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OK, so I missed Andy Murray’s Wimbledon semi-final.  And I missed seeing England hammer the Aussies in Cardiff.  But I didn’t care.  Because I was incredibly excited to be at my first Chaucer conference. The Biennial London Chaucer Conference took place at the Institute of English Studies last Friday and Saturday.  Given that the manuscript I work on has been (wrongly) attributed to Chaucer, and that the theme of this year’s conference was “Science, Magic, and Technology”, th

I recently returned from the International Congress on Medieval Studies.  It’s held every year at the University of Western Michigan in Kalamazoo (USA), and this year was the 50th congress. 3000 medievalists met to discuss everything from Viking archaeology to Middle English poetry – and of course there was a mead and ale tasting.  I’ll put together some tweets from the congress in a future post.  For now, here’s a recording (with PowerPoint slides) of my presentation at the

I have just returned from the XII Trobada (twelfth congress) of the Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT – Catalan Society for the History of Science and Technology).  This conference was held in Valencia, Spain, and I was honoured to be able to attend and present a paper on a globe in the collection of the Whipple Museum here in Cambridge. I thought I would post some thoughts on this conference while it is still fresh in my mind.  It was my first