The Medieval and Early Modern Research Network (MEMRN)

🐉 It's the moment you've all been waiting for! General registration for the MEMRN Winter Conference 2026 is now OPEN!!! 🎉 Whether it's irl in Norwich, or in the Microsoft Teams chat, we can't wait to welcome you all to the MEMRN Winter Conference 2026!

To join us online, register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chase-memr...

🐉 It's the moment you've all been waiting for! General registration for the MEMRN Winter Conference 2026 is now OPEN!!! 🎉 Whether it's irl in Norwich, or in the Microsoft Teams chat, we can't wait to welcome you all to the MEMRN Winter Conference 2026!

🚨 FREE SPOT ALERT 🚨 Due to speaker unavailability, a last minute speaking spot has just opened up at our upcoming Winter Conference in November! The spot is for a 20 minute in-person presentation on the panel "Journeys Beyond the Self in Otherworld Literature".

If you have a project, research, or contribution you’d like to present which fits with this theme, this could be your moment! 😏 The panel is taking place on Sunday 15th November from 9:00-10:15.

🚨 SCHEDULE REVEAL KLAXON 🚨 We're thrilled to share with you another of our Sunday wellbeing workshops for this year's Winter Conference! 🥳 This November we'll be collaborating with Anna Mowery (@warburginstitute.bsky.social), who'll be delivering a hands-on crash course in letter-locking .

This workshop will focus on the practice of ornate letter sealing, the primary method used to protect mail correspondence before the invention of the self-adhesive envelope in the 19th century ✉️

Dear MEMRN community & friends - the month of Samhain is upon us we have another two wonderful speakers presenting their research at our monthly online research seminar! 🎃 This month we have Sabrina Se Nie Ho and & Brittany Lugo. We are delighted to have the two of them join us for this seminar!

🚨 SCHEDULE REVEAL 🚨 Sunday 15th November | Marginal Mischief! You know how we like to take some time on the last day of conference to do something creative! This November, we are thrilled to welcome back Ross Chettleburgh of NANMA Reenactment to run our very own scriptorium!

A blend of experimental scholarship and a mindful wellbeing workshop, we think it's just the right way to end another busy conference weekend! 🎨 🖌️

🚨 SCHEDULE REVEAL 🚨 Sunday 15th November | Marginal Mischief! You know how we like to take some time on the last day of conference to do something creative! This November, we are thrilled to welcome back Ross Chettleburgh of NANMA Reenactment to run our very own scriptorium!

🚨 ONLY ONE DAY TO GO 🚨 The Call for Papers for our Winter Conference ends tomorrow on Friday, the 25th of September, at midnight. If you haven't already submitted an abstract, what are you waiting for? Take the leap!

We invite abstracts of up to 300 words for individual research papers of twenty minutes in length (or 700 words for a panel of three people presenting on a particular subject or sub-theme).

🚨 Deadline approaching! 🚨 Our Winter Conference call for papers deadline is midnight, Friday 25th September, which means there's only one week to go! If you haven't already submitted an abstract, why not? Surely no one wants to be finishing their abstract minutes before the deadline... do they? 👀

🚨 SCHEDULE REVEAL 🚨 Arrival Day | Thursday 12th November | Arriving in Norwich the day before conference and don't know what to do with yourself? You're in luck! 🎉 It's time to reveal our Thursday programme!

Finally, the evening sees the return of a beloved MEMRN tradition: the Norwich Historic Pub Crawl! 🍻 We'll be kicking off the evening, as ever, with drinks at the glorious Adam & Eve. Norwich's oldest boozer, this picturesque pub has been keeping locals well-watered since 1249!

🚨 SCHEDULE REVEAL 🚨 Arrival Day | Thursday 12th November | Arriving in Norwich the day before conference and don't know what to do with yourself? You're in luck! 🎉 It's time to reveal our Thursday programme!

Join us in the morning (10am - 1pm) for Research Remixed, a relaxed, drop-in crafts session 🎨 Indulge your creativity and reimagine your research as a mixed media masterpiece using recycled materials.

Hwæt! MEMRN community & friends - we have two fantastic speakers lined up for our monthly online research seminar! We are delighted to welcome Tamar van Riessen and Rebeca Gouveia to present to our friendly community, followed by a short Q&A. Come along and join us for two very exciting talks!

🚨 SCHEDULE REVEAL 🚨 The first rule of Knight Club is that we ALWAYS talk about Knight Club! 😏 We are thrilled for our first schedule reveal for this year’s Winter Conference - Knight Club! We are once again partnering with our friends at Norwich Medieval Armoured Combat 📸: @fullcontactframes

🚨 22 DAYS TO GO 🚨 Can you believe it’s September already!? That means it’s time to remind you all that submissions are open for the MEMRN Winter Conference in Norwich at the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social until midnight on Friday, September 25th ⏰

Submit your abstract for a 20-minute individual research paper, or propose a panel of three presentations centred around a specific sub-theme. All the details on how to submit your abstract are available on our website (linked in our bio) or on our previous social media posts.