Dear colleagues, Please find below a CFP of interest for the upcoming 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo (May 10-13, 2018), sponsored by the association Italians and Italianists at Kalamazoo. The panel is titled A Science of the Human: Medical Discourse as a Way of Knowing. We are looking at interdisciplinary papers that challenge the boundaries between the fields of […]

The 17th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies is currently seeking paper abstracts on any topic related to the Middle Ages. The conference will take place from March 22nd-24th, 2018 at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. Vagantes is North America’s largest graduate-student conference for medieval studies. Since its founding in 2002, Vagantes has nurtured […]

Please consider submitting an abstract for our panel by SEPTEMBER 30, 2017. Stefania Porcelli, Luisanna Sardu Landscapes of Emotions in Italian Literature In light of expanding literary theories contributing to a better understanding of emotions and affects in literary texts, this panel will provide participants with an opportunity to discuss various new and important perspectives […]

The Durham University Medieval and Early Modern Student Association, MEMSA, is calling for speakers for the first term of its seminar series.  These are seminars that run fortnightly in the World Heritage Centre.  MEMSA is an interdisciplinary association with postgraduate students in the faculties of English, History, Archaeology, MFL and more attending, and as such […]

Dear Medievalists and Early Modernists, We hope you have had a restful and productive summer! This past spring, MARGIN held its first annual Symposium on the afterlife of Ovid in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. We were delighted to present seven engaging student papers, as well as a keynote from Dr. Ana Pairet of Rutger’s […]

Dear colleagues, Please find attached a CFP for the upcoming 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo (May 10-13, 2018), sponsored by the association Italians and Italianists at Kalamazoo. The deadline is Friday, September 15th.   Please address any question to Matteo Pace, mp3171@columbia.edu  

Call for Papers 53rd Medieval Congress Kalamazoo, May 2018 Eustache Deschamps — Gourmet, Bailiff, Courtier, and Social Critic:  A Fourteenth-Century Gentleman Looks at Life Organizer:  Deborah Sinnreich-Levi (Stevens Institute of Technology)  The work of Eustache Deschamps (1340-1406) survives principally in one immense, complete manuscript (BNF ff 840).  Contained therein are some 1500 poems offering insights […]

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 doctoral degree within the past year, to submit papers for its 35th edition. Papers may address the full range of topics and historical periods within the history of art and […]

CALL FOR PROPOSALS CUNY’s 16th Annual IT Conference Thursday and Friday, November 30 and December 1 @ John Jay College of Criminal Justice Instructional/Information Technology in CUNY: Opening Access The escalating costs of higher education—both tuition and the collateral expenses of textbooks and course materials—have widespread effects. With the announcement of the Excelsior Scholarship and […]

The problematic use of ideas established in nineteenth century, using medieval literature and culture, to define nascent senses of nationalism lingers over the field of Medieval Studies. The nineteenth century saw the construction of Western European national identity using, for example, texts such as the Chanson de Roland, the Nibelungenleid, and the works of Thomas Malory. However, […]