By Natasha Singer. Nuremberg, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 Saturday, 28 September 2024. Click on the course titles to view detailed descriptions and faculty biographies, along with the schedule, format, location, and fee for each offering. The materials celebrate these womens extraordinary contributions to the classroom and their discoveries and transformative insights into the study of premodernity. Keene State College The primary objective of this exchange is for the relationship to be active during the conference, though mentors and mentees are encouraged to continue communication after the conference has ended. We are actively soliciting manuscripts for future publication in the series. Scholars from around the world come to the Institute to pursue their research. Click on the course titles to view detailed descriptions and faculty biographies, along with the schedule, format, location, and fee for each offering. Besides regular meetings with the project PI, Joe Henrich (Harvard University; Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution Lab), and co-PI, Jonathan Schulz (George Mason University), the position will entail close collaboration with the Quantitative Criticism Lab, co-directed by Joseph Dexter (Harvard University) and Pramit Chaudhuri (University of Texas at Austin). The Medieval Academy of America is very pleased to award the 2022 Schallek Fellowship to Alexandra Atiya (University of Toronto). Medieval Religion: its topicality, methods and sources Summer School June June 22nd-June 27th (Thursday-Saturday; Monday-Tuesday) Description: In society today, medieval religion is omnipresent. The Medieval Academy Blog | North America's first organization of Stay informed with our Daily Blog Digest and MJC News updates. Mohamad Ballan (History, Stony Brook University) will lead a discussion of Borderland Anxieties: Lisn al-Dn ibn al-Khatb (d. 1374) and the Politics of Genealogy in Late Medieval Granada,Speculum 92, no. Mentorship exchanges are intended to help students establish professional contacts with scholars who can offer them career advice. Organized by the Mentoring Program Committee, the Summer Research Program is designed to mentor Continue reading , Dear MAA members, By now, many of you have heard the recent revelations in the news media about the disturbing, unprofessional behavior of a prominent medievalist. MAA Travel Grants have been awarded to Wendy Pfeffer (Conseils dans le genre densenhamen: la Dittique provenale/ Adding the Diettique provenale to the Ensenhamen Corpus, XIVe Congrs de lAssociation Internationale dtudes Occitanes, Munich) and Caroline Solazzo (Gilding Textiles: New Archaeological Evidence and Scientific Developments on the Production of Metal Threads, European Association of Archaeologists, Belfast). Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times. Medieval Academy of America Inclusivity and Diversity Research Grant Graduate students are eligible for consideration for the South Wind Graduate Student Paper Award upon submission of their essays by April 1, 2023. Opinions expressed by members in print, video, or online represent their personal views, not necessarily those of the Medieval Academy of America. A Ph.D. (or equivalent) and influential publications are required. The data confirms what many of us suspected: academic employment for medievalists with Ph.D.s has narrowed considerably over the past decade, the job market for medievalists has not returned to its pre-Covid levels, and tenure-track positions across disciplines are disappearing. 98th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Washington, DC, February 2326, 2023. Happy listening! As already noted, our January issue has a Mediterranean theme. While we plan to hold the 43rd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum in person with a limited number of virtual presentations, the entire event may have to be moved online should the safety of our participants require it. How have scholarly understandings of medieval historicity and temporality shaped the parameters of our inquiry, and how might we critically engage these accounts. By logging in, you agree to our terms of service privacy policy. At the end, you will have the option to indicate if you would be open to (1) sharing further thoughts on the digital redesign in a follow-up conversation and/or (2) helping with usability testing for the redesigned website in the future. Photos of the opening are below. Logan Quigley conducts the interview. This is not only true in European city- and village-scapes, where medieval churches are still dominant features, Continue reading Share this: Facebook Fellows - The Medieval Academy of America It is followed by a co-authored piece by Susan McDonough and Michelle Armstrong-Partida,Amigas and their Amichs: Prostitute-Concubines, Strategic Coupling, and Laboring-Class Masculinity in Late Medieval Valencia and the Mediterranean; Dawn Marie Hayes, The Case of Geoffrey of Hauteville, Lord of Ragusa: A Story of Leprosy and Legitimacy from Norman Sicily; Alan Elbaum, The Fire in my Heart and the Pain in my Eyes: Interdependence and