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MAA News – 2024 Annual Meeting Call for Papers

99th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America University of Notre Dame 14-16 March 2024 The 99th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, … Continue reading

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MAA News – Publication Subventions Awarded

MAA Publication Subventions have been awarded to Anito Savo, Portraying Authorship: Juan Manuel and the Rhetoric of Authority (University of Toronto Press) and Jenna Phillips, Seductions of War and the Dream of Solace in Thirteenth-Century France (Stanford University Press). We … Continue reading

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MAA News – Travel Grants Awarded

MAA Travel Grants have been awarded to Wendy Pfeffer (“Conseils dans le genre d’ensenhamen: la Diététique provençale/ Adding the Dietétique provençale to the Ensenhamen Corpus,” XIVe Congrès de l’Association Internationale d’Études Occitanes, Munich) and Caroline Solazzo (“Gilding Textiles: New Archaeological … Continue reading

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MAA News – Call for Proposals – Speculations: The Centennial Issue of Speculum

Speculations The Centennial Issue of Speculum January 2026 The centenary of a scholarly journal offers the opportunity to recognize, reflect on, and reimagine scholarly methods and objects, including canonicity and the discursive possibilities of scholarship; the boundaries, borders and spaces … Continue reading

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MAA News – Good News From Medievalists

Olga Bush (Vassar College) was awarded the 2023 ICMA–Samuel H. Kress Foundation Research and Publication Grant to support on-site research in Spain and Sicily for her project entitled “Forced Labor: Exotic Fauna in the Animation of Medieval Court Environments.” She was … Continue reading

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Job-Market Data for Medieval Studies

Dear Academy Members, Welcome to summer. For those who teach in the Northern Hemisphere, congratulations for making it through another academic year. And for medievalists both inside and outside the academy, I hope that the longer days, warmer weekends, and … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – 2023 Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Conference

The Medieval Studies Program at Winthrop University invites proposals for presentations and panels at the 2023 Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Conference. The event will be held on Winthrop’s campus, which is located roughly 25 miles from Charlotte, NC (home to … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – ‘Race’, Divisive Law and Group Identity in Medieval Europe

‘Race’, Divisive Law and Group Identity in Medieval Europe Swansea University, UK (in association with Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland) 07 and 08 September 2023 The process of colonisation at the European ‘peripheries’ (e.g. Wales, Ireland, Prussia, Livonia, reconquest Spain, … Continue reading

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Magisterial Feminae: How Women Who Studied the Ancient World Innovated Brooklyn College, the Latin/Greek Institute, and Beyond

The Brooklyn College (CUNY) Archives & Special Collections has opened an exhibition celebrating female premodernists who taught at Brooklyn College before 1980, including medievalists (and MAA members) Elizabeth A.R. Brown, Nancy Black, and Jacqueline De Weever. Brooklyn College Associate Professor … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Epic in the Latin West (4th-15th Centuries)

Epic in the Latin West (4th-15th Centuries) Nuremberg, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 – Saturday, 28 September 2024 Epic, beyond other genres, has been both a guarantor of cultural continuity for millennia and a site of fundamental innovations in literary style … Continue reading

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