CMS Weekly Digest

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

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Elisa Brilli elected to the Dante Society of America

Jamie Collings awarded CEFMF Doctoral Research Grant

Yolanda Iglesias awarded Officer’s Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic

Mary Maschio awarded CMS Publication Prize

Matthew Reid awarded CMS Publication Prize

Kirsten Schut appointed Assistant Professor of History at St. Mary's University

Research Events

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

May 11-12 - Transmission Adaptation and Variation in Early Medieval English Literature

May 13 - Nima Asefi, Documents from Turbulent Times: Studying Middle Persian Collections from the Late Sasanian and Early Islamic Periods—Opportunities and Challenges, lahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies (Zoom)

May 14-16 - 61^st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

May 15 - Saints Outside Hagiography Series: Saints in Unlikely Places; Fawaz Abdul Salam: The Sultan as a Saintly Figure in Early Ottoman Poetry / Heather Blurton: William of Norwich Keystone in Girona, Spain

May 26-28 - Canadian Society of Medievalists Annual Conference, St. Francis Xavier University

June 17 - Entangled Histories: Betsey Price, The Mansions of the Visigoths: Self-Definition Through Boundaries, Zoom

June 26 - Saints Outside Hagiography Series: Saints in Annals and Anti-Hagiographies; Hope Doherty-Harrison: Extracts from Biographies of Judas / Steffen Hope: Annalistic Hagiography? The Case of Margareta of Roskilde

July 31 - Saints Outside Hagiography Series: Saints in Teaching Texts and Epigraphs; Mary Channen Caldwell: St Nicholas in the Musical Hand / Kshitij Jain: Monastic Figures and Sacred Places in Jain Ritual Texts

August 18-20 - Digital Pedagogy Institute, University of Waterloo

Workshops / Groups

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

May 12-June 2 - Learning Well for Grads

May 13 - Webinaire: subventions Connexion CRSH (français)

May 14 - Webinar: Connection Grants SSHRC (English)

May 19-22 - Digital Humanities at Guelph Summer Workshops

May 21 - Better Coping Skills: Balanced Living

May 28 - Better Coping Skills: Healthy Behaviours

SASA Summer 2024 Reading Groups and Masterclasses

Funding / Scholarships / Grants / Awards

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

2026-27 JHI Working Groups - deadline May 12

Disability History Association Awards: Outstanding Article or Book Chapter Award / Outstanding Book Award - deadline May 15

Doctoral Mobility Award Program between U of T and Université Paris Cité - deadline June 1

SSHRC Gold Medal - deadline June 5

SSHRC Insight Award - deadline June 5

SSHRC Partnership Award - deadline June 5

Laura Bassi Scholarship - yearly deadlines July 12 / November 15 / March 8

U of T Arts & Science Dean’s Research Excellence Award - deadline July 15

SGS Conference Grant - yearly deadlines July 31 / November 30 / March 31

SGS Research Travel Grant - yearly deadlines July 31 / November 30 / March 31

Pasold Publication Grants - yearly deadlines September 1 / February 1

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

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

Franklin Research Grants - yearly deadlines October 1 / December 1

SGS Master’s Completion Bursary - yearly deadlines January 15 / April 30

SSHRC Talent Award - deadline February 26

Ontario Graduate Scholarship - deadline March 16 / May 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

Institute of Historical Research Awards, Bursaries & Prizes

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

Fellowships / Postdocs

Jackman Humanities Fellowships

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

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

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

Jobs

Course Instructor positions at U of T

Departmental Lecturer in Medieval French, University of Oxford - St. Peter’s College - deadline May 25

Assistant Professor - CLTA - Greek and Roman Literature and Cultural History, U of T Classics - deadline May 28

Assistant Professor - CLTA - Greek Language and Literature, U of T Classics - deadline May 28

Lecturer in Latin and Manuscript Studies, University of Kent - deadline May 31

Visiting Assistant Professor / Instructor of History, Miami University (World History to 1500 / Medieval History / Early Modern European History 1450-1750)

Careers at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

Calls for Papers / Submissions

Center for Ancient Studies, NYU Emerging Scholars Video Series

“The Periphery at the Center.” Islands and Islandness in the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern Mediterranean (Bilkent University, October 14-17) - deadline May 15

Irish History Students’ Association Podcast - deadline May 22

2027 MAA Annual Meeting (University of Toronto, April 15-17) - deadline June 1

2027 International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 13-15) - deadline June 1

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

Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History (German Historical Institutes of London, Paris, Rome and Warsaw Online Seminars Series, Zoom, September 24 / November 26 / January 28 / March 25 / May 27) - deadline June 8

Dante and His Interlocutors (Dante Society of America Graduate Student Conference, Yale University, September 26) - deadline June 15

Conference on the Archeological, Medieval, and Experiential Learning Of Tomorrow (CAMELOT), (St. Jerome’s University, September 26) - deadline July 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

In-scription, revue en ligne d’études épigraphiques (issue 7, March 2027) - deadline September 1

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 1

Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization

Genocide Studies International

Brepols Book Series and Journals

Manuscript and Text Cultures