CMS Weekly Digest

News, Calls, Events, and Opportunities for our Medieval Studies Community

 

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

Ariana Sider receives a CEFMF Doctoral Research Grant

Read the January MMXXV Chronica

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

February 12 - Seeing What Surrounds Us: Denyse Thomasos and ‘Babylon’, USMC

February 12 - Digital Humanities Speaker Series: DECIMA; Colin Rose and Nicholas Terpstra

February 13 - The Divine Comedy: An Illustrated History

February 13 - CRRS Workshop Series: Lee Emrich, Wearable Techne: Dressing Knowledge in Early Modern England

February 13–14 - Mosque Architecture Now: Public Spaces for Social, Technical & Environmental Innovation, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, Organized by Aziza Chaouni and Ruba Kana’an

February 14 - Colloquium: John Philoponus: Texts, Contexts, Reception, organized by Tommaso De Robertis and John Magee

February 14 - Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies Zoroastrian Studies Seminar Series: Nima Jamli, Disputing Titles and Delineating Identities

February 17 - Alison More, The Other Sister: Non-Cloistered Women Religious and the Search for Identity, St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies

February 22 - Mairi Cowan, Les arts diaboliques et la vie quotidienne en Nouvelle-France : une microhistoire, Musée Pointe-à-Callière

February 24 - Wiegand Memorial Foundation Lecture: Music, Joy, and the Good Life

February 24 - CSAMP Proseminar: Jacob Klein, ‘Hupolêpsis and Hormê’: The Stoic Theory of Motivation

February 25 - Michaela Jacques, Bardic Grammars as Windows into Late Medieval and Early Modern Wales 

February 26 - Medieval Liturgy Working Group: Laura Moncion, Liturgical Books in the Library of the Order of St Mary Magdalene in Strasbourg

February 27 - EMIGF V: Chloe Holmquist, “this more gross and courser mettaled age”: Metamorphosizing Waste in Heywood’s 'The Brazen Age' & Victor Hainagiu, Nature’s Narrative: The Growth of Restoration in Vaughan’s Silex 'Scintillans'

February 28-March 1 - The multilingual Mediterranean, The Mediterranean Seminar Winter 2025 Workshop, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

March 1 - Canadian Society of Medievalists Online Research Forum: Seminars, Roundtables, Lectures

March 3 - CSAMP Proseminar: Peter King, Augustine on Pulling the Trigger

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

March 7 - CRRS / CMS Joint Convivium: Jane Tylus, Women as Witnesses: Grieving Mary in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

March 8-9 - Leading Women in Medieval Religious Communities, University of Notre Dame London / Zoom

March 11 - CRRS Book Launch: Elizabeth D. Harvey and Timothy M. Harrison, John Donne’s Physics

March 19-22Centennial Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America

March 21 - Convivium: Rebecca StephensonThe End of the World or merely another Viking raid? Vikings, the Apocalypse, and Byrhtferth’s Scientific Writing around the year 100

March 28 - Convivium: Sarah Bowden (King's College London), Voicing Sin: The Textuality of the Confessional Voice in Twelfth-Century Germany

March 28-29 - Intermediality and Synagonism in Early Modern Northern Europe, CRRS

March 31 - Gur Zak, Boccaccio’s Anger: A case in the Philology and Politics of Emotions, NYU

April 5 - Mediaeval Symposium: Cities of Women in the Middle Ages, St. Mike's

April 24-30 - LXXII Settimana di studio: La Bibbia nell’alto medioevo, Spoleto / YouTube

June 9 - Twelfth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Synthesis and Reconciliation (includes The 50th Annual St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies with Lowry Daly, SJ Plenary Speaker: Adam S. Cohen)

Faculty of Arts and Science Events Page

English Language Learning Courses

Student Life Grad Student Workshops / Grad Student Workshop Listserv

Graduate Centre for Academic Communication Calendar

Centre for International Experience Events Calendar

February 11 - CDHI Lightning Lunch: Digital Storytelling with Twine

February 12 - Managing Exam & Test Stress

February 13 - CRA Introduction to Income Taxes in Canada

February 18 - Writing Against the Clock: Finding Joy in our Writing Practice Part 2, MAA GSC

February 19 - Why Can’t I Focus? - Exploring Attention for Learning and Life

February 19 - Mental Health First Aid and Stress Management with Self-care Strategies, CIE

February 24 - Hacking Perfectionism

February 25 - How to Confront Imposterism as Black Students Workshop

February 25 - Conversations with SGS: Facilitating Student Success on Scholarships

February 25 - JHI How-to: Map Out Your Awards Path for Humanities Researchers

February 26 - Write Fright!!! for Grad Students

February 28 - An Introduction to Community-Based Research for Graduate Students

March 3 - Conference: What now? Navigating your new reality after grad school

March 5 - BHCP’s Recipes from the 17th Century Transcribe-a-thon (register by February 19)

March 6 - Managing Imposterism

March 11 - JHI How-to: Create Documentation & Structures for Research Project Longevity

