Monthly Archives: January 2020

Summer 2021 ASCSA Program Directors: Call for Applications

DIRECTORS OF THE ASCSA SUMMER PROGRAMS (GERTRUDE SMITH PROFESSORS) Deadline: January 31, 2020 Summer Session (traditional six-week course): One Position Summer Seminars (18-day courses): Two Positions SIX-WEEK ASCSA SUMMER SESSION Term: Summer 2021 Eligibility: Former membership in the School and … Continue reading

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Understanding the Medieval Book X with Erik Kwakkel

The University of South Carolina will hold its tenth annual seminar “Understanding the Medieval Book” on Monday and Tuesday, 6-7 April 2020. The specialist will be Dr. Erik Kwakkel, former Scaliger Chair at Leiden University in the Netherlands and now Professor of Book … Continue reading

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Fellows Election Results

To the Members of the Medieval Academy of America, The Second Ballot of the 2020 Election of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows closed on Wednesday, 2 January. The results have been certified by the President of the Fellows and the Fellows … Continue reading

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Study in Rome and Italy: Broneer Traveling Fellowship, 2020-2021

OSCAR BRONEER TRAVELING FELLOWSHIP, 2020-2021 Deadline: March 15, 2020 The American Academy in Rome and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens award the Oscar Broneer Traveling Fellowship to encourage the study of the Greco-Roman world. Purpose: The Fellowship … Continue reading

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The Summer School in Medieval Paleography: Manuscript Culture in Boccaccio’s Times

“The Summer School in Medieval Paleography: Manuscript Culture in Boccaccio’s Times”. The American Boccaccio Association Summer School in Paleography is a series of intensive courses taught directly in the major historical libraries of Florence and Rome (June 5-13, 2020). The … Continue reading

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MAA News – Medieval Academy of America Governance Election Result

To the members of the Medieval Academy of America: I am very pleased to announce the results of the 2020 governance election, which closed at 11:59 PM on Jan. 2: President: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (French & Italian, Univ. of Pittsburgh (Emerita)) 1st … Continue reading

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MAA News – Registration for the 2020 Annual Meeting is Open!

The 2020 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place at the University of California, Berkeley from 26-28 March 2020. The program, registration, and hotel information are available here. Register by February 21 to take advantage of the early-bird discount, … Continue reading

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MAA News – Latest issue of Speculum, is Now Available Online

The latest issue of Speculum is now available on the University of Chicago Press Journals website. To access your members-only journal subscription, log in to the MAA website using your username and password associated with your membership (contact us at info@themedievalacademy.org  if you have forgotten either), … Continue reading

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MAA News – MAA@AHA

The Medieval Academy of America invites proposals for panels at the 2021 meeting of the American Historical Association in Seattle, January 7-10. Each year the Medieval Academy co-sponsors with the AHA several sessions at this meeting that are likely to … Continue reading

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MAA News – Schallek Fellow

The Medieval Academy of America is very pleased to announce that the 2020-2021 Schallek Fellowship has been awarded to Julia Mattison (Univ. of Toronto), “C’est livre est a moy: French Books and English Readers in Fifteenth-Century England .” The Schallek … Continue reading

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