News, Calls, Events, and Opportunities for our Medieval Studies Community
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Agnès Boutreux awarded CMS Publication Prize
Konrad Eisenbichler awarded 2024 Anne Lake Prescott Prize
Laura Ingallinella wins ISSNAF Young Investigator RnB4Culture Award
Sebastian Sobecki receives Dean’s Research Excellence Award
Critical Digital Humanities Institute Visiting Speaker Series
CSAMP Event Calendar: Collaborative Specialization in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy Proseminars, Colloquia, and Workshop Listings
BHPC Program Events
PIMS Calendar of Events
December 4 - Markus Stock, Caves, dwarves and subterranean riches: Imaginations of the underground in historical perspective, Bayreuther Stadtgespräche: City Talks
December 6 - Annual Bennett Lecture: Margot Fassler, Women’s Voices in the Mass Liturgy: Sequence Repertories within Various Female Communities
December 18 - Library Lectures: Mairi Cowan, A Scottish Nun at the Hôtel-Dieu in 1642, The Morrin Centre
January 10 - CMS PhD Candidates Convivium V: Jack McCart (CMS PhD Candidate), The Patronage of John de Pulteney (d. 1349): Commerce, Commemoration, and Corruption in Fourteenth-Century London / Matthew Reid (CMS PhD Candidate), A Dialogic Approach to an Old English Boethian Metre
January 16 - Book Launch: Matt Kavaler, Actors Carved and Cast – Netherlandish Sculpture of the Sixteenth Century
January 20 - CRRS EMIGF III: Eva Plesnik, ‘Otium’ and empire in Bohuslaus of Hassenstein’s ‘Ecloga sive Idyllion Budae’ / Lauren Weindling, ‘Infect in Similitude’: Contagion in Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’
January 24 - Convivium: Landon Reitz (Faculty of Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow), ‘Wer hât mich guoter ûf getân?’ Imagining the Reader in German Medieval Literature
February 13 - CRRS Workshop Series: Lee Emrich, Wearable Techne: Dressing Knowledge in Early Modern England
February 28-March 1 - The multilingual Mediterranean, The Mediterranean Seminar Winter 2025 Workshop, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
March 21 - Convivium X: Rebecca Stephenson, The End of the World or merely another Viking raid? Vikings, the Apocalypse, and Byrhtferth’s Scientific Writing around the year 100
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March 6 - CRRS Workshop Series: Mairi Cowan, A Young Tender Plant at the Royal Scottish Court: The Youth of Margaret Tudor in her Marriage to James IV
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U of T Awards of Excellence Northrop Frye Award - deadline January 30
U of T Early Career Teaching Award - deadline January 30
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Society for the Medieval Mediterranean Simon Barton Postgraduate & ECR Conference Prize - deadline January 31
Dionisius A. Agius Prize - deadline January 31
Scholarly Activity Awards, British Society for the History of Philosophy - deadline January 31
U of T Awards of Excellence Vivek Goel Faculty Citizenship Award - deadline January 31
2nd Annual TEAMS / Bonnie Wheeler Award for Teaching Excellence in Medieval Studies - deadline January 31
Canadian Society of Medievalists Leonard Boyle Dissertation Prize for Medieval Studies - deadline February 1
Canadian Society of Medievalists Margaret Wade Labarge Prize - deadline February 1
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities - deadline February 13
TATP BIPOC TA Teaching Excellence Award - deadline February 14
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Assistant Professor, Medieval / Renaissance History, UC San Diego - apply by December 4
Lecturer, Literature in English pre-1900, Te Kura Toi School of Arts - deadline December 6
Associate Professorship of Digital Scholarship, University of Oxford - deadline December 9
Professorship in Philosophy and History of Medieval Philosophy, University of Cologne - deadline January 10
Jackman Humanities Fellowships
Research Fellow, Trinitarian Ontologies: A New Philosophical Investigation into Trinitarian Relationality, Palacký University Olomouc - deadline December 4
Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion Doctoral Research and Travel Scholarships - deadline December 6
Postdoctoral position at the Department of History, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University - deadline December 9
Gender Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, Notre Dame University - deadline December 10
Dan David Society of Fellows, Tel Aviv University - deadline December 15
Short-term Fellowships at the Newberry Library - deadline January 3
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy - application review begins January 3
Junior Research Fellowships, Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Christ Church, University of Oxford - deadline January 6
The reception of ancient Greece in pre-modern French literature and illustrations of manuscripts and printed books (1320-1550): how invented memories shaped the identity of European communities, ERC Advanced Grant AGRELITA Postdoctoral / Junior Researcher Fellowships, University of Caen Normandy - deadline January 8
Stipendiary Early-Career Research Fellowship in English; Old English, Norse and Celtic; Theology; Music, Corpus Christi College - deadline January 8
Research Start Scholarship, Formierung Europe by Overcoming Schism in the Twelfth Century, RWTH Aachen University - deadline January 10
British School at Rome / Early Medieval Europe Fellowship - deadline January 31
Massey College Junior Fellowships - deadline January 31
Byzantine Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025–26, University of Notre Dame - deadline February 1
Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025–27, University of Notre Dame Medieval Institute - deadline February 1
Queer and Trans Research Lab Martha McCain Faculty Research Fellowship Program - deadline February 3
Basel Fellowships in Latin Literature, University of Basel Department of Ancient Civilizations - deadline February 16
American Philosophical Society Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), for research in Edinburgh - deadline February 28
Elizabeth and Cecil Kent Postdoctoral Fellowship, Britain and the British World, University of Saskatchewan - deadline March 7
Executive Director (part-time, remote), The Manuscript Society
University of Michigan Society of Fellows
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford Careers and Fellowships
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International Jesuit Scholars Program, College of the Holy Cross (ongoing)
Center for Ancient Studies, NYU Emerging Scholars Video Series
24th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies (Duke University, April 3-5) - deadline December 9
Colour in the Choir. Polychromy on Late-Medieval and Renaissance Church Furniture (12th Ards Annual Conference on Current Research in Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture and Conference Iconostalla Misericordia International Leuven, May 21-23) - deadline December 12
Bâtir l’identité. Architecture et identités collectives en Europe médiévale et moderne (XIe-XVIIIe siècles) (Nantes Université. June 12-13) - deadline December 13
Knowledge Transfer between and across Ancient Empires (XVIII Melammu Symposium, Northeast Normal University, September 5-7, 2025) - deadline December 15
Women’s voices on nobility (International Colloquium, Institut catholique de Rennes, June 5-6) - deadline December 15
12th Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Saint Louis University, June 9-11) - deadline December 31
Disputatio Uqacensis 2025 (XXIIIe colloque annuel de la Société des études médiévales du Québec, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, March 15) - deadline January 1
The Visual Scribe: Tables and Diagrams in Middle Eastern Manuscripts Workshop (Institute for the History of Knowledge in the Ancient World, Freie Universität Berlin, April 10-11) - deadline January 1
Gender and Money : Historical Approaches (Research Workshop, Université de Paris Cité, June 19-20) - deadline January 6
Embodied Knowledge and Making Texts: A Handbook, Thin Ice Press - deadline January 13
Narrating Emotions in Late Latin Literature (PATHOS: Paths of the Soul. An Atlas of Ancient Emotions online seminar series, April / June 2025)- deadline January 15
Transmission, Adaptation, and Variation in Early Medieval English Literature (U of T, April / May 2026) - deadline January 15
Canadian Society of Medievalists Annual Conference (St Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo, June 9-11) - deadline January 15
Identités et marges brivadoises de l’Antiquité au XXIe siècle (Colloque Brioude, Haute-Loire, June 26-27, 2025) - deadline January 15
Soft matters. Poésies textiles, jadis et aujourd’hui (Colloque international, Université Paris Cité, September 25-27) - deadline January 15
Carmina Burana – From / Carmina Burana – Vom Kodex zum Klang Source to Sound (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis / FHNW, November 20-22, 2025) - deadline January 15
Medieval Art on the Move (PhD Colloquium on Medieval Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, March 28) - deadline January 20
Medieval History Seminar (German Historical Institute, October 8-10, 2025) - deadline January 31
PIMS Leonard E. Boyle, O.P., Toronto-Rome Diploma Programme in Manuscript Studies - deadline February 1
Chaos and Order In Medieval Philosophy (29th SIEPM Annual International Colloquium, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, September 3-5) - deadline February 15
Pardoning and Pardon Letters in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (15th-17th centuries) (PARDONS Conference, Brussels, June 5-6) - deadline February 15
The Interpretation of Fictional Characters in Literary Texts: History of Literary Criticism, Philosophy and Formal Ontologies (Humanities special issue) - deadline February 28
Comitatus, A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies - deadline March 3
Medievalism in Theory, Studies in Medievalism XXXV - deadline June 1, 2025
Materiality and Gender Constructs in Hagiography: Saints and Sacred Space, religions special issue - deadline July 14
Aesthetics and Medieval Thought, ‘Studi di estetica’ / aesthetic studies special issue - deadline September 1
Government and Institutions in the Regnum Francorum c. 450-1050, Studies in Administration and Practice (University of New Hampshire, Durham, Fall 2026)
Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization
Genocide Studies International
Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Chicago 2024
Brepols Book Series and Journals
The Senses and Material Culture in a Global Perspective
Texts and Studies of the Middle Ages
Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies
Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Sources
Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions
Religion Compass - Premodern Judaism
Submit news to Medieval World: Culture & Conflict
Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus
Durham University IMEMS Press
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures
Past & Present, Oxford University Press
Cervantes: Journal of the Cervantes Society of America
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