Welcome to CMEMS, 2025-2026!
Weekly Workshop
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Upcoming Events
May
20
Date
Wednesday, May 20, 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
May
27
Date
Wednesday, May 27, 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
May
28
Date
Thursday, May 28, 2026. 12:00pm - 1:30pm
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
Our last meeting will take place on Thursday, May 28, at 12-1:30pm, in 260-252. Join us to celebrate the end of the series: …
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 1, 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…
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
(450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305)
Room 252, German Studies Library
Speaker:
Mahel Hamroun
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
(450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305)
Room 252, German Studies Library
Speaker:
Philip Russell Hardie