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MAA News – Fellows Research Awards

We are very pleased to announce the inaugural Fellows Research Awards. Supported entirely by donations from the Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America, the Fellows Fund will support two annual awards for members of the Medieval Academy who do … 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 – Good News From Our Members

Nancy L. Wicker (Univ. of Mississippi) has been awarded a Solmsen Fellowship to carry out research on Viking-Age art at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin for the academic year 2023–2024. Several MAA members … Continue reading

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MAA News – New NHC Course Supported by MAA

In the wake of the extremely successful 2021 collaboration between the National Humanities Center and the Medieval Academy of America to design and launch an online curriculum-development course on “Medieval Africa and Africans“, we are very pleased to announce the … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – New Work on Old Dance: A Pre-1800 Dance Studies Symposium

What does it look like for historical expressions of dancing and movement arts to break out of traditional academic and performative boxes? How do scholars and practitioners escape the boundaries of discipline, chronology, geography, and methodology subsumed under the conventional … Continue reading

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Upcoming NHC Webinars

Registration is now open for the National Humanities Center 2023–24 Humanities in Class Webinar Series. Each webinar is a live, interactive professional conversation led by a scholarly expert addressing a compelling topic through the lens of the humanities. Appropriate for … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Creating Camelot(s): The Idea of Community in Arthurian Texts (virtual)

Sponsored by Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain and International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB) Organizers: Michael A. Torregrossa and Joseph M. Sullivan Call for Papers – Please Submit Proposals by 15 September 2023 … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Medievalisms Today: Aspects of the Medieval Past in the 21st-century World

Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, June-Ann Greeley, and Rachael Warmington Call for Papers – Please Submit Proposals by 30 September 2023 55th Annual … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: Leeds IMC 2024, 1-4 July 2024

The Experience of Local Officialdom in Europe and the Mediterranean, c.1000-1500: Between Order and Disorder Local officeholders and petty officials were integral components of medieval political life across Europe and the Mediterranean, central to the configuration and experience of power … Continue reading

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2024 Franklin Research Grant program

The American Philosophical Society’s Franklin Research Grants support the cost of research leading to publication in all areas of knowledge. The Franklin program is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; … Continue reading

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