News, Calls, Events, and Opportunities for our Medieval Studies Community
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Eva Plesnik successfully passes FOE
Alexandra Atiya successfully passes FOE
Zinaida Uzdenskaya successfully passes FOE
Old Books New Science lab uncovers 15th-century French Royal Letter
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
March 2 - CSAMP Proseminar: Andrew Summerson, Dionysius the Areopagite on Evil: Platonic Answers from his Earliest Christian Readers
March 2 - Paul Binski, Ars sine scientia nihil est : Christine de Pizan, Jean Mignot and Erwin Panofsky’s Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism
March 3 - Department of Art History Peter H. Brieger Memorial Lecture: Paul Binski and Elina Gertsman, Stories and Histories: A Conversation on Mediaeval Art
March 4 - Classics / CMS Lecture: Andrew Cain, Jerome as a Satirist: Reimagining a Late Antique Literary Persona
March 5 - Jane and Marshall Brown Lecture with Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Tarren Andrews, Haverford College
March 5 - CRRS Workshop Series: Amila Buturović, Ecumenical Magic of Ottoman Bosnia
March 6 - CONVIVIUM: Siobhain Bly Calkin, Writing Passion Relic Agency in Pilgrim Tales of Christian-Muslim Contexts
March 9 - CSAMP Proseminar: Giacomo De Andrei
March 10 - Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations Graduate Students' Association Annual Symposium, Echoes Across Time: Expressions of Power and Dissent in West Asia and North Africa
March 10 - Tommaso De Robertis, Science in Print: Editing and Translating Philoponus in the Renaissance, Centre for the study of medicine and the body in the renaissance, Institutio Santoriana-Fondazione Comel
March 12 - Friends of the PIMS Library Spring Lecture: Renée Trilling, Mapping the World in the Poems of Junius 11
March 13 - Classics / CMS Lecture: Michael Kulikowski, Breaking the Barbarian Binary: Ammianus Marcellinus on Regional Identity and Imperial Politics
March 13 - Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Online Lecture Series: Siân Echard, "One sober tint”: Facsimiles of Illuminated Manuscripts and the Problem of Color
March 16 - CSAMP Proseminar: Julia Petz, Argumentative Courage in Plato’s ‘Euthydemus’
March 19 - CRRS / TRRC: Alexandra Guerson / Dana Wessell Lightfoot, Gendered Conversions: Community Preservation and Family Identity in Fifteenth-Century Girona
March 23 - CSAMP Proseminar: Simone Luigi Migliaro
March 26 - Kara Gaston, Yale Lectures in Medieval Studies
March 26 - CRRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture: R. Bin Wong, Why the Early Modern ‘Limits of the Possible’ Matter Today
March 27 - Classics / CMS Lecture: Kristina Sessa, An Anatomy of Disaster: Gregory of Tours on Plague and Beyond
March 30 - CSAMP Proseminar: Marko Malink
April 6 - CSAMP Proseminar: Pia Morar, Why Socrates Cheats
April 9 - CONVIVIUM: Annual Alumni Lecture - Faith Wallis, How to Think like a Physician: Master Bartholomeus and the Transformations of Medicine in 12th-Century Europe
April 10 - Steven Bednarski, Lathams’s War: Herstmonceux Castle and the 70th Sussex Searchlight Regiment, Herstmonceux Castle Estate
April 11 - Mediaeval Symposium: ‘Mappa Mundi’: Mapping the Mediaeval World, St Mike’s
April 24-25 - Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy: Ancient Political Thought
August 18-20 - Digital Pedagogy Institute, University of Waterloo
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Thursdays - Pre-Modern Italian Reading Group (Please contact Laura Ingallinella (laura.ingallinella@utoronto.ca)
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Council of the London Topographical Society’s Ann Saunders Essay Prize - deadline April 1
UTM / Jackman Humanities Institute Annual Seminar - deadline April 24
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Postdoctoral position in art and architecture of the early modern Mediterranean world, 1100-1700, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - deadline March 2
Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Indigenous and Black researchers, U of T - deadline March 3
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in ancient Rabbinic literature 2nd-7th c. CE, University of Bergen - deadline March 6
Jacob Price Postdoctoral Fellowship in British Studies, University of London - deadline March 7
Doubles, Doppelgängers, Graduate Fellowships at the Jackman Humanities Institute - deadline March 10
Doubles, Doppelgängers, Jackman Humanities Institute Graduate Fellowships for funding 2026-2027 cohort doctoral students - deadline March 10
