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MAA News – Good News From Our Members

Nancy L. Wicker (Univ. of Mississippi) has been awarded a Solmsen Fellowship to carry out research on Viking-Age art at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin for the academic year 2023–2024. Several MAA members … Continue reading

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MAA News – New NHC Course Supported by MAA

In the wake of the extremely successful 2021 collaboration between the National Humanities Center and the Medieval Academy of America to design and launch an online curriculum-development course on “Medieval Africa and Africans“, we are very pleased to announce the … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – New Work on Old Dance: A Pre-1800 Dance Studies Symposium

What does it look like for historical expressions of dancing and movement arts to break out of traditional academic and performative boxes? How do scholars and practitioners escape the boundaries of discipline, chronology, geography, and methodology subsumed under the conventional … Continue reading

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Upcoming NHC Webinars

Registration is now open for the National Humanities Center 2023–24 Humanities in Class Webinar Series. Each webinar is a live, interactive professional conversation led by a scholarly expert addressing a compelling topic through the lens of the humanities. Appropriate for … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Creating Camelot(s): The Idea of Community in Arthurian Texts (virtual)

Sponsored by Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain and International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB) Organizers: Michael A. Torregrossa and Joseph M. Sullivan Call for Papers – Please Submit Proposals by 15 September 2023 … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Medievalisms Today: Aspects of the Medieval Past in the 21st-century World

Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, June-Ann Greeley, and Rachael Warmington Call for Papers – Please Submit Proposals by 30 September 2023 55th Annual … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: Leeds IMC 2024, 1-4 July 2024

The Experience of Local Officialdom in Europe and the Mediterranean, c.1000-1500: Between Order and Disorder Local officeholders and petty officials were integral components of medieval political life across Europe and the Mediterranean, central to the configuration and experience of power … Continue reading

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2024 Franklin Research Grant program

The American Philosophical Society’s Franklin Research Grants support the cost of research leading to publication in all areas of knowledge. The Franklin program is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; … Continue reading

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MAA Advocacy Statement on West Virginia University and New College, Florida

We, the Advocacy Committee of the Medieval Academy of America, denounce the growing tide of political interference witnessed at both West Virginia University and New College of Florida. Experience in higher education proves that limiting students’ options saps intellectual development … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – The Painted Page: Medieval Manuscripts Through a Comparative Lens

The Painted Page: Medieval Manuscripts Through a Comparative Lens (chair: Dr. Ann Shafer, Providence College, Rhode Island) This virtual session examines premodern illuminated books from the sacred traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam within a larger context of visual influences … Continue reading

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