CMS Weekly Digest

News, Calls, Events, and Opportunities for our Medieval Studies Community

 

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Bard Swallow named Doctoral Fellow at Northrop Frye Centre

Read the Chronica VI online now!

 

Critical Digital Humanities Institute Visiting Speaker Series

CSAMP Event Calendar: Collaborative Specialization in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy Proseminars, Colloquia, and Workshop Listings

BHPC Program Events

PIMS Calendar of Events

Faculty of Arts and Science Events Page

English Language Learning Courses

Student Life Grad Student Workshops

Graduate Centre for Academic Communication Calendar

Centre for International Experience Events Calendar

September 13 - CMS SSHRC Workshop (2-4 pm, LI 301)

September 13 - Renée Trilling, Materia Medica and the Globalization of Knowledge in Early Medieval England, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

September 13 - Symposium: Manuscript Cultures Across Africa and Asia

September 16 - CSAMP Proseminar: Klaus Corcilius (Tübingen), Aristotle on the Essence of Human Thought

September 17 - Making the most of your reading

September 17 - Writing a Thesis or Grant Proposal

September 18 - Centre for International Experience / Multi-Faith Centre Welcome Walk

September 19 - CRRS: Jennifer DeSilva, The Census, the Sex-Worker, and Social Geography

September 20-21 - University of Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy

September 23 - CSAMP Proseminar Tommaso De Robertis, Aristotle on topos

September 25 - SSHRC Partnership Development Grants webinar

September 26 - SSHRC Partnership Development Grants webinar (French)

September 26-28Communities of Print: Authors, Readers, and Printers in the Early Modern World A Conference in Memory of Natalie Zemon Davis and James K. McConica on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Colloquium

September 27 - Medievalism Uncloistered: Bringing Underrepresented Voices into the Conversation

September 27 - Notetaking for grad courses

September 30 - PIMS: Piet van Boxel, Robert Bellarmine and the ‘Multiplicity of Scripture

September 30 - CSAMP Proseminar: Alison Keith, Philodemos and the Roman Elegists

September 30 - Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation

October 1 - Best Practices and Recommendations for Developing and Maintaining a Successful Supervisory Relationship: Student Workshop

October 2 -  Jackman Humanities Institute New Faculty Salon

October 2 - Witnesses to a Controversial Pontificate: Texts and Manuscripts Associated with Pope John XXII; Papers inspired by the 2023 Rome Seminar of the Leonard E. Boyle Toronto-Rome Diploma Programme in Manuscript Studies, PIMS

October 10 - Unconscious Bias 101: An Introduction for U of T Faculty & Librarians

October 10 - GP1 Exploring Careers Off the Tenure Track

October 15 - SSHRC Partnership Grants - Stage 1 webinar

October 17 - The Twelfth Annual BHPC J. R. de J. Jackson Lecture: Michelle Levy, Finding Women Authors in Publisher Archives

October 17-18 - Medieval Women’s Networks: Exploring Techniques and Tools for Digital Analysis

October 19 - Michael Gervers, Rock-Hewn Churches and Sacred Groves: Architecture as the Home of Religion and Art in Ethiopia, Toledo Museum

October 22 - Having Courageous Conversations: Student Workshop

October 29 - Laura Moncion Masterclass: "Good in the Next Life? The Nuns of St Mary Magdalene in Strasbourg, c. 1225–1792”, University of Notre Dame

November 12 - A&S SSHRC PEG Info Session: Developing and Supporting Community-Based Research Partnerships

November 27 - SSHRC Connection Grants webinar

November 28 - SSHRC Connection Grants webinar (French)

November 28 - CRRS Workshop Series: Lucia Dacome, One of the Best Medicaments’: Opium, Slavery, and Medicine in Early Modern Italy

SASA Summer 2024 Reading Groups and Masterclasses

Mediterranean Summer Skills Seminars

SGS Awards page

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Funding & Scholarships

Arts & Science International Research Events Fund

Arts & Science Funding

University of Toronto Advanced Planning for Students (UTAPS) Program

Collaborative Research with Institutions in Southeast Asia - deadline September 15

