It’s a new year! Welcome to all newcomers, and welcome back to the more seasoned members of the community. As always, we have a new booklet of events for this term. Please note the Oxford Medieval Studies Welcome Event this Tuesday at 5, held at Harris Manchester. Tea and Coffee provided, and a chance to meet new people and to get the term off to a great start!
Two further announcements: 1) Keep an eye open for anybody who would like to be on the mailing list (particularly new graduate students) – anybody from around the world can join by simply pressing the subscribe button on our homepage. 2) Consider writing a blog post announcing any event you are organising or about your research; see the blogpost on Peter Payne: A Forgotten Great European for the documentation on the fascinating Oxford character of the learned English Hussite Peter Payne (includes some recorded talks and a surreal animated film).
One final bit of housekeeping: if there are changes to the events after the email has been sent, we will update this both in the Google calendar and in the weekly blogpost on which the emails are based but won’t send round further emails to keep this a low-traffic mailing list.
Monday
- French Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 10:30, Weston Library. If you are interested in joining the group or would like more information, please email the convenor Laure Miolo.
- Greek Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 15:00, Horton Room Weston Library. Contact Péter Tóth for further details.
- Medieval History Seminar: – 5:00, All Souls College. Erin Daley (Leicester) and Seth Stadel (AMES, Oxford) will be speaking on “Domestic Slavery and Sexual Exploitation in the Households of Late Antiquity: Conclusions and
- Questions after Five Years of Collaborative Research’. Alternatively, see booklet to join online.
- Medieval Latin Reading Group – 5.30pm in Merton College. The text this term is Ysengrimus.
Tuesday
- Latin Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 2pm, Weston Library. Those who are interested can email the convenor Laure Miolo.
- Byzantine Literature Lectures – 4:00, Kloppenburg Room, Exeter College.
- Oxford Medieval Studies Welcome Event – 5:00, Harris Manchester College. Tea, coffee, biscuits, catching up and making new friends – everyone warmly welcome!
Wednesday
- Medieval German Graduate Seminar – 11:15, Somerville College . This first meeting is a short planning session – the topics for the term will be Frauenlob, Kreuzleich and Minneleich. If you are interested to be added to the teams group for updates, please contact Almut Suerbaum
- Byzantine Text Seminar – 3:00, Kloppenberg Room, Exeter College.
- Old Norse Reading Group – 4:00. Please email Brooklyn Arnold for the location
- The Medieval Latin Documentary Palaeography Reading Group – 4:00, online. To join and/or to find out more about this and the possibility of some hands-on experience of cataloguing such documents to develop further your research skills, please contact Michael Stansfield.
- Bede Reading Group – 6:00, Blackfriars. Bede, wine, and merriment – all are welcome.
Thursday
- Middle English Reading Group (MERG) – 10:00, Beckington Room, Lincoln College. The text this year is Troilus and Criseyde. Bring any edition of the original text! There will be tea and biscuits. For more information or to be added to the mailing list, please email Rebecca Menmuir.
- Medieval English Research Seminar – 12:15, room 00.018 in the Humanities Centre. Nicola McDonald (York) will be speaking on ‘Writing exercises, pious and obscene, in Oxford, University College, MS 142’.
- Older Scots Reading Group – 3:00, Room 30.401 in the Humanities Centre. No preparation required. All are welcome. There may be snacks!
- Celtic Seminar – Room 00.056 in the Humanities Centre and online. Mary-Ann Constantine, Elizabeth Edwards, Rhys Kaminski-Jones & Ffion Mair Jones will be speaking on ‘Thomas Pennant 300: Launching new digital editions of the Tours in Wales (1778 & 1781)’.
- Compline in the Crypt – 9:30, St Edmund Hall
Friday
- Medievalist Coffee Morning – 10:30, Weston Library. Laura Cracknell will be speaking on ‘History of photography at the Bodleian’. Coffee and tea provided
- Exploring Medieval Oxford through Surviving Archives – 2:00, Magdalen College. As space is limited, registration is required. Those interested in participating are invited to contact Laure Miolo
Opportunities (see booklet for more info)
- Call for Readers of Early New High German for the launch of a Hans Sachs dialogue on 30 October. More information
- Call for Committee Members: Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2027 – contact oxgradconf@gmail.com.
- OMS Small Grants open. Closing date for applications: Friday of Week 4. More information.
- Medieval Afterlives: Cultural Programme Open Call – investment of up to £10,000, see booklet.
- The Multicultural Middle Ages podcast proposal for 6th season. Applications are due October 15th.
- Medieval Manors Research Network/Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at the University of Notre Dame. Art (History), English, German / Slavic / Eurasian, History and Philosophy of Science, Initiative on Race and Resilience, Philosophy, Romance Languages, Theology; international applications and medievalists welcome!
- Publishing with the Journal Manuscript and Text Cultures – see booklet for details.
- John W. Baldwin Post -Doctoral Fellowship. A two-year position beginning July 1, 2027, for recent Ph.D. recipients whose work focuses on European medieval studies within a global comparative context. The application deadline is November 13, 2026 .