Jennifer Bain and Jacqueline Murray have both been elected as RSC Fellows! Many congratulations to both. Below are their slides from the RSC announcement.

CSANA Virtual Book Launch

Bound and Free: Voices of Mortal and Otherworld Women in Medieval Irish Literature, by Joanne Findon

With Responses from

Amy Mulligan (Notre Dame)

&

Kristen Mills (University of Oslo)

Findon Book Launch Poster-4[98].pdf

A PUBLIC ONLINE (ZOOM) LECTURE SERIES HOSTED BY THE CHAPLAINCY AT VILLANOVA COLLEGE, ONT

THE CITY OF GOD

A CONTEMPORARY READING OF AUGUSTINE’S POLITICAL VISION

with

Rev. Dr. Robert Dodaro, OSA

Chaplain of Villanova College (King’s City, Ontario)

Sept.–Dec. 2025, Tuesdays 10:30 AM – 1:25 PM (Eastern)

REGISTER FREE OF CHARGE HERE: https://forms.gle/qb6yrWzuNhduuNTD7 or EMAIL pablo.irizar@newman.edu

LECTURE SERIES SCHEDULE

Sept 9 – Introduction to Saint Augustine

Sept 16 – Political Leadership

Sept 23 – Fear of Death and National Security

Oct 7 – Christianity and the Just Society

Oct 14 – The City of God and the Earthly City

Oct 21 – Church and State

Oct 28 – Public Confession and Statecraft

Nov 4 – Heroism in Society

Nov 18 – Christ and Justice

Nov 25 – Saints and Sinners

CONVENERS

Pablo Irizar (Vice President & Academic Dean, Newman Theological College) ˑ Anthony Dupont (Augustine Chair & Research Professor of Christian Antiquity, KU Leuven) ˑ Harry Schnitker (Senior Lecturer in Church History at St. Mary’s University, PhD program director at Maryvale Institute) ˑ Mateusz Stróżyński (Director & Professor of Classics at the Institute of Classical Philosophy, UAM) ˑ Paul Camacho (Associate Director at the Augustinian Institute & Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University) ˑ Richard Dougherty (Dean of Braniff Graduate School & Professor of Politics, University of Dallas) Edmund Stewart (Associate Professor of Ancient Greek History & Collaborator of Tyrannica at the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies, University of Nottingham)

THE TWENTIETH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAN CUSANUS SOCIETY AND THE INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON PRE-REFORMATION THEOLOGY (2025)

REGISTER NOW TO JOIN US IN GETTYSBURG (OR VIRTUALLY)! PLEASE CLICK HERE.

For a downloadable, searchable schedule of our 2025 Gettysburg conference, please click here.

Perspectives on Mystical Vision and Aesthetic Experience

The Twentieth Biennial Conference of the American Cusanus Society
in cooperation with United Lutheran Seminary, Gettysburg PA
September 18-21, 2025

The Journal Religious Studies and Theology invites submissions on medieval themes -- details here: https://journal.equinoxpub.com/RST/about/submissions

The CSM mentoring program brings together medievalists at different stages of their careers to share information. This program strengthens our community and builds networks among medievalists that extend beyond those times when we would normally gather at conferences.

All members of the CSM in good standing are eligible to participate in this program. 

For detailed information on this program, please click here: https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/page-18130. If you wish to participate this year, please click on the poll button at the bottom of this e-mail and complete the form there.

If you have any difficulty accessing the questionnaire or desire a version in French, please contact Siobhain Bly Calkin (siobhain.calkin@carleton.ca). 

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Le programme de mentorat de la SCM rassemble des médiévistes à différents stades de leur carrière pour partager des informations. Ce programme renforce notre communauté et construit des réseaux parmi les médiévistes qui s’étendent au-delà des moments où nous nous réunissons normalement lors des conférences. Pour obtenir des informations détaillées sur ce programme, veuillez cliquer ici : https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/page-18133. Si vous souhaitez participer cette année, veuillez cliquer sur le bouton « poll » au bas de ce courriel et remplir le formulaire qui s'y trouve. 

Tou.te.s les membres en règle de la SCM peuvent participer à ce programme. Malheureusement, le questionnaire existe seulement en anglais sur le site web, mais si vous préférez compléter le questionnaire en français, envoyez un courriel à siobhain.calkin@carleton.ca et je vous envoyerai une version française. 

