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MAA News – Schallek Awards

The Schallek Awards, given in collaboration with the Richard III Society – American Branch, support graduate students conducting doctoral research in any relevant discipline dealing with late-medieval Britain (ca. 1350-1500). A clerical error led to the notification of six Schallek … Continue reading

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MAA News – MAA Travel Grants Announced

The Medieval Academy supports conference travel for unaffiliated or contingent scholars through our Travel Grant program, funded by donations to the Medieval Academy of America Travel Fund. We are very pleased to support conference travel for these recent awardees: Kyle … Continue reading

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MAA News – MAA Publication Subvention Awarded

We are very pleased to announce  that the 2018 Medieval Academy Publication Subvention has been awarded to Rena Lauer (Oregon State University) to support the publication of her forthcoming monograph, Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete (Philadelphia: University of … Continue reading

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MAA News – Belle Da Costa Greene Fund

The Medieval Academy of America is very pleased to announce the establishment of the Belle Da Costa Greene Fund. Belle Da Costa Greene (1883-1950) was a prominent art historian and the first manuscript librarian of the Pierpont Morgan collection. She … Continue reading

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MAA News – Call for CARA News

What’s happening on campus? The Committee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA) wants to know! Please send a report about this year’s medieval studies programming in your department, regional association, or center to the Medieval Academy of America. We will … Continue reading

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MAA News – Good News From Our Members

Amiri Ayanna (Brown University) and Melissa Reynolds (Rutgers Univ.-New Brunswick) have each been awarded an ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship. If you have good news to share, please contact Executive Director Lisa Fagin Davis (LFD@themedievalacademy.org)

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New Exhibition: “Picturing a Lost Empire: An Italian Lens on Byzantine Art in Anatolia, 1960–2000” opening in Istanbul

New Exhibition: “Picturing a Lost Empire: An Italian Lens on Byzantine Art in Anatolia, 1960–2000” opening in Istanbul Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) and Sapienza University of Rome are proud to present the result of their collaborative … Continue reading

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Jobs for Medievalists

Jobs for Medievalists at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, ACU We are delighted to announce that the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at ACU is forming a new research group in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. We … Continue reading

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CARA News – Duke Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

Duke’s Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies has completed another outstanding year of endeavor! One of Leonardo Da Vinci’s flying machine models: a human powered glider capable of flapping. Highlight – “The Stymphalian Project.” One of our undergraduate students, a … Continue reading

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International Workshop – Between Women: Female Networks, Kinships and Power

When: 31 May – 1 June 2018 Where: SFB 1167, Poppelsdorfer Allee 24, University of Bonn Organized by Emma Bérat and Irina Dumitrescu, as part of the SFB 1167 “Macht and Herrschaft: Premodern Configurations in a Transcultural Perspective”, University of Bonn … Continue reading

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