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Rebecca Lynn Winer receives 2023 Bonnie Wheeler Fellowship Award

(Dallas, TX) Rebecca Lynn Winer, associate professor at Villanova University, is the recipient of the 2023 Bonnie Wheeler Fellowship. Established to honor well-known medievalist Bonnie Wheeler, The Bonnie Wheeler Fellowship Fund of The Dallas Foundation supports the research of women … Continue reading

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Online Lecture: Divine King or Sacrilegious Upstart? The Portrait of Emperor Yǝkunno Amlak in Gännätä Maryam

East of Byzantium is pleased to announce the next lecture in its 2022–2023 lecture series. Tuesday, March 21, 2023 | 12:00 PM EDT | Zoom Divine King or Sacrilegious Upstart? The Portrait of Emperor Yǝkunno Amlak in Gännätä Maryam Jacopo … Continue reading

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Call for Sessions: Mary Jaharis Center Sponsored Panel, 49th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference

As part of its ongoing commitment to Byzantine studies, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 49th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference to be held at Simon Fraser … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Frontiers, Borders, & Borderlands in the Early Global World

The officers of UCLA MEMSA  announce this year’s conference, “Frontiers, Borders, & Borderlands in the Early Global World,” to be held in the UCLA Humanities Seminar Room, 306 Royce Hall, on June 2, 2023, as a hybrid event. MEMSA invites submissions … Continue reading

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MAA Graduate Student Committee Webinar – Medievalists Beyond the Academy

MAA Graduate Student Committee Webinar: Medievalists Beyond the Academy Join the MAA Graduate Student Committee on March 29th, 2023 at 7 pm EST for a panel on employment for medievalists outside of what we traditionally envision as the “academy” (university-based … Continue reading

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Medieval Religion: its topicality, methods and sources

Medieval Religion: its topicality, methods and sources Summer School June June 22nd-June 27th (Thursday-Saturday; Monday-Tuesday) Description: In society today, medieval religion is omnipresent. This is not only true in European city- and village-scapes, where medieval churches are still dominant features, … Continue reading

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MAA News – From the Executive Director: 2023 Annual Meeting

What a joy it was to gather in Washington, DC last week with more than 500 friends and colleagues! This year’s Annual Meeting was remarkable in so many ways: the number of attendees, the breadth of programming, the demographic and … 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 – Fellows Research Awards

We are very pleased to announce the inaugural Fellows Research Awards. Supported entirely by donations from the Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America, the Fellows Fund will support two annual awards for members of the Medieval Academy who do … Continue reading

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MAA News – CARA Summer Tuition Scholarships

The MAA/CARA Summer Scholarships support graduate students and especially promising undergraduate students participating in summer courses in medieval languages or manuscript studies. Applicants must be members of the Medieval Academy in good standing with at least one year of graduate … Continue reading

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