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MAA News – July Speculum

The July issue of Speculum is now available online and will soon be at your door. In  addition to book reviews, Memoirs, and the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, the issue includes the following articles: Speculum 91:3 (JULY 2016) Barbara … Continue reading

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MAA News – MAA/CARA Summer Scholarships Awarded

We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 MAA/CARA Summer Scholarships, supporting student participation in summer courses in medieval languages or manuscript studies: Lorenzo Bondioli (Oxford Univ. and Princeton Univ.): Classical Arabic (Qasid Arabic Language Institute, Amman, … Continue reading

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MAA News – Members Garner Awards

Last month’s call for good news resulted in the following announcements: Sarah Bromberg (Suffolk Univ.) has received the Newberry Library-John Rylands Research Institute Exchange fellowship for her book project, Art and Exegesis: Nicholas of Lyra’s Postilla. Lilla Kopar (The Catholic Univ. … Continue reading

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MAA News – CARA News

Check out the latest CARA newsletter to see what’s happening in Medieval Studies on North American campuses: http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.medievalacademy.org/resource/resmgr/pdfs/June_2016_CARA_news.pdf

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Call for Papers – “Getting Medieval”: Medievalism in Contemporary Popular Culture

This conference, organized at the Jean-François Champollion National University Institute (“Champollion University”) in the historic episcopal city of Albi, France – site of the thirteenth-century Albigensian Crusades – will take place on 25-26 November 2016.  Please send proposals of 100-250 … Continue reading

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Jobs for Medievalists

Postdoctoral Researchers, Music and Late Medieval Court European Cultures (ERC funded) The Faculty of Music proposes to appoint two postdoctoral researchers for a period of 4 years, starting 1st September 2016, to work on a new ERC funded Advanced grant, … Continue reading

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Call for Sessions: Mary Jaharis Center Sponsored Panel at Leeds 2017

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 24th International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 3–6, 2017. We invite session proposals on any topic relevant to Byzantine … Continue reading

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9th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

November 17-19, 2016 Save the Date! Registration opens at the end of the summer. Reactions: Medieval/Modern In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the University of … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – The Material Culture of Religious Change and Continuity, 1400-1600

The Material Culture of Religious Change and Continuity, 1400-1600 11-12 April 2017 at the University of Huddersfield, UK 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther nailing his 95 theses on the Wittenberg Church. From that date, religion in Europe had … Continue reading

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MAA News – From the President: Approaching the Centenary

In 1925, the Medieval Academy of America (including both Canada and the United States) and its journal Speculum were founded in Cambridge, Mass.  In 2025 we will mark the centenary of the founding of our professional organization. These festivities will … Continue reading

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