Category Archives: Conferences

The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at Barnard College is pleased to announce the following conference: The Total Library: Aspirations for Complete Knowledge in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Saturday, December 5, 2020 Plenary speakers: Elias Muhanna, Brown University Ann … Continue reading →

Authorial publishing from the Carolingian period to the Renaissance   October 29th and 30th, University of Helsinki  Venue: Zoom (for the meeting ID and passcode, see below)     Written transmission relies on the fact of ‘publication’, the step between the authorial process … Continue reading →

Event time: Sunday, October 25, 2020 – 11:00am to 2:00pm Admission: Free, but register in advance For registration and schedule, please visit: https://ism.yale.edu/event/conference-jewish-romance-middle-ages-literature-piety-and-cultural-translation Event description: This conference will be free and open to the public via Zoom Webinar. Registration is required. In the … Continue reading →

Power, Resistance, and Leadership RBMS 2020 June 23-26, 2020 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN The Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) offers scholarships to subsidize conference attendance by professional librarians, paraprofessionals, and … Continue reading →

“Imagining Pilgrimage to Santiago: Itineraries, Narratives, Myths” Institute of Fine Arts, New York University The Duke House 1 East 78th Street New York, New York 10075 24-25 April 2020 In collaboration with the government of Galicia, the Institute of Fine … Continue reading →

Omnia disce: A Celebration of Father Leonard E. Boyle, O.P. on the Twentieth Anniversary of his Death Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto 25 October 2019 On 25 October 2019 the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies will mark the twentieth … Continue reading →

Invasion 1169 The National Conference on the Occasion of the 850th Anniversary of the Anglo-Norman Invasion, 2–4 May 2019 About this Event May 2nd, 2019, marks, perhaps to the very day, the 850th anniversary of the first landing in County … Continue reading →

Truth and Truthiness: Belief, Authenticity, Rhetoric, and Spin in the Middle Ages and Renaissance SATURDAY, December 1, 2018 BARNARD HALL, 3009 Broadway, NYC The capacity of language both to communicate truth and to manipulate perceptions of it was as vexed … Continue reading →

Conference: 2018 Byzantine Studies Conference/BSC Conference Dates: Thursday, October 4, 2018 to Sunday, October 7, 2018 Location: The University of Texas at San Antonio/The Historic Menger Hotel, San Antonio Conference Website: https://www.bsc2018.com/ Preliminary Program: https://www.bsc2018.com/schedule/ The Byzantine Studies Association of North America … Continue reading →

From Iceland to the Americas, September 24-26, 2018, at the University of Notre Dame A three-day international conference exploring the impact that brief medieval Norse settlements have had on cultural imagination in and of the Americas – in novels, poetry, history, … Continue reading →