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Really delighted that fellow Hoopoe fan and Magic Prof. Emily Selove is returning for more Oracle Dream Retreat in 2027!

Emily Selove (PhD 2012, UCLA) is an associate professor in Medieval Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Exeter. She is also the convener of the University of Exeter's Centre for Magic and Esotericism, a uniquely interdisciplinary collaboration of colleagues across the University of Exeter to study the history of magic and the occult sciences—an area in which Exeter has exceptional, internationally recognized expertise.

Professor Selove designed and, in 2023, launched a new MA in Magic and Occult Sciences that showcases the unique, interdisciplinary expertise of University of Exeter Colleagues in the study of the history of magic. This MA was featured in the BBC, the Guardian, the New York Times, and multiple other news organisations.

Professor Selove was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Manchester from 2012-2014, working on the ERC-funded Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms project. Her early research focused on the figure of the uninvited guest (or "party-crasher") in medieval Arabic literature, and especially on the 11th-century work ikyat Ab l-Qsim, the subject of her monograph, ikyat Ab l-Qsim: A Literary Banquet (Edinburgh University Press, 2016). She also co-edited and translated this text with Professor Geert Jan van Gelder: The Portrait of Ab l-Qsim al-Baghdd al-Tamm (Gibb Memorial Trust, 2021). Her translation of another 11th-century book of party-crashing is titled Selections from the Art of Party-Crashing in Medieval Iraq. She also co-authored a textbook to introduce beginning students to the city of medieval Baghdad, Baghdad at the Centre of a World: 8th-13th Century, and has created a collection of cartoons titled Popeye and Curly: 120 Days in Medieval Baghdad . Her most recent book was a short monograph for the Cambridge Elements series titled The Donkey King: Asinine Symbology in Ancient and Medieval Magic

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📢 Are you a student? Are you interested in the story of King Arthur, and the different threads that hold it together? If so, you are in luck because the @appledorebookfestival has just announced a new discounted rate for students 🎉

So head to the link in bio and grab your ticket/s to hear @amyjeffs_author speak with me about her latest book - Arthur: A New Life 👑🗡🧙‍♂️

📅 Tuesday 22 September

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Prof. Emily Selove from the Magic Panel on YouTube last night discussing the MA in Magic and Occult Sciences at the @uniofexeter

You can now watch the full session on my website too: themysteries.org/panels

Follow Emily here @popeyeandcurly
@magic.uoe @exetermagic

#exeteruni #exeter #humanities #education #learning

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✨️ A date for your autumnn 2026 diaries ✨️

Join us in Exeter on 24 October for a day of witchy talks focused on tales from the local area 🧙‍♀️

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Had a fabulous time chatting to prospective students at our Offer Holder Visitor Day this morning about the use of magic as a category of analysis when it comes to gaining a deeper understanding of medieval religious, medical, political, intellectual, and socio-cultural histories.

What a lovely way to end the spring teaching term ✨️

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Today is our last session for Past Magics - a postgrad module that forms part of our MAs in both History and Magic and Occult Sciences @uniofexeter. During the session we will be exploring the idea of "Landscapes of Magic", discussing how past societies conceptualised the world around them, categorising the landscape into spaces of order and disorder. In particular we will be looking at Aisling Bryne's work on Britain, Ireland, and the Isle of Man as "archipelagic otherworlds", and A. J. H. Larsen's work on mountains and forests in early modern conceptions of "The Witches' Sabbath".

Why were certain landscapes associated with magic or the supernatural? How did people in the past blend geography, politics, and environment to build connections between a seemingly supernatural otherworld and known and real locations? How did ideas of both liminality and boundedness make certain places sites of desire and wish-fulfillment, while rendering others sites of fear and anxiety?

I'm also particularly excited to see what examples and case-studies our students have chosen to share with us ✨️

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