Si vous avez des difficultés à accéder au questionnaire, veuillez contacter Siobhain Bly Calkin (siobhain.calkin@carleton.ca).

2025 CSM Mentorship Program Questionnaire

Start: 16 May 2025

https://canadianmedievalists.org/Sys/Poll/62447

Deadline for Application: 31 May 2025

The journal Arthuriana invites applications for its Editorial Fellowship, which will begin in the fall of 2025. Fellows will work with the Arthuriana team to better understand the nuances of publishing an academic journal. Topics covered include acquisitions, readers' reports, editing, layout/design, budget management, website design, and more.

We anticipate that fellows will dedicate one year, committing 8-12 hours per month to the journal, and will receive a small stipend of $1,000. Candidates must have completed their PhD qualifying exams. Preference will be given to graduate students working on the Arthurian legend, medieval studies, and related fields.

To apply please click the following application link. Applications are due May 31st. Any questions, please reach out to Arthurianajournal@gmail.com. 

Professor Annette Kern-Stähler aims to select a doctoral student (with an MA or equivalent degree) interested in pursuing a PhD in English Literature under her supervision in the Department of English at the University of Bern, Switzerland. The successful candidate will be attached to the research project ‘Becoming Axolotl: Empathy, Simulation, and Embodiment in Medieval Narratives’ funded within *MAPS (Multilateral Academic Projects) – a multilateral funding instrument with Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Romania, launched by the SNSF and implemented under the second Swiss Contribution, mandated by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. The PhD student will be working alongside Prof. Kern-Stähler, a postdoctoral researcher, two research teams based in Zagreb and Bucharest, and our international project partners. Situated at the intersection of cognitive literary studies, affect studies, sensory studies, new materialism, and narratology, this project explores the role of medieval narratives in the simulation of cognitive, emotional, and sensorial experiences of radical others, both human and more-than-human (animals, plants, objects, spirits, gods, monsters). Considering a variety of encounters across and beyond medieval Europe (including Scandinavia, England, the Middle East, and the Byzantine and Mongol Empires), the three interlinked subprojects explore literature of a variety of genres from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries. The doctoral student will pursue a thesis project focusing on medieval English literature, simulation and empathy (text corpus to be discussed with the doctoral student). More details can be found here: https://www.ens.unibe.ch/unibe/portal/fak_historisch/dsl/ens/content/e41030/e72711/e530231/e1694912/PhDjobad_6May2025_eng.pdf

What Makes Great Medieval Associations? CARA on Zoom, Tuesday May 13th, 1pm-2pm EDT 

The MAA's Committee on Centers and Regional Associations invites you to join us for a panel discussion by leaders of groups across the US and Canada on "what makes our association great?" Please join us as five leaders of medieval associations in the US and Canada discuss what makes theirs energizing, productive, and rewarding. We will address a number of issues as well as the personal challenges and rewards that come from supporting different medieval associations. We invite all to the conversation, which will include time for whole-group discussion. Topics include questions of membership, sustainability, finances, value, outreach, regionality (or not), mentoring, and hopes & dreams for the future.

Panelists

Katherine Bezio (Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association)

Natalie Grinnell (Southeastern Medieval Assocation)

Heather Maring (Medieval Association of the Pacific)

Shannon McSheffrey (Canadian Society of Medievalists)

Montserrat Piera (Delaware Valley Medieval Association)

Moderator

Virginia Blanton (Mid-America Medieval Association, CARA Executive Committee)

Click here to register.

Last year, Dr. Rowan Dorin won BOTH the Canadian Society of Medievalists' Margaret Wade Labarge prize for best book in Medieval Studies, AND the Canadian Historical Association's Wallace K Ferguson Prize for best book in a field of history (non Canadian) for his book No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe (2023, Princeton University Press)

To celebrate, the CSM and CHA are co-sponsoring an online panel discussing the book on May 5 at 5 pm UTC. Participants include. Rowan Dorin, Nicholas Terpstra, Elisheva Baumgarten, Ada Maria Kuskowski, Marie Dejoux with Miri Rubin (moderator) and Shannon McSheffrey (chair). For more information and to register, see the link here: https://cha-shc.ca/roundtable-discussion-no-return-jews-christian-usurers-and-the-spread-of-mass-expulsion-in-medieval-europe-by-rowan-dorin/