Graduate Association of Medieval Studies

Reminder that Abstracts for the 11th Annual GAMS Colloquium, "Fractals, Fragments, and Lacunas: Minding the Gap in Medieval World(s)," are due tonight. Please check your emails for submission details.

SUMMER DIGITAL HUMANITIES OPPORTUNITY: The Videntes Team and staff of the Museo del Tesoro del Duomo di Vercelli are excited to announce that registration is open for our Digital Humanities summer institute in Vercelli, Italy in June 2024.

The institute will begin with an optional welcome aperitivo the evening of June 16th. Workshops and lessons will begin the morning of June 17th and continue through the afternoon of Saturday, June 22nd.

To apply, please fill out the Google application form, which will include a current CV or resume and statement of interest. For first round consideration, the application deadline is February 15 (applicants will be notified by February 23, 2024). Rolling applications will continue to be accepted through March 1, 2024.
Learn more here: https://videntesmsi.com/medieval-manuscripts-in-a-modern-world/

THE MEDIEVAL MULTIPLE: SATURDAY 27 JANUARY 2024, an ICMA co-sponsored conference. REGISTER TODAY! — International Center of Medieval Art The Medieval Multiple ICMA Co-Sponsored Conference Hosted by the Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University In person and livestream Saturday 27 January 2024

Please join us at 4-5:30 pm CST, ON ZOOM! 6 interdisciplinary scholars (including two of UW-Madison's own medievalists, Sarah Friedman and Professor Lisa Cooper) respond to Professor Kao’s new book, White Before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages (Manchester UP, 2024), followed by a moderated q&a.

Register at [email protected] by January 24, 2024. (Participants will receive limited-time e-access to the Introduction and a discount code towards the purchase of the book).

CFP: ‘Authority and Identity in the Middle Ages’, The Courtauld Postgraduate Medieval Colloquium, deadline 31 January 2024 Paper submissions are invited for the 2024 Courtauld Postgraduate Medieval Colloquium which focuses on the theme ‘Authority and Identity in the Middle Ages’.

Student and Alumni Spotlight: On October 21st, Anna Betz (B.A. 2017; M.A. 2020) hosted the first viewing of her original ballet based on Dante's Divine Comedy, including original choreography and music. Ph.D. Candidates Claire Kilgore and Tania Kolarik attended the evening, and dressed according to the encouraged costume theme of Angels and Demons. Kilgore and Kolarik jointly won the best costume prize for their biblically accurate angel or seraphim costumes, which they were awarded a poster, the first copy of the original music, and the album cover for the music. Congratulations Anna!
From left to right: Claire Kilgore (gold and white seraphim), Anna Betz (demon); Tania Kolarik (red and gold seraphim).

Learn more about Anna Betz's ongoing efforts to bring this ballet to life here (https://www.givemn.org/story/6lz53f), and on Instagram

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Student Spotlight: Ph.D. Candidates (from top left) Abby Armstrong Check, Tania Kolarik, and Claire Kilgore will be attending the 99th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America conference at the University of Notre Dame in March 2024. Kolarik and Armstrong Check co-organized, with Gabriela Chitwood (University of Oregon), the sessions: "Moving Through Sacred Medieval Interiors I: Processing Through Space" and "Moving Through Sacred Medieval Interiors II: Motion Through Interiors," which are sponsored by the Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art (AVISTA). Armstrong Check, Kolarik, and Kilgore will all be presenting papers with Kolarik chairing the second session.

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CFP: ‘Wisdom as Purpose: Ways of Learning, Skill Acquisition, and Knowledge Visualisation in the Middle Ages’, deadline 31 January 2024 Submissions are invited for the upcoming conference on knowledge and learning in the Middle Ages.