Category Archives: Announcements

Szarmach Article Prize 2026 Competition

Posted on October 31, 2025 by Chris

The Rawlinson Center at Western Michigan University announces the eighth Paul E. Szarmach Prize, to be awarded in May 2026. It consists of an award of $500 to the author of a first article on a topic in the culture … Continue reading →

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Curator’s Talk with British Library curators Claire Breay and Calum Cockburn

Posted on October 31, 2025 by Chris

Curator’s Talk with British Library curators Claire Breay and Calum Cockburn Featuring medieval manuscripts digitized with American Trust for the British Library funding from the late Elizabeth A.R. and Ralph S. Brown, Jr. Hosted by the American Trust for the … Continue reading →

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Online Lecture: Creating Christian Sacred Spaces: The Armenian Case (4th–7th Centuries)

Posted on October 15, 2025 by Chris

Online Lecture: Creating Christian Sacred Spaces: The Armenian Case (4th–7th Centuries) The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtot Chair of Armenian Studies at Harvard University are pleased to announce the first lecture in the 2025–2026 … Continue reading →

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Online Lecture: Daily Life Encounters between the Byzantines and the Ottomans

Posted on October 1, 2025 by Chris

Online Lecture: Daily Life Encounters between the Byzantines and the Ottomans The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the first lecture in our 2025–2026 lecture series. October 20, 2025 | 12:00 PM (EDT, UTC … Continue reading →

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K-12 Updates and Call for Proposals

Posted on September 18, 2025 by Chris

K-12 Updates and Call for Proposals The Medieval Academy’s K-12 Committee is testing ways to best engage with K-12 educators. We are currently developing two modes of engagement. The first will be a pair of webinars that will offer K-12 … Continue reading →

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Medieval | Renaissance: A Dialogue on Early Italian Painting

Posted on September 18, 2025 by Chris

Medieval | Renaissance: A Dialogue on Early Italian Painting McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College September 2 -December 7, 2025 Exhibition Link The closing centuries of the Middle Ages in Europe witnessed a profound transformation in the art of painting. … Continue reading →

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The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast welcomes proposals of single episodes for its fifth season.

Posted on September 15, 2025 by Chris

After four successful seasons, The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast (MMA) will return for its fifth in 2026. Sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America, MMA is an anthology-style podcast that seeks to continue conversations and generate new avenues of inquiry … Continue reading →

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Call for participants: Studying East of Byzantium XII: Spaces

Posted on August 13, 2025 by Chris

Call for participants: Studying East of Byzantium XII: Spaces The Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, are pleased to invite … Continue reading →

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Making the Medieval Archive: Celebrating Elizabeth A. R. Brown at Penn

Posted on August 8, 2025 by Chris

September 12, 2025, 10:00am–7:00pm Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia And online via Zoom On September 12, 2025, the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University … Continue reading →

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Turning Biology into History: A New Resource for Teaching the Black Death

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Chris

Medieval Academy Fellow and co-winner of the 2018 Medieval Academy of America/CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching, Monica H. Green, has produced an open-access introductory teaching module for historians and others teaching world, global, or medieval history. Entitled The Black Death: … Continue reading →

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