Monthly Archives: February 2013

Rare Book School Summer Programs

M-10 Introduction to Paleography, taking place July 22–26 in Charlottesville, VA. Taught by Consuelo Dutschke (Columbia University). This course provides an introduction to the book-based scripts and the text typologies of the western European Middle Ages and the Renaissance from 800 to 1500, … Continue reading

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Call for Presenters: Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP

The Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project (MRP) in Mediterranean Studies announces its Spring 2013 Workshop, to be held at UCSC on Saturday, May 4, 2013.  This is part of a three-day event which also includes a 2-day symposium … Continue reading

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Call for Applicants: Mediterranean Research Fellowships at Université d’Aix-Marseille

Labexmed: Laboratory of excellence: Les sciences humaines et sociales au cœur de l’interdisciplinarité pour la Méditerranée, based at the Université d’Aix-Marseille is participating in the Fernand Braudel-IFER Incoming Fellowship Programme for non-French researchers interested in spending nine months working France. … Continue reading

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Event reminder: “Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe and Beyond” at Boston University this Thursday and Friday

A reminder that “Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe and Beyond,” a conference presented by the Boston University Medieval Studies Program, will take place this Thursday and Friday, 28 February-1 March, in room 200 of the College of Arts and … Continue reading

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NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes

Deadline, 5 March 2013. The MAA urges medievalists to consider applying for grants to sponsor NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes. The next competition will award grants for the Summer of 2014. These grants support faculty development programs in the humanities … Continue reading

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Award Deadlines

Schallek Awards The Medieval Academy will make five Schallek Awards in 2013 to support graduate students conducting doctoral research in any relevant discipline dealing with late-medieval Britain (c.1350-1500). The $2,000 grants help defray research expenses, such as the cost of … Continue reading

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MAA Award Winners

Schallek Fellowship Deirdre Carter of the Florida State University will receive the 2013 Schallek Fellowship. She is working under Richard K. Emmerson and Paula Gerson on “Art, History and the Creation of Monastic Identity in Late Medieval St. Albans Abbey.” … Continue reading

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Mellon Grant to Yale Medievalists Supports Digital Manuscript Research

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently announced a grant of $650,000 to Yale University that will allow four of its medievalists and two principal investigators (four MAA members in all) to apply the newest digital technology to various aspects of … Continue reading

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John Boswell Fund Matching Grant

The Freeman Foundation and its founder Weston Milliken have generously offered a $10,000 matching grant to the MAA to enable the Academy to award the John Boswell Dissertation Grant annually. To receive these funds, the MAA will need to raise … Continue reading

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Annual Meeting Registration Is Open

The 2013 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place April 4-6 in Knoxville, Tennessee and will be hosted by the University of Tennessee, the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. … Continue reading

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