Outburst in the Illness Letters of the Cairo Geniza; and Hlne Sirantoine, Cartularization and Genre Boundaries: Reflection on the Nondiplomatic Material of the Toledan Cartularies (End of the Twelfth to Fourteenth Century).Close readers of the journal will notice that for the past several years, articles are now prefaced by abstracts to make them more discoverable by the search engines we all use to conduct our research and, that as a rule, each issue now contains five articles instead of four, a commitment made on our part to publish as many of our accepted articles as quickly as our contracted page limit per annum allows. Dr. Mancia focuses her research on the devotional and material culture of medieval European monasteries in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. I also want to acknowledge theSpeculumstaff, Taylor McCall, Carol Anderson, and Jane Maschue, andat the Medieval Academy of America, the Graduate Student Committee, Lisa Fagin Davis, and Chris Cole for histechnical supporton this project. Staff Editor, TEAMS Middle English Texts Series, Mellon Fellow in the Digital Humanities, 2021-2023, please submit the online form, linked here, GSC Podcasting Workshop: Crafting an Engaging Episode, Rare Book School: Applications Now Open for Summer 2023 Courses, Call for Papers 43rd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum, Medieval Academy of America Statement on the Case of Hamline University and Dr. Erika Lpez Prater, Mary Jaharis Center Lecture: The Lonely Mountain: The Emergence of a Hagiorite Identity on Medieval Mount Athos, https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/the-lonely-mountain, TEAMS Middle English Texts Series Digital Redesign User Survey. It underscores how important it is that Ph.D. programs train their students for a broad array of careers and that we all need to continue working to ensure that medievalists outside the academy can remain active in the field after they have written their dissertations. . The meeting is jointly hosted by the Medieval Academy of America and a consortium of medievalists from DC, Northern Virginia, and Maryland. Reading, Pennsylvania, had its wettest July day on record . Epic, beyond other genres, has been both a guarantor of cultural continuity for millennia and a site of fundamental innovations in literary style and content in Western culture. What might the place of this journal in that future be? Medieval Academy of America - Wikipedia The Medieval Academy of America SPECULUM - JSTOR Thanks to their hard work, we now have seven years of data on tenure-track jobs (201516 to 20223) in History, English, Islamic Studies, Italian Studies, Art History, and Religious Studies/Theology. The January 2024 issue, dedicated to the theme of Race, Race-thinking, and Identity in the Global Middle Ages, is designed to interrogate the exciting scholarship on race in the networked interrelations and interdependences of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe. It is now well underway and is being edited by the team of F. X. Fauvelle, Nahir Otao Gracia, and Editorial Board member, Cord J. Whitaker. March 15, 2023 - The Medieval Academy Blog. Our roster of more than 40 in-person and online courses can be found atrarebookschool.org/schedule/. Afterwards, join Prof. Gertsman and MAA governance and staff members for the Medieval Academys open-bar wine reception. The 2023 Inclusivity & Diversity Subvention has been awarded to Manchester University Press to support the publication of Wan-Chuan Kaos monographWhite before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages. We are very pleased to announce the publication of Medieval Academy Books no. The Brown University Library is a dynamic center of scholarship and community at the heart of a world-class research university. Our roster of more than40 in-person and online courses can be found at, Touch and Affect in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, We welcome abstracts (one page or less) from faculty, students, and independent scholars. Tuesday, January 24, 2023 | 12:00 PM EST | Zoom The exhibit opened on May 2nd, 2023, and medievalists Elizabeth A.R. A fragment of a medieval manuscript used in the binding of a printed book has been identified as a unique Irish-language translation of a medical compendium by the great Islamic philosopher and physician Avicenna. This is not only true in European city- and village-scapes, where medieval churches are still dominant features, Continue reading , Applications are now open for Rare Book Schools summer 2023 courses! Web Accessibility Statement, Egyptian Textiles and Medieval Indian Ocean Trade, Medieval Studies Today: Legacies of National Schools of Historiography, Disciplines, Periodizations, and Frameworks, Postcolonialisms and Decolonization, Neo-medievalism, Translation, Translators, and Multilingualism, Beyond the King: Broadening Concepts of Medieval Power and Rulership, Dialogue with the Sciences of the Human Past: Archaeology, Public History, and the Conservation Sciences, Climate Histories, Archives, and Proxies, The Epidemiology and Paleogenomics of Infectious Disease, Deploying