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  • 11 Apr 2026 2:08 AM | Fabienne Michelet

    Speaker: Lindy Brady (Edge Hill University)

    WhenFriday, 17 April 2026, 2:30pm to 4:30pm

    WhereCentre for Medieval Studies, 125 Queen's Park, 3rd Floor, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C7 and virtually via Zoom.

    Description: Lindy Brady of Edge Hill University will present Multilingualism, Old English, and the Viking Age at the 2026 Toronto Old English Colloquium

    RSVP required

    AbstractMultilingualism, Old English, and the Viking Age

    In the words of its own historians, pre-Norman Britain held five languages and four peoples. Yet in modern scholarship, Old English is too often studied separately from the other languages that surrounded it during the time that it was spoken. This talk surveys evidence from the pre-Norman period that situates Old English as one of several living languages that together formed the basis of a vibrant oral and written literary culture in early medieval Britain. The case study of Old English then forms a jumping-off point to explore how the significant period of mobility inaugurated by the Viking era impacted linguistic contact across the medieval world. This talk outlines our evidence for a web of multilingual connections, arguing that the new era of mobility ushered in by the Vikings transformed the regions they inhabited into spaces where the cultures that emerged were products of multilingual interactions.

    Reception to follow

    Contact Information:

    Sponsors

    • Centre for Medieval Studies
    • Department of English
    • Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
  • 7 Mar 2026 11:22 AM | Emma Gabe

    Creating New Identities: Rites of Passage for Medieval Vowed Religious

    CALL FOR PAPERS for the 2027 MAA Annual Meeting

    Toronto, 15–17 April 2027

    Consecration, benediction, profession, installation, burial: Such rites of passage punctuated the lives of vowed religious. They marked moments of profound change, as a novice became a fully professed religious, a nun became an abbess, a monk an abbot. These rites are thus also sites of intense formation, as both individual and collective identities are shaped through the liturgical performance of the rituals. What role do geography, age, and religious order play in constructing religious identity? How do monastic burial rituals bookend the life of a vowed religious? What kinds of manuscripts and other liturgical objects are used to enact these rites? Do rites of passage function differently for male and female religious? How do space and place affect their liturgical performance?

    Submission information and important dates

    This panel invites twenty-minute papers on religious rites of passage in medieval Europe, and will be submitted to the 2027 MAA Annual Meeting. Please submit a title and an abstract of 250 words, along with your name, affiliation, and contact information, to Olivia Caroline Geraci (ogeraci@nd.edu) and Emma Gabe (emma.gabe@utoronto.ca) by April 15, 2026.


  • 22 Jan 2026 9:16 AM | Kathy Cawsey
    CALL FOR PAPERS
    Maple Malory II Conference
    6-8 August 2026
    University of King’s College
    Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    Following on the success of the “Malory at 550 Conference” of 2019, we are hosting another Malory conference in scenic Nova Scotia. We are pleased to invite proposals on any aspect of Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur. Topics might include, but are not limited to, textual analysis, critical approaches old and new, Fifteenth-century culture and English politics, source studies in English and French, the manuscript and early print context of the work, and historical and contemporary reception of the Morte. The conference is in-person only: we do not have the resources for virtual or hybrid options.
    Please send proposals of 250 words, together with contact details, to Kathy Cawsey (kathy.cawsey@dal.ca) and Elizabeth Edwards (eedward2@dal.ca) by January 31, 2026.
    This conference is sponsored by Arthurian Literature, and by the Early Modern Studies Program and Foundation Year Programs of the University of King’s College. Details on accommodation and events to follow.
  • 8 Dec 2025 11:48 AM | Siobhain Calkin (Administrator)

    The EDID Committee has extended the submission deadline for the following sessions until January 15, 2026:

    Le comité EDID a prolongé la date limite de soumission pour les sessions suivantes jusqu'au 15 janvier, 2026:

    1) You Are On Native Land:  Understanding Medieval Studies in Turtle Island / Vous Êtes Sur Une Terre Indigène: Comprendre les études médiévales sur l’île de la Tortue

    Poster: https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/resources/YouAreOnNativeLandCFP.png

    https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/resources/YouAreOnNativeLand%20CFP%20French[1].png

