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MAA News – Upcoming Race & Gender Working Group Webinars

May 5, 2023 at 12pm-1:30pm EST Nicole Lopez-Jantzen, CUNY: Borough of Manhattan Community College and Graduate Center, “Shifting Concepts of Race: Italy through the Earlier Middle Ages” Responder: Dr. Sarah Davis-Secord, University of New Mexico May 19, 2023 at 12pm-1:30pm … Continue reading

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MAA News – Call for Proposals – Speculations: The Centennial Issue of Speculum

Speculations The Centennial Issue of Speculum January 2026 The centenary of a scholarly journal offers the opportunity to recognize, reflect on, and reimagine scholarly methods and objects, including canonicity and the discursive possibilities of scholarship; the boundaries, borders and spaces … Continue reading

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MAA News – MAA Grants Awarded

The following grants were awarded in recent weeks: Olivia Remie Constable Awards: Louisa Foroughi, “Peasant Femininity and the Female Relations of Yeomen in Later Medieval England” Margaret K. Smith, “Identity and Authority in Medieval Ireland” Kristen Streahle, “Opportunities Underfoot: Repairing … Continue reading

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MAA News – CARA Summer Scholarships Awarded

The following students have been offered MAA/CARA Summer Scholarships: Katie Despeaux (The University of New Mexico), “Reading Old French” at The Mediterranean Seminar; Eliza H. Feero (Northwestern University), “Introduction to Latin Paleography, 800-1500” at Rare Book School, Virginia; Eva Kuras … Continue reading

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MAA News – Good News From Our Members

Geraldine Heng (Univ. Texas at Austin) has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Sean Field (University of Vemont) will be a Fellow at the National Humanities Center in 2023-24, where he will be working on a … Continue reading

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MAA Seeks Special Projects Assistant

Special Projects Assistant Medieval Academy of America 15 hours/wk (hybrid) $30/hr (no benefits) The Medieval Academy of America, an educational non-profit organization incorporated as a 501(c)3 in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, seeks a Special Projects Assistant to work with the … Continue reading

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MAA Advocacy Statement in Support of LGBTQ+ Rights

19 April 2023 We, the Advocacy Committee of the Medieval Academy of America, denounce the anti-LGBTQ+ legislation sweeping the U.S.A., such as the  467 anti-LGBTQ bills currently being tracked by the  American Civil Liberties Union. These affronts to trans and … Continue reading

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Call for Sessions: May Jaharis Center Sponsored Panel, 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies

To encourage the integration of Byzantine studies within the scholarly community and medieval studies in particular, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 59th International Congress on … Continue reading

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Online Lecture: The Öngüt Connection: Christianity among the Turks of Medieval Eurasia

East of Byzantium is pleased to announce the final lecture in its 2022–2023 lecture series. Tuesday, April 25, 2023 | 12:00 PM EDT | Zoom The Öngüt Connection: Christianity among the Turks of Medieval Eurasia Joel Walker | University of … Continue reading

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Free-Access Speculum CRS and LGBTQ+ Collection

In response to the ongoing assault on and censorship of CRS and LGBTQ+ studies in curricula and library collections across the US, the Editorial Board of Speculum, in collaboration with our publisher, the University of Chicago Press, is making five recent … Continue reading

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