
Welcome to CMEMS, 2024-2025!

Weekly Workshop
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Upcoming Events
April
23
Date
Wednesday, April 23, 2025. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
April
30
Date
Wednesday, April 30, 2025. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
May
7
Date
Wednesday, May 7, 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
Monday, December 2, 2024. 5:30pm
Of all the hymnographers whose works appear in the liturgical books of Byzantium, only one—Kassia—was a woman. Living in ninth-century Byzantium…

Date
Friday, November 22, 2024. 9:00am
The Momentum of Grief: Mary at the Cross in The Life of the Virgin by John Geometres
After an initial discussion…

Date
Wednesday, November 20, 2024. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
The weekly workshop is held in the German Studies Library in Pigott Hall (Bldg 260, Rm 252) from 12-1:15 PM on Wednesdays. Lunch is provided.
[co-sponsored by History Dept]