Stanford Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS)

11/11/2014

Check out the newly updated schedule for CMEMS' 1st Annual Primary Source Symposium, this Thursday-Saturday. We hope to see you there!

14/10/2014

Announcing "Making Publics: The Past, Present & Future of Publication," An Interdisciplinary Conference at the Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall, Friday, October 24th, 2014, 9am-6pm

09/10/2014

Renaissance Society of America Announces Grant Opportunity for Members

http://www.rsa.org/?Grants

Each year the Renaissance Society of America awards a number of grants supporting research projects and publications that aim to advance scholarly knowledge about the Renaissance. In 2015 RSA will award thirty-three grants thanks to the generous support of The Kress Foundation, our donors, and our m…

22/09/2014

Meet your colleagues in the CMEMS community and learn about this year's upcoming speaker series, workshops, and events at our CMEMS Meet, Greet and Eat Lunch this Wednesday, September 24. Light refreshments will be served from 12:00-1:30 pm in the Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall (Building 460).

09/09/2014

We are very excited to welcome Fiona Griffiths, new Visiting Professor of History, to the CMEMS community! For a list of courses Fiona will be teaching this year, visit: http://explorecourses.stanford.edu/instructor/fgriffit

08/09/2014

CMEMS faculty Elaine Treharne, Marisa Galvez, Ron Egan, and PhD students head off to Beijing for Medieval Text Technologies in China and Europe Conference this week.

03/09/2013

What the first day of school feels like for a medievalist in Cairo, 2013. http://cmems.stanford.edu/blog/back-school-cairo-2013-return-politics-fear

It’s the last Thursday in August. Monday is the first day of classes. I don’t know what to expect. I can’t imagine what kind of group will there come Monday morning. Will they be happy to be back at university after the roller-coaster summer? Will they be happy Egypt has a “strong leader” again? Wil...

19/08/2013

Turns out Hannah Horvath, like Montaigne, is a self-involved person. http://cmems.stanford.edu/blog/trifling-matters-montaigne-and-girls-0

Near the beginning of Season 2 of Girls, the new boyfriend of Hannah Horvath, the aspiring writer played by Lena Dunham, reluctantly reviews one of her essays: “I just didn’t feel like anything happened … ultimately it just felt like waiting in line and all the nonsense that goes through your brain…

19/08/2013

Locavore pedagogy was going strong this summer in Iowa. http://cmems.stanford.edu/blog/amazonedu

In my first real job, I was a journalist, writing for Time magazine in London, and each Monday we'd eagerly check out the news stands on the Strand so we could see how our cover stacked up against our chief competitor, Newsweek.

20/07/2013

New blogger Anita Guerrini on the long history of science experiments in the kitchen. http://cmems.stanford.edu/blog/ghastly-kitchen-animals-cooking-and-birth-experimental-science

Editor's note: This post was originally published at the International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine Blog. The ICHSTM Congress is taking place this week in Manchester. You can watch a live stream from the Congress here.

14/06/2013

This exciting project in the Northern Baltic might be of interest to students who would like to study in the UK

The following student projects have been linked to the research programme:Ph.D: Eve Rannamäe; animal bones from Viljandi & Karksi, Estonia.MSc: Amanda Wynne; Multi-proxy analysis of the lake core from Radzyń Chełmiński, Poland.MSc: Jenny Austin; multi-proxy analysis of the lake core from Trikata, La...

02/06/2013

Lucretius at the airport? The Swerve forum continues with guest blogger Reid Barbour. http://cmems.stanford.edu/blog/lucretius-airport-part-iii-forum-swerve

Greenblatt’s The Swerve is both personal and tendentious. It begins with the author’s loving but fearful mother and it ends with Thomas Jefferson. Despite the differences between Greenblatt’s approach to the reception of Epicureanism and my own (as manifested in my English Epicures and Stoics but al...