Category Archives: Announcements

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 2023–2024 East of Byzantium lecture series. Tuesday, February 27, 2024 | 12:00 … Continue reading →

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the 2023–2024 edition of its annual lecture with the Harvard University Standing Committee on Medieval Studies. Friday, February 16, 2024 | 12:00 PM EST | Zoom Byzantium … Continue reading →

Poetry in the Medieval World explores premodern literature from a global perspective, it is an infrastructure for learning and dialoguing on medieval poetry through a cross-disciplinary approach. As one of our first activities, we are delighted to introduce “Projecting Poetry”, … Continue reading →

Greetings from Rare Book School! Expand your understanding of book history during a Rare Book School course this summer! Our five-day intensive courses on the history of manuscript, print, and digital materials will be offered online and in person at … Continue reading →

Zoom Webinar  January 25, 2024, 5:00–6:30 pm EST  Please join us for the book launch of Wan-Chuan Kao’s White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages (Manchester University Press, 2024). This book is supported by the Medieval Academy Inclusivity and … Continue reading →

The following awards are available: CAARI Fellowships—Parks (3,000, any nationality)  Swiny  (2,000, any nationality in US or Canada school) and O’Donovan (2,000, any nationality) Edgar J. Peltenburg postdoctoral research fellowship (14,000 plus up to 1,500 travel) Scholar in residence (50% … Continue reading →

Are you planning an exhibit, symposium, performance, workshop, or other event in 2025, our Centennial year? Apply for a Centennial Grant! In celebration of its upcoming 2025 Centennial, the Medieval Academy of America is pleased to announce funding for Centennial … Continue reading →

Seeing Race Before Race Now Open through December 29, 2023 Newberry Library, Chicago The Newberry Library introduces Seeing Race Before Race, an exhibition that explores race-making in medieval and early modern Europe. Developed in collaboration with the RaceB4Race Collective, this … Continue reading →

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University are pleased to announce the first lecture in the 2023–2024 East of Byzantium lecture series. Tuesday, October 17, 2023 | 12:00 … Continue reading →