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- MEMRN Winter Conference 2025
Fragmented Worlds, Shared Histories The MEMRN Committee are delighted to announce the return of the Winter Conference after the huge success of last year’s inaugural in-person event in Norwich. The MEMRN Winter Conference 2025 will be held from the 13th to the 16th November 2025 at the University of East Anglia. Please find the provisional… Read more: MEMRN Winter Conference 2025 - Medieval Matters, MT25 Week 1
Welcome to Michaelmas 2025 and to the definite version of the Oxford Medieval Studies Booklet! And greetings from the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Among the many superlatives it boasts, there can probably be added the claim that this is the largest grouping (a madness?) of medievalists in the world, allowing encounters across… Read more: Medieval Matters, MT25 Week 1 - Palaeography Offers in Michaelmas 25
There are a number of palaeography offers available for anybody interested in Oxford happening in Michaelmas 2025, coordinated by Dr Laure Miolo, Lyell Career Development Fellow in Latin Palaeography and Dilts Fellow at Lincoln College, historian of late medieval Europe, specialising in manuscript studies and history of early libraries with a special focus on scientific… Read more: Palaeography Offers in Michaelmas 25 - The Challenge of Historical Distance: Historicism and Anachronism in the Study of Art
6-7 November 2025Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut (NIKI), Florence, Italy (In Person and Online) How can art historians explore, understand, or even ‘feel’ the material evidence of the past? How can we approach the problem of historical distance, of our anachronistic nostalgia and our intellectual desire for pre-modern periods and artefacts? Can we inhabit the time… Read more: The Challenge of Historical Distance: Historicism and Anachronism in the Study of Art - Call for Committee Members – Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference
The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference (OMGC) is one of the highlights of the graduate academic calendar every year. Over two days, this interdisciplinary conference brings together graduate students from the UK and around the world to present their research on a wide variety of topics from across the Middle Ages. Read a review of the… Read more: Call for Committee Members – Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference - Medium Ævum Essay Prize
The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature has awarded the Medium Ævum Essay Prize since 2008. The competition is run annually, with postgraduates and those recently graduated with a higher degree invited to submit an essay on a topic that falls within the range of the interests of Medium Ævum in the medieval period (loosely defined… Read more: Medium Ævum Essay Prize