Harvard Medieval Studies

Join us @ the #medievalseminar next Monday, as we welcome @lauramorreale.bsky.social for a talk on the fascinating "Image du Monde" and its digital afterlives! 9/29, 5:30p, Barker 133. @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social @medievalacademy.bsky.social

Congratulations to John Weaver '26 (History of Art & Architecture/South Asian Studies), winner of this year's Committee on Medieval Studies Undergraduate Essay Prize for "Lay Salvation: The Iconography Journey of Achieving Union with Śiva in Elephanta Cave 1"!

Congratulations to Aidan Scully '25 (Classics and Religion), winner of this year's Class of 1955/Robert T. Coolidge Thesis Prize for "'The Reign of Caesar and the Birth of Christ': Constructing the Christian Roman Empire in Rufinus and Orosius"!

Congratulations to Dr. Louis Copplestone, winner of this year's @harvardmedieval.bsky.social Ph.D. Thesis Prize for "Monasteries, Mountains, & Maṇḍalas: #Buddhist Architecture & Imagination in #Medieval Eastern India"!

A thousand thanks to all of the speakers, chairs, exhibitors, sponsors, and attendees who made #MAA2025 such a fantastic experience! See you all next year in Amherst! @medievalacademy.bsky.social

Almost there ... our organizing team and volunteers are busy putting finishing touches on the venues for #MAA2025! @HarvardMedieval looks forward to welcoming our many friends and colleagues from around the world for three days of scholarship and celebration!

This is major news! The Medieval Academy of America (@medievalacademy.bsky.social) will be livestreaming its 4 plenary sessions, plus the Business Meeting. I'll be there in person, but delighted that others will see these highlights. Register here: sites.harvard.edu/maacentennia... #MedievalSky

❣️📚💻 We are delighted to share the final program for the Digital Medieval Studies Institute US Edition, co-sponsored by #DigitalMedievalist. Looking forward to a great day of #DigitalMedievalStudies on 19 March!

tinyurl.com/DMSI-2025-US...

#DMSI #DMSI2025 #MedievalStudies #DigitalHumanities

Be sure to check out the #MedievalAcademy2025 book exhibit, featuring @harvardpress.bsky.social, @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social, @uchicagopress.bsky.social, & many more great publishers and book vendors!

Almost there! @HarvardMedieval is excited to welcome more than 800 medievalists to this year's Centennial meeting of the Medieval Academy (20-22 March)! Plenaries and the business meeting will be live-streamed; register @ tinyurl.com/ebz898hv @medievalacademy.bsky.social

MAA News - 100th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America

Discounted hotel rooms are going fast...register today!
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-news-100...

Next Monday: "(Unexpected) Sources for the Medieval Economy," a roundtable led by Maryanne Kowaleski & feat. Jenny Adams (UMassAmherst), Shane Bobrycki (UIowa), Elizabeth Comuzzi (Fordham), Louisa Foroughi (Lafayette C.), Joel Pattison (Williams), & Dan Smail (Harvard). More @ tinyurl.com/m52h2np8

DMSI 2025 1st round apps due Jan. 30. Amazing workshops on Rendering Spaces/ Rendering Artefacts Virtually Using Photogrammetry, w/ artefacts from the museum! Mapping, Networking Old English charters, & a ms digitization session at the Houghton Library. Come join us! @harvardmedieval.bsky.social

Diana Myers ’24MS Aspires to Increase Access to Medieval Archives | Simmons University Graduate student Diana Myers is pursuing a Master’s in Library Science and Information Science with a concentration in Archives Management. She plans to combine her archival experience with her resear...

Just saw this profile of @dianahmyers.bsky.social, @harvardmedieval.bsky.social alum and former LIS student of mine @simmonsuniversity.bsky.social. She's currently creating a finding aid for the @medievalacademy.bsky.social archive! Go, Diana! www.simmons.edu/news/diana-m...

Medievalist Fandoms, Alternative Histories | Speculum: Vol 100, No 1

Read "Medievalist Fandoms, Alternative Histories" by CMS Alum Anna Wilson (Harvard English) in the Medieval Academy of America Centennial Issue of "Speculum" Volume 100, Number 1, January 2025.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Join us this March for an exciting week of events!

Save the date: "(Unexpected) Sources for the Medieval Economy," w/ Jenny Adams (UMass Amherst), Shane Bobrycki (U of Iowa), Elizabeth Comuzzi (Fordham U), Louisa Foroughi (Lafayette Coll), Maryanne Kowaleski (Fordham U), Joel Pattison (Williams Coll), & Dan Smail (Harvard). Mon 2/3, Barker 110, 6p.

@harvardmedieval.bsky.social @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social @rgmemss.bsky.social mcmullenmuseum.bc.edu library.harvard.edu/libraries/ho...

Today! The Mahindra Medieval Studies Seminar, Harvard Georgian Studies Program, and Byzantine Studies Colloquium welcome Nikoloz Aleksidze (Free University Tbilisi) on "Sanctity, Gender, & Power in the Medieval Caucasus". 5:30p in Barker 133.

“Sign of the Times: Marking Jewish Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World” | a Symposium “Sign of the Times: Marking Jewish Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World” | a Symposium Monday, November 18, 2024, 12:00 – 6:00 PMThompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge If...

Join us next Monday for "Sign of the Times: Marking Jewish Identity in the Medieval & Early Modern World": Mon 11/18, 12-6p, Barker Center 110. Complete program and registration info @ tinyurl.com/234mcuf4.

Mark your calendar: the Mahindra Medieval Studies Seminar
& Harvard Georgian Studies Program welcome Nikoloz Aleksidze (Free University Tbilisi) on "Sanctity, Gender, & Power in the Medieval Caucasus". Mo 11/25, 5:30p, Barker 133.

Salve, friends old and new! @HarvardMedieval will be changing addresses from Twitter/X to Bluesky starting next week; we look forward to sharing our, and your, work on all things medieval in the months to come!