Ink of Ages historical or mythology-inspired Fiction Prize - deadline September 15

NEH Summer Stipends - deadline September 18

SSHRC Insight Grant - U of T deadline September 23

Margarita M. Hanson Fund - deadline September 30

Medieval Academy of America Fellows Research Award - deadline October 1

Franklin Research Grants - deadline October 1

University College London – University of Toronto Strategic Challenges Fund - deadline October 4

Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize - deadline October 5

Medieval Academy of America Article Prize in Critical Race Studies - deadline October 15

Medieval Academy of America Haskins Medal - deadline October 15

Medieval Academy of America Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize - deadline October 15

MAA The Monica H. Green Prize for Distinguished Medieval Research - deadline October 15

MAA Jerome E. Singerman Prize - deadline October 15

MAA Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize - deadline October 15

AVISTA Graduate Student Research Grant - deadline October 15

Global Professorship, The British Academy - deadline October 23

MAA Karen Gould Prize in Art History - deadline October 31

Medieval Open Access Resource (OAR) Sweet Sixteen Playoffs  - deadline November 1

SSHRC Partnership Development Grants - U of T deadline November 5

Robbins-Ollivier Award for Excellence in Equity - deadline November 5

Connaught New Researcher Award - deadline November 15

Mitacs Globalink Research Award (GRA) for Humanities and Social Innovation - deadline November 20

Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship Competition – deadline November 25

SGS Conference Grant - deadline November 29

SGS Research Travel Grant - deadline November 29

Franklin Research Grants - deadline December 2

SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG) - deadline December 15

University of Toronto President’s Impact Awards - deadline February 19

American Center of Research Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards

Graduate Grants & Scholarships from The Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal

RHS Research Funding

New York Medieval Society Awards

Istanbul Research Institute grants

Fulbright Scholarships

The Bibliographical Society of America Fellowships

The Sixteenth Century Society Prizes

Society for French Historical Studies Prizes & Awards

Course Instructor positions at U of T

Jackman Humanities Fellowships

Course Instructor, The History of the Book: Elements of Bibliography and Print Culture, St. Mike’s - deadline September 13

Predoctoral Fellowship, European and Colonial Art Histories from the 15th-18th Century, Lise Meitner Group, Max Planck Institute for Art History - deadline September 15

Beinecke Library Research Fellowships for Graduate Students, Yale - deadline September 16

Course Instructor, Celtic Mythology and Saga, St. Mike’s - deadline September 17

Renaissance Society of America Member Research fellowships - deadline September 17

Faculty Research Fellowships, Jackman Humanities - deadline September 17

Associate / Full Professor of Early Modern Drama, Yale University - deadline September 18

Research Assistant, CMS Convivium - deadline September 20

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships in the Humanities - deadline September 25

Teaching Assistant: Playing with Fire: Alchemy, Astrology, and Magic, St. Mike’s - deadline September 30

Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Digital Humanities (DHU235H1F Fall) (DHU235H1S Winter)- deadline September 30

Head of Digital Humanities, The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science - deadline September 30

Assistant Professor in Ancient Mediterranean Religions, University of Texas at Austin - application review begins September 30

Assistant Professor in Environmental History, Washington University in St. Louis - deadline September 30

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Catholic Studies, University of St. Thomas - deadline October 1

The idea of humanity in the history of rhetoric (Twenty-Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR), University of Copenhagen, July 22-25) - deadline October 1

Assistant Professor in Medieval European Art and Architectural History in the World, Brown University - application review begins October 1

Stipendiary and Non-Stipendiary Research Fellowships in History, University of Cambridge - deadline October 1

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in History, Cornell University - deadline October 1

Repair, 2025-2026 Getty Scholars Program and Pre / Postdoctoral Fellowships - deadline October 1

