Act Fast - Call for Applications: 2023 MAA Summer Research Program (deadline 5/15/2023)

Sorry for having missed posting on this opportunity earlier this year:

Call for Applications: 2023 MAA Summer Research Program

Source: https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/2023MAASummerResearchProgram




About: The Medieval Academy of America (MAA) is excited to announce a call for applications for a one-day summer session for PhD-track students. Organized by the Mentoring Program Committee, the 2023 MAA Summer Research Program is designed to assist and mentor graduate students through targeted workshops on how to write and secure grant proposals.



Format: The 2023 Summer Research Program will convene over Zoom for one day in August. Over the course of this day, participants will attend interactive workshops designed to teach and support the development of their academic grant proposals. Whether participants are actively working on a grant proposal, or are thinking ahead for later years of their PhD, this one-day workshop will teach participants the skills and strategies to be more successful applicants.



Eligibility: We seek PhD students who are in the pre-dissertation phase or dissertation phase with an expressed interest in researching a topic that intersects with medieval studies. Eligible students may be pursuing degrees in any discipline (e.g. Art History, Comparative Literature, Music, Education), and focusing in any geographic region of the world. Preference will be given to students who do not already have access to the resources this program provides. We especially encourage students to apply who are from communities and backgrounds that have been traditionally underrepresented or marginalized within medieval studies, especially students who are first-generation, persons of color, or in any way disadvantaged. Students do not need to be current MAA members or U.S. citizens to apply.



Application: Applications are due May 15, 2023, and can be accessed and submitted by clicking here. Applicants will be notified of decisions via email by June 5, 2023. For any questions, please email Nancy Wu (Nancy.Wu@metmuseum.org)

CFP Frontiers, Borders, & Borderlands in the Early Global World Conference (4/10/2023; UC:A/Hybrid 6/2/2023)

Crossposted from The Medieval Academy of America blog. The original can be accessed at https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-papers-frontiers-borders-borderlands-in-the-early-global-world/. 

Call for Papers – Frontiers, Borders, & Borderlands in the Early Global World

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Chris


The officers of UCLA MEMSA announce this year’s conference, “Frontiers, Borders, & Borderlands in the Early Global World,” to be held in the UCLA Humanities Seminar Room, 306 Royce Hall, on June 2, 2023, as a hybrid event. MEMSA invites submissions from graduate students in any discipline of medieval and early modern studies, at UCLA and beyond. Abstracts of 250 words are due April 10. Please email them to memsa.ucla@gmail.com. Acceptances will be sent by April 20. More information at https://cmrs.ucla.edu/memsa/cfp-frontiers-borders-borderlands-in-the-early-global-world/

Notice of GSC Community Building Award (1/17/2022)

 An exciting opportunity from the Medieval Academy of America:

The GSC Community Building Award

The GSC Community Building Award

The Medieval Academy of America Graduate Student Committee

Source: http://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/the-gsc-community-building-award/

Dear Graduate Student Colleagues,

We wanted to bring to your attention a Special Award being offered this year by the Graduate Student Committee of the Medieval Academy of America. During the 2021-2022 term, the GSC has been committed to thinking creatively about increasing accessibility of the wider public to the knowledge that we, as scholars of the Middle Ages, are producing. We would also like to recognize initiatives of other graduate students that aim to do the same. Thus, the GSC is offering a special award: The GSC Community Building Award. Three graduate students will be awarded $400 to begin or support ongoing projects that creatively seek to close the gap between the academy and the community. Projects may include (but are not limited to): creation or compilation of OER resources, podcasting initiatives, community workshops, performances, free access video lectures, maps (such as StoryMaps), databases, blogs/newsletters, and digital exhibitions. Both individuals and groups are encouraged to apply.

For the application instructions and to submit your application, please go to:

https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/GSCCommunityBuildingAward

Deadline: January 17, 2022.

Feel free to direct any questions you might have to Jonathan Correa (jfc30@psu.edu) and Lauren Van Nest (lv3ye@virginia.edu).

Kind regards,

Jonathan Correa

Lauren Van Nest

CFP Consuming the Middle Ages: 2022 Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (1/30/2022; Zoom event 4/23/2022)

 Call for Papers – Consuming the Middle Ages: 2022 Medieval Studies Student Colloquium

Consuming the Middle Ages: 2022 Medieval Studies Student Colloquium

Source: http://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-papers-consuming-the-middle-ages-2022-medieval-studies-student-colloquium/

The Medieval Studies Program at Cornell University is pleased to announce its thirty-second annual graduate student colloquium (MSSC), which will focus on the theme of ‘Consuming the Middle Ages’. The conference will take place on the 23rd of April, to be held virtually over Zoom. The colloquium will be preceded by a small lecture series.

We invite 20-minute papers that investigate consuming the Middle Ages as defined within a range of different disciplines and perspectives. Consuming can denote both a physical consumption as well as the act of consuming and making sense of the medieval past through scholarly productions, creative media, and cultural phenomena and practices. How were medieval feasts organized and what socio-cultural function did food and the act of consuming it serve? What are possible connections between the life cycle stages of consumed goods (e.g., from cultivation, to processing, to consuming, to disposal, etc.) and climate, migration, economics, etc.? What material and immaterial substances were subject to consumption and what religious or cultural roles did they play? How do postmedieval writers and thinkers configure the medieval? What are the ramifications of consuming the past and is this the nature of periodization? How are the traces, artifacts, or influences from the medieval past consumed by later or contemporary individuals, communities, and cultures? Papers may respond to (but are not limited to) one of these questions.

Preference will be given to papers from underrepresented backgrounds and disciplines. We strongly encourage submissions that expand these themes and categories of inquiry beyond Christian, Western European contexts. We invite submissions in all disciplines allied to Medieval Studies, including Asian Studies, Africana Studies, Critical Race Studies, Indigenous Studies, Near Eastern Studies, literature, history, the history of art, archaeology, philosophy, classics, theology, and others. Abstracts on all topics will be considered, though priority will be given to those which address our thematic strand.

Please send abstracts by January 30, 2021, to Sarah LaVoy at sfl39@cornell.edu.