International Fellowships Programme, British Academy / the Royal Society - deadline March 11
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
KU Leuven LECTIO Visiting Fellowships - deadline March 16
Devonshire Collections Research Fellow, Chatsworth House Trust - deadline March 22
Postdoctoral Researcher, Northern Europe during the Late Middle Ages (15-16th centuries), Universiteit Gent - deadline March 31
Research Excellence Postdoctoral Fellows Program, U of T - deadline April 2
Middle Ages Network (European Social Science History Conference Lyon, April 21-24, 2027) - deadline April 16
Postdoctoral Researcher, Virgil in Hilary of Poitiers: Implicit reception of classical literature, Christian exegesis, and digital intertextuality analysis, Université de Strasbourg - deadline April 24
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dressing the Saints, Faculty of Theology at Blindern, Oslo
University of Michigan Society of Fellows
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Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford Careers and Fellowships
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International Jesuit Scholars Program, College of the Holy Cross (ongoing)
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Course Instructor positions at U of T
Lecturer (Medieval History c.1100-1450), University of York - deadline March 19
Full-time lecturer in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Université de Namur - deadline March 30
Visiting Assistant Professor of Ancient or Medieval History, Stetson University - deadline March 31
Visiting Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature, Colgate University - application review begins April 1
Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Medieval Studies, University of Florida
Assistant Professor, School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University
Lecturer, Pre-Modern History (Ancient and / or Medieval), University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Careers at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Center for Ancient Studies, NYU Emerging Scholars Video Series
Le scandale dans les sociétés italiennes (1350-1530) : normes, transgressions et représentations (Cahiers d’études italiennes (Filigrana) issue 45) - deadline March 15
Institutional identities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (7th International Graduate Conference, Edinburgh's Centre for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies, May 18-19) - deadline March 20
ICDAR 2026 Competition on Multilingual Medieval Handwriting Recognition (Results: ICDAR Vienna, August 31-September 2) - deadline March 21
Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (36th International Conference, University of Castilla-La Mancha, September 23-25) - deadline March 30
Fame and Fortune (Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies Volume 13) - deadline April 30
Threads of Knowledge: Weaving and the Life of Textiles in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (29th Biennial Conference of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, Barnard College, December 5) - deadline May 1
Creating the Medieval Now (Public Humanities special issue) - deadline May 1
2027 MAA Annual Meeting (University of Toronto, April 15-17) - deadline June 1
Medievalism and Pluralism (Studies in Medievalism XXXVI) - deadline June 1
2026 Toronto-Cologne Graduate Student Colloquium (October 29-31, U of T) - deadline July 10
Fragments I: Putting the Worlds Back Together (Journal of Medieval Worlds Spring 2027 special issue) - deadline August 15
Tyranny, Resistance, and the Performance of Early Modern Drama (essay collection edited by Louise Geddes and Matteo Pangallo) - deadline August 31
Vikings and Norse Myths in Post-Medieval Reception (Scandia Journal of Medieval Norse Studies) - deadline September 15
Modern Fantasy Writing (humanities special issue) - deadline October 1Fragments I: Putting the Worlds Back Together
Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization
Genocide Studies International
Brepols Book Series and Journals
The Senses and Material Culture in a Global Perspective
Texts and Studies of the Middle Ages
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
Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus
Durham University IMEMS Press
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures
Past & Present, Oxford University Press
Cervantes: Journal of the Cervantes Society of America
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