the Medieval in Fiction, Fantasy, and Games, Expanding the Audience for Medieval Studies: Advocacy for Medieval Studies, Presenting the Middle, Encouragement of Study of World Languages and Study Abroad, Close Looking in the Medieval Treasury at the National Gallery of Art, Manuscript Fragments and Fragmentology at the Library of Congress, With the Smithsonians National Museum of Asian Art: Rethinking Global Medieval Art and Material Culture, With Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection: Environmental Histories of Medieval Landscapes: Narratives and Methods, With The American Council for Southern Asian Art: The Mobile Medieval and Its Ramifications in Southern Asia. To apply for a Fellows Research Award, submit the application form and attachment by October 1, 2023. It has also occasioned heated controversies, because of the complex associations it bears, e.g., with nationalism, colonialism or racism. Feedback from users like you will be pivotal in reimagining both with the needs of our diverse user base in mind. Membership is open to all persons interested in the Middle Ages. to complete. historical writing, hagiography, philosophy, and theology); defining features of epic; orality and literacy, in composition and transmission; stylistics and metrics; verse in relation to prose. DEADLINE TO REGISTER AS A MENTOR OR MENTEE: PDF Corpus Philosophorum Medii Aevi Averrois Hebraicus The format of the centennial volume will model the kind of contributions we seek: instead of 4-5 long form articles, we plan to publish 50 short essays (of approximately 3000 words each) in an attempt to represent a broader range of voices, perspectives, methodologies, and areas of study. Online Lecture: Chra and the Creation of Sacred Space in Byzantine Architecture. Finally, please note that this survey will stop collecting responses on January 9, 2023, at 11:59 pm Eastern Time (UTC-5:00), so please make sure to complete the survey before this deadline. Harvard University The Program Committee envisions a conference to include the following strands: The Programming Committee particularly invites contributions on a first strand of sessions on the topic of Internationalisms. We are very pleased to support the publication of this important work. In general, Medieval Academy Books publishes philological studies, translations, and critical editions, from and in Latin as well as the vernacular. Risk Alchemy: From Medieval Madness to Modern Missteps - RISK-ACADEMY If you are an undergraduate student we ask that you obtain a faculty members approval and sponsorship. The fellow will have no teaching responsibilities. Claims that the image is Islamophobic ignore its important historical context, and the value of teaching full and true versions of the past. For information about the application process, visit, rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/application/, . More recently, Professor Mancia has turned to the field of performance studies both to better understand medieval European monastic devotion and to innovate ways to perform that understanding for contemporary audiences. For those who teach in the Northern Hemisphere, congratulations for making it through another academic year. Olga Bush (Vassar College) was awarded the 2023 ICMASamuel H. Kress Foundation Research and Publication Grant to support on-site research in Spain and Sicily for her project entitled Forced Labor:Exotic Fauna in the Animation of Medieval Court Environments. She was also was appointed a Fellow in Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks for the 2023-2024 academic year to support research on her project titled Extraction and Construction: The Ecology and Landscape Architecture of Madnat al-Zahr (Crdoba) in the Pan-Mediterranean Medieval Context that forms a part of her monograph in progress at the intersection of environmental studies and medieval Muslim visual culture. The Medieval Academy welcomes innovative panels that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries or that use various disciplinary approaches to examine an individual topic. The conference Epic in the Latin West (4th15th Centuries) proposes to explore the genre in its highly varied developments from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. Source found HERE:. This call for papers is open to scholars at all career stages who would like to present in the panel sessions. How do such debates relate to Medieval Latin or do they? The exhibit helps highlight the work of Brooklyn Colleges Late-Antique-Medieval-Early-Modern (LAMEM)working group of 23 different faculty members from eight different departments and programs around the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (Art, Classics, English, History, Judaic Studies, Modern Languages and Literatures, Philosophy, and Religion). The Medieval Academy of America ( MAA; spelled Mediaeval until c. 1980) [1] is the largest organization in the United States promoting the field of medieval studies. The Program Committee seeks to construct a program that fully reflects and expands the diversity of the Medieval Academys membership with respect to