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MAA News – 2023 Inclusivity & Diversity Travel Grant

The 2023 Inclusivity & Diversity Travel Grant has been awarded to Martina Franzini (Johns Hopkins University) to support travel to the Annual Meeting to present her paper, “The Adverse Consequences of Interreligious Relationships in Boccaccio’s Decameron.”

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MAA News – Upcoming Deadlines

The Medieval Academy of America invites applications for the following grants. Please note that applicants must be members in good standing as of September 15 in order to be eligible for Medieval Academy awards. Belle Da Costa Greene Award The … Continue reading

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MAA News – AHA “Long Overdue” Initiative

The American Historical Association has recently launched the Long Overdue project as part of the Racist Histories and the AHA initiative. Long Overdue aims to publish obituaries for historians of color whose passing the AHA did not mark. You can … Continue reading

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MAA News – Good News From Our Members

The National Endowment for the Humanities has recently awarded a research grant to Sarah Davis-Secord (University of New Mexico) to support her project, “Encounter and Identity: Christians and Muslims in Early Medieval Italy.” Congratulations! If you have good news to … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Early European Puppetry Studies Conference

Early European Puppetry Studies Conference October 12-15 at Yale University From moving statues to artificial animals to marionette performances, puppetry seems to have appeared in every sector of medieval and early modern European society. Jointed religious figures illustrated the liturgy, … Continue reading

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Short-Term Fellowships for Research in the Vatican Film Library

Short-Term Fellowships for Research in the Vatican Film Library The Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University invites applications to short-term fellowship programs available for research in its collections. The library holds over 40,000 medieval and Renaissance manuscripts reproduced in microfilm and digital formats … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – The Medieval Out of Time & Place

a joint meeting of The Mid-America Medieval Association & the Medieval Association of the Midwest ___________________________________________ The Medieval Out of Time & Place 22-23 September 2023 University of Missouri – Kansas City Plenary: Dr. Elizabeth K. Hebbard Peripheral Manuscripts Project … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Ancient – Medieval – Early Modern Greek and Latin Letter Collections Methodological and thematic intersections

Ancient – Medieval – Early Modern Greek and Latin Letter Collections Methodological and thematic intersections Durham University, 18-19 May 2023 Roy Gibson (Durham) and Simon Smets (LBI for Neo-Latin Studies / University College London) Call for Papers: Deadline Friday 24 … Continue reading

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2023 Medieval Academy of America Publication Prizes

We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Publication Prizes: The Haskins Medal Dyan Elliott, The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy  (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020) The John Nicholas Brown Prize Cord Whitaker, … Continue reading

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Working Group on Race & Gender in the Global Middle Ages

Emory University and the Medieval Academy of America are pleased to announce the launch of a Zoom working group on Race & Gender in the Global Middle Ages. The aim is to bring together scholars from various disciplines (history, art … Continue reading

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