March 18 - Confronting Imposterism as Racialized Grad Students

March 18 - Conversations with SGS: Making the Most of the (Annual) Supervisory Committee Meeting

March 20 - Managing Exam & Test Stress

April 9 - What grad students need to know about intellectual property

April 14 - Hacking Perfectionism

April 15 - Conversations with SGS: Mental Wellness and Accessibility

SASA Summer 2024 Reading Groups and Masterclasses

Mediterranean Summer Skills Seminars

U of T Registrar Awards, Scholarships, Bursaries & Grants

SGS Awards page

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Funding & Scholarships

Arts & Science International Research Events Fund

Arts & Science Funding

Arts & Science International Research Events Fund

SGS Parental Grant program

University of Toronto Advanced Planning for Students (UTAPS) Program

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

TATP TA Teaching Excellence Award - deadline February 14

TATP CI Teaching Excellence Award - deadline February 14

MAA Belle Da Costa Greene Award - deadline February 15

MAA / GSC Grant - deadline February 15

MAA Schallek Award - deadline February 15

MAA Olivia Remie Constable Award - deadline February 15

A&S Outstanding Teaching Award - deadline February 25

A&S Outstanding Teaching Award — Early Career - deadline February 25

A&S Superior Teaching Award - deadline February 25

Teaching & Learning Fellowship - deadline February 25

Arts & Science Collaborative Research Funding Program - deadline March 1

Gordon Forster Essay Prize, Northern History journal - deadline March 1

U of T Dean's Outstanding Staff Awards - deadline March 10

Marjorie Chibnall Essay Prize - deadline March 11

Sir John William Dawson Medal, Royal Society of Canada - U of T deadline March 14

Pierre Chauveau Medal, Royal Society of Canada - U of T deadline March 14

Inaugural Connaught Mid-Career Researcher Award  - deadline March 15

Prix de thèse Denis Menjot en histoire urbaine, Société Française d’Histoire Urbaine - deadline March 16

Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts - deadline March 20

U of T Teaching Excellence and Student Learning Awards - deadline March 24

U of T President’s Teaching Award - deadline March 24

SGS Research Travel Grant - deadline March 31

SGS Conference Grant – deadline March 31

U of T Supervision Award for Faculty Members - deadline April 1

MAA / CARA Summer Programs and Tuition Scholarships - deadline April 1

Sixteenth Century Society’s Natalie Zemon Davis Book Prize in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the Early Modern Era (1450-1750) - deadline April 1

Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) - U of T Research & Training Alliance Joint Proposals - deadline April 24

American Center of Research Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards

Graduate Grants & Scholarships from The Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal

RHS Research Funding

New York Medieval Society Awards

Istanbul Research Institute grants

Fulbright Scholarships

The Bibliographical Society of America Fellowships

The Sixteenth Century Society Prizes

Society for French Historical Studies Prizes & Awards

Jackman Humanities Fellowships

Basel Fellowships in Latin Literature, University of Basel Department of Ancient Civilizations - deadline February 16

Junior Research Fellowship in Manuscript and Text Cultures, Queen’s College University of Oxford - deadline February 17

Postdoctoral Fellow / Visiting Scholar, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Harvard University - deadline February 19

American Philosophical Society Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), for research in Edinburgh - deadline February 28

U of T Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program - deadline March 3

Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions, Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome Research Group - deadline March 3

Elizabeth and Cecil Kent Postdoctoral Fellowship, Britain and the British World, University of Saskatchewan - deadline March 7

Chancellor Jackman Graduate Student Fellowships in the Humanities - deadline March 13

Cities and Spaces in Premodernity, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History - deadline March 15

Hill Museum & Manuscript Library Fellowships - deadline March 15

Recognising Saints in the High Middle Ages: Local and Papal Formalisation of Cults Reconsidered, University of Warsaw - deadline March 16

Ausschreibung Monumenta Germaniae Historica Fellowship, Munich - deadline March 31

University of Michigan Society of Fellows

Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford Careers and Fellowships

Fellowships & Awards from The Bibliographical Society of America

International Jesuit Scholars Program, College of the Holy Cross (ongoing)           

Course Instructor positions at U of T

Assistant Professor, Medieval and Early Modern Art History, University of the Fraser Valley - deadline February 13

Special Collections Curator, Boston College Libraries - deadline February 17

Visiting Assistant Professor Late-Medieval / early Modern Western Europe, Byzantium, or the Islamic World, Williams College - deadline February 21

Research Associate (Domestic Slavery in Late Antiquity), University of Leicester - deadline February 23

Assistant Professor in Medieval Irish History, Trinity College Dublin - deadline February 28

Chichele Professor of Medieval History, University of Oxford - deadline March 3

Assistant Professor in Digital Technologies - Art and Material Culture of Antiquity, University College Dublin - deadline March 3

Curator of Rare Books, Weston Library University of Oxford - deadline March 3

Faculty for Catholic Church History, Kenrick-Glennon Seminary - deadline March 7

Assistant Professor, Greek and Latin Literature and Culture, Department of Classics - deadline March 13

Assistant Professor, Greek and Latin Language and Pedagogy, Department of Classics - deadline March 13

