Monthly Archives: November 2021

The Inaugural Mathews Byzantine Lecture, by Professor Emerita Margaret Mullet (OBE): “The Christos Paschon: Byzantine tragedy or non-liturgical passion play?”

Time: Thu Dec 2, 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Location: Medieval Institute Main Reading Room and Live-Streamed on our YouTube channel The Medieval Institute is pleased to announce a new annual lecture series, the Mathews Byzantine Lectures [https://medieval.nd.edu/news-events/annual-events/mathews-byzantine-lectures/].The Mathews Lectures bring a distinguished scholar … Continue reading

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Lament, Liturgy and the End of Time in Hildegard of Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum

Lament, Liturgy and the End of Time in Hildegard of Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum Margot Fassler University of Notre Dame Friday, Dec. 3, 4:30, Woolworth 102 This presentation is based on chapters from Margot Fassler’s forthcoming book Cosmos, Liturgy, and the … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – 8th Dorushe Graduate Student Conference in Syriac Studies

The Department of Theology at Fordham University and Dorushe invite proposals for the Eighth Dorushe Graduate Student Conference on Syriac Studies, to be held at Fordham University (NYC) on June 9-10, 2022. Erin Galgay Walsh (The University of Chicago Divinity … Continue reading

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Mary Jaharis Center Lecture: The Sound of the Lectionary

The Mary Jaharis Center is pleased to announce our second lecture of 2021–2022: The Sound of the Lectionary: Chant, Architecture, and Salvation in Byzantium. In this lecture, Roland Betancourt, University of California, Irvine, considers the ways in which notions of … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Speculum Themed Issue: “Race, Race-Thinking, and Identity in the Global Middle Ages”

Editors: François-Xavier Fauvelle, Collège de France Nahir Otaño Gracia, University of New Mexico Cord J. Whitaker, Wellesley College For far too long, scholarly consensus held that race and racism were mainly Enlightenment innovations, datable to no earlier than the seventeenth … Continue reading

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Schwarz Fellowship for Research on Urban Architecture

Schwarz Fellowship at the Gennadius Library for Research on Urban Architecture The Schwarz Fellowship for Research on Urban Architecture supports innovative and cross-disciplinary research on architecture, urban planning, and the history of the built environment in Greece from 1821 to … Continue reading

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Upcoming Grant and Prize Deadlines

The Medieval Academy of America invites applications for the following grants. Please note that applicants must be members in good standing as of September 15 in order to be eligible for Medieval Academy awards. Baldwin Fellowship The Baldwin Fellowship provides … Continue reading

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Jobs for Medievalists

Opening for a position as Lecturer (fixed-term, full-time) at the Institute for Regional History (Institut für Fränkisch-Pfälzische Geschichte und Landeskunde) at Heidelberg University The Institute for Regional History (Institut für Fränkisch-Pfälzische Geschichte und Landeskunde) within the Center for the Study … Continue reading

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Workshops – New Translations and indirect Reception of Ancient Greece (Texts and Images, 1300-1560)

Workshops New Translations and indirect Reception of Ancient Greece (Texts and Images, 1300-1560) Thursday, September 15th and Friday, September 16th 2022 Thursday, January 19th and Friday, January 20th 2023 The AGRELITA Project studies the reception of ancient Greece, exploring a … Continue reading

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Mellon Junior Faculty Fellowship in Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Medieval Institute

Mellon Junior Faculty Fellowship in Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Medieval Institute Application Deadline: February 1, 2022 The University of Notre Dame invites applicants for a one-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Medieval Studies. This Fellowship is designed … Continue reading

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