CMS Weekly Digest

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 6Annual 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 VJack 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 - ConviviumLandon 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 StephensonThe End of the World or merely another Viking raid? Vikings, the Apocalypse, and Byrhtferth’s Scientific Writing around the year 100

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

December 4 - Planning Ahead for Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications

December 5 - CMS Holiday Party!

December 5 - GP3 Practical Workshop for Non-Academic Job Applications

December 5 - Alleviate Burnout & Revive Academic Energy

December 10 - SSHRC Insight Development Grant: Strategies for Success

December 10 - Introduction to Prompt Engineering and GenAI Tools to Support Literature Reviews

December 12 - Strengthen Focus and Concentration

December 23 - "Review and Renew": Year-end Review and Next-Year Goal Setting

January 27 / February 1 - Reading toward Writing: A Discussion-Based Seminar on the Journal-Article Genre, Literary Studies

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

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

Arts & Science International Research Events Fund

University of Toronto Advanced Planning for Students (UTAPS) Program

National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions and Translations - deadline December 4

U of T President’s Excellence Awards / Chancellor's Leadership Awards - deadline December 6

U of T Awards of Excellence Joan E. Foley Quality of Student Experience Award - deadline December 13

U of T Awards of Excellence Jill Matus Excellence In Student Services Award - deadline December 13

SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG) - deadline December 15

Women's Studies Group 1558 – 1837 Bursary Scheme - deadline December 15

U of T Awards of Excellence Ludwik & Estelle Jus Memorial Human Rights Prize - deadline December 20

Emerging Projects Grants, The Queer and Trans Research Lab (QTRL) at The Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies - deadline January 10

Master’s Completion Bursary - deadline January 15

Digital Innovation Awards, Renaissance Society of America - deadline January 15

The Servane de Layre-Mathéus Fund for Research on Chartres Cathedral, American Friends of Chartres - deadline January 17

Joan Mitchell Travel Award - deadline January 20

SSHRC Storytellers Challenge - deadline January 21

University of Toronto President’s Impact Awards - NOI January 22

SSHRC Insight Development Grant - internal deadline January 27

U of T Awards of Excellence Northrop Frye Award - deadline January 30

U of T Early Career Teaching Award - deadline January 30

U of T Global Educator Award - deadline January 30

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

TATP TA Teaching Excellence Award - deadline February 14

TATP CI Teaching Excellence Award - deadline February 14

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

Marjorie Chibnall Essay Prize - deadline March 11

Inaugural Connaught Mid-Career Researcher Award  - deadline March 15

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

U of T President’s Teaching Award - deadline March 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

Course Instructor positions at U of T

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

Fellowships & Awards from The Bibliographical Society of America

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 TheoryStudies 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

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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