Visiting Assistant Professor in Medieval History, Kenyon College

Elizabeth A.R. Brown Archivist, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Assistant Professor: Medieval / Renaissance History, UC San Diego

Visiting Assistant Professor, History, Whitworth University

           

Center for Ancient Studies, NYU Emerging Scholars Video Series

Print Matters summer school (Thin Ice Press, York Centre for Print, July 16-19) - deadline February 12

Possibilities (15th Biennial Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, The University of Melbourne, December 3-5) - deadline February 14

Ancient written cultures without borders: international portals forum (International conference Biblissima+, Centre de Colloques of the Campus Condorcet, May 21-22) - deadline February 14

Seminars, Roundtables, Lectures (Canadian Society of Medievalists Online Research Forum, March 1) - deadline February 15

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

Canadian Society of Medievalists Online Research Forum (online, March 1) - deadline February 15

Summer Workshop: Missionary Manuscripts in Mesoamerican Languages (Princeton University Library / Dumbarton Oaks Library and Collections, June 2-13) - deadline February 15

Rare Book School Summer Courses - deadline February 17

MAA Graduate Student Committee Mentorship Program - MAA Annual Meeting deadline February 21

Paleography and Provenance in Printed Hebraica (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library 2025 Summer Seminar, June 9-10) - deadline February 24

Dreams, Visions, and Utopias (Ceræ Conference, online, April 26-27) - deadline February 28

New Ways of Doing Voluntary Action History? (Voluntary Action History Society’s 8th International Conference, University of Liverpool, July 2-4) - deadline February 28

Scribes and Hands. Old and New Methods of Scribal Identification (800-1550) (poster section of the Twenty-third Colloquium of the Comité international de paléographie latine, Vienna, September 17-19) - deadline February 28

The Interpretation of Fictional Characters in Literary Texts: History of Literary Criticism, Philosophy and Formal Ontologies (Humanities special issue) - deadline February 28

Dreams, Visions, and Utopias (Ceræ Conference, online April 26-27) - deadline February 28

MAA Summer Research and Professional Development Workshop for PhD-track students - deadline March 1

Representing the Human and Animal Body: The Art and Languages of Medicine from Antiquity to the Present (XIVth Annual LECTIO Conference, KU Leuven, December 9-11) - March 1

On Land and Across the Sea: Boccaccio’s Other Wor(l)ds. Junctions and Interweavings (UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, October 3-4) - deadline March 1

New Encounters (Medieval and Early Modern Orients conference, Cape Town, South Africa / online, December 11-14) - deadline March 1

Food Studies – Quo vadis? Interdisciplinary potentials for the research of the food history of the Middle Ages (Universität Erfurt, November 13-14) - deadline March 2

Comitatus, A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies - deadline March 3

Book review (Comitatus, A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies #56) - deadline March 3

Language Play in Old English Literature and Devotional Forms in Old English Literature (Old English Panels at MLA 2026 in Toronto, January 8-11, 2026) - deadline March 15

Medieval + Monsters (MAM, MAMA, IMA Joint Conference with the Newberry Library, October 17-18) - deadline March 15

Medieval Images of the Virgin: Materialities, Environments, Ecologies (University of Bamberg, May 22-23) - deadline March 15

Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections (Women’s History Network Conference, online, September 4-5) - deadline March 29

postmedieval mentorship programme for scholars who have not yet published in English - deadline March 31

Who Ruled the World? Queen Urraca and Her Contemporaries in the Early Twelfth Century (Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid, March 3-5, 2026) - deadline April 1

Wallace Johnson Program for First Book Authors, Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University - deadline April 1

MAA Graduate Student Committee Mentorship Program - ICMS Kalamazoo deadline April 4

Always Here: Non-Binary Gender, Trans Identities, & Queerness in the Global Middle Ages (c. 250-1650) (Binghamton University, October 24-25) - deadline April 15

Dreams, Visions, and Utopias (Ceræ Volume 12) - deadline April 30

Convivium. Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of the Premodern World (XII / 2, 2025; miscellaneous issue) - deadline April 30

IX International Congress of Hispanic Medieval Latin (University of Lisbon, October 15-18) - deadline April 30

Medievalism in TheoryStudies in Medievalism XXXV - deadline June 1, 2025

Medievalism in Theory & Medievalism in Politics (Studies in Medievalism XXXV) - deadline June 1

Consortiums and Confluences (The 101st Medieval Academy of America Meeting, University of Massachusetts Amherst / Amherst College, March 19-21, 2026) - deadline June 2

MAA Graduate Student Committee Mentorship Program - IMC Leeds deadline June 6

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

Manuscript and Text Cultures 

The Senses and Material Culture in a Global Perspective

Florilegium

Texts and Studies of the Middle Ages

Medieval Ecocriticisms

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

postmedieval

Digital Medievalist

Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus

Durham University IMEMS Press

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

Open Theology

Animal History

The iJournal

Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures

Past & Present, Oxford University Press

Cervantes: Journal of the Cervantes Society of America

Medieval Institute Publications

Publishing with Durham University IMEMS Press

 

 

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