The OMS emails will be put on brief pause over the vac, although the blog will be continually updated with new events. Please see below a number of important opportunities and reminders before term starts. Of particular note to those interested in early medieval England (and who amongst us doesnt fall into that category) is the British Library’s upcoming PhD placement on the Norman Conquest. Applications are open for three PhD placements which will support the development of our upcoming major exhibition on the Norman Conquest, marking the 1,000th anniversary of the birth of William the Conqueror. Apply by Monday 6 April 2026. Apply by Monday 6 April 2026.
- The online Old Frisian Reading Group welcomes new members who have at least some reading knowledge of any of the Old Germanic languages or those who have previously done an Old Frisian Summer School. Next meeting Friday 27th March, 3-4pm on Teams. Please contact Johanneke Sytsema.
- The ‘New Directions in Old English Prose‘ conference takes place on the 30th March in the Schwarzman Centre.
- Texts in Translation – A Workshop on Editing Texts from Medieval Britain for Graduate Students and Early Career Scholars. 18th April, St Hilda’s College, 11:00-17:00. For registration or membership of the EETS, contact Dr Daniel Orton at eets@ell.ox.ac.uk
- Booking is now open for the BL’s ‘A Conference at the British Library: Multispectral Gaze: New Approaches to the Cotton Genesis’. More information here.
- Register for the Reading Graduate conference ‘Locational Lives: Medieval Experience in Town and Country’. More information
- CfP: Borders, Boundaries and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages. More information here.
- Registration is still open for the Medieval Insular Romance Conference, ‘Moving Medieval Romance’. 8–10 April 2026, St Hugh’s College, Oxford.
- Submission welcome to the journal Manuscript and Text Cultures.
- Doctoral studentship on Carolingian Latin poetry (Toronto-Melbourne).
- CfP: Crossing Intellectual Boundaries in English Legal History. Proposals for papers should be no more than 400 words and should be sent to Ciara Kennefick and Ian Williams by 5pm on 23 March 2026.
- CfP: Gender and Medieval Studies conference 2026: Gender and Creativity. The conference will take place at University College, Oxford, 8-10 September. Deadline 13 April.
- CfP: Summer Conference of the Ecclesiastical History Society on the theme “The Church and Race. Deadline 15 April.
- Call for submissions for a special issue of Public Humanities journal on the topic ‘Creating the Medieval Now.’ Edited by Laura Varnam and Eleanor Barraclough. Short essays of 2,000-3,000 words, due 1 May 2026, by medievalists who are also creative practitioners.
- CfP: The Body in History. Deadline 6th July.
- Save the date – 500 Years of Yiddish Printing: Symposium: 4–6 October 2026 | University of Oxford, Oxford, UK