Category Archives: Graduate Awards

Deadline Extension for TOEBI Conference Grants 2026

The deadline for applications for the TOEBI Conference Grants 2026 has been extended to 30th April 2026.

TOEBI is inviting applications for grants from members who are graduate students or recent PhDs without a full-time post to support presentations at conferences (in-person or online) in 2026.

Expenses covered may include conference fees (including for virtual events), accommodation and travel. Available funds are modest and we cannot guarantee to grant the full amount requested. We will consider each application after the deadline and apportion the available funds as seems most appropriate.

Applications should be sent to TOEBI Awards Co-ordinator, Dr Daria Izdebska, d.w.izdebska@salford.ac.uk by 5pm on the 30th April 2026.

Those awarded grants will be required to write a short report for the TOEBI newsletter.
Please note that applications to cover expenses related to IMC Leeds 2026 are also still accepted.

TOEBI Bursary Application Form

For further details see: https://www.toebi.org.uk/grants-for-graduates.

TOEBI Conference Bursaries 2026

TOEBI would like to invite applications for grants from members who are graduate students or recent PhDs without a full-time post to support presentations at conferences (in-person or online) in 2026.

Expenses covered may include conference fees (including for virtual events), accommodation and travel. Available funds are modest and we cannot guarantee to grant the full amount requested. We will consider each application after the deadline and apportion the available funds as seems most appropriate.

Applications should be sent to Dr Daria Izdebska, d.w.izdebska@salford.ac.uk by 5pm on the 31st March 2026.

Those awarded grants will be required to write a short report for the TOEBI newsletter.
Please note that applications to cover expenses related to IMC Leeds 2026 are also still accepted.

TOEBI Bursary Application Form

For further details see: https://www.toebi.org.uk/grants-for-graduates.

Report from the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Medievalists

Hana Videen, King’s College London
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Medievalists
Brock University, St Catherines, Ontario, 24-26 May, 2014

TOEBI helped fund my trip to St Catherines, Ontario, for the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Medievalists (CSM). On May 25 I presented a paper based on a chapter of my Ph.D. dissertation, ‘Borders without Boundaries: what it means to be stained in Beowulf’. This was presented alongside another paper on Beowulf by Brett Roscoe of King’s University College, Edmonton, and chaired by the president of CSM, John Osborne (Carleton University). My paper analyzes the ways in which the word fah is used in Old English poetry, highlighting the differences in the ways this word is glossed by modern translators. In a story that focuses on the implications of achieving everlasting fame — a lasting mark — the Beowulf-poet considers different ways of leaving a ‘mark’ or ‘stain’.