Upcoming Events

February
17

Date
Tuesday, February 17, 2026. 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
252

Join us for the third seminar, on Tuesday, January 17, at 4:30pm in Pigott Hall 252 for a…

February
18

Date
Wednesday, February 18, 2026. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
(450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305)
Room 252, German Studies Library
Speaker: Philip Russell Hardie
February
25

Date
Wednesday, February 25, 2026. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
(450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305)
Room 252, German Studies Library
Speaker: Mahel Hamroun

News

Vera Geranpayeh (PhD Candidate, German Studies) Awarded 2025 Marilyn Yalom Prize

Vera Geranpayeh has been selected as the 2025 Marilyn Yalom prize winner for her research on representations of female subjectivity and Otherness in German literature from the Middle Ages to the present.

Rome Archive Seminar (June 1-26, 2026) Accepting Applications

Applications are now open for the Rome Archive Seminar 2026 sponsored by the University of Notre Dame, Princeton, and Stanford. The deadline for applications is October 31, 2025.  For further information on how to apply and the criteria, see:  https://apply.interf

Lane Baker (PhD Candidate, History) awarded Andy Kelly Prize

Awarded to: Lane B. Baker, “The Sound of Sin: Episcopal Noise Regulation in the Later Middle Ages,” Viator 52, no. 2.

Workshops and Research Groups

CMEMS sponsors and co-sponsors a wide range of workshops and research groups at Stanford!

Each of the research groups provide a range of possibilities for students and faculty to engage in discussion and debate about medieval and early modern scholarship. 

CMEMS Weekly Workshop

  • The focal point of CMEMS, this lunchtime workshop exists to engage the interdisciplinary cohort of medieval and early modern scholars at Stanford in an ongoing discussion and collaboration.

Medieval Studies Workshop

  • Organizing research workshops, reading groups, and medieval Latin lessons, this workshop serves graduate students at Stanford on any aspect of the Middle Ages broadly understood. 

Recent Happenings

Date
Wednesday, February 11, 2026. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
(450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305)
Room 252, German Studies Library
Speaker:
Luca Piccoli, Carla Mazzarelli

With a response from Paula Findlen. See the abstract and bios below. 

“The talk, part of the SNSF research project Visibility…

Date
Wednesday, February 4, 2026. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
(450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305)
Room 252, German Studies Library
Speaker:
Yafang Bao
Date
Monday, February 2, 2026. 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location
Building 200, History Corner
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 200, Stanford, CA 94305
307

Please join us for a reception at 7:00pm, with the lecture to follow at 7:30pm. 

Lord Sumption began his career as a medieval…

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