CMS Weekly Digest

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

 

Please share your announcements with and contact CMS Communications with any questions or comments about the listings below.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

Lisa Cruikshank awarded Historical Studies Teaching Assistant Award

Jack McCart awarded Dean’s Doctoral Excellence Scholarship

Renée R. Trilling / Tristan Major awarded SSHRC Connection Grant

Bard Swallow successfully passes FOE

Brianna Daigneault successfully passes FOE

Jacqueline Murray named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

 

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

November 14 - CSAMP: A Celebration of Lloyd Gerson

November 17 - CSAMP Proseminar: Myrthe Bartels, The Philosopher in Prison

November 18 - From Photographing Life to Saving Souls After Death: A Workshop with Nicole Liao and Ariana Sider Mésenge

November 19 - PIMS Research Seminar: John Gallagher

November 20 - Sacred Space Conference: Conflict and Convergences, JHI Event

November 20 - CRRS Workshop Series: Felipe E. Ruan, Indigenous, Mestizo, & African-descended Petitioners in Sixteenth-Century Habsburg Madrid

November 21 - CONVIVIUM: CMS PhD Candidates Wynn A. Walk Martin, 'What's the matter?', or, how (northern) romance worlds are made / Jamie St. Clair Collings, Art, architecture, and geometricity in later twelfth- and thirteenth-century Cistercian spiritual practice

November 24 - CSAMP Proseminar: Peter King

November 25 - Daniel Fedorowycz, Who is Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky? is the Wrong Question, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies

November 26 - PIMS Research Seminar: Alessandra Ignesti

November 26 - CRRS EMIGF III: Thomas Sider, The Self-Philology of Thomas Browne: Anticipation and Irony in ‘Urn Burial’ and Emily Dimou, ‘Subtle fragility affects all solid operations’: Reading Affect and Bodies in Richard Crashaw’s ‘Musick’s Duell’

December 1 - CSAMP Proseminar: Wim Nijs

December 2 - Ruba Kana’an, Picturing Polemics: Iconography of a 1526 Painting from Safavid Tabriz, Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies (online)

December 4 - Aidan Conti, 28th Annual E.C. Quiggin Memorial Lecture: Readings from Halsnøy: Latin exchanges across the twelfth-century North Sea, University of Cambridge (online)

December 5 - CONVIVIUM: PIMS / CMS Bennett Lecture: Rita Copeland, Politics, Ethics, Style: Why Giles of Rome’s 'De regimine principum'?

January 5–7 - CRRS Early Modern Asexualities Conference

January 21 - Chris Nighman, The Reception / Transmission of Andreas Capellanus’ ‘De amore’ in Two Latin Florilegia, PIMS

Faculty of Arts and Science Events Page

English Language Learning Courses

Student Life Grad Student Workshops / Grad Student Workshop Listserv

Graduate Centre for Academic Communication Calendar

Centre for International Experience Events Calendar

Artsci ASDO Graduate Professional Development and Student Success

Folio Grad Productivity Groups

Mondays - Old English Reading Group (Please contact Renée Trilling (renee.trilling@utoronto.ca) with any questions or to request a copy of the text.)

Wednesdays - Old French Reading Group (Please contact Dorothea Kullmann (dorothea.kullmann@utoronto.ca)

Wednesdays - Old Irish Reading Group (Please contact Mark Gibbard (mark.gibbard@mail.utoronto.ca)

November 14 - Navigating the Hidden Labour of Marginalization - Grad Students

November 17 - Time Management for Grad Students

November 18 - Graduate Career Educator AMA: Job Search and Career Exploration

November 20 - Arts & Science SSHRC Insight Development Grant Workshop

November 20 - CRIS: Building Thriving Research Teams

November 20 - Create and Sustain Academic Motivation

November 20 - How to Network at the U of T Career Fair

November 24 - University of Toronto Career Fair 2025

November 25 - SSHRC Connection Grants Webinar

November 26 - SSHRC Connection Grants Webinar - French

November 26 - Arts & Science Research & Equity Workshop Series: Creating an Equitable and Inclusive Environment

November 27 - SSHRC Insight Development Grant Webinar

November 27 - Navigating Job Searching as an International Student

November 27 - Leverage Academic Feedback

December 1 - Alleviate Burnout and Revive Academic Energy

December 4 - CMS Holiday Party!

