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Medieval Academy of America 2025 – Call for Volunteers

Medieval Academy of America 2025 CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS We are seeking conference volunteers to help with setting up and putting on this landmark event! Harvard University March 20-22 Volunteers also needed March 16-19, 23 Why Volunteer for MAA? Access to … Continue reading

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Jobs For Medievalists

Special Collections Curator John J. Burns Library Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA Boston College Libraries seeks a Special Collections Curator to develop collections of rare and unique materials centered on people and ideas that have contributed to the shaping of … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Always Here: Non-Binary Gender, Trans Identities, and Queerness in the Global Middle Ages (c. 250–1650)

Always Here: Non-Binary Gender, Trans Identities, and Queerness in the Global Middle Ages (c. 250–1650) October 24 – 25, 2025 Binghamton University Binghamton, NY Submission deadline: April 15, 2025 Queer, trans, intersex, non-binary, genderfluid, and gender-nonconforming people and sources are … Continue reading

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“Favor and Persecution: How 14th-Century Spanish Kings Used Minorities to Expand Royal Power”

The History Department at Grambling State University is hosting a lecture series in Spring 2025, sponsored in part by a Centennial Grant from the Medieval Academy of America. This lecture series highlights medievalists from Northern Louisiana. Situated in Northern Louisiana … Continue reading

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Jobs For Medievalists

The Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania is seeking to hire the inaugural Elizabeth A. R. Brown archivist. The archivist will work with scholars and colleagues at Penn and around the world … Continue reading

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The Great Viking Survey

The University of Oslo has recently launched the Great Viking Survey, a wide-ranging study to explore how people across the world perceive and engage with the vikings as history and heritage, and to map the many ways in which contemporary … Continue reading

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NEH Advanced Institute in the Digital Humanities

Please see the below announcement for an NEH institute on multispectral imaging and document recovery that we will be holding at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs this upcoming summer. Please consider applying and/ or sharing with others who may … Continue reading

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Rare Book School Summer Courses

Rare Book School is now accepting applications for its summer 2025 courses. This year’s schedule features more than 40 classes, including online courses and in-person offerings to two new partner institutions: the University of Michigan and Oxford University’s Bodleian Library (also … Continue reading

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MAA News – From the Executive Director: The Centennial is Here!

I am thrilled to welcome you, at last, to the Centennial of the Medieval Academy of America! Years of planning have led us to this moment, and we have much to celebrate. In the 1926 publication Progress of Medieval Studies in … Continue reading

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MAA News – From the Editor’s Desk

Happy New Year from the Editor’s Desk at Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. Founded in 1925, the Medieval Academy of America marks its centennial anniversary this year. As you will have seen from other columns in this newsletter, many events … Continue reading

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