New student awards honor Medieval studies faculty
Medieval Studies has created new prizes for students.
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Since 1966, Cornell’s Program in Medieval Studies has combined the best aspects of an interdisciplinary program with the focused training required for academic careers in a variety of traditional disciplines. The Program’s faculty are drawn from nearly every humanities department at Cornell; together, they offer expertise in a wide array of disciplines and area studies spanning more than a millennium of languages and cultures—from Old and Middle English literature to Byzantine monuments; from Viking studies to Andalusian architecture; from Chinese intellectual history to Islamic legal history.
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Student Groups
The Medieval Studies Graduate Association (MSGA) is an independent entity. Its funds are purely and wholly for the disposal of its own working brief. The MSGA is dedicated to being a forum for sustained discussion and debate within the student medievalist body on campus and to strengthening connectivity between these students.
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The Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (MSSC) is an independent organization dedicated to showcasing the ideas and research of the medievalist graduate student community at Cornell and the wider world, and to strengthening the connectivity between these medievalists.
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Quodlibet provides a lively forum for all those interested in all things medieval on campus, and organizes a series of lectures to highlight current research topics relating to medieval studies.
Medieval Language Reading Groups
Fall 2024
| Language | Day and time (all times listed as Eastern/Ithaca time) | Location | Group leaders |
| Latin | Wednesdays 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Goldwin Smith Hall 162 | Andrew Hicks (ajh299) |
| Old French | Wednesdays 4:00 - 5:00 pm (excluding Roundtable weeks) | Goldwin Smith Hall 162 | Chiara Visentin (cv284) |
| Old English | Mondays 1:30 - 2:30 pm | TBA | Hunter Phillips (hap48) Lars Johnson (log6) |
| Middle English | Tuesdays 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Olin Library Room 403 | Ryanne Berry (rrb247) Ryan Randle (rar348) |
| Old Norse Icelandic | Wednesdays 2:00 - 3:00 pm | Zoom | Tom Hill (tdh1) |
News
Alice Wolff, Ph.D. Candidate in Medieval Studies, publishes article in Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
Alice Wolff, current Medieval Studies graduate student, publishes her article "A thorny problem: defining weeds from the medieval to the present" in Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
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Crowdfunding launch supports Ways of Knowing podcast at Cornell
A crowdfunding campaign launched Nov. 1 to support a Cornell-based season of "Ways of Knowing,” a new podcast created by The World According to Sound.
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Conference considers medicine from historical standpoint
The Nov. 2 conference will focus on an interdisciplinary approach.
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Sophia D'Ignazio, Ph.D. 2022, publishes article in Journal of English and Germanic Philology
Sophia D'Ignazio, Cornell Medieval Studies Ph.D. 2022, publishes her article "Schoolgirl Grammar: Reading and Writing Beyond the Classroom" in Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 123.4.
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LaVoy-Brunette and Chauncy publish in Medieval Ecocriticisms
Sarah LaVoy-Brunette and Jordan Chauncy, Ph.D. candidates in Medieval Studies, have published a co-authored article, "Settler Fantasies and Queer Disruptions: A Nonbinary Reading of Gerald’s Wolves," in Medieval Ecocriticisms 4 (2024).
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A&S announces membership in MLA Strategic Partnership Network
“We felt this is an important resource that should be available to our humanists at all levels, whether they have the resources to pay for membership or not,” said Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.
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CfP: 2025 Cornell Medieval Studies Student Colloquium: Dissonance and Dysphoria
The Medieval Studies program at Cornell is pleased to announce the 35th annual Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (MSSC), which will take place in person at Cornell University in the A.D. White House on Saturday, February 22nd 2025.
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