Category Archives: Announcements

Les Enluminures is happy to announce that we just added new manuscripts to our text manuscripts site (https://www.textmanuscripts.com/medieval?inventorySearch=1). Some highlights: a French translation of the Decretals of Gregory IX (TM 1097); a reportatio of the sermons of St. Bernardino of … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy of America is pleased to announce the launch of “Medieval Africa and Africans,”  an online course for K-12 Educators developed in collaboration with the National Humanities Center. Given the wide popularity of Eurocentric medieval fantasies, it has … Continue reading →

The American Historical Association has issued a statement on last week’s “White House Conference on American History” deploring the tendentious use of history and history education to stoke politically motivated culture wars. Along with twenty-seven of our sister learned societies, … Continue reading →

Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) invites applications for its 2021–23 cohort of junior fellows. The deadline is Monday, 2 November 2020. Continuing the work of the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Critical … Continue reading →

The International Hoccleve Society has inaugurated a series of informal online seminars – called “Hoccleve at Home” – in order to provide an interim venue for presenting works in progress on Hoccleve, during the pandemic. We’ve already enjoyed excellent presentations … Continue reading →

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, is pleased to announce that “Byzantine Pieces of an Umayyad Puzzle: A Basalt Platform in the Azraq Oasis” has been rescheduled. In this … Continue reading →

Click here for more information and to register. A 75-minute panel discussion followed by 15 minutes of Q&A scheduled for Tuesday, 15 September 2020, 5–6:30 p.m. ET, via Zoom. Due to Zoom’s restrictions, this event is limited to the first … Continue reading →

The Bibliographical Society of America’s New Scholars Program seeks to promote the work of scholars who are new to the field of bibliography, broadly defined to include any research that deals with the creation, production, publication, distribution, reception, transmission, and subsequent history of all textual artifacts (manuscript, … Continue reading →

COVID-19 and the Key Role of the Humanities and Social Sciences in the United States Consider the spread of COVID-19, global environmental degradation, and the deep divisions around race in this country. Our collective responses to these and other challenges … Continue reading →