The Futures Initiative advocates greater equity and innovation in higher education at every level of the university. Housed at the CUNY Graduate Center and reaching throughout the CUNY community, the Futures Initiative empowers the next generation of intellectual leaders with bold, public, and engaged teaching and learning. We are seeking a Freelance Graphic Designer to work on a […]
Due June 1 | CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWS
Comitatus A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWS The books listed in this PDF on our website are available for review in Comitatus 53 (2022), the graduate student journal published by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. If you would like to write a review for Comitatus 53, email […]
May 19 | Possible Worlds: A Talk by Alexander Nagel
On Thursday May 19, at 7:00 pm MDT, Contemporary Calgary and the University of Calgary Nickle Galleries are co-presenting Possible Worlds: A Talk by Alexander Nagel. In addition to the in-person lecture at Contemporary Calgary (formerly the Centennial Planetarium), we will livestream the lecture via Zoom and would be honoured to have you as our online guests. The presentation offers […]
Vagantes 2022 Paper Prize Winners
The Vagantes Board of Directors is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Paper Prize. Congratulations to all of our winners! The Vagantes Board of Directors Claire Kilgore, Chair Anna O’Connell, Current Co-Host Institution Representative Alexandra Kaczenski, Current Co-Host Institution Representative Abby Armstrong-Check, Secretary Tania Kolarik, Webmaster Reed O’Mara, Mentorship and Professionalization Coordinator […]
Due by May 2 | Call for Carolyn G. Heilbrun Dissertation Prize Submissions
The Center for the Study of Women and Society is accepting submissions for the Carolyn G. Heilbrun Dissertation Prize ($300). The deadline for submissions is on Monday, May 2, 2022. The Carolyn G. Heilbrun Dissertation Prize will be awarded to an outstanding dissertation completed at the CUNY Graduate Center in the given academic year. The […]
May 4 & 6 | A Global Early Modern? Two Lectures
Please join us for “A Global Early Modern? Two Lectures”. Register here. Featuring Zoltán Biedermann (University College London) How might the term ‘global’ deepen engagement with Renaissance and Early Modern? Animated by this question, the GEMS faculty and students have invited the noted early-modern scholar, Zoltán Biedermann. Join us in welcoming but also thinking with […]
April 27 | nayture is sumwere else: trans poetics, middle and old English variation
Wednesday, April 27, 2022 4PM – 5:30PM ET nayture is sumwere else: trans poetics, middle and old English variations Featuring: Jos Charles and Miller Oberman, with a roundtable discussion featuring Patricia Dailey and Jack Halberstam Location: Second Floor Common Room, Heyman Center for the Humanities 74 Morningside Drive New York, NY 10027 RSVP REQUIRED: https://april27charlesoberman.eventbrite.com Event attendees […]
May 3 | Gaming Premodern Adventures
Join us for Gaming Premodern Adventures May 3, 5:00 pm Join us on Zoom for a roundtable discussion hosted by the Medieval Studies Certificate Program and the Henri Peyre Institute, co-sponsored by the GEMS Certificate Program and the Pearl Kibre graduate student medievalists. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/x/gaming-premodern-adventures-tickets-295318965977 “Chasing the Good Ending: Modeling Interactive Fiction in the Classroom […]
Apply by April 25 | Join the Vagantes Board of Directors
Open positions on the Board of Directors include Member-At-Large: Paper Prize and Member-at-Large. All roles are two-year terms. For more information on open positions, see the Vagantes website here. The Member-at-Large: Paper Prizefacilitates the Vagantes Paper Prize––eliciting papers, establishing the criteria for ranking papers, and coordinating the selection of winners. The third open Member-at-Largeposition is open-ended––the person who fills this position would have […]
April 23 | Medieval Studies Student Colloquium @ Cornell 2022
The 2022 Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (MSSC), “Consuming the Middle Ages,” will be held virtually on Zoom on Saturday, April 23rd, starting at 10:30 AM EDT. Our keynote speaker is Dr. Cord Whitaker (Associate Professor of English, Wellesley College), speaking at 3 PM EDT on The “Ubermensch” and the “Race Man”: W. E. B. Du Bois […]
