions, email us at chasememrn@gmail.com
We have three roles up for grabs: Programming Assistant, Social Media Officer and Committee Support Officer
Lord Kitchener is wearing a medieval jester's hat and is asking YOU to join the MEMRN team in 2026
JOIN US! 🏰 We’re looking for a few more enthusiastic and creative minds to join MEMRN’s growing team of volunteers!
If you’re interested, or have questions, please get in touch via email or social media DM. All our info can be found in our bio or on our website.
If you’d like to see what the meetings are like, you can find some recordings of past meetings here:
memrnchase.wordpress.com/past-meeting...
🚨Call for Presenters🚨
MEMRN’s programming returns! If you’re interested in presenting at one of our online monthly meetings, get in touch!
These meetings are a great place to practice your presenting skills and test your ideas in front of a friendly and welcoming audience. WIP research encouraged!
MEMRN 2025 Wrapped. Winter conference. Our crowning jewel of 2025: a three-day hybrid conference that saw 34 speakers presenting to an in-person and online audience that spanned over 30 academic institutions all over the world. Thanks to all our attendees!
MEMRN 2025 Wrapped. Winter conference. In our workshops we developed our palaeography & Latin skills, as well as making our own medieval bestiaries, experimenting with creative writing, and visiting the nearby Sainsburys Centre for Visual Arts. Thank you to all our workshop facilitators!
MEMRN 2025 Wrapped. Winter conference. We didn’t just have presentations and workshops though - we had activities too! We enjoyed walking tours, trips to archives, special collections, and historical places, plus a medieval combat club! Thank you to all the venues and staff who welcomed us!
MEMRN 2025 Wrapped. We’re so proud of everything we’ve achieved this year and we hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as we have! We’ll be taking a programming break in January while we plan our events for 2026. If you’d like to present at one of our events this year then get in touch!
Our crowning jewel has to be our Winter Conference, which boasted
three days filled with exciting panels, workshops, and plenty of excursions around our host city of Norwich.
Thanks to everyone who was involved this year, and if you want to participate in 2026 make sure to get in touch!
MEMRN 2025 Wrapped. What a year! Now that 2025 is over, let’s revisit everything we got up to over the last 12 months. There’s quite a lot! So swipe to see our MEMRN Wrapped! Join us for an amazing 2026!
MEMRN 2025 Wrapped. Research Seminars. We hosted 7 online research seminars, with 12 speakers across 5 countries presenting their WIP research to our global audience of scholars and enthusiasts. Thank you to everyone who presented their work!
MEMRN 2025 Wrapped. A one-day conference event highlighting international MEMs studies. Our phenomenal line-up of speakers spanned 4 continents - it couldn’t get much more global! Thanks to everyone who got involved all over the world!
MEMRN 2025 Wrapped. Guest Speakers. We welcomed two brilliant guest speakers: Kate McCaffrey and Will Sherwood. These fab presentations on Tudor Books of Hours and Romanticism’s influence on Tolkien pulled in the two largest audiences in MEMRN history! Thank you both for your time!
What a year it’s been for MEMRN so let’s have a look back at what we achieved with our MEMRN Wrapped!
Our research seminars reached further than they ever have before, with our guest speakers pulling our largest audiences ever! Meanwhile our Spring Showcase truly went global, spanning 4 continents!
Did you know that you can now find MEMRN on LinkedIn? We saw so many of you over there and thought we’d come and join in the fun! Head over there and say hi!
If you’re not sure where else to find us, use the linktree below or in our bio to get all the info:
linktr.ee/chasememrn
Just found this post 😊 - the photos were made last year, when I had the luck of giving a paper on the CHASE MEMRN Winter conference and meeting many wonderful people (some included in these photos). ✨️
The ad for the second postdoctoral position on our @leverhulme.ac.uk Britain’s Early Medieval Letters project is now live. We’re looking for an Old English specialist (who also works with Latin). 32-month FT post. Deadline for apps is 16 Jan 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Poster for a talk called Twisted Ribbons of Song: The Saga of the Earls of Orkney and poetry from or inspired by northern Scotland. Date: Tuesday 9 December, 5.30 pm, Baines Wing G36 (and online) Speakers Judith Jesch and Charlotte Eichler. Text: The medieval Icelandic Saga of the Earls of Orkney contains 82 stanzas composed from the tenth to the twelfth century by residents of and visitors to Orkney and Shetland. At this event, Judith Jesch, Professor of Viking Studies at Nottingham, will introduce the saga and its poetry and read selected examples in both Old Norse and her English versions. Award-winning Leeds-based poet Charlotte Eichler will read some of her published and unpublished poems inspired by the Saga and by visits to Orkney and Shetland as part of Judith’s Ragna’s Islands project. Photos of book cover of Judith's translation of the saga (which includes four Lewis chessmen) and picture of Charlotte on Fair Isle writing amidst stones and grass
If you are into sagas and poetry our next seminar is for you. Sign up to attend online: forms.office.com/e/ngg1zukWH3 More details at ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval/eve... #medievalsky #poetry #sagas #orkney #shetland #icelandic #northernisles #vikings @judithjesch.bsky.social @ragnasislands.bsky.social
Thank you to everyone who attended our last monthly meeting of 2025 last night! It's been another brilliant year.
The MEMRN team will now take a festive break before returning with a fresh new programme of events for you in February 2026!
Our November meeting, with guest speaker Kristen Vitale Engel, is tonight at 6pm GMT. Make sure you have your meeting link handy so you don’t miss out!
MEMRN’s monthly meetings are free and open to everyone so if you would like to attend just drop us an email or social media DM!
MEMRN meeting on November 24th 2025, 6pm GMT. Kristen Vitale Engel from Fitchburg State University is presenting ‘Henrician Spectacle, History and Historiography’. Join us on Microsoft Teams. Email us or DM for the meeting link.
We’ve had a conference, now it’s time for our monthly meeting! Join us on Monday 24th November at 6pm GMT to welcome an exciting guest speaker for our November meeting.
Mailing list members have already received the meeting link but if you’d like to attend, drop us an email or social media DM.
Find yourself someone who looks at you the same way I look at my paper on Servetus. Thank you, UEA and @memrn.bsky.social for having me again this year!
#phd #conference #servetus
We're so excited and honoured to have @clairejowitt.bsky.social give a keynote lecture at this weekend's MEMRN Winter Conference.
If you'd like to join in online, there's still time to sign up via www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1559240072...
You’re almost out of time to sign up for virtual attendance at our Winter Conference… because it’s almost here!
Get yourself over to our website to check out the full schedule, or sign up using the Eventbrite registration link found below. You won’t want to miss these three days of exciting panels!
We're so looking forward to having you!
Final preparations are now underway in the MEMRN team for our second Winter Conference in a few weeks time. If you’d like to beam in to any of our exceptional panels, please register via Eventbrite. All are welcome!
MEMRN 24th November 2025 6pm GMT Henrician Spectacle, History and Historiography Kirsten Vitale Engel Join us on Microsoft Teams Email us or DM for the meeting link
It's a busy month with our winter conference in a few weeks 🌨️ but we'll still be meeting as normal for our monthly online get-together on Monday 24th November. Join us to hear Kristen Vitale Engel (Southern New Hampshire University) on 'Henrician Spectacle, History and Historiography' 👯👯👯