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MAA News – Committee Appointments

I am very pleased to announce the new MAA committee members, recently appointed by the Council in accordance with our policies and procedures: Conferences: American Historical Association Program Committee: Nicolas Tackett (UC Berkeley) Kalamazoo Program Committee: Sarah Long (Michigan State … Continue reading

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MAA News – Good News From Our Members

Two MAA members have recently received Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships: Estelle Guéville (Yale University), “‘Qui scripsit scribat semper’; Female Scribal Practices in Medieval Europe” Graham David Sean O’Toole (Harvard University), “Tribute in Medieval Ireland from the 11th to the 14th … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Ninth International Piers Plowman Society Conference

Call for Papers: Ninth International Piers Plowman Society Conference Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 1–3 April 2027 The program committee for the Ninth Meeting of the International Piers Plowman Society seeks submissions for our quadrennial conference, co-sponsored by Boston College … Continue reading

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Introduction to Research in France: IMS-Paris Workshop for Graduate Students 

Introduction to Research in France: IMS-Paris Workshop for Graduate Students On behalf of the IMS-Paris, Tori Schmitt and Gabriela Chitwood, two recent recipients of the Medieval Academy of America’s Birgit Baldwin Fellowship in French medieval history, will host a workshop … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Mini-Conference: “Distant Past(s) – Current Future(s): Digitization, Digital Objects and Datafication Approaches in Ancient and Medieval Studies”

Mini-Conference: “Distant Past(s) – Current Future(s): Digitization, Digital Objects and Datafication Approaches in Ancient and Medieval Studies” Pre-Conference Event at DH2026 “Engagement” (27–31 July 2026) in Daejeon, South Korea Organizers: Marina Sartori & Victoria G. D. Landau Date & Time: Tuesday, 28 … Continue reading

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Cataloging Otto F. Ege’s Liturgical Manuscript Fragments in the Cantus Database

With the support of a grant from the American Musicological Society’s Early Music Program Fund, the Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission (DACT) project seeks six students for work in Summer 2026 to catalog fragments from the collection of Otto F. … Continue reading

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Speculum Digital Medieval Studies Reviews: Call for Projects to Review

Speculum Digital Medieval Studies Reviews Call for Projects to Review Following the decision of Speculum’s editorial board to review born-digital scholarship, creators of digital medieval studies projects are invited to submit their projects for review in the journal. In this … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: Nature and Science in Premodern Literature

Call for Papers: Nature and Science in Premodern Literature This panel is open to papers that focus on the relationship between the natural sciences and ancient, medieval, and early modern literature (before roughly 1700 CE) from all parts of the … Continue reading

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New Chaucer Teaching Tool

I’m pleased to call your attention to a new digital resource for teaching and studying Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales at manuscriptreader.org. This site offers an up-close, accessible encounter with the original text in its manuscript setting. The site allows users to … Continue reading

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Call for Sessions: Mary Jaharis Center Sponsored Panel, 52nd Annual Byzantine Studies Conference

Call for Sessions: Mary Jaharis Center Sponsored Panel, 52nd Annual Byzantine Studies Conference As part of its ongoing commitment to Byzantine studies, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for Mary Jaharis Center sponsored sessions at … Continue reading

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