Category Archives: Announcements

The Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is happy to announce the Elizabeth A. R. Brown Medieval Historians Archive. Historian Elizabeth A.R. Brown (“Peggy”), who died in August 2024 at age … Continue reading →

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) is pleased to announce that the call for applications for its 2026-2027 Visiting Research Fellowship program is now open. Guided by the vision of its founders, Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, … Continue reading →

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Byzantine Studies Association of North America are pleased to offer a a GIS basics workshop series for graduate students and early career researchers in collaboration with Becky Seifried of … Continue reading →

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the final lecture in our 2025–2026 lecture series. Spindle Whorls and Women’s Work: Reframing Middle Byzantine Lives in the Athenian Agora Fotini Kondyli, University of Virginia March … Continue reading →

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the 2025–2026 edition of its annual lecture with the Harvard University Standing Committee on Medieval Studies. The Frankish Kingdom and the Eastern Empire: Rethinking Their Interconnections from … Continue reading →

Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History Call for Fellowship Applications The lenses of Western modernity surreptitiously shape the study of past cultures in ways that encourage us to disregard their own claims about their world in favor of those that … Continue reading →

Greetings from Rare Book School! Our summer 2026 course schedule features nearly 50 classes, including in-person offerings at three new course locations: York in the United Kingdom, North Bennet Street School in Boston, and the University of Texas at Austin’s Harry Ransom … Continue reading →

Do you want to apply digital methods to medieval sources but aren’t sure where to start? The Digital Medievalist Postgraduate Committee has your back. We are thrilled to announce Coding Codices Live: Medieval March, a series of beginner-friendly workshops designed … Continue reading →

Applications now are being accepted for the fourth annual Digital Medieval Studies Institutes, organized by Dr. Laura Morreale and Dr. N. Kıvılcım Yavuz. The first will take place on 13 May 2026 at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at … Continue reading →

The team from The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast is pleased to share our latest Speculum Spotlight episode with you, covering the centennial issue of Speculum, Speculations, edited by Mohamad Ballan, Cecily Hilsdale, Katherine L. Jansen, Sierra Lomuto, and Peggy McCracken. In this episode … Continue reading →