Author: Heather Badamo
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CEMERS 2025 Conference: Always Here: Non-Binary Gender, Trans Identities, and Queerness in the Global Middle Ages (c. 250–1650)
October 24 – 25, 2025Binghamton UniversityBinghamton, NY SUBMISSION DEADLINE: APRIL 15, 2025 Queer, trans, intersex, non-binary, genderfluid, and gender-nonconforming people and sources are abundant in the premodern textual, artistic, and artifactual record, and studies of gender and sexuality in the medieval period are flourishing as never before. Yet, work on the LGBTQIA+ Middle Ages remains…
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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Byzantine Studies at the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame
Following substantial investment in the area of Byzantine Studies at the University of Notre Dame, including the acquisition of the Milton V. Anastos Library of Byzantine Civilization and generous support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame is…
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Post-doctoral fellowship in Byzantine Art/Archaeology at Dumbarton Oaks
Dumbarton Oaks invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow to join a team working to provide comprehensive access to photographic and archival documentation of the Byzantine world held by Dumbarton Oaks’ Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA), which holds more than a million unique items in a variety of media, including extensive material relating to the art and…
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Hyung-Il Pai Memorial Lecture in Korean Studies on February 19
Prof. Christina Han of Wilfrid Laurier University is scheduled to deliver the Hyung-Il Pai Memorial Lecture in Korean Studies this year on February 19 at 2pm: Poetry Networks and Everyday Lives: Rediscovering Premodern Korean Society through Digital Humanities This talk explores sihwa 詩話 (poetry talks) as an illuminating window into the social, cultural, and intellectual life of premodern…
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Prof. David Albertson of USC offers seminar on women mystics as philosophers
David Alberston is visiting UCSB this quarter as the Tipton Visiting Professor in Catholic Studies. Prof. Albertson will be teaching a seminar on women mystics as philosophers (Religious Studies 238 – there’s still room for grad student enrollment!).
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Festschrift honors Sharon Farmer, Professor Emerita of History
Routledge has published Medieval Work, Worship, and Power: Persuasive and Silenced Voices, an edited volume that celebrates the scholarship of Sharon Farmer. The volume includes an essay by UCSB graduate student Giulia Giamboni. You can learn more about the volume here.