    2) Queer World-Making / Création d'un monde LGBQT+

    Poster: https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/resources/QueerCFP.png

    https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/resources/Queer%20CFP%20French.png 

    3) Medieval Engagements with Disability / Engagements médiévaux vis-à-vis du handicap

    Poster: https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/resources/Disability%20CFP.png

    https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/resources/Disability%20CFP%20French.png

    All Calls for Papers can be found here: https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/Calls-for-Papers-EDID-2026/ 

    Les appels aux contributions sont disponibles ici: https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/page-18160 




  • 8 Dec 2025 10:38 AM | Siobhain Calkin (Administrator)

    DISPUTATIO MCGILLENSIS

    SAMEDI,21FÉVRIER2026

    UNIVERSITÉMCGILL

    La 24 édition du colloque étudiant Disputatio se déroulera à l’Université McGill, le samedi 21 février 2026. Le colloque annuel de la Société des études médiévales du Québec (SÉMQ) vise à mettre en valeur les travaux de cycles supérieurs en études médiévales, tous domaines confondus (littérature, histoire, histoire de l’art, philosophie, linguistique, musicologie, étudesreligieuses, etc.).

    Cette année, la SÉMQ aura la chance d'accueillir comme conférencière d’honneur Madame Antje Chan, professeure au Département d’anglais de l’Université McGill. Sa conférence aura pour titre « Les laïcs et la messe: aux origines anglo-normandes detraités liturgiquesmoyen-anglais au XVesiècle».

    Les propositions de communication, d'environ 250 mots, doivent être accompagnées d’un CV sommaire (institution d’attache, programme d'étude, état d'avancement des recherches et nom du directeur ou de la directrice) et elles doivent être envoyées à Isabelle Arseneau (isabelle.arseneau@mcgill.ca) avant le 2 janvier 2026. Les communications, d’une durée maximale de 20 minutes, pourront être présentées en français ou en anglais.

    DATE LIMITE: 2JANVIER2026

    isabelle.arseneau@mcgill.ca

    Pour devenir membre : www.semq.uqam.ca

    À cette occasion, la SÉMQ décerne un prix de 100 $ pour la meilleure

    communication étudiante et invite le lauréat ou la lauréate à soumettre

    son texte au comité de rédaction de la revue Memini. Travaux et

    documents.

    Une aide financière dédiée au déplacement pourra être

    octroyée aux étudiant.e.s qui ne résident pas dans la région

    montréalaise. L’aide financière doit être sollicitée avant le

    1er février 2026 auprès de la trésorerie

    (semq.tresorier@gmail.com). Veuillez noter que pour être

    éligibles au prix Disputatio et à l’aide financière, les

    candidat.e.s doivent être membres en règle de la SÉMQ

  • 6 Aug 2025 10:56 AM | Andrew Klein

    CFP for the annual meeting of the Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern
    Group (AMEMG), October 24-25, 2025

    Please join us in Moncton (NB) for this year’s conference, co-hosted by the Université de Moncton and Crandall University.

    A reception and keynote lecture will be held on the evening of October 24 at the Université de Moncton, followed by a day of papers on October 25, at Crandall University (10 minutes away by car).

    We are eager to receive proposals in English or French for papers (15-20 minutes), panels (3-4 papers on a specific topic), or posters from scholars at any career stage (including graduate students and undergraduates working on honours projects). As a broad and inter-disciplinary group, the AMEMG welcomes work on any subject of interest to scholars in the fields of medieval or early modern studies, broadly conceived.

