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MAA News – MAA @ Leeds

If you’re going to be at the Leeds International Medieval Congress this year, please join us on Tuesday, 7 July, 19.00-20.00 (Session 901) for the annual Medieval Academy Lecture, to be delivered by Fiona Griffiths (Department of History, Stanford University), “Timing, Temporalities, and the … Continue reading

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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 – Upcoming MAA Webinars and Workshops

Writing Like Monks and Nuns: a Writing Community by the Graduate Student Committee Tuesday, May 5th, 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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MAA News – 2026 Dissertation Grant Winners

We are very pleased to announce the 2026 Dissertation Grant awardees: Veronica A. Arntz (Marquette University), “Between Creativity and Uniformity: The Liturgical Life of Marienberg bei Helmstedt in its Visual, Material, and Spatial Context, 1176-1570” (Hope Emily Allen Dissertation Grant); … Continue reading

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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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