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, [email protected]  

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, […]

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 […]

CALL FOR PAPERS An Interdisciplinary Conference October 27, 2017   Department of Comparative Literature The Graduate Center, CUNY New York, NY   While often conceived of as a mere edge, a periphery is, etymologically, a space that encircles and contains. Historically, this constitutive ambiguity has led to an impoverished notion of periphery in which what occurs on […]

Activism and the Intersectional Internet: Power and Resistance A half-day symposium hosted by the GC Digital Fellows May 17, 2017, The Martin E. Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for submissions: Friday, April 14th, 2017 The GC Digital Fellows invite submissions for inclusion in a half-day symposium on digital activism that […]