research areas and representation. Speculum | List of Issues There are several major threads to this exhibition that tells the story of the academic achievements of premodernist women faculty, and it demonstrates how their specific training equipped them with an array of skills that were transformative, in and out of the classrooms of Brooklyn College. Medievalists Sara McDougall (John Jay/Graduate Center CUNY), Nancy Regalado (NYU) and Marianne Kowaleski (Fordham) were also there. Sean Field (University of Vemont) will be a Fellow at the National Humanities Center in 2023-24, The following grants were awarded in recent weeks: Olivia Remie Constable Awards: Louisa Foroughi, Peasant Femininity and the Female Relations of Yeomen in Later Medieval England Marg, The following students have been offered MAA/CARA Summer Scholarships: Katie Despeaux (The University of New Mexico), Reading Old French at The Mediterranean Seminar; Eliza H. Feero (, I was very pleased to have attended the Annual Meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies in Philadelphia on April 27-29 together with the MAAs new ACLS Delegate Afrodesia McCannon, I am very pleased to announce the new MAA committee members, recently appointed by the Council in accordance with our policies and procedures: Conferences: American Historical Association Program C, Now that the International Congress on Medieval Studies is back to meeting in person (May 11-13), the Medieval Academy of America will be returning to Kalamazoo as well: 1) The Friday morning plena, Speculations The Centennial Issue of Speculum January 2026 The centenary of a scholarly journal offers the opportunity to recognize, reflect on, and reimagine scholarly methods and objects, includi. Volume 98 Number 1 January 2023. pp. Cecily Hilsdale 2023. How might we call on more inclusive and expansive understandings of the Middle Ages in light of the global turn and critical reappraisals of periodization. Please do drop by the Speculum table hosted by our publisher, the University of Chicago Press, to meet our staff and to talk with us about publishing in the journal. In Late Antiquity most Byzantine authors identified sacred mountains through the lens of biblical history, especially the mountains associated with the life of Jesus (Mount of Olives, Mount Tabor) or the Prophet Moses (Mount Nebo, Mount Sinai). New and updated courses for 2023 include: Applications will be accepted through themyRBS system; instructions for using the site can be found on the landing page once youve created an account. The Medieval Academy of America 6 Beacon St., Ste 500 Boston, MA 02108. Applications received after that date will be reviewed on a rolling basis until all available seats have filled, but many of the classes will fill in the first round of admissions decisions. The Graduate Student Committee (GSC) of the Medieval Academy of America invites both those attending the 98th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, jointly hosted by the MAA and a consortium of medievalists from DC, Northern Virginia, and Maryland as well as any other interested medievaliststo participate in the GSC Mentorship Program. If youre going to be at the Leeds International Medieval Congress this year, please join us on Tuesday, 4 July,19.00-20.00 (Session 901) for the Annual Medieval Academy of America Lecture, Somatic Entanglements, to be delivered by Prof. Elina Gertsman (Department of Art History & Art, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio). Applications received after that date will be reviewed on a rolling basis until all available seats have filled, but many of the classes will fill in the first round of admissions decisions. Please submit abstracts and full contact information on the google form available at: This years keynote speaker is Lauren Mancia, Associate Professor of History at Brooklyn College, who will speak on (Reach Out and) Touch Medieval Monastic Devotion.. We invite proposals on any theme in Medieval Studies from diverse chronological, geographical, methodological, and disciplinary perspectives. ), who will discussthe art of drafting and delivering the perfect episode. This image is widely celebrated as a landmark of Islamic art, and it has been taught in many classrooms because of its visual representation of the prophet Muhammad. The Medieval Academy of America condemns the decision of Hamline University not to renew Dr. Erika Lpez Praters teaching contract following the widely-reported incident in which Lpez Prater showed in a classroom context a 14th-century image of the prophet Muhammad. What histories do we examine, what histories do we obscure, and what criteria will most productively guide our examination of histories in the future? By the time of the emergence of communal monasticism on Mount Athos in the middle of the tenth century, Athos could be counted as one of several Holy Mountains that housed monastic confederations within the Byzantine Empire, most of which were in western Asia Minor. The meeting is jointly hosted by the Medieval Academy of America and a consortium of medievalists from DC, Northern Virginia, and Maryland. The