Registration for Always Here: Non-Binary Gender, Trans Identities, and Queerness in the Global Middle Ages is now live! Click the link on this post to head directly to the registration page. We can't wait to see you there! binghamton.nbsstore.net/cemers-confe...

We're so excited to announce our lineup for the Annual CEMERS Workshop Lecture Series and Calendar of events for fall 2025, including the 35th Bernardo Lecture! Mark your calendars for all of these fascinating discussions, and we can't wait to see you soon!

Join us on Wednesday (4/9) at 3pm in the IASH Conference Room for the next lecture of the CEMERS Spring Speaker Series by Laura Nasrallah (Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation, Yale Divinity School), “At the Limits of Language: Amulets, Curses, and Glossolalia.”

This Saturday!

check out this terrific cfp! 👇

Tomorrow afternoon!

Join us next Wednesday at 3pm in the IASH Conference Room for the next talk in our Spring 2025 speaker series: Mohamad Ballan's “Borderland Anxieties: Genealogy, Religion, and Sovereignty in Late Medieval Granada." Prof. Ballan is an Assistant Professor of History at Stony Brook University.

Join us next Wednesday (February 12th) at 3pm in the IASH Conference Room for our first lecture of the semester! Yasmine Seale of Columbia University will present The Ring of the Dove, a fascinating text on the nature of love from 11th-century Cordoba, and read from her translation.

We're hosting our next conference this coming October -- "Always Here: Non-Binary Gender, Trans Identities, and Queerness in the Global Middle Ages (c. 250-1650)." Please send us your abstracts!

Welcome Mediaevalia to BlueSky! I'm also now running the new BlueSky page for @cemersbinghamton.bsky.social's journal, Mediaevalia. The Journal has been publishing great work in the fields of medieval and early Renaissance studies since 1975. Join us here and now on Instagram: @MediaevaliaJournal

Be sure to give our journal, Mediaevalia, a follow on BlueSky and Instagram (@MediaevaliaJournal)! Stay tuned for more information on our latest issues and news related to the journal.

Here is a look at our Spring 2025 Speaker Series Calendar. Our first talk, “Love and Loss in Medieval Cordoba: On Translating The Ring of the Dove” by Yasmine Seale of Columbia University, will take place on 2/12 at 3pm in the IASH conference room. Stay tuned for the abstract and event poster!

CEMERS is now on BlueSky! I'm running the new account for the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies as the 24-25 GA for CEMERS and our journal, Mediaevalia. We're also on Facebook (Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies -BU - Cemers) and Instagram (@CEMERSBinghamton)

Binghamton University's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) is now on BlueSky! Join us here to learn more about our events, conferences, and talks throughout the Spring 2025 semester and beyond!