CMEMS Workshop

The CMEMS Workshop exists to engage the interdisciplinary cohort of medieval and early modern scholars at Stanford in an ongoing discussion and collaboration.

The CMEMS lunchtime workshop was created by a group of scholars here at Stanford who wanted to gather to learn about and discuss a wide range of topics relevant to medieval and early modern studies. Visiting scholars join Stanford graduate students and faculty in sharing their work. 

Join us in Pigott Hall (building 260), Room 252 on Wednesdays at 12:00pm for stimulating discussions and wonderful papers. The workshops will always run from 12:00 to 1:15pm, but we recommend getting to the room a few minutes early to get settled! 

Our Fall 2025 schedule has been finalized: 

• October 1: Bissera Pentcheva (Stanford University)
  • The Pursuit of Heights: Romanesque Architecture, Aquitanian Notation, and the Office of Sainte-Foy at Conques
• October 8: Luca Scholz (University of Manchester)
  • Weather Modification in the Longue Durée
• October 15: Ann Marie Rasmussen (Duke University, Emerita)
  • What’s Cooking? How to Understand a Miniature Penis in a Pan
• October 22: Rowan Dorin & Anna Grzymała-Busse (Stanford University)
  • Bishops and Local State Formation in Medieval Europe, 1000-1400
• October 29: Luisa Farah Schwartzman (University of Toronto)
  • Unpacking “Race” and “Modernity”: Portuguese Imperial Expansion and Processes of Difference-Making at the Beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade
• November 5: Jakub Kozák (Charles University, Prague)
  • What Scribes Tell Us (and Don’t): Modelling Variation in Medieval Latin Colophons
• November 12: Elaine Treharne (Stanford University)
  • Medieval Male and Female Religious Institutions and their Scribal Practices
• November 19: Tzvi Luboshitz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  • Christianity through a Kabbalistic Lens: R. Moshe David Valle’s Reverse Anthropology
• December 3: Lucian Staiano-Daniels (Hoover Institution)
  • Wages of Empire: German Soldiers in the Dutch East India Company

The CMEMS Workshop Series is generously cosponsored by the Department of English for the 2025-26 academic year. We also thank the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages and other campus units for their continued support.  

To have your name added to our email list please write to our coordination team at cmemsinfo [at] stanford.edu (cmemsinfo[at]stanford[dot]edu).

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