
Welcome to CMEMS, 2024-2025!

Weekly Workshop
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Upcoming Events
Date
Friday, May 23, 2025. 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Location
The Knoll
660 Lomita Court, Stanford, CA 94305
CCRMA Stage
660 Lomita Court, Stanford, CA 94305
CCRMA Stage
Cut Circle presents 187 syllables in ninety seconds, seventy-four names in eight minutes,…
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Date
Wednesday, June 4, 2025. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
News
Awarded to: Lane B. Baker, “The Sound of Sin: Episcopal Noise Regulation in the Later Middle Ages,” Viator 52, no. 2.
Professor Dorin's first book, No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe, has won the following prizes: Salo Baron Book Prize | American Academy for Jewish Research
A World Made by Travel: A Digital Grand Tour, published June 2024.
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
Tuesday, October 1, 2024. 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location
Building 260 (Pigott Hall), Room 252
Respondents: John Kieschnick (Religious Studies), Reviel Netz (Classics), and Elaine Treharne (English)

Date
Wednesday, August 21, 2024. 1:00pm - Friday, September 27, 2024. 5:00pm
Location
Green Library, Bing Wing, David Rumsey Map Center
459 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
459 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
In late July 1585, the Milanese noble Urbano Monte (1544-1613) decided to make an ambitious world map. The first Japanese embassy to Europe had…
Date
Wednesday, June 5, 2024. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
As always, the weekly workshop will be held in the German Studies Library in Pigott Hall (Bldg 260, Rm 252) from 12-1:15 PM with lunch provided.