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
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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 19-22 - Centennial Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America
March 21 - Convivium: Rebecca Stephenson, The 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)
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February 11 - CDHI Lightning Lunch: Digital Storytelling with Twine
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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
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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)
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MAA Belle Da Costa Greene Award - deadline February 15
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Gordon Forster Essay Prize, Northern History journal - deadline March 1
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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
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SGS Research Travel Grant - deadline March 31
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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
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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
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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 Theory, Studies 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
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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