December 4 - A&S Collaborative Research Funding Information Session

February 6-March 27 - Faculty Writing Accelerator: Crafting Competitive Grant Proposals for any Discipline (registration deadline - November 28)

SASA Summer 2024 Reading Groups and Masterclasses

Mediterranean Summer Skills Seminars

U of T Registrar Awards, Scholarships, Bursaries & Grants

SGS Awards page

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Funding & Scholarships

Arts & Science International Research Events Fund

Arts & Science Funding

Arts & Science International Research Events Fund

SGS Parental Grant Program

University of Toronto Advanced Planning for Students (UTAPS) Program

EduCanada Faculty Mobility (Latin America / Caribbean) - deadline November 14

Birgit Baldwin Fellowship in French Medieval History - deadline November 15

CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching - deadline November 15

Szarmach Article Prize, Western Michigan University Medieval Institute - deadline November 15

Connaught New Researcher Award - deadline November 17

Adel S. Sedra Distinguished Graduate Award - deadline November 21

Fall SGS Conference Grant – deadline November 28

Fall SGS Research Travel Grant – deadline November 28

Iranian Student Memorial Scholarship - deadline November 28

Franklin Research Grants - deadlines December 1 / October 1

Medium Ævum Essay Prize - deadline December 1

Horowitz Foundation Grants - deadline December 1

RaceB4Race Symposium travel awards - deadline December 1

The Arts Transformed: SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grants - deadline December 2

Royal Historical Society Early Career Research Support Grants - deadline December 6

Joan E. Foley Quality of Student Experience Award - deadline December 12

Joan Mitchell Travel Award, Laurier Archives and Special Collections - deadline December 15

Canadian Historical Association Clio Prize - deadline December 31

Canadian Historical Association Wallace K. Ferguson Prize - deadline December 31

Canadian Historical Association John Bullen Prize - deadline December 31

Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies Dissertation Award - deadline January 1

Society for the Social History of Medicine Annual Book Development Award Competition - deadline January 16

Vivek Goel Faculty Citizenship Award - deadline January 30

Northrop Frye Award - deadline January 30

U of T's Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award - deadline January 30

U of T's Global Educator Award  - deadline January 30

Canadian Historical Association Jean-Marie Fecteau Prize - deadline January 31

Canadian Society of Patristic Studies Student Essay Prize - deadline January 31

Marjorie Chibnall Essay Prize - deadline January 31

The Curriers’ Prize, Institute of Historical Research - deadline January 31

Pasold Publication Grants - yearly deadlines February 1, September 1

Medieval Academy of America Travel Grants - yearly deadlines February 1, September 1

SSHRC Insight Development Grants - deadline February 2

University of Toronto President’s Impact Awards - deadline February 13

U of T BIPOC TA Teaching Excellence Award - deadline February 13

U of T TA Teaching Excellence Award - deadline February 13

U of T CI Teaching Excellence Award - deadline February 13

Canadian Historical Association Teaching Award - deadline February 15

Medieval Academy of America Schallek Awards - deadline February 15

Mortimer History Society Essay Prize - deadline February 15

Arts & Science Collaborative Research Funding Program - deadline March 1

Dumbarton Oaks One-Month Research Awards - yearly deadlines March 15 / September 15

Ontario Graduate Scholarship - deadline March 16 / May 1

U of T's President’s Teaching Award - deadline March 20

Council of the London Topographical Society’s Ann Saunders Essay Prize - deadline April 1

Pasold Research Activity Grant

American Center of Research Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards

Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections Grants

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

Jackman Humanities Fellowships

U of T Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Program - deadline November 14

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Ottoman History, Université de Liège - deadline November 14

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Digital Literary and Linguistic Studies, Université de Liège - deadline November 14

Postdoctoral Researcher, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies - deadline November 15

Pathy Foundation Fellowship - deadline November 15

New Media and Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, Jackman Humanities Institute - deadline November 25

Doubles, Doppelgangers, Critical Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, Jackman Humanities Institute - deadline November 25

Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellowship, Jackman Humanities Institute - deadline November 25

M. C. Lang Fellowship in Book History, Bibliography, and Humanities Teaching with Historical Sources, Rare Book School - deadline December 7

New Chaucer Society Early Career Fellowship, Huntington Library - deadline December 10

Research Fellowships, Smith College Special Collections - deadline January 5

Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Rochester - deadline January 10

Marjorie McLean Oliver Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the History of Classical and / or Medieval Europe, Queen’s University - deadline January 15

Byzantine Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Notre Dame Medieval Institute - deadline February 1

A. W. Mellon Junior Faculty Fellowship in Medieval Studies, University of Notre Dame Medieval Institute - deadline February 1

Nicky B. Carpenter Fellowship in Manuscript Studies, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library - yearly deadlines March 15 / October 15

Swenson Family Fellowship in Eastern Christian Manuscript Studies for Junior Scholars, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library - yearly deadlines March 15 / October 15

