a fabulous 27th International Arthurian Congress finished just a couple of days ago in Aix-en-Provence, and what a wonderful confluence of scholarship and friendship it was! looking forward to working with all in my new role as President of the society for the next 3 years!

During the IAS Congress, Prof Leah Tether and our new British Branch president, Dr Laura Chuhan Campbell, gave a fascinating talk on their investigation of the Bristol Merlin fragments discovered in 2019

Huge congratulations to Arthur Bangor's co-director Raluca Radulescu Prof, who will be the next president of the International Arthurian Society!

We are so excited to announce the winner of the 2024 Fair Unknown Award: Tori Dikeman Tori Dikeman of Ohio State English for “Worship and Noyse: Chivalric Identity and the Formation of Emotional Communities in Malory's Morte Darthur.”

Call for Papers: The Worlds of the Brut (IMC_Leeds , 7–10 July 2025) @Eli_RMagnanti and I are putting together sessions on the Brut tradition for next year's IMC, sponsored by the Society for International Brut Studies – send us your abstracts by 20 September 2024!

some exciting initiatives coming up from me as International Arthurian Society president - watch this space, from early career researchers to secondary school teachers and all our members IAS British Branch IAS British Branch Arthur Bangor Arthuriana International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS) Bangor University Archifau Prifysgol Bangor University Archives

The Middle Ages in the Modern World conference (MAMO) returns! 24-26 June 2025, London (King's College Strand Campus). Visit themamo.org for more details and see our Call For Papers below. All aspects of medievalism welcome.

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London friends! I'll be speaking at the Institute of Historical Research on Thursday 16th January at 5.30pm. Come along and find out how Arthurian sites were experienced by visitors in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries! You can also attend remotely... history.ac.uk/events/experie…

To that end, next Tuesday (21st of January) at 6pm GMT, we would like to invite you to our launch event. We will introduce our initiative fully, hear your ideas and requests, and explain our forthcoming seminar series. Please do join us — branches have circulated the zoom link!

⚔️ARTHURIAN PhD/ECR INITIATIVE⚔️ A launch event introducing the initiative will take place at 6pm GMT on Tuesday 21st January and will include a workshop entitled 'Crafting Abstracts and Coordinating Conferences' presented by IAS President Raluca Radulescu Prof, see link in bio.

We're delighted with all the enthusiasm around our launch! If anyone is not a member of the IAS, feel free to email [email protected] to request the link to the event 😊

IAS ECR launch event is tomorrow at 6pm GMT! Email [email protected] to request the link to the event

Four hours until the IAS Early Career Researchers launch event! For anyone who doesn't have the zoom link, there's still time to email us at [email protected]

(EN) - Did you miss our launch event last night but you are interested in joining us? You can register your interest and find out about our next events!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… #medievaltwitter #arthurianstudies #ECR

6pm GMT today!!

Two weeks until our next seminar!✨Join us on Zoom at 6pm GMT on 26th March for a Digital Humanities Workshop by Jelmar Hugen followed by presentations on Love and Emotion in the Arthurian Traditions by Sabrina Kremling, Sami Olive, and Manon Metzger.

⚔️CFP for IASBB Meeting in Bristol this September🛡️ Deadline Friday 28th March

It's the final day to send your abstracts for our 2025 meeting!

Two weeks until our next seminar! Join us on Monday 28th April at 6pm BST, for a workshop on Peer Reviews by Peggy McCracken and talks on the theme "Power, Politics, and the Games of Kings and Princes" by Sara Madoré, Inigo Purcell, and Eduarda Rabaçal.