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MAA News – Good News From Our Members

At a ceremony celebrating his eightieth birthday, Herbert Kessler (president of the MAA 2009-10) was distinguished by a singular award: the gold medal of the Fundación Santa María la Real (FSMR) in Aguilar de Campoo (https://www.santamarialareal.org/en/tourism-and-culture), Spain’s most important institution … Continue reading

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MAA News – MAA Office Holiday Closure

The Medieval Academy office will be closed from December 27 through January 3. We wish you all the best for the holidays and look forward to working with you in the New Year.

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Dumbarton Oaks Summer School Opportunities

Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Greek Summer School Deadline: February 1, 2022 Designed to improve knowledge of Greek among Byzantinists and others interested in the world of Byzantium (especially since related courses are only taught in a very small minority of universities … Continue reading

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Travel Awards: Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas (12/31/2021 application deadline!)

The Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas is pleased to announce the availability of travel grants to facilitate research using the library’s collections. There are three award categories, and the amount available for each award is $1,000.  … Continue reading

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Upcoming Podcast Workshop Postponed to 13 December

Medievalists, podcasters, and medievalist podcasters, We write to inform you that the upcoming workshop on Podcast Post-Production (originally scheduled for Mon. 12/6) will be postponed one week to Monday, December 13 from 2-4PM Eastern Time. Our apologies for any scheduling … Continue reading

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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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