Category Archives: Announcements

Introducing Medieval DC at the Smithsonian Castle & National Museum of Asian Art Saturday, October 14 at 10 AM The Middle Ages may seem completely foreign to contemporary Americans, but the medieval world is all around us in Washington, DC. … Continue reading →

Middle Ages: digital and virtual—objects, practices, reflections An expert meeting on 24 October 2023 (hybrid) Ruhr-Universität Bochum, SFB 1567 Virtuelle Lebenswelten, sub project B02 Virtuelles Mittelalter With digital media at our fingertips (quite literally), the European Middle Ages are only … Continue reading →

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the first two lectures in our 2023–2024 lecture series. Thursday, September 28, 2023 | 12:00 PM EDT | Zoom Byzantium as an Indian Ocean Society Rebecca Darley, … Continue reading →

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies is pleased to announce that registration is open for the 16th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: November 16-18, 2023 A great deal of recent research has focused … Continue reading →

If you or your students are as weak in medieval Latin as I was in graduate school, you might want some help. I’m looking for collaborators to prepare texts with abundant glossing of the Latin, with the aim of rapidly … Continue reading →

Washington, DC-area medievalists, in conjunction with DC Humanities and The Catholic University of America, are pleased to announce the launch of Medieval DC, (https://sites.google.com/cua.edu/medievaldc/home), a resource created in conjunction with the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America.This DC … Continue reading →

The Saint Dunstan Transcription Challenge is a two week digital event taking place July 21- August 4, 2023. The life of Saint Dunstan is part of The South English Legendaries (SEL), a thirteenth-century collection of saints’ legends and biblical histories … Continue reading →

“Manuscripts in the Curriculum” is Les Enluminures’s innovative and highly successful program that enables colleges, universities, and other educational institutions in the United States and Canada to borrow a select group of original manuscripts for teaching and exhibitions for a segment of the academic year (semester, quarter, … Continue reading →

The Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University is delighted to announce that as of July 1, 2023, its online database will become free to all users. This change has been made possible by a generous bridge grant from the … Continue reading →

The Brooklyn College (CUNY) Archives & Special Collections has opened an exhibition celebrating female premodernists who taught at Brooklyn College before 1980, including medievalists (and MAA members) Elizabeth A.R. Brown, Nancy Black, and Jacqueline De Weever. Brooklyn College Associate Professor … Continue reading →