Welcome to CMEMS, 2025-2026!
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News
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.
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
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.
- 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, October 8, 2025. 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
Speaker:
Luca Scholz
With a response from Federico Cortigiani. See the abstract below:
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Wednesday, October 1, 2025. 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
Speaker:
Bissera Pentcheva
With a response from Ana Nuñez. See the abstract below:
"With rare…
Date
Thursday, September 25, 2025. 4:30pm - 5:30pm
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
What can medieval monks teach us about the mind today—and what can modern psychology and anthropology reveal about medieval mental practices? For…