Welcome to CMEMS, 2025-2026!
Weekly Workshop
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Upcoming Events
April
15
Date
Wednesday, April 15, 2026. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
(450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305)
Room 252, German Studies Library
(450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305)
Room 252, German Studies Library
April
22
Date
Wednesday, April 22, 2026. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
(450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305)
Room 252, German Studies Library
(450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305)
Room 252, German Studies Library
This event has been cancelled.
April
29
Date
Wednesday, April 29, 2026. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
(450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305)
Room 252, German Studies Library
(450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305)
Room 252, German Studies Library
News
Simon Frisch (Music, Stanford) has been awarded the American Musicological Society's 2025 Paul A. Pisk Prize. The prize is awarded annually to two graduate music students for scholarly papers presented at the annual meeting of the Society.
Professor Rowan Dorin (History, Stanford) has been awarded the Medieval Academy of America's 2026 John Nicholas Brown Prize for his monograph, No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe (Princeton Univ. Press, 2023).
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.
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.
- 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.
- 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, April 15, 2026. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
(450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305)
Room 252, German Studies Library
(450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305)
Room 252, German Studies Library
Date
Tuesday, April 14, 2026. 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Rm 252
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Rm 252
Early Modernity Beyond the West continues during the spring quarter: Please join us for a talk by Professor Merry Wiesner-…
Date
Wednesday, April 8, 2026. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
(450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305)
Room 252, German Studies Library
(450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305)
Room 252, German Studies Library
With a response from…