In this blog post, Victoria Shirley of the Ceræ editorial board shares her impressions of the 2020 virtual Leeds IMC The 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic has upended the models of teaching students and exchanging research that we have used for decades. Large, in-person classes for most of 2020 have been changed to online classes. Mass gatherings … Continue reading Conference Review – Thoughts on the 2020 digital Leeds IMC and the future of meetings and conferences in the age of COVID-19
The spread of the COVID-19 virus in 2020 has presented unique challenges to students, professors, researchers, and professionals around the world. Conferences have been cancelled, classes have been shifted to taking place online, and access to libraries is now limited for many in affected countries. We at Cerae will continue to work on creating Volume … Continue reading Research and Working During the COVID-19 Outbreak
Even while we are busy working on volume 5, we are thinking ahead to volume 6, and it would be amazing if you would join us! Some of our brilliant editorial team are moving on and some of us are eager for a new challenge within Cerae. This means that there are opportunities for eager … Continue reading Open Opportunities
Cerae are pleased to announce the winner of our volume four essay prize. This prize was awarded to an article submitted under our volume four theme of Influence and Appropriation. We published two articles related to this theme, and it was a very hard decision as to whom the prize should be awarded, as both … Continue reading Winner winner!
Our wonderful web editor, Erica Steiner, has been an extremely busy bee in recent weeks, updating the Cerae website to make it more streamlined and easier to use. You should be able to find articles and blog posts with ease now - have a browse, let us know what you think. All Cerae articles are … Continue reading Tech Update!
Are you excited? We're excited! We'll be up bright and early on Tuesday morning for the 9am session in the Parkinson building (Nathan Bodington Chamber - fancy!). Join our esteemed editor, Vanessa Wright, and our four speakers - Philippa Byrne, Stephanie Hathaway, Celeste Andrews, and Sean Tandy - for some fantastic insights into Memories of … Continue reading Leeds IMC 2018
Twitter was absolutely buzzing last week with excited medievalists announcing that their panel had been accepted for the International Medieval Congress in Leeds in July 2018. I have already triple booked myself in some time slots with all the fantastic papers and panels that friends and colleagues have been tweeting. And now we are excited … Continue reading Cerae at Leeds IMC 2018!
But we haven't published it yet! That's where you come in. The deadline is tomorrow, but we know that you've been working on your paper and are just waiting until the very last minute to press send - and please do! We really want to read it, and publish it, and share it with the … Continue reading Everything you ever wanted to know about representations and recollections of empire
We are delighted to announce the winners of the essay competitions for Volume 3 of Cerae. Lisa Tagliaferri won the prize for Best Themed Essay, with the theme of the issue being 'Words, Signs, and Feelings'. Tagliaferri's article, ''A Gentlewoman of the Courte': Introducing and Translating the Court Lady', explores the pro-feminist agenda, or lack … Continue reading Volume 3 Winners
VOLUME 5: CALL FOR PAPERS 'Representations and Recollections of Empire' Cerae invites essay submissions on the theme of ‘Representations and Recollections of Empire’. In its broadest sense, empire as a term is used to describe a state or cluster of lands and states ruled by a monarch or emperor. With its implications of wide and … Continue reading Volume 5: Call for Papers – ‘Representations and Recollections of Empire’