Women Medievalists on Medieval Women: A “State-of-the-Field” Symposium and Reception
March 20, 2024
5:30 PM ET
The Grolier Club
47 East 60th St, NYC

Join The American Trust for the British Library (ATBL) and scholars of medieval studies for a “state-of-the-field” symposium at the Grolier Club to discuss current scholarship by female-identifying medievalists on subjects related to the lives, patronage, and creative practice of medieval women.

This symposium celebrates the British Library’s longstanding support for scholarship on women’s experiences during the early modern period, notably and upcoming Library exhibition on medieval women, and the Library’s Joanna and Graham Barker-funded Medieval and Renaissance women digitization project (which successfully concluded in 2023 with the digitization of 93 volumes, 219 charters, and 25 rolls connected to the lives of European women between the years 1100 and 1600 C.E.).

The symposium will be moderated by Martha Driver.

Speakers include:
Cynthia Hahn
Marlene Hennessy
Kristen Herdman
Katherine Hindley
Nicole Lopez-Jantzen
Kavita Mudan Finn
Nicole Rice
Kathryn Smith

For further details and to register, go to this site here.

The long-postponed second Ian Doyle Memorial Lecture will be given in conjunction with the Medieval Insular Romance Conference, to be held in Durham, UK, from 5^th-7^th April.  The lecture will be given by Tony Edwards and will take place on Wednesday, 6^th April, at 4:30pm in Elvet Riverside 140.  Tony’s title is ‘Ian Doyle and the Study of Middle English Manuscripts’.  A reception will be held on the Tunstall Gallery, University College, afterwards. 

A Symposium on Fragments (manuscript and print) will take place in University College Dublin, 17th October 2019. Lisa Fagin Davis (Medieval Academy of America and writer of the Manuscript Road Trip) and Christoph Flueler (University de Fribourg and Director of the Fragmentarium Project) are among the confirmed speakers for the day. The purpose of the Symposium is to raise awareness of the research value of medieval fragments, and to explore contemporary curatorial solutions to describe manuscript fragments and promote their accessibility. The workshop will involve an audience of academics and manuscript librarians and archivists. The Symposium is funded by the College of Arts and Humanities, UCD. For further details, contact Dr. Niamh Pattwell (School of English, Drama and Film, UCD) at niamh.pattwell@ucd.ie or Dr. Elizabeth Mullins (School of History and Archives UCD) at elizabeth.mullins@ucd.ie. Further details will be published later in the Summer. Registration for the conference will open September 1st 2019.