New master specialisation: Economics and Governance

By virtue of the legacy of prof. Maartje Draak, which is administered by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Celtic Studies section of Utrecht University is able to organise the Maartje Draak Seminars in which international Celticists visit Utrecht for intensive workshops and sem…

A warm welcome to the students of the Master’s Programme in European Law 2018-2019. This year, we expect around 60 students who will start this LL.M. programme, organised by the Europa Institute. Our faculty staff is excited to meet you and to teach you all aspects of European Law.

The Grotius Centre, in collaboration with Duke Law School, will be hosting the Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnational Law from 14 June to 15 July 2020 in The Hague, the International City of Peace and Justice.

Samen met mevrouw A. Roper en mevrouw L. Wang heeft prof.dr. J.I. van der Rest een artikel in het tijdschrift 'International Journal of Hospitality Management' gepubliceerd.

A new Graduiertenkolleg opens at the LMU.

The University of Bern organizes a summer course in Latin. Deadline: 28 May 2023.

Utrecht University is hiring an assistant professor Medieval English Literature. Candidates are invited to apply before April 6, 2024.

The Digital Medievalist has recently created a curated Zenodo community, called the Digital Medieval Webinar Repository (DMWR) to house recorded presentations on medieval topics.

Earn 1 ECTS by participating in the UCMS Seminar ‘Premodern Reading Cultures between Transforming Materialities’ through the Huizinga Institute.

A freely accessible online street map of late medieval and early modern northern Europe (1350-1650) has been published by the Viabundus project.

Submit your paper, session or business proposal for the International Medieval Meeting in Lleida until 31 March 2023.

The University of Oslo offers three postdoctoral positions in early medieval studies. Deadline: 9 November 2022.

RWTH Aachen University has a vacancy for a research assistant / PhD candidate in the DFG-FNR project “Lotharingien und das Papsttum”.

The University of Groningen is looking for an Assistant Professor in Medieval History. The deadline for applications is: 14 February 2021.

Foundations of Research-1 (Sources & Methods of Source Analysis) is now open for registration.

The programme for the Medieval Studies' Day (4 November, Amsterdam) is now available online!

On February 1, Utrecht University organizes an international workshop on good governance in the late medieval city (1200-1600).

On 18-20 November the Huizinga Institute organizes an online double Masterclass: ‘From Creation to Destruction: Shedding Light on the Lives of Medieval Manuscripts (c.1300 – 1550)’.

From 27 until 29 October 2021, the ERC project PASSIM organizes an international workshop on the future of digital manuscript studies.

CEU is accepting applications for its master and doctoral programmes in medieval studies. Deadline: 1 February 2022.

The Early Irish Hands project is inviting applications for a one-day Work-in-Progress workshop on materiality. Deadline: 31 January 2023.

Between April 24th and June 19th Oxford University organises a weekly online seminar in Byzantine Studies.

The deadline for abstract submissions for the Conference on Frisian Humantities has been extended: you can submit your research abstract until 15 March 2022.

The Early Irish Hands project is inviting applications for a one-day Work-in-Progress workshop on materiality. Extended deadline: 7 February 2023.

The Univeristy of Cologne offers 3 PhD Positions within the project 'Dynamiken der Konventionalität'. Deadline: 30 November 2022.

Scholarships at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome for MA, MPhil and PhD students (deadline for applications: 15 May 2020)

PhD Position in Christianity and the History of Ideas (University of Groningen) (deadline for submission: 17 May 2020).

The Grotius Centre, in collaboration with Duke Law School, will be hosting the Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnational Law from 16 June to 17 July 2019 in The Hague, the International City of Peace and Justice. Applications for the second edition are now open!

From 5 to 15 April 2024, a course on graffiti in Italy between the seventh and sixteenth centuries will take place at the Dutch Royal Institute in Rome (KNIR). Applicants are encouraged to apply before February 4, 2024.

Een troebele rol, concurreren met IT en een breed scala aan onderwerpen. Ondanks de ruime aandacht voor IT-security & privacy in de media, blijft onduidelijk wat de taken zijn van de Chief Information & Security Officer (CISO). Bibi van den Berg, hoogleraar Cybersecurity Governance, nam op 6 februari…

In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Low Countries saw the rise of a lively market for practical and instructive books that targeted non-specialist readers. This study shows how woodcuts in vernacular books on medicine and astrology fulfilled important rhetorical functions in knowledge communication.…

Van 15 tot en met 17 mei vond de Global Conference On Transparency Research plaats.

The course "Presenting Medieval Research at International Conferences" is open for registration. The deadline for registration is 10 September 2020.

The University of Bologna organizes a Summer School in Classical Languages, offering intensive courses in Latin and/or Greek (20 June – 23 July 2022). The deadline for applications is: 10 June 2022.

Princeton University has announced that planning for its annual Medieval Studies Graduate Conference is underway. The conference will be held on March 6, 2021 (via Zoom) with the following theme: “Reclaiming Losses: Recovery, Reconquest, and Restoration in the Middle Ages.”

The Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar is designed to showcase the breadth of graduate research in modern Late Antique and Byzantine Studies and to foster academic collaboration across institutions and sub-disciplines.

The International Conference "Her Book: Women and Book Ownership in Early Modern Europe" will take place at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris) on 17-18 June 2022. For more information: aurelie.griffin@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr.

The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Groningen offers three four-year scholarships to complete a PhD in Theology and Religious Studies. Deadline: 14 July 2021.

The Norwegian Institute in Rome organizes an interdisciplinary conference entitled "The Longue Durée of Cultural Heritage. Curation of the Past from Antiquity to the Present Day". For more information: k.b.aavitsland@roma.uio.no. Paper proposals can be submitted to the same email address until 15 May…

Within the Research Training Group “Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War. Exchange, Differentiation and Reception” at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz 1 postdoctoral position is to be filled by 1 April 2023, for a period of up to 4,5 years. Deadline: 5 January 2023.

Jenseitsvisionen werden mehrfach umgeschrieben – auch im Interesse von politischen, religiösen und sozialen Verhältnissen. Aus den Blickwinkeln unterschiedlicher Wissenschaftsdisziplinen wird die Tagung Funktion und Erzählstrategien mittelalterlicher Visions-Erzählungen in hagiographischen, historiographischen…

In April, Al-Babtain visiting professor Maribel Fierro will teach four masterclasses at Leiden University on "Culture and society in the medieval Islamic west: The process of Islamization". These masterclasses will take place online and are open to all students. Registration deadline: 28 March 2021.

A series of sessions on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations (c. 1050-c. 1600) will be held at the Society for Renaissance Studies (29 June - 1 July 2021).

On 19 January (15:30-16:30), the Nicholas Brunmayr (Bruxelles) will give a talk on medieval butter trade at the Amsterdam Centre for Urban History.

There is an opening for a postdoc in the ANR-project led by Claire Angotti (Augustin dans les bibliothèques de l'Université de Paris). Start date: 1 January 2022.

The Research Training Group "Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War" is looking to appoint six PhD students. Candidates should apply before 15 November 2020.

The 7th European Congress of Medieval Studies of the Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales (FIDEM) will be organized by the Department of Arts, Media, and Philosophy of the University of Basel, Switzerland on 6-9 September 2023. Deadline for registration: 15 July.

In her new book, Dr Claire Weeda, cultural historian at Leiden University, investigates how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages (900-1250).

This year’s UCMS Seminar, on 14 October 2022, will be devoted to the connections between reading cultures and the transforming material features of the medieval book: from scroll to codex, from parchment to paper, from manuscript to print, and recently from printed to digital facsimiles.