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships - deadline October 2

National Humanities Center Scholarly Programs - deadline October 3

Research Fellowship, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Cambridge - deadline October 4

Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships, College of Arts & Sciences, Cornell University - deadline October 11

School of Historical Studies Membership, Institute for Advanced Study - deadline October 15

Institute of Sacred Music Fellowships, Yale University - deadline October 15

   

Bourse Robert de Sorbon - deadline October 15

Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas at Arlington - application reviews begin November 1

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities on Truth, Wolf Humanities Center - deadline November 3

Assistant Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Department of Philosophy - deadline November 4

Dystopia and Trust, JHI-CDHI Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship - deadline November 28

Postdoctoral position at the Department of History, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University - deadline December 9

American Philosophical Society Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), for research in Edinburgh - deadline February 28

University of Michigan Society of Fellows

Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford Careers and Fellowships

International Jesuit Scholars Program, College of the Holy Cross (ongoing)           

Center for Ancient Studies, NYU Emerging Scholars Video Series

Research Group on Manuscript Evidence-sponsored sessions (ICMS 2025, May 8-10) - deadline September 15

Les Métiers de la recherche en SHS - Qui suis-Je? (October 14-18) - deadline September 15

Translatio. Antiquité tardive-haut Moyen Âge (IVe-Xe siècle) (Université de Liège, November 8) - deadline September 15

Winter School: Handwritten Text Recognition of Medieval Documents (online, November 8, 22, December 6 + Vienna, December 18-20) - deadline September 15

La Fleur des histoires de Jean Mansel, un trésor de clergie (Boulogne-sur-Mer, October 22-24) - deadline September 15

Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 2026 issue - deadline September 16

Economic History Society Annual Conference 2025 (April 4-6, Technology & Innovation Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow) - deadline September 16

The Exercise of Power and its Limits: Dissent, Contestation and Repression from Antiquity to Contemporary Age (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, May 15-16) - deadline September 20

Engagement and Belonging for Students with Disabilities Student-Led Feedback Sessions - deadline September 20

Conjuring Identity: Rethinking Magic in the Global Middle Ages (edited volume) - deadline September 20

East of Byzantium Workshop (online, October 18, February 14, June 5-6) - deadline September 23

Best Practices (Fourth Annual Humanities Podcasting Network Symposium, Virtual, November 8-9) - deadline September 23

U of T Graduate Student Advisory Committee - deadline September 23

Carthusians and Images. New Perspectives on Religious Art and Devotional Culture in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Charterhouse (Leuven, KartHuis, May 15-17) - deadline September 30

Annual Theme Suggestions, JHI Programs - deadline September 30

Venice: Trade, Production, Consumption of Textiles and Dress in the Early Modern (Dressing the Early Modern Network Conference 2025, Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani, Venice May 28-29) - deadline September 30

La violence à la cour de France (Moyen Âge-XIXe siècle) (Sorbonne, April 28-29) - deadline September 30

Les Rencontres de musicologie médiévale (Université Lumière Lyon 2, January 13-15) - deadline September 30

Making and Remaking Saints in the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period c. 600 – 1600 (University of Salamanca, Spain, March 24-26) - deadline September 30

Iconographie et numérique en histoire de l’art médiéval : nouveaux outils de la recherche et de l’analyse (Université de Lille, December 12) - deadline September 30

Trade, Production, Consumption of Textiles and Dress in the Early Modern (Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani, Venice, Italy, May 28-29) - deadline September 30

Trans Sainthood in Translation, ca. 400–1500 (International Conference at the German Historical Institute London, May 22–23) - deadline September 30

Rutgers Art Review: The Graduate Journal of Research in Art History, 41st Edition - deadline October 1

Unruly Iconographies / Iconografie Indisciplinate: Exceptions or New Patterns? (Field Seminar, Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities “La Capraia” Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples, June 12-13) - deadline October 1

