Category Archives: Announcements

In solidarity with our Australian colleagues, the Medieval Academy of America protests the acting Australian Minister of Education’s cancellation of six grants in the humanities and social sciences that had been approved for funding by the Australian Research Council and … Continue reading →

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce two upcoming lectures: Thursday, April 7, 2022 | 5:00 pm (EDT, UTC -4) | Zoom Disentangling Alchemy Alexandre Roberts, University of Southern California Alexandre Roberts considers alchemy … Continue reading →

To the Members of the Medieval Academy of America: Some of you have asked how you can to help preserve Ukraine’s cultural heritage. Here are some sites and projects that may be of interest: https://www.sucho.org/ https://scienceforukraine.eu/ https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/safeguarding-cultural-and-historical-heritage-ukraine https://networks.h-net.org/node/4555727/discussions/9882296/central-state-historical-archive-ukraine-lviv-%C2%A0-request-support Our thanks … Continue reading →

The ERC Advanced Grant AGRELITA Project n° 101018777, “The reception of ancient Greece in pre-modern French literature and illustrations of manuscripts and printed books (1320-1550) : how invented memories shaped the identity of European communities”, directed by Prof. Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas (Principal … Continue reading →

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 at the University of Virginia and other partner institutions. Applications … Continue reading →

Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities (POLY), a Project of the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), is offering  five scholarships to Ukrainian historians who are forced to leave their country.  Scholarships consist of 3000 € … Continue reading →

Dear digital humanists, My colleagues Anna E. Kijas and Francesca Giannetti (Digital Humanities Interest Group, Music Library Association) and Andy Janco (Digital Humanities Interest Group of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies) are organizing a rapid-response Digital … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy of America strongly condemns the government of Russia for invading the sovereign state of Ukraine. We protest the already significant loss of human lives, and the ongoing bombing of Ukraine’s historic cities, including the capital at Kyiv … Continue reading →

Rare Book School is  now accepting applications for their summer 2022 courses. This year’s schedule features 39 classes, including online and in-person offerings at our home institution of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and our partner institutions in Chapel Hill, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Princeton, … Continue reading →

The Harvard-based Documentary Archeology of Late Medieval Europe (DALME) project is offering a 10-week digital seminar on “Editing Florentine Inventories,” which will examine sources from the project’s Florentine Wards Collection. During two, hour-long sessions per week, instructors and participants will … Continue reading →