CMS Weekly Digest

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

 

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

Alessia Berardi awarded Leonard Boyle Dissertation Prize

Amy Conwell successfully passes FOE

Konrad Eisenbichler honoured with Festschrift

Jon McGinnis joins CMS /  Philosophy

 

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

Faculty of Arts and Science Events Page

English Language Learning Courses

Student Life Grad Student Workshops

Centre for International Experience Events Calendar

GradLife Calendar

July 13 - Student Housing Fair

July 15 - Gradlife: Graduate Students - Co-Working & Accountability Space: Maintain Career Momentum

July 15 - Info Session: Working at the Innovation Hub

July 16 - Event Planning for Clubs and Groups

July 18 - Student Life: Dream Job Academy

July 21-22 - Save Ancient Studies Alliance (SASA) Virtual Conference 2024

July 30  - Arts & Science SSHRC Insight Grant Workshop

August 13-15 - GCAC Grant Writing Course: Writing SSHRC Proposals

August 14 - SSHRC Insight Grant: Strategies for Success

August 16 - Q&A Session: Learning at U of T as an International Graduate Student

August 20-22 - GCAC Hybrid Dissertation Boot Camp

August 21-23 - Conference: Christine de Pizan: Publishing, Politics, and Reception in Premodern Europe

August 22 - Webinar: SSHRC Insight Grants

August 23 - Writing Graduate Research Proposals Workshops: Vanier Proposals / Leadership Statements

September 12 - Writing Graduate Research Proposals Workshops: SSHRC

September 13 - CRIS Faculty Writing Accelerator: 12 Weeks to Publication (application deadline - August 2)

SASA Summer 2024 Reading Groups and Masterclasses

Mediterranean Summer Skills Seminars

SGS Awards page

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Funding & Scholarships

Arts & Science International Research Events Fund

Arts & Science Funding

University of Toronto Advanced Planning for Students (UTAPS) Program

Laura Bassi Scholarship - deadline July 14

Arts & Science Dean’s Research Excellence Award - deadline July 15

Romanesque Research Award - deadline July 17

Summer 2024 SGS Conference Grant – deadline July 31

Summer 2024 SGS Research Travel Grant – deadline July 31

Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships Program - deadline August 1

Royal Historical Society Funded Book Workshops - deadline August 9

The Lone Medievalist Prizes: Teaching, Scholarly Outreach, Scholarship - deadline August 15

NEH Public Scholars Grant - deadline August 28 (Online Information Session: July 23)

The Claremont Prize for the Study of Religion - deadline September 3

Martin Lynn Scholarship in African History - deadline September 6

University of Toronto Honorary Degrees - deadline September 9

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships - deadline September 11

SSHRC Insight Grant - U of T deadline September 23

Medieval Open Access Resource (OAR) Sweet Sixteen Playoffs  - deadline November 1

SSHRC Partnership Development Grants - U of T deadline November 5

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

Course Instructor positions at U of T

Jackman Humanities Fellowships

Teaching Assistant, Women and Money in the Medieval Middle East, NMC - deadline July 12

Course Instructor, Themes in Medieval History, UTM Historical Studies - deadline July 14

Teacher in Ancient History (Late Antiquity), Cardiff University - deadline July 14

Editor, Speculum - deadline July 15

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Medieval Studies, Charles University, Prague - deadline July 15

Teaching Assistant, Medieval Mediterranean History, U of T History - deadline July 16

Teaching Assistant, Themes in Medieval History, UTM Historical Studies - deadline July 16

Teaching Assistant, Introduction to European History 1300-1815, UTM Historical Studies - deadline July 16

Teaching Assistant, A History of Discoveries and Inventions in the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World, UTM Historical Studies - deadline July 16

Teaching Fellowship: The Biblical World, NMC - deadline July 19

Assistant Invigilator, Temerty Faculty of Medicine - deadline July 22

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (1580-1750), Anglia Ruskin University - deadline July 25

Teaching Assistant Positions, U of T English - deadline July 26

Lecturer in Early Irish History, Maynooth University - deadline July 28

Visiting Assistant Professor of medieval or early modern European art and architectural history in the world, Brown University - deadline July 31

Short-term Beinecke Library Postdoctoral Research Fellowships, Yale - deadline July 31

Senior Professorship in the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies - deadline August 1

Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums Incubator - deadline August 1

Stephen Knight Lecturer in Medieval Literature, University of Melbourne - deadline August 2

Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Humanistic Studies / LGBT Studies - deadline August 6

Research Position in Digital History for HOLYLAB, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento - deadline August 7

Various tenure-track positions, Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - deadline August 25

Predoctoral Fellowship, European and Colonial Art Histories from the 15th-18th Century, Lise Meitner Group, Max Planck Institute for Art History - deadline September 15