centenary of a scholarly journal offers the opportunity to recognize, reflect on, and reimagine scholarly methods and objects, including canonicity and the discursive possibilities of scholarship; the boundaries, borders and spaces that define our disciplines; the genres and taxonomies that shape our work. Volume 98 Number 3 July 2023. pp. Applicants should submit the following materials by February 15, 2023 at https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/11991. The workshop will feature four panelists, including Sarah Ifft Decker (Media-eval: A Medieval Pop Culture Podcast), Aylin Malcolm (Coding Codices), Logan Quigley (The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast), and Florence H R Scott (lfgif-who? For the best chance of being admitted, please submit your application(s) by the first-round deadline: (H-10), taught by Michael Inman and Charlotte Priddle, African American Print Cultures in the Nineteenth Century, (H-185), taught by Benjamin Fagan and Derrick Spires, Digital Sustainability for Cultural Collections, (L-130v), taught by Nancy Y. McGovern and Kari Smith, Reference Sources for Researching Printed Western Americana, (L-135), a two-day course taught by Joel Silver, Applications will be accepted through the, ; instructions for using the site can be found on the landing page once youve created an account. You can also find it at all the usual podcasts platforms. 2020s. Katherine Jansen In selecting papers, the organizers are looking to create a spectrum that is thematically and methodologically as broad as possible. This approach also invites critical reflection on the entanglement of medieval studies in narratives of nationalism, colonialism, and racism. The Cataloger will participate Continue reading Share this: Facebook Candidate in EnglishStaff Editor, TEAMS Middle English Texts SeriesMellon Fellow in the Digital Humanities, 2021-2023 University of Rochesterebowen4@ur.rochester.edu, North America's first organization of medievalists, Applications are now open for Rare Book Schools summer 2023 courses! And finally, speaking of the annual meeting, I take great pleasure in welcoming you to DC, my institutional home and the journals headquarters. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal; others may submit proposals as well but must become members in order to present papers at the meeting. For the best chance of being admitted, please submit your application(s) by the first-round deadline: Monday, 20 February 2023. Medieval History | A medieval history news aggregate As of 1 July, you can access the podcast here or click through on the right rail of our website. Podcasting about the Middle Ages can be very similar to writing and presenting conference papers or lectures, but it can also tap into wider audiences and make use of a greater variety of narrative formats. Students in Cheryl Drakeford's third-grade class in Newark are trying Khanmigo, a new A.I.-assisted tutoring bot. This is a three-year, grant-funded position. We ask that all contributors familiarize themselves with this guidance before submitting work to the journal. If you have any questions, please contact, We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for Rare Book Schools summer 2023 courses! The Medieval Academy of America Everyone interested in the Middle Ages is invited to join the Medieval Academy of America. . Medieval Latin gave expression to an overwhelming number of epics, many of them still little studied. The application deadline is June 15. https://www.calrbs.org/admissions/ Description:While biblical, liturgical, and devotional manuscripts survive in the greatest number, religious texts tell only one part of the vibrant intellectual history of the Middle Ages Continue reading , North America's first organization of medievalists, Medieval Religion: its topicality, methods and sources, Rare Book School: Applications Now Open for Summer 2023 Courses, Excavation in the Athenian Agora Volunteer Program 2023 Summer Season, Medieval Greek Summer Session at the Gennadius Library, Summer 2023, Rare Book School Summer Course Applications Opening Soon, Dumbarton Oaks Summer School Opportunities, Call for Applications: MAA Summer Research Program. At the end, you will have the option to indicate if you would be open to (1) sharing further thoughts on the digital redesign in a follow-up conversation and/or (2) helping with usability testing for the redesigned website in the future. North America's first organization of medievalists, Hollings Special Collections Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, In addition to this program, Scott Gwara and Kristin Harrell will introduce the, To register, or for further information, please email Kristin Harrell, project manager of the, MAA Advocacy Committee Response to SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling, Launching the Medieval DC Digital Resource, https://sites.google.com/cua.edu/medievaldc/home, MAA News Medieval Academy Books no. As a part of the GSCs ongoing series on podcasting, the committee will be hosting a workshop on crafting and curating engaging content for listeners.