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MAA News – Centennial Speaker Series

In the calendar year of 2025, the Fellows’ Executive Committee and the leadership of CARA will sponsor a Medieval Academy Centennial Speaker Series, in which certain volunteers among the Fellows will be available to give subsidized and/or free talks and lectures at various venues around … Continue reading

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MAA News – MAA Office Holiday Closure

The MAA’s Boston office will be closed from Monday, 23 December through Thursday, 2 January. We look forward to working with you in the New Year.

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Digital Medieval Studies Institute (DMSI) 2025

Digital Medieval Studies Institute (DMSI) 2025 Wednesday, March 19, 2025, 8:30-17:00 Cambridge & Boston, Massachusetts Sponsored by Harvard University, Boston College, McMullen Museum, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, and Digital Medievalist Organizers: Laura K. Morreale and N. Kıvılcım Yavuz Call for … Continue reading

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Call for Papers -Proof & Authenticity in Medieval Cities

Proof & Authenticity in Medieval Cities (c.1050–1500) Dar fe en la ciudad medieval (siglos XI-XV) Complutense University of Madrid, May 29th – 30th 2025 Format: 20-minute presentations, to be given in person in either English or Spanish Send proposal abstracts (c.250 words) to: … Continue reading

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Barbara Newman (Northwestern University) appointed Editor of Speculum

Editor of Speculum The Medieval Academy is thrilled to announce that Barbara Newman has been appointed the next editor of Speculum, beginning 1 July 2025. Newman is a renowned scholar of medieval literature, religion, and gender. During her term as Editor of Speculum … Continue reading

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Jobs For Medievalists

Call for the Position of Executive Editor Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures is seeking applications for the position of executive editor. The executive editor will review submissions, select outside readers, o;er editorial feedback to authors, solicit special issues, … Continue reading

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Inscribing Sacred Matter: Reading and Writing Inscriptions on Byzantine Relics

Inscribing Sacred Matter: Reading and Writing Inscriptions on Byzantine Relics Brad Hostetler, Kenyon College Thursday, December 5, 2024 | 12:00 PM (EST, UTC -5) | Zoom Byzantium was replete with inscriptions. Buildings, wall paintings, mosaics, and portable objects alike were … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – The Memory of the Crusades and the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in texts, images, and liturgies.

The Twelfth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place from June 9-11, 2025, at Saint Louis University, in St. Louis, MO. The Crusade Studies Forum at SLU invites proposals for scholarly papers related to the memory of … Continue reading

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MAA News – Good News From Our Members

William C. Jordan has received an American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction. .Zrinka Stahuljak’s 2024 CARA Plenary lecture, delivered at the MAA Annual Meeting, has been published in Medieval and Renaissance Studies as “How Early before It Is Too … Continue reading

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MAA News – Matching Challenge

WE DID IT! Thanks to you, we have exceeded our two-year goal of raising $150,000 to trigger the Match, and we did it in only 18 months! In fact, since the beginning of the Campaign in 2023, we have raised … Continue reading

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