MAMO Conference 2025

‘It’s back to the future’: the 13th-century castle built by hand in France A quarter of a century after our first visit, the Guardian returns to Guédelon to find old-fashioned toil has built “thoroughly modern” architectural laboratory

That’s the location of the next MAMO sorted, then 😍 @themamoconf.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

For those who may be interested ☺️ my slides and painting from my talk 'Gawain is Not a Hero' from the @themamoconf.bsky.social are available to view on the UAL research depository (no transcript as yet since its in peer review but plenty of information) ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/24...

Some more images from MAMO conference @themamoconf.bsky.social I’m with esteemed company here, Professor Sarah Salih (KCL), Dr Josh Davies (KCL), and the wonderful Dr Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social (Oxford). Such a rich experience for me and lots of new friends made 😊

back frm @themamoconf.bsky.social & inspired by

🌟 LOCAL MEDIEDVALISMS with co-pannelists @maiablumberg.bsky.social & @linseyhunter.bsky.social

🌟public interp of MA w/ @emilyrobinson.bsky.social & @krmaude.bsky.social

🌟 practical resistance to far-right MA use @menysnoweballes.bsky.social

Thank you so much for coming, and for speaking about your Into the Mystic project!

Wow thank you Laura, it was a pleasure to meet you and hear your feminist reimaginings of Beowulf!

Thank you to all the excellent speakers, listeners and questioners at @themamoconf.bsky.social and the talented team who put it together. A special few days back at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

Thank you all! It was a great few days and a pleasure to be a part of it! Here’s to the next one!

That's a wrap on MAMO 2025! Heartfelt thanks to everyone who attended, presented, chatted, and made it such an enjoyable conference.
We welcomed nearly 150 across three days, heard over 100 papers, experienced 2 fire alarms, and had countless inspiring conversations on medievalism.
Until MAMO #6!

It was a fantastic keynote - thank you so much for presenting!

1/3: Delivering the keynote @themamoconf.bsky.social 2025 has been a wonderful (if daunting) highlight of my research activity, the painting below was made as a response to the invitation, it and the plenary were attempts to understand the women of the poem as more temporally complex figures...

It was a pleasure to have you at the MAMO and thanks for coming and presenting! What a fantastic panel. Until the next one!

Thanks so much, it was a pleasure to have you there! Until the next MAMO and enjoy your summer!

Thanks so much for everything you brought to MAMO, Laura! We were lucky to have you there via GuMM and as a presenter. Love your slides here!

Seconded!! Fantastic conference ✨ @themamoconf.bsky.social and it was lovely to see everyone!

Gawain Between Two Deaths painting by Michael Eden

The plenary talk by @michaeledenart.bsky.social at @themamoconf.bsky.social on Gawain & the Green Knight was ✨MAGNIFICENT✨ Michael’s artwork- incl his painting here, Gawain between Two Deaths- is fantastic 👏 Also, a total pleasure to chat to Michael at the conf too! 😘

Such a pleasure to present at @themamoconf.bsky.social with the brilliant @daisyeblack.bsky.social and Sheila Passey. I’m in full flow here discussing my new poem in the voice of Princess Freawaru from Beowulf, inspired by Judith beheading Holofernes (while resisting girlboss feminism!!).

Thanks so much for coming - for presenting and for such an excellent workshop! Enjoy GMS and summer.

Thank you @themamoconf.bsky.social for a great conference! Really well curated programme. Sorry to leave early but I have @medievalgender.bsky.social next week and much to do in between!

I just made my very first edit to @wikipedia.org in Fran and Lucy’s #MedievalWiki workshop @themamoconf.bsky.social #DigitalSkillz

Happening now! A Wiki-thon for MAMO 2025.

On my way to London right this very minute for an exciting session at MAMO 👀🔥✅ #MAMOmonth

It's the final day of MAMO! Expect it all: a Wikipedia workshop, mystics, Crusades, landscapes, Christianity, theory, pedagogy, scholarship... with a final plenary by @michaeledenart.bsky.social and a closing reception on the Terrace. See you there!

Three fantastic keynote roundtablers, who spoke beautifully on Public Chaucer. The historical Chaucer, literary Chaucer, creative Chaucer all overlapped in interesting ways. Caroline's book with ARC and Mary's with Manchester UP are for sale in the Council Room, along with many other MAMO speakers!

Some wonderful MAMO snaps from @drlauravarnam.bsky.social! MAMO Day 2 was stellar!

It was great to have you! Thanks so much for coming and speaking!

It was a pleasure chairing and speaking today at @themamoconf.bsky.social as part of the panel at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Strand Campus.

Thanks to all the organisers for making this happen!

A classroom with people sat at tables and a PowerPoint slide saying what ways have we seen the medieval evoked by the far/extreme right?

Nearly 40 people at my @themamoconf.bsky.social workshop 😍

So glad you had a good time! Enjoy Durham and hopefully see you at the next MAMO!

Fresh from their plenary yesterday at #MAMO2025, Angela Weisl and Robert Squillace stopped by our stand this morning! Learn more about their collection "Medievalisms in a Global Age": buff.ly/oBs96Fl @themamoconf.bsky.social‬ #Medievalism

So glad you're enjoying it!