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OMGC 2026 - April 23-24, 'Sounds and Silence' Profile and cover pictures from Bodleian MS Ashmole 1511
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🎶 Registration is open for the Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2026: Sounds & Silence! 🎶 Join us April 23–24 for paper sessions, keynotes from Dr. Eleanor Standley (Oxford) & Dr. Joseph Mason (Cambridge), and more. Register here (in-person/online) 👇 https://t.co/EDhNeNSNzK
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📢 Deadline extended! To give prospective speakers additional time to submit their proposals, the OMGC committee has extended our Call for Papers deadline to 15 December 2025. Please send submissions to: oxgradconf@gmail.com. We look forward to reading your proposals!
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The OMGC committee is delighted to announce this year’s Call for Papers! We look forward to receiving submissions for 20-minute papers from graduate students on the theme ‘Sounds and Silence.’ Please submit abstracts of 250 words to oxgradconf@gmail.com by 8 December 2025.
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📢 New blog post! Head to our website for Matthias Egger on 'Sign, Script, and Visual Discourse: The Potential of “Aniconic” Miniatures through their Presentation in Paris’ Manuscript Coptic 13'. 🪶 https://t.co/ifLKq1VIWQ
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Well known for its “mysterious” history, the Paris tetraevangelium Coptic 13 is also one of the most extensively illuminated Coptic manuscripts from the medieval period with four historiated repres...
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OMGC 2025 was a roaring success, with many rich and stimulating papers over two spring days at the Maison Française d'Oxford. Wrap-up post to come!
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And away we go! OMGC 2025 is underway with Panel 1: Saints and Staging.
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Not in Oxford? There's still time to register for online participation for OMGC 2025! We'd love to see you there digitally 👾 See link below 👇
Registration for OMGC 2025, ‘Rituals and Ceremonies,’ April 24-25 at the Maison Française d'Oxford, is now live on our website! Follow the link to register for free in-person or online participation. https://t.co/WUng0hue87
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⌛️Just a few days left to register for OMGC 2025! Register via the link below 👇
Registration for OMGC 2025, ‘Rituals and Ceremonies,’ April 24-25 at the Maison Française d'Oxford, is now live on our website! Follow the link to register for free in-person or online participation. https://t.co/WUng0hue87
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...and our 2025 program is now live, too! Check out the full slate of presentations below, including keynote speakers Dr. Helen Gittos (Oxford) and Prof. Aleks Pluskowski (Reading).
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Registration for OMGC 2025, ‘Rituals and Ceremonies,’ April 24-25 at the Maison Française d'Oxford, is now live on our website! Follow the link to register for free in-person or online participation. https://t.co/WUng0hue87
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MONDAY, APRIL 8 9:30-10:00 Registration (in-person) 10:00-11:30 Session 1: Divine Affectivity Marlene Schilling, 'Connected through Script - Personifications of time as a distinct form of devotion...
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The deadline to submit abstracts for the Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference is this Friday, December 6! See details below.
The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference committee is delighted to announce this year's Call for Papers! We look forward to receiving submissions for 20 minute papers from graduate students on ‘Rituals and Ceremonies’. Details below: #OMGC2025 #cfp #medieval #medhist
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@OxMedStud @Medium_Aevum Please send abstracts of up to 250 words to oxgradconf@gmail.com by 6th of December 2024.
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@OxMedStud @Medium_Aevum Presentations will take place in person only but will be streamed for remote attendees. Papers should be max. 20 minutes. A limited number of bursaries are available to help with travel costs, and we welcome applications from graduate students at any university.
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@OxMedStud @Medium_Aevum You might want to consider: religious ceremonies and traditions; domestic traditions; ceremonial dress and material culture; practical rituals; political ritual or ceremony; recording ritual or performance; rites of passage; magic or alchemy; counterculture or subversion.
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@OxMedStud @Medium_Aevum The conference will be held in person on the 24th and 25th of April, 2025. Submissions are welcome from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. There are no limitations on geographical focus or time period, so long as the topic pertains to the medieval period.
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In the meantime, check out Ryan Mealiffe's excellent review of our 2024 conference on Signs and Scripts 🪶 https://t.co/oRvwE3hhef
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A retrospective for the 2024 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 'Signs and Scripts.'
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📢 Save the Date! The 2025 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference on the theme of Rituals and Ceremonies will take place on April 24th and 25th 2025. CfP soon to follow! #OMGC25
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We are excited to announce that the theme for the 2025 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference will be Magic, Rituals, and Ceremonies! #OMGC2025 Until then, keep an eye on our blog for posts from this year's fantastic round of presenters: https://t.co/SDjH5OAQdQ
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