Heckman Stipend, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library - yearly deadlines March 15 / October 15

Postdoctoral Fellow, Dressing the Saints, Faculty of Theology at Blindern, Oslo

University of Michigan Society of Fellows

Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowships

Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford Careers and Fellowships

Fellowships & Awards from The Bibliographical Society of America

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

New York Public Library Fellowships           

Course Instructor positions at U of T

Open Rank Professor (Tenure Track) and Robert Stevenson Chair in Religion and Literature, McGill University - deadline November 15

Researcher: A global quantitative approach to medieval Latin hagiography, Université libre de Bruxelles - deadline November 15

Assistant Professor (Medieval British Literature), Hunter College NY - deadline November 15

Assistant or Associate Professor - Philosophy, Lehman College NY - deadline November 15

Assistant Professor - Italian Studies, University of Texas at Austin - deadline November 15

Digital Humanities Research Associate, Computational philology at the intersection of games and prognostication: an edition of the German 'Prenostica Socratis Basilei', Universität zu Köln - deadline November 15

Assistant Professor in Medieval / Early Modern English Literature, Jacksonville State University - deadline November 16

Assistant Professor in Medieval European Art and Architectural History in the World, Brown University - application review begins November 15

Assistant Professor of Medieval Art History, Southern Methodist University - deadline November 17

Assistant Professor, Middle English or Old English Language and Literature, Case Western Reserve University - deadline November 17 

Assistant Professor and Ruby Heap Professorship in Women’s History, University of Ottawa - deadline November 18

Assistant Professor of History (ancient, medieval, or early modern European history), St. Mary’s University - application review begins November 30

Assistant Professor of British Medieval and Early Modern Literature, University of Scranton - deadline December 1

Assistant Professor of European History, St. Bonaventure University - deadline December 8

Tenure-Track Professorship in Jewish literary, cultural and religious history (from 1040), Universität Wien - deadline December 10

Assistant Professor (Medieval Chinese History), Chinese University of Hong Kong - deadline December 15

Assistant Professor (Ancient and / or Medieval Religious Traditions of East and / or South Asia), Simon Fraser University - deadline December 20

Tenure Track Position: Early Modern Literature and its Global Legacy, Sarah Lawrence College - application review begins January 7

Assistant Professor (French, Medieval Literature), Hunter College NY

Assistant, Associate, or Professor of English, Furman University

Assistant Professor, School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University

Lecturer, Pre-Modern History (Ancient and / or Medieval), University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Associate Professor in English, General Literature and Rhetoric, Binghamton University

Careers at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford           

Center for Ancient Studies, NYU Emerging Scholars Video Series

Conceptualizing Disability in History: Europe in a global context (Special Issue, Austrian Journal of Historical Studies) - deadline November 15

Prayer in Late Antiquity (12th Nordic Patristics Meeting, University of Helsinki, August 20-22) - deadline November 15

Dire et penser la marginalité au Moyen Âge (Université de Fribourg, March 12-13) - deadline November 15

History of Disease, Disability & Medicine in Medieval Europe (History of Psychiatry special issue) - deadline November 28

Student Research Exhibit (Arts & Science Donor Stewardship Event, March 10) - deadline November 30

Translating and Narrating in the Middle Ages (Doctoral Summer School, Central European University in Vienna, May 25-29) - deadline November 30

Religion and the Book in Medieval Europe: Between Manuscripts and Print (Religions Special Issue) - deadline November 30

Gloses et langues vernaculaires au Moyen Âge (Pecia. Le livre et l’écrit, 28) - deadline November 30

British Art Studies (2027 / 2028 Guest-Edited Special Issues) - deadline December 1

Memory and Medieval Material Culture (Courtauld Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium, March 6) - deadline December 14

Épigraphie et latinité au Moyen Âge / Epigraphy and Latinity in the Middle Age (Centre d’études supérieures de civilisation médiévale Colloque international, May 18-22) - deadline December 15

Sixth Symposium on Crusade Studies (Saint Louis University, April 10-11) - deadline December 31

Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (Volume 2) - deadline January 1

Wisdom from the Middle Ages: Philosophical Contributions from the Abrahamic Traditions (May 12-13, University of New Brunswick) - deadline January 30

Celebrating Collaboration (New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession, Volume 7) - deadline February 15

Varia section (Theia. Revue d’histoire et histoire de l’art) - deadline February 27

Medievalism and Pluralism (Studies in Medievalism XXXVI) - deadline June 1

Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization

Genocide Studies International

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

Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies

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 Medieval Chronicle

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

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NAVI - U of T Virtual Assistant

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