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MAA News – Upcoming Webinars

April 12, 2023, 3 – 4:30 PM EDT: The MAA Inclusivity & Diversity Committee presents “Medieval Crip Theory: New Approaches and Provocations,” moderated by Heide Estes (Monmouth University) and Nahir Otaño-Gracia (University of New Mexico). Click here for more information … Continue reading

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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 – The Medieval Academy Book Subvention Program

The Medieval Academy Book Subvention Program provides grants of up to $2,500 to university or other non-profit scholarly presses to support the publication of first books by Medieval Academy members. Click here for more information. The Medieval Academy Inclusivity and Diversity Book Subvention … 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 – MAA/GSC Grant Awarded

We are very pleased to announce that the 2024 MAA/GSC Grant for Innovation in Community Building and Professionalization has been awarded to the Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, to be held at Northwestern University in March 2024. Congratulations!

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2023 MAA Mentoring Program: Apply by May 15

The Medieval Academy of America is pleased to announce a call for applications for a one-day summer session for PhD-track students. Organized by the Mentoring Program Committee, the 2023 MAA Summer Research Program is designed to assist and mentor graduate … Continue reading

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A response to: Marco Di Branco. Review of Luigi Andrea Berto, Christians and Muslims in Early Medieval Italy: Perceptions, Encounters, and Clashes. Speculum 97/4 (2022): 1159-60. doi: 10.1086/721886.

Author’s Response (Luigi Andrea Berto, Western Michigan University) Before presenting a qualitative answer to Marco Di Branco’s review of my book, it is necessary to present some data. The review is 986 words long. The first paragraph (86 words) briefly … Continue reading

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Upcoming MAA Webinars

The Medieval Academy of America is very pleased to support these upcoming webinars: March 24, 2023, noon – 1:30 PM EDT: The Race & Gender Working Group presents Roland Betancourt, Professor of Art History (University of California, Irvine): “The Case … Continue reading

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Online Lecture: Chôra and the Creation of Sacred Space in Byzantine Architecture

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the final lecture in its 2022–2023 lecture series. Thursday, March 30, 2023 | 12:00 PM EDT | Zoom Chôra and the Creation of Sacred Space in Byzantine … Continue reading

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Jobs For Medievalists

The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) invites applications for four grant-funded cataloging positions. ·   Cataloger of Armenian Manuscripts ·   Cataloger of Ethiopic Manuscripts ·   Cataloger of Slavic Manuscripts ·   Cataloger of Western Manuscripts Founded in 1965, HMML holds the world’s largest archive of … Continue reading

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