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 Spring 2026 schedule has been finalized:
- April 1: Doriane Zerka (University of Cambridge)
- Retracing Agency: Medieval Women Between Literature and Scholarship
- April 8: E. Michael Gerli (Emeritus, University of Virginia; ILAC, Stanford)
- Imperial Anxieties: The Thirteenth-Century Castilian Vernacular Libro de Alexandre and Alfonso X of Castile and Leon
- April 15: Ron Egan (EALC, Stanford)
- The Tyranny of Literary Genres: the Case of Su Dongpo 蘇東坡 (1037-1101)
- April 22: Filippo de Vivo (University of Oxford)
- Between Bacon and Galileo: The Culture of Cross-Confessional Politics in Seventeenth-Century Venice and England
- April 29: Valentina Serio (History, Stanford)
- Tommaso Garzoni's Menagerie of the World's Marvels in Context
- May 6: Joshua Freed (University of Houston)
- The Limits of Sacred Space: Pollution, Scandal, and the Juridical Architecture of the Medieval Church
- May 13: Tom Barton (University of San Diego)
- The Anxiety of Sameness in Late Medieval Spain
- May 20: Katrina Olds (University of San Francisco)
- A Picaresque History of Ideas in the Late Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic
- May 27: Birgit Lodes (University of Vienna; Europe Center, Stanford)
- Voicing the Family: Mourning, Consolation and Identificatory Singing in O mater nostra for Queen Anna (1547)
- June 3: Björn Buschbeck (University of Zürich)
- 'Small Violence': Scenes of Physical Insult in Medieval German Literature
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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