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MAA News – MAA Grants and Fellowships: Guidelines for Applicants

Have you found yourself unsure about which MAA Grant or Fellowship is the right fit for you and your work? Thanks to MAA Special Projects Assistant Jon Dell Isola, you need wonder no more. Jon has recently written Guidelines for … Continue reading

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MAA News – MAA@KZoo

As ever, the Medieval Academy will have a strong presence at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. We hope you will join us for these sessions and special events: 1) For the first time, the MAA … Continue reading

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MAA News – Recent Grant Winners

The Schallek Awards support graduate students whose work, in any relevant discipline, focuses primarily on the late medieval period in England or any of the British Isles, or which involves British connections to the European Continent in the late medieval … Continue reading

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MAA News – Upcoming MAA Webinars and Workshops

Writing Like Monks and Nuns: a Writing Community by the Graduate Student Committee Tuesday, April 7th, 3pm EDT “He who does not know how to write does not think that it is a labor. Three fingers write, the whole body … Continue reading

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Call for Proposals – Spaces and Stories of Resistance: The 2027 International Association for Robin Hood Studies Conference

Call for Proposals Spaces and Stories of Resistance: The 2027 International Association for Robin Hood Studies Conference June 4-5, 2027 Irvine Valley College (Irvine, Southern California, United States) In-person and virtual The stories of Robin Hood and other outlaw figures offer … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – 2026 International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript

CALL FOR PAPERS Website:  https://www.um.edu.mt/events/voynich2026/ Email:  voynich2026@um.edu.mt The Voynich Manuscript has been described as one of the most mysterious books in the world. The manuscript is written in an unidentified script from an unknown language and contains illustrations of plants, … Continue reading

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Elizabeth A. R. Brown Medieval Historians Archive

The Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is happy to announce the Elizabeth A. R. Brown Medieval Historians Archive. Historian Elizabeth A.R. Brown (“Peggy”), who died in August 2024 at age … Continue reading

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Univ. of Toronto – Summer Latin Program

The Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto offers a Summer Latin Program consisting of three levels of study that may be of interest to your community or network. Beginning Latin, Level I Latin, and Level II Latin … Continue reading

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Columbia Chinese painting conference – April 3-5, 2026

The conference “Meditative Retreat by Streams and Mountains: New Reflections on Chinese Painting and Visual Culture” brings together the most recent research on Chinese painting, focusing on its intersections with image-making practices, ritual traditions, sensory experience, social dynamics, and cross-cultural … Continue reading

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MAA News – From the Editor’s Desk

I’ve just completed my first annual report as the new editor of Speculum. If you’re a glutton for punishment, you can read the whole thing under Proceedings in the July issue. But in the meantime, I’d like to share some … Continue reading

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