The Medieval Open Access Resource (OAR) Sweet Sixteen Playoffs, A Middle Ages for Educators (MAFE) Initiative  - deadline October 1

Gender, Identity, and Authority in Late Antiquity (Sixteenth biennial meeting of Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, University of Tulsa, March 20-23) - deadline October 1

Digital Research Storytelling Workshop (CDHI, November 1-December 6) - deadline October 4

Reading visual devices in early books (University of Turku, May 22-24) - deadline October 15

Teaching Association for Medieval Studies: The Once and Future Classroom special issue October 15

The Multilingual Mediterranean (Mediterranean Seminar Winter Workshop, February 28 &  March 1, Urbana-Champaign) - deadline October 15

Global Digital Humanities Symposium (Michigan State University / Virtual, April 2-8) - deadline October 16

COAMHISMA Conference (The 15th Maghrebi /1st Andalusian-Maghrebi Conference on the History of Arab Mathematics, Casa árabe, Córdoba, April 23-25) - deadline October 25

Communities (22nd ISSEME, Düsseldorf, July 2-4, 2025) - deadline October 31

'Grosse Türme' – Haupttürme, Bergfriede, Wohntürme, Donjons, Keeps, grosses tours oder tours maîtresses (Wartburg-Gesellschaft zur Erforschung von Burgen und Schlössern, Eisenach, May 1-4) - deadline October 31

Current Approaches and Challenges in Medieval Iberian Studies (Early Career Workshop of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ibero-Mediävistik, Austrian Academy of Sciences, September 10-11, 2025) - deadline October 31

La chevalerie en question(s). Relectures historiographiques et nouvelles perspectives scientifiques, 32nd issue of Memini. Travaux et documents - deadline October 31

La céramique très décorée dans l’Europe du Nord-Ouest (XIIème-XVème siècle) : 30 ans après le colloque de Douai (Colloque international, Beauvais, June 4-6) - deadline October 31

MAA CARA Executive Committee Nominations - deadline November 1

Jubilee! (The 50th Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, February 28-March 1) - deadline November 1

Knowledge Transfer between and across Ancient Empires (XVIII Melammu Symposium, Northeast Normal University, September 5-7, 2025) - deadline December 15

Identités et marges brivadoises de l’Antiquité au XXIe siècle (Colloque Brioude, Haute-Loire, June 26-27, 2025) - deadline January 15

Medieval History Seminar (German Historical Institute, October 8-10, 2025) - deadline January 31

Chaos and Order In Medieval Philosophy (29th SIEPM Annual International Colloquium, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, September 3-5) - deadline February 15

The Interpretation of Fictional Characters in Literary Texts: History of Literary Criticism, Philosophy and Formal Ontologies (Humanities special issue) - deadline February 28

Medievalism in TheoryStudies in Medievalism XXXV - deadline June 1, 2025

Government and Institutions in the Regnum Francorum c. 450-1050, Studies in Administration and Practice (University of New Hampshire, Durham, Fall 2026)

Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization

Genocide Studies International

Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Chicago 2024

Brepols Book Series and Journals

Manuscript and Text Cultures 

The Senses and Material Culture in a Global Perspective

Florilegium

Texts and Studies of the Middle Ages

Medieval Ecocriticisms

Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Sources

Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions

Religion Compass - Premodern Judaism

Submit news to Medieval World: Culture & Conflict

postmedieval

Digital Medievalist

Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus

Durham University IMEMS Press

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

Open Theology

Animal History

The iJournal

Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures

Past & Present, Oxford University Press

Cervantes: Journal of the Cervantes Society of America

Medieval Institute Publications

Publishing with Durham University IMEMS Press

U of T Family Care Peer Mentorship

Volunteer Opportunities: Scottish History Network

RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Steering Group

Dante Society of America Graduate Student Group / Service Opportunities

SASA Volunteer Opportunities

SASA Work-in-Progress Forum

Race & Gender in the Global Middle Ages Working Group

Islamicate Manuscripts Reading/Working Group

 

 

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