The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature warmly invites OMS community members to a wine reception to launch the Nigel F. Palmer Travel Fund, to be held at 18:00 on Monday 11 May in the Hinrich Reemtsma Auditorium of the Warburg Institute (Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB).
The Fund will support graduate students whose research in medieval languages and literature necessitates travel, and its launch comes at a point when funding for graduate students across the arts and humanities is becoming increasingly restricted. Its specified aim is to enable students to visit libraries and archives to consult manuscripts or other archival material, and to visit archaeological sites and/or monuments of direct relevance to their research. The Fund is named in honour of Nigel F. Palmer, executive editor of the Society’s journal Medium Ævum, and its responsible editor for German, Latin and all historical disciplines for well over thirty years from 1990 until his death in 2022. Our Society’s intention with the Fund is to take forward Nigel’s work, undertaken through the Society and widely beyond, in encouraging young scholars, by supporting graduate students in medieval studies to travel and pursue research on original materials.
Please email the Society’s Executive Officers at ssmll@history.ox.ac.uk to confirm your attendance by 1 May. If you are unable to join us on 11 May, I would be delighted if you would consider a donation towards the endowment of the Fund. You can donate to the fund via this link: Donate