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Call for Sessions: Mary Jaharis Center Sponsored Panel, 51st Annual Byzantine Studies Conference

As part of its ongoing commitment to Byzantine studies, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for Mary Jaharis Center sponsored sessions at the 51st Annual Byzantine Studies Conference to be held in Detroit, Michigan, October … Continue reading

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Online Lecture: The Blood of His Flesh? Controversial Relics from Byzantium in Venice

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the next lecture in our 2024–2025 lecture series. The Blood of His Flesh? Controversial Relics from Byzantium in Venice Karin Krause, University of Chicago April 10, 2025 … Continue reading

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Virtual Symposium “Medieval Mediterranean Ways

Virtual Symposium “Medieval Mediterranean Ways”  Friday April 11, 10:00 am-3:00 pm   The topic of this virtual symposium, Medieval Mediterranean Ways, is conceptualized very broadly geographically as well as intellectually, and it seeks to examine both meanings of the word … Continue reading

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MAA Secures ACLS Microgrant

We are very pleased to announce that the Medieval Academy of America has received an Intention Foundry Learned Society Extended Engagement Microgrant from the American Council of Learned Societies. The grant will fund a series of summer webinars to promote … Continue reading

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MAA Summer Skills Workshops

In celebration of our 2025 Centennial and to serve a growing need among our constituents, the MAA is offering three online intensive Summer Skills Workshops this year: Old French, Latin Paleography, and Medieval Latin. These workshops are intended to help … Continue reading

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Medieval Academy’s Annual Meeting: Streamed Content

The Medieval Academy of America Centennial Annual Meeting is only one week away! We are very much looking forward to welcoming more than 800 attendees from twenty countries to the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts for our largest meeting … Continue reading

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Online Lecture: Saints of Dayr al-Naqlun: Fragments of Devotional Life in the Medieval Egyptian 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 next lecture in the 2024–2025 East of Byzantium lecture series. Tuesday, March 25, 2025 | 12:00 … Continue reading

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2025-2026 Visiting Research Fellowships at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) is pleased to announce that the call for applications to the 2025-2026 Visiting Research Fellowship program is now open. Guided by the vision of its founders, Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, … Continue reading

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Jobs For Medievalists

The Department of History at Hampden-Sydney College invites applications for a one-year visiting assistant professor in the history of the Mediterranean World. Successful candidates’ teaching will situate Mediterranean history in a transregional context; preference will be given to candidates focusing on late antiquity or … Continue reading

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MAA News – Good News From Our Members

Amanda Leong, the 2022 recipient of the Belle da Costa Greene Award, sent us this update: “Thanks to the support of the Medieval Academy of America’s Belle da Costa Greene Award, I was able to carry out archival work and … Continue reading

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