Monthly Archives: October 2020

Rethinking Health and Power during Times of Crisis

Oct 29, 2020 Part 2 of Virtual Panel Series Racism in History and Context | 3pm – 4:30pm ET | Panelists: Manuela Boatcă (University of Freiburg), Teresa Koloma Beck (Bundeswehr University Munich), Monica Muñoz Martinez (UT Austin), and Kathryn Olivarius … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Questioning the Crime of Witchcraft, Definitions, Receptions and Realities (14th-16th Centuries)

In the last decades, the multiplications of works in the field of Witchcraft Studies made it possible to profoundly renew the approaches and the study designs of the repression of witchcraft in the late Middle Ages and in the beginning … Continue reading

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Panel Discussion: Multilingualism, Translation, Directionality in Global Medieval DH

Please join the Vanderbilt University Center for Digital Humanities and the Global Middle Ages Project on October 16 from 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 CDT / 12:00 – 1:30 p.m EDT  for a panel discussion about global digital projects and their … Continue reading

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Continuing Blog Post Series: Medievalists Beyond the Tenure Track

Danielle Griego received her PhD in History from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2018. She is currently an Independent Scholar, editing her manuscript and working on an essay in a forthcoming edited volume on medieval childhood. Her work focuses on … Continue reading

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Text Manuscripts at Les Enluminures: New Update

Les Enluminures is happy to announce that we just added new manuscripts to our text manuscripts site (https://www.textmanuscripts.com/medieval?inventorySearch=1). Some highlights: a French translation of the Decretals of Gregory IX (TM 1097); a reportatio of the sermons of St. Bernardino of … Continue reading

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MAA and NHC Launch Online Course, “Medieval Africa and Africans”

The Medieval Academy of America is pleased to announce the launch of “Medieval Africa and Africans,”  an online course for K-12 Educators developed in collaboration with the National Humanities Center. Given the wide popularity of Eurocentric medieval fantasies, it has … Continue reading

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MAA News – From the Executive Director

Dear Colleagues, During the COVID-19 shutdown, the Medieval Academy of America staff, governance, and volunteers have been hard at work. We have kept the business of the Academy moving forward. We have supplemented our regular programming with online webinars, all … Continue reading

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MAA News – The October Issue of Speculum is Online

The latest issue of Speculum is now available on the University of Chicago Press Journals website. To access your members-only journal subscription, log in to the MAA website using your username and password associated with your membership (contact us at … Continue reading

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MAA News – MAA/GSC New Horizons Grants Awarded

We are very pleased to announce the awardees of the MAA/GSC New Horizons Grants, supporting graduate student research projects that uniquely engage with the current research environment created by the COVID-19 pandemic: Carly B. Boxer (University of Chicago) will use … Continue reading

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MAA News – CARA News

Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies The Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies recognizes Medieval Academy members who have provided leadership in developing, organizing, promoting, and sponsoring medieval studies through the extensive administrative work … Continue reading

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