Beinecke Library Research Fellowships for Graduate Students, Yale - deadline September 16

Faculty Research Fellowships, Jackman Humanities - deadline September 17

Associate / Full Professor of Early Modern Drama, Yale University - deadline September 18

School of Historical Studies Membership, Institute for Advanced Study - deadline October 15

Bourse Robert de Sorbon - deadline October 15

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities on Truth, Wolf Humanities Center - deadline November 3

Professor of History, Lingnan University Hong Kong

University of Michigan Society of Fellows

Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford Careers and Fellowships

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

Center for Ancient Studies, NYU Emerging Scholars Video Series

CRRS Working Group: Allegory in the Early Modern World: Image, Body, Text

Editor: Speculum - deadline July 15

Prospettive Di Genere: Rappresentazioni, testi e linguaggi delle donne dal Medioevo alla Contemporaneità (Sapienza Università Di Roma, January 22-24) - deadline July 15

Reassessing Canon Formation in Medieval Literature (University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, February 20-22, 2025) - deadline July 15

Moments, Intervals, Epochs: Time in the Visual Arts (50th Annual Cleveland Symposium, November 22-23) - deadline July 15

Women in Intellectual History (ISIH online conference, late 2024 / early 2025) - deadline July 31

New Approaches to the Cultural History of Writing in the Early Middle Ages: Societies, Networks, and Ideas (Universidad de Salamanca / online, November 22) - deadline July 31

Solidarity (Limina Conference, October 10-11) - deadline July 31

Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages webinars - deadline July 31

Religion and the Arts special issue - deadline August 1

Verse with wings of skill’: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature (book chapters) - deadline August 30

La philosophie de Marguerite Porete (Philosophiques) - deadline August 31

Agriculture et environnement en europe de l’antiquité à nos jours (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne, February 6-7) - deadline August 31

Worlds of Learning (Leeds International Medieval Congress, July 7-10, 2025) - deadline August 31

Louvain Dictionary of Church History - deadline September 1

Chantiers médiévaux (56e Congrès de la SHMESP, l’Université Champollion Albi, May 22-25) - deadline September 1

Cultivating and Contesting the Spiritual Meaning of Male Hair (Viator 56, no. 2) - deadline September 1

2024-2025 Student Advisory Committee - deadline September 5

Les Métiers de la recherche en SHS - Qui suis-Je? (October 14-18) - deadline September 15

Winter School: Handwritten Text Recognition of Medieval Documents (online, November 8, 22, December 6 + Vienna, December 18-20) - deadline September 15

Carthusians and Images. New Perspectives on Religious Art and Devotional Culture in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Charterhouse (Leuven, KartHuis, May 15-17) - deadline September 30

Annual Theme Suggestions, JHI Programs - deadline September 30

La violence à la cour de France (Moyen Âge-XIXe siècle) (Sorbonne, April 28-29) - deadline September 30

Les Rencontres de musicologie médiévale (Université Lumière Lyon 2, January 13-15) - deadline September 30

Making and Remaking Saints in the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period c. 600 – 1600 (University of Salamanca, Spain, March 24-26) - deadline September 30

Trade, Production, Consumption of Textiles and Dress in the Early Modern (Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani, Venice, Italy, May 28-29) - deadline September 30

Rutgers Art Review: The Graduate Journal of Research in Art History, 41st Edition - deadline October 1

Gender, Identity, and Authority in Late Antiquity (Sixteenth biennial meeting of Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, University of Tulsa, March 20-23) - deadline October 1

Reading visual devices in early books (University of Turku, May 22-24) - deadline October 15

Communities (22nd ISSEME, Düsseldorf, July 2-4, 2025) - deadline October 31

MAA CARA Executive Committee Nominations - deadline November 1

Jubilee! (The 50th Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, February 28-March 1) - deadline November 1

Knowledge Transfer between and across Ancient Empires (XVIII Melammu Symposium, Northeast Normal University, September 5-7, 2025) - deadline December 15

Identités et marges brivadoises de l’Antiquité au XXIe siècle (Colloque Brioude, Haute-Loire, June 26-27, 2025) - deadline January 15

Chaos and Order In Medieval Philosophy (29th SIEPM Annual International Colloquium, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, September 3-5) - 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

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

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

Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies

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

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

U of T Family Care Peer Mentorship

Volunteer Opportunities: Scottish History Network

RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Steering Group

Dante Society of America Graduate Student Group / Service Opportunities

SASA Volunteer Opportunities

SASA Work-in-Progress Forum

Race & Gender in the Global Middle Ages Working Group

Islamicate Manuscripts Reading/Working Group

 

 

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