Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University

Registration is now open for Fordham Medieval Studies Summer Courses: Old French, Medieval Pilgrimage, and Data Humanities! Register here: https://www.fordham.edu/summer-session/

What are we doing tomorrow evening? Why going to celebrate our colleague Professor Nina Rowe’s installation as the Marion Chair of course! Features a talk by Professor Rowe entitled: Dancing and Dalliance: Picturing Revelry in the Late Middle Ages. If you want to join us register here: https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1362/18/interior.aspx?sid=1362&gid=1&pgid=14496&cid=26806&utm_source=1+Fordham+Master+List&utm_campaign=9fb6c8c87f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_08_26_04_10_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-3761724451-172930957

We are very excited to welcome Christopher MacEvitt to Fordham next Thursday. Please join us at 5:30PM in Butler Commons (Rose Hill Campus).

A few photos from our Medieval Studes Events this week. Tuesday saw Hannah Weaver (Columbia) presenting on Verbal Tapestries: Baudri or Bourgueil’s “To Countess Adela” and Wednesday we hosted Edward Watts UC-San Diego who spoke on “Interchronological History and the Political Power of Roman Women”. Thanks everyone who joined us for these great events.

Our first event, next Tuesday evening in Butler Commons (Rose Hill Campus). Come join us!

We are excited to be heading into our Fall 2025 Lecture Series! Come join us for these great events.

Medievalists at the Fordham University Commencement 2024. Congratulations to all of our graduates. We are incredibly proud you. Best of luck in your further adventures!

Coming up this weekend! NYC Medievalists, the Court will soon be in session! Get registered and we will see you on Saturday morning.

Program – 2024 Courtly Literature: The Next Generation Program Saturday March 2 8:30 Check In & Light Breakfast | 12th Floor Lounge 9:00    Welcome & Opening Remarks | 12th Floor Lounge Nicholas Paul | Director of the Center for Medieval Studies and Professor of History Fordham University Susanne Hafner | Conference Chair, Department of Modern Langua...

Attention NYC and area medievalists, we are excited to be hosting this conference on March 2 in collaboration with the North American Branch of the International Courtly Literature Society. We have a Saturday full of great presentations featuring our three invited speakers S.J. Pearce (NYU), Kristina Richardson (UVA), and Usha Vishnuvajjala (SUNY-New Paltz) and 9 presentations by exciting junior scholars. Registration is now open. Come along and tell your friends!

Program – 2024 Courtly Literature: The Next Generation Program Saturday March 2 8:30 Check In & Light Breakfast | 12th Floor Lounge 9:00    Welcome & Opening Remarks | 12th Floor Lounge Nicholas Paul | Director of the Center for Medieval Studies and Professor of History Fordham University Susanne Hafner | Conference Chair, Department of Modern Langua...

Looking forward to this event this evening featuring our friends Alkemie and National Sawdust. Sign up and hope to see you there!

A Worthy Mirror Roundtable — Alkemie Join us on February 7th at 6pm for a roundtable discussion with the composers of A WORTHY MIRROR. Co-Presented with National Sawdust and moderated by poet and critic danilo machado, this roundtable will explore how A WORTHY MIRROR translates lyric poetry into new compositions, forefronts female and