Welcome to CMEMS, 2025-2026!
Weekly Workshop
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Upcoming Events
January
21
Date
Wednesday, January 21, 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: Caitlin Hubbard
January
21
Date
Wednesday, January 21, 2026. 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
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450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
216
Please join the upcoming Slavic Colloquium talk entitled “The Politics and Epistemology of Demonic Apparitions in Early Modern Ukraine (1620–1688…
January
28
Date
Wednesday, January 28, 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: Bénédicte Sère
News
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.
Applications are now open for the Rome Archive Seminar 2026 sponsored by the University of Notre Dame, Princeton, and Stanford. The deadline for applications is October 31, 2025. For further information on how to apply and the criteria, see: https://apply.interf
Awarded to: Lane B. Baker, “The Sound of Sin: Episcopal Noise Regulation in the Later Middle Ages,” Viator 52, no. 2.
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, January 14, 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:
Robert Pogue Harrison
With a response from Linden Hogarth (English, Stanford).
Date
Tuesday, January 13, 2026. 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
252
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
252
Join us for the first seminar, on Tuesday, January 13, at 4:30pm in Pigott Hall 252 for a…
Date
Thursday, January 8, 2026. 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Location
Barchas Room, Green Library
(459 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305)
(459 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305)
CMEMS teams up with Special Collections for the annual Winter Showcase! Join us to peruse an array of new acquisitions of…