    • If you are interested in giving a paper (15-20 minutes), please send an abstract (300 words) and a 1-page CV.
    • If you are interested in organizing a panel (3-4 papers on a specific topic), please send a title and brief description (150 words) along with abstracts (300 words) and a 1-page CV for the individual presenters.
    • If you are interested in participating in a poster session, send a brief description of what you would present (150 words) and a 1-page CV. Submissions in this category are welcome from all participants, but especially honours undergraduate and graduate students.
    • We also welcome proposals for 10-minute introductions to attendees’ research backgrounds and areas of interest. This will give new attendees, as well those embarking on new or different lines of research, the chance to introduce themselves. It will also give the whole group an opportunity to
    learn about the exciting work being done in Premodern Studies in Atlantic Canada. Proposals for 10-minute intros should be around 150 words.
    • Please email proposals for any of the above to abram.steen@crandallu.ca by August 25, 2025.
    • Panel: Call for proposals: Creative ideas for teaching the Early Modern
    Seeking participants for a panel discussion on teaching the Early Modern creatively. Share your ideas and examples of making this period engaging and accessible for students. The scale could be at the level of innovative course design down to the level of individual primary source assignments or anything in between. Participants will have 10 minutes each to profile their pedagogical example, leaving plenty of time for conversation between panelists and with the audience. Slides or other materials are welcome. Up to 5 participants will be chosen from proposals.

    Proposals and questions can be sent to panel organizer, Keith Grant at keith.grant@crandallu.ca. [The conference organizers would be open to a proposal for a similar panel on teaching the Medieval.]

    We are also happy to announce that the keynote lecture will be given by Dr. Tom Peace, Associate Professor of History and co-director of the Community History Centre at Huron University College (London, ON). Dr. Peace is an award-winning scholar of colonialism in early Canada and his talk is entitled “What is a Treaty? Building a Treaty Culture in North America, 1678-1790.”

    Watch your email for additional details on registration and accommodations, and feel free to direct any questions to abram.steen@crandallu.ca.

    ***

    Appel à Communications pour la réunion annuelle de l’Atlantic Medieval
    and Early Modern Group (AMEMG), 24-25 octobre 2025.

    Nous vous invitons à assister à ce colloque dans la ville de Moncton. Une réception et conférence
    d’ouverture se dérouleront en soirée le 24 octobre à l’Université de Moncton, suivi d’une journée de communications le lendemain, 25 octobre, à la Crandall University, à 10 minutes de route en voiture.

    Nous invitons les chercheuses et chercheurs à soumettre des propositions, en anglais ou en français, pour des communications individuelles, pour des séances complètes (3-4 communications sur un même thème), ou pour une affiche. L’AMEMG adhère à une conception large des champs des études médiévales et modernes, des points de vue chronologique et disciplinaire.
    • Pour les propositions de communications individuelles (15-20 minutes), veuillez soumettre un résumé d’environ 300 mots et un CV d’une page.
    • Pour les propositions de séances complètes, veuillez soumettre une brève description (150 mots) du thème général, ainsi que des résumés (300 mots) et des CV d’une page pour chacune des communications.
    • Pour les propositions d’affiche, veuillez soumettre un résumé (150 mots) et un CV d’une page. Nous souhaitons particulièrement recevoir des propositions d’étudiantes et étudiants (aux cycles supérieurs ou en dernière année du baccalauréat).
    • Nous souhaitons également recevoir des propositions pour des brèves présentations (10 minutes) des intérêts de recherche des participantes et participants. Cela permettra aux nouveaux membres, ainsi qu’à celles ou veux qui embarquent dans un nouveau projet, la possibilité de se présenter, et au groupe de mieux connaitre la diversité et l’ampleur des travaux de recherche qui se fait dans les études médiévales et modernes dans les provinces de l’Atlantique. Veuillez soumettre un résumé d’environ 150 mots.
    • Toutes les propositions devraient être envoyées à abram.steen@crandallu.ca avant le 25 août 2025.
    • Appel à communications pour former une séance : Approches innovantes dans l’enseignement de l’époque moderne. Je souhaite organiser une séance sur les approches inventives dans l’enseignement de l’histoire, de la littérature, de la pensée (etc) de l’époque moderne. Partagez vos idées et vos expériences. Les présentations pourraient couvrir, par exemple, la conception d’un cours, la nature d’une évaluation ou présenter une approche à l’analyse d’une source. Prévoyez une dizaine de minutes pour présenter votre expérience d’enseignement. Je prévois qu’il pourra y avoir jusqu’à cinq courtes présentations dans la séance, ce qui laissera du temps pour discuter entre panélistes et avec le public. Vous pouvez envoyer une proposition, et vos questions si vous souhaitez avoir plus d’informations, à l’organisateur de la séance, Keith Grant (keith.grant@crandallu.ca).

    Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer que la conférence d’ouverture sera donné par le professeur Tom Peace, Associate Professeur d’histoire et co-directeur du Community History Centre au Huron University College (London, ON). Le professeur Peace est spécialiste de l’histoire du colonialisme canadien, notamment dans les provinces maritimes, et sa conférence s’intitule « What is a Treaty? Building a Treaty Culture in North America, 1678-1790.”

  • 22 Jul 2025 12:58 PM | Brenna Duperron

    Brenna Duperron and Sarah LaVoy-Brunette are continuing to build the 'Indigenous turn' with some exciting panels for the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 14-16, 2026), which include:

    • “The Glo(cal) Middle Ages on Turtle Island” (hybrid panel);
    • and “Settler Medievalism: Ideology and Practice” (hybrid panel).


    Abstract submissions due September 15, 2025 to the ICMS Confex site:

    https://icms.confex.com/icms/2026/prelim.cgi

     

    Send any questions to myself (brenna.duperron@unbc.ca) or Sarah (sfl39@cornell.edu).


    “The Glo(cal) Middle Ages on Turtle Island” (hybrid panel)

    The Global Middle Ages tends to re-emphasize the ‘Old World’ myths by expanding the focus out of Europe into Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. This panel considers how our localities (e.g., Indigenous North America) should be centered in this conversation. Given that ICMS takes place at Western Michigan University on the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Ojibwe, Odawa and Bodewadmi Nations, what role should the Land play in how we teach the Middle Ages on these Lands? Within this turn outward to the globalized Middle Ages, how do we return to the local? How does our geographic positioning impact our understanding of the Middle Ages and medievalism? What role does Indigenous North America have in our understanding of the Middle Ages or the impacts of medievalism?

    “Settler Medievalism: Ideology and Practice” (hybrid panel) 

    The (re)imagining of the medieval has a long-standing political impulse across both White nationalism and settler-colonial ideology–often facilitating an overlap of these value systems. Helen Young and Stephanie Downes note that politics embedded in popular medievalism radicalizes audiences who “would not engage in political manifestos” (2). However, this settler medievalism appears across political manifestos and popular medievalism: Thomas Jefferson famously evoked the early Middle Ages to justify a homogenous White America. Both George W. Bush and Adolf Hitler cosplayed as a medieval knight or crusader in propaganda images. This panel considers the overlap between settler (and/or White nationalist) ideology and medievalism. How has medievalism been evoked? How has it been twisted into a political tool?
  • 18 Mar 2025 2:42 AM | Fabienne Michelet

    Speaker

    Janet Ericksen (University of Minnesota Morris)

    When and Where 

    Thursday April 17, 2025, 2:30pm to 4:30pm

    Centre for Medieval Studies, 125 Queen's Park, 3rd Floor, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C7 

    And virtually via Zoom

    Description 

    The Toronto Old English Colloquium welcomes Janet Ericksen, Chancellor and Professor of English at the University of Minnesota Morris for a lecture entitled Reading the Gaps in MS Junius 11.

    RSVP required

    1 pm Lunch (Great Hall)

    2:30-4:30 pm Lecture: Janet Ericksen, Reading the Gaps in MS Junius 11 (Great Hall)
    Abstract: The pages of the book now catalogued as Oxford, Bodleian Library manuscript Junius 11 present multiple formats to readers, including completed illustrations integrated with text in the Genesis section, abundant unfinished spaces in its middle portions, and predominantly text-only pages in Christ and Satan. The completed illustrations create a complex interweaving of visual and textual narratives that asks for careful navigation, while the unfinished spaces, rather than representing mere deficits, may have enhanced meditative reading of the sort encouraged by monastic training. The manuscript’s combination of illustration, blank space, and text distinguishes it from other surviving Old English manuscripts, and the varying page layouts would have facilitated different types of reading engagement. The gaps—the unillustrated, unwritten spaces—reveal more than they leave out. 

    Reception to follow

    Contact Information 

    Renée Trilling (renee.trilling@utoronto.ca)

    Fabienne Michelet (fabienne.michelet@utoronto.ca)

    Centre for Medieval Studies (medieval.communications@utoronto.ca)

    Sponsors 

    ·       Department of English

    ·       Centre for Medieval Studies

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