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Travel Awards: Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas (12/31/2021 application deadline!)

The Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas is pleased to announce the availability of travel grants to facilitate research using the library’s collections. There are three award categories, and the amount available for each award is $1,000.  … Continue reading

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Upcoming Podcast Workshop Postponed to 13 December

Medievalists, podcasters, and medievalist podcasters, We write to inform you that the upcoming workshop on Podcast Post-Production (originally scheduled for Mon. 12/6) will be postponed one week to Monday, December 13 from 2-4PM Eastern Time. Our apologies for any scheduling … Continue reading

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The Inaugural Mathews Byzantine Lecture, by Professor Emerita Margaret Mullet (OBE): “The Christos Paschon: Byzantine tragedy or non-liturgical passion play?”

Time: Thu Dec 2, 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Location: Medieval Institute Main Reading Room and Live-Streamed on our YouTube channel The Medieval Institute is pleased to announce a new annual lecture series, the Mathews Byzantine Lectures [https://medieval.nd.edu/news-events/annual-events/mathews-byzantine-lectures/].The Mathews Lectures bring a distinguished scholar … Continue reading

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Lament, Liturgy and the End of Time in Hildegard of Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum

Lament, Liturgy and the End of Time in Hildegard of Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum Margot Fassler University of Notre Dame Friday, Dec. 3, 4:30, Woolworth 102 This presentation is based on chapters from Margot Fassler’s forthcoming book Cosmos, Liturgy, and the … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – 8th Dorushe Graduate Student Conference in Syriac Studies

The Department of Theology at Fordham University and Dorushe invite proposals for the Eighth Dorushe Graduate Student Conference on Syriac Studies, to be held at Fordham University (NYC) on June 9-10, 2022. Erin Galgay Walsh (The University of Chicago Divinity … Continue reading

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Mary Jaharis Center Lecture: The Sound of the Lectionary

The Mary Jaharis Center is pleased to announce our second lecture of 2021–2022: The Sound of the Lectionary: Chant, Architecture, and Salvation in Byzantium. In this lecture, Roland Betancourt, University of California, Irvine, considers the ways in which notions of … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Speculum Themed Issue: “Race, Race-Thinking, and Identity in the Global Middle Ages”

Editors: François-Xavier Fauvelle, Collège de France Nahir Otaño Gracia, University of New Mexico Cord J. Whitaker, Wellesley College For far too long, scholarly consensus held that race and racism were mainly Enlightenment innovations, datable to no earlier than the seventeenth … Continue reading

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Schwarz Fellowship for Research on Urban Architecture

Schwarz Fellowship at the Gennadius Library for Research on Urban Architecture The Schwarz Fellowship for Research on Urban Architecture supports innovative and cross-disciplinary research on architecture, urban planning, and the history of the built environment in Greece from 1821 to … Continue reading

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Upcoming Grant and Prize 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. Baldwin Fellowship The Baldwin Fellowship provides … Continue reading

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Jobs for Medievalists

Opening for a position as Lecturer (fixed-term, full-time) at the Institute for Regional History (Institut für Fränkisch-Pfälzische Geschichte und Landeskunde) at Heidelberg University The Institute for Regional History (Institut für Fränkisch-Pfälzische Geschichte und Landeskunde) within the Center for the Study … Continue reading

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