Monthly Archives: October 2023

Matching Challenge: Help Ensure the Future of the MAA!

MATCHING CHALLENGE: Help ensure the future of the Medieval Academy of America!  As we look towards our Centennial in 2025, we must also begin planning for our second century. By contributing to this Matching Challenge in 2024, you can double … Continue reading

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The Medieval Academy’s Panel on Digital Projects Grant Funding

Panel on Digital Projects Grant Funding 2 November 2023, 12:00 pm EST The Medieval Academy of America’s Digital Humanities and Media Studies Committee is sponsoring a panel on applying for grant funding on November 2, from 12:00 pm to 1:30 … Continue reading

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Matching Challenge: Help Ensure the Future of the MAA!

MATCHING CHALLENGE: Help ensure the future of the Medieval Academy of America! As we look towards our Centennial in 2025, we must also begin planning for our second century. By contributing to this Matching Challenge in 2024, you can double … Continue reading

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Online Lecture: Daughter, Healer, Soldier, Spy: Finding Communities in the Medieval Middle Eastern Countryside

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University are pleased to announce the first lecture in the 2023–2024 East of Byzantium lecture series. Tuesday, October 17, 2023 | 12:00 … Continue reading

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Introducing Medieval DC at the Smithsonian Castle & National Museum of Asian Art

Introducing Medieval DC at the Smithsonian Castle & National Museum of Asian Art Saturday, October 14 at 10 AM The Middle Ages may seem completely foreign to contemporary Americans, but the medieval world is all around us in Washington, DC. … Continue reading

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MAA News – 2023 Mentoring Program

This summer saw the successful completion of the 2023 MAA Summer Workshop Program! The new programming run by the Mentoring Programs Committee (MPC) broadly aims to foster and mentor a diverse group of rising medievalists. During the 2022 summer, the … Continue reading

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MAA News – From the Editor’s Desk

Greetings from the editor’s desk at Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. As always, I am delighted to introduce the research articles published in the new issue of the journal, in this case October 98/4 (2023). We again have an issue chock … Continue reading

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MAA News – Upcoming Deadlines

The Medieval Academy of America invites applications for the following grants. Please note that applicants must be members in good standing as of September 15 in order to be eligible for Medieval Academy awards. Schallek Fellowship The Schallek Fellowship provides … Continue reading

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MAA News – Race & Gender in the Global Middle Ages Working Group

Friday, October 20 at 12pm EST  Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga, Assistant Professor of History University of Tennessee, Knoxville “A Roman in Islamic Egypt: Memory and Identity in the Chronicle of John of Nikiu” The Chronicle of John of Nikiu, written in Coptic in the 7th century … Continue reading

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MAA News – The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast Series is now welcoming proposals for single episodes to be featured in its third season.

After two successful seasons, The Multicultural Middle Ages (MMA) will return for its third season in 2024. Sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America, MMA is an anthology-style podcast attuned with the global turn in Medieval Studies. This podcast series … Continue reading

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