Thursday, October 21, 6:30pm Featured speaker: Professor Anna Akasoy Falconry often appears as iconic of the premodern world with its arcane social structures and where people did not yet hunt with guns. But falconry is a living tradition across the world and defines the cultural heritage of several regions. This talk will present a public history […]
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Due Nov 29 | CfP – 21st Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies at CWRU
Please find attached a Call for Papers for the 21st Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies. The conference will take place at the Cleveland Museum of Art and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio from March 24th–26th, 2022. Vagantes is an interdisciplinary community of junior scholars that offers an excellent opportunity for sharing new research. […]
Apply by Oct 15 | HASTAC Scholars Application
Students are invited to apply to the 2021-2023 cohort HASTAC Scholars and join the growing community of graduate and undergraduate students. Every year, a cohort of around 100 scholars join us from over 200 colleges and universities – ranging from small liberal arts colleges to large research universities – and who work at the intersection […]
Deadline Sep 19 | CfP – The Ohio State University’s MRGSA: Graduate Student Symposium
The Ohio State University’s Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Student Association (MRGSA) is currently accepting proposals for our 8th annual Graduate Student Symposium: “Modalities of Premodern Media [mrgsablog.wordpress.com]“, which will be held online from October 22 -23, 2021. We are excited to share that our keynote speaker will be Prof. Whitney Trettien [english.upenn.edu] from the University of Pennsylvania. The lecture will also serve as […]
Due Oct 15 | CfP – Rutgers Art Review
Rutgers Art Review, a journal of graduate research in art history, hereby invites all current graduate students, as well as professionals who have completed their graduate degree within the past year, to submit papers and digital humanities projects for its 39th edition. Papers may address all topics and historical periods within the history of art […]
Due Oct 15 | Submissions for EOLAS 15
Eolas THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF IRISH MEDIEVAL STUDIES An Cumann Meiriceánach um Léann na Meánaoise Éireannaí NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR EOLAS 15! Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of Ireland in the Middle Ages, including Irish intersections with other […]
Sep 24 | “The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender before Modernity”?
September 24, 2021, 5:00pm – 6:30pm “The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender before Modernity”? Speaker: Leah DeVun (Rutgers University) This talk explores ideas and individuals who allegedly combined or crossed sex or gender categories in Europe from 200–1400 C.E.. Focusing on several efforts to categorize sex in medical and naturalist contexts, DeVun looks at how and […]
Due Sep 15 | CFP: “Dear Medieval Studies” Roundtable at ICMS Kalamazoo, 2022
Dear Medieval Studies: Renegotiating the Citational Network (A Roundtable) – ICMS 2022 Kalamazoo, online Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 In Dear Science and Other Stories, Katherine McKittrick asks, “What if citations are suggestions for living differently?” (McKittrick 19). McKittrick’s work, drawing on Sylvia Wynter, demonstrates the social investment of disciplinary citational networks in […]
Sep 10 | Apply for the NYCDH Graduate Student Awards
The deadline for our eighth annual cross-institutional NYCDH Digital Humanities Graduate Student Project Award is fast approaching! We invite all graduate students attending an institution in New York City and the metropolitan area to apply by Friday, September 10, 2021. The full call for proposals is available at https://nycdh.org/nyc-dh-graduate-student-project-award/ The award recognizes excellent digital humanities […]
Due Sep 15 | CfP – Kalamazoo ICMS Session on Death and Judgment
Call for Papers: Death and Judgement in Medieval Literature [57th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 9-14, 2022 Session sponsored by the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame] Link to poster Notre_Dame_KZoo_CFP_2022 The question of what happens after death was a prominent subject in medieval thought, bringing together themes of temporality, materiality, spirituality, and salvation […]
