Today, the #IMEMSSpotlight is on Professor Rik Van Nieuwenhove! 📖🏷️Throughout August, you can order Rik's latest book, 'Providence, Evil and Salvation: A Thomist Perspective' with a 20% discount: tinyurl.com/529xukt6 @universitypress.cambridge.org @ccshistorycatholic.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk

👏 Huge congratulations to IMEMS member Dr Jacob Lollar, who has just had three publications appear, all in the same weekend! They include his third book, on the Syriac reception of the 'Acts of Thekla' and the cult of St Thekla, published by Mohr Siebeck.

🎉The first year of our flagship programme of research at IMEMS, Inventing Futures, is drawing to a close, and to say it's been a whirlwind would be an understatement. Read more about Inventing Futures, generously funded by Joanna and Graham Barker, here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

🌏💭 Last week, we hosted ‘Durham East Asia Postgraduate Research Conversations’. Organized by IMEMS member Sare Aricanli & theThinking East Asia (TEA) Research Cluster (@durhamhistory.bsky.social), the event also marked rthe inaugural meeting of the ‘East Asia in the North’ (EATN) network.

📍 This week, our Co-Director, Graeme Small, is at @uppsala for Things that Matter summer school. The summer school is a collaboration between @durham.ac.uk, University of Bern, University of Groningen, Tübingen University and @suhealthsci.bsky.social Read more: www.rug.nl/education/su...

It was a pleasure to welcome Anna Nsubuga, the UK Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO, to IMEMS this morning. @unesco.bsky.social Later, Anna will deliver the inaugural annual lecture for @durham.ac.uk's new Centre for Heritage (CHeri).

🎉 A new publication from the IMEMS Press with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social is on the way! Elise Watson's 'Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age' is released on June 30 and is available for pre-order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/print-a...

Today, the #IMEMSSpotlight is on Dr Erin Maglaque! 📖 Find out more about 'Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body' here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/465296...

Warmest congratulations to IMEMS member Dr Lorenzo Dell'Oso (@languagesdurham.bsky.social ) on being awarded the Pontremoli “Pier delle Vigne” Prize for Medieval Studies for 'Il poeta alle "scuole delli religiosi": Dante, Pietro delle Travi e il convento di Santa Croce (1294–1296)' (Carocci, 2026)!

Tuesday saw our 'Imagining Alternatives' team participate in a workshop entitled 'Technologies of Wonder: Imagination and the History of Knowledge' at @qmul.bsky.social, where they were joined in a panel discussion by Professor David Colclough. Read more: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

On Monday, Prof Richard Scholar, Dr Robert Twiss & Dr Laura Mattioli attended a conference at @mfoxford.bsky.social, Utopianism & Early Modern Scientific Collaboration. Read about their project, 'Imagining Alternatives', supported by Joanna and Graham Barker: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

📢UPCOMING CONFERENCE: 'Daphne and Her Sisters: Framing Gendered Violence in Early Modern Literature and Art' | Durham University | 10-11 June 2026 📅Register now: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti... @durham.ac.uk

Today, the #IMEMSSpotlight is on Professor Colleen Batey!🔎 Read more here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Beautiful views from IMEMS! 😎 Our programme of regular Research Showcases and Forges is finished for the year, but we'll still be hosting a rich array of researchers, workshops, and activities this term.📍 Read about the research we champion: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Today, the #IMEMSSpotlight is on Gary Bankhead! 🔍 Find out more about Gary's latest publication, Pilgrim Souvenirs, Devotional and Other Objects of Faith (2025): www.diveintodurham.uk/publications...

Last week, our director Ita Mac Carthy attended the second last in a programme of readings of Matteo Maria Boiardo’s The Innamoramento di Orlando (1494) in Florence 🌏 The last event will be in June at @durhamuniversity.bsky.social, where we'll welcome the organising committee (pictured).

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Congratulations to IMEMS' @tombhamilton.bsky.social, who has been awarded a @britishacademy.bsky.social Mid-Career Fellowship to work on 'The Social Roots of Religious Violence in Sixteenth-Century Paris'!🎉 Read Tom's recent article in French Historical Studies: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

Congratulations to Dr Venetia Bridges, our Co-Director for Early Career Researchers, who been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship for next year to work on 'The Triumph of Englishness? French Romance in Later Medieval England’. 📖👏 @leverhulme.ac.uk @durham.ac.uk @durhammemsa.bsky.social

Learn to read the scripts of Medieval Iberia with our newest short course, Reading Medieval Spanish Manuscripts. 📖 Book now: imemsdurhamlearn.com/reading-medi... 💻8 weeks of online access ⏱️Entirely flexible to your schedule 💬Optional Q&A sessions with your tutor

Carolingian bling ✨ Just one more week to apply to our 2 week online short course, Latin European Medieval Palaeography, running 13-24 April! 💻 Learn more and apply here: imemsdurhamlearn.com/latin-mediev... Manuscript: Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbliothek, Cod. 1861, f.53.

This looks like a great event, put on by the Scena Mundi theatre company and @durham.ac.uk , directed by Durham PhD student Cecilia Istria-Dorland. All welcome! 📅28/3/26 🕐4-4.30pm 📍St Oswalds Church 🎟️FREE

Thinking about @durham.ac.uk's MA in Medieval and Early Modern Studies? 👩‍🏫 Train with subject experts and industry professionals 📈 Build experience for a career in the heritage sector 🎓 Prepare for PhD study Apply now: www.durham.ac.uk/study/course... @durhammemsa.bsky.social

Calling all students, academics, researchers, librarians, archivists and curators: come and take an IMEMS short course! 🖋️📜 - Fully online - Flexible to your schedule - £100 per course - Optional live Q&As with your tutor Explore and book here: imemsdurhamlearn.com/ourcourses/

Early modern handwriting = real life time travel. ⏳These memories of Anne Boleyn, recorded in 1610 by Rose Lok, can be read today at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Take our 2-wk online course (13-24 April) & learn to get the most from early modern handwriting: tinyurl.com/32hfbm6m 💻

X marks the spot! ✒️✖️ Spaces are filling up fast on our Latin European Medieval Palaeography course, running 13-24 April 2026. Now is the time to get your application in! Apply here: imemsdurhamlearn.com/latin-mediev...

It's been a busy term of events at IMEMS @durham.ac.uk, including our research showcase w/ Marie Legendre from @edinburghuni.bsky.social's Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies department.📄Marie's paper was on early Caliphate tax regimes - read about her work: edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/mari...

📢 Applications are now open for our 2-week online palaeography courses! 📆 13-24th April 2026 💻 Fully Online 👥 Daily Live Sessions Latin European Medieval Palaeography: imemsdurhamlearn.com/latin-mediev... Reading English Handwriting 1500-1700: imemsdurhamlearn.com/early-modern...

🎉 The latest publication from the IMEMS Press with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social is this annotated diary, ed. & translated by Sara Ayres! 📚 Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-gra...

Papers below, including Amanda's, a collaboration with Prof. Zara Anishanslin, 'Elizabeth I's Wardrobe as a Cabinet of Curiosities' and IMEMS' Professor Natalie Mears', 'Queering Elizabeth'.