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MAA News – Good News From Our Members

The Medieval Academy congratulates two members who have each been awarded a Dan David Prize: Verena Krebs, a cultural historian focused on medieval Ethiopia and European-African relations in Western Christendom; and Kristina Richardson, a historian of the medieval Islamic world, … Continue reading

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MAA News – Jerome E. Singerman Prize

The Medieval Academy of America is delighted to announce the establishment of an annual book prize to honor Jerome E. Singerman, Senior Humanities Editor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania Press, and his lifelong commitment to building and sustaining our … Continue reading

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Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities (POLY)

Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities (POLY), a Project of the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), is offering  five scholarships to Ukrainian historians who are forced to leave their country.  Scholarships consist of 3000 € … Continue reading

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Last chance to register for MAA 2022!

Register now for MAA 2022! If you haven’t registered to attend MAA 2022 online, it’s not too late! Registration to attend the 2022 MAA meeting virtually will close at 9 am on Monday, March 7, 2022. If you would like … Continue reading

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Call for Book Reviews – Comitatus 53

Comitatus A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies Call for Book Reviews The books listed in this PDF on our website are available for review in Comitatus 53 (2022), the graduate student journal published by the UCLA CMRS Center for … Continue reading

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Data Rescue for Ukraine – Sat. March 5th

Dear digital humanists, My colleagues Anna E. Kijas and Francesca Giannetti (Digital Humanities Interest Group, Music Library Association) and Andy Janco (Digital Humanities Interest Group of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies) are organizing a rapid-response Digital … Continue reading

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Protesting the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

The Medieval Academy of America strongly condemns the government of Russia for invading the sovereign state of Ukraine. We protest the already significant loss of human lives, and the ongoing bombing of Ukraine’s historic cities, including the capital at Kyiv … Continue reading

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Jobs For Medievalists

TITLE:                      Public Humanities Fellow DEPARTMENT:      Center for Renaissance Studies SUMMARY: The Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies seeks an early career scholar in Premodern Critical Race Studies to serve as a Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow for one year (with … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – (Re-)Conceptualizing Medieval and Early Modern Central Europe

CFP for MEMGS Seminar: (Re-)Conceptualizing Medieval and Early Modern Central Europe Convenors: CJ (Claire Taylor) Jones (University of Notre Dame, German) and Frances Kneupper (University of Mississippi, History) This seminar focuses on the diversity of the periods before 1800, of … Continue reading

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18th Annual Marco Symposium

Religious Communities Across Space and Time in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East 18th Annual Marco Symposium March 4 – 5, 2022 University of Tennessee, Knoxville This year’s sympoisum brings together scholars of the medieval and early modern world to … Continue reading

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