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GMS and SMFS Statement Protesting UK University Redundancies
May 20, 2024We write on behalf of the Gender and Medieval Studies (GMS) group and the Society of Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS), which represent scholars working in medieval studies, to express our concern at the devastating cuts happening in over 70 universities across the UK. Following the redundancies at Birkbeck, University of… Read more
Joint Statement from the U.K. Gender and Medieval Studies Group (GMS) and the international U.S.-based Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS) on the threatened job losses at Birkbeck
December 9, 20226th December 2022 Dear Professor David Latchman, Professor Matt Innes, and Sir Andrew Cahn, We write on joint behalf of the Gender and Medieval Studies Group (GMS) and the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS), organisations which represent the study of medieval English Literature, and medieval studies more broadly, in… Read more
Professor Simon Gaunt FBA (July 1959–December 2021)
December 10, 2021The GMS is very sorry to learn of the death of Professor Simon Gaunt, who passed away on the 4th December 2021, at the age of 62. Simon was a world-leading scholar of medieval French and Occitan. An alumnus of Warwick University (BA, 1982; PhD, 1986), he went on to… Read more
Inclusivity, Harassment & Accessibility
April 14, 2021Inclusivity and Harassment Conference organisers are required to include a statement of inclusivity and accessibility, including an anti-harassment statement in the programme and on any individually managed website. As a body, the GMS is committed to valuing diversity, difference and inclusivity, and to opposing most actively any form of discrimination… Read more
Gender and Medieval Studies Student Essay Prize 2018
April 4, 2019The 2018 Gender and Medieval Studies Student Essay Prize has been awarded to Sarah Hinds from the University of York, for her essay ‘Late Medieval Sexual Badges as Sexual Signifiers: An Archaeological Reappraisal’. Huge congratulations to Sarah! Information about submissions for our 2019 essay prize will be announced here. To… Read more
Apply for the Gender and Medieval Studies Student Essay Prize 2018
June 17, 2018Submissions from postgraduates working within any discipline in the field are encouraged. Electronic submissions should be submitted to Laura Kalas Williams (L.E.Williams@swansea.ac.uk), by Monday 19th November 2018. Go to our prizes page for more details. Read more