News

Members will be delighted to know that, when so many other organizations are suffering, AARHMS is excited to be launching a series of new programs designed to help promote scholarship on the Medieval Iberian world.

Details will be coming soon from the Secretary-Treasurer, Miguel Gomez, who will be spearheading these new projects, with help from the executive board and with the continued support of active and involved members.

An announcement from the organizers of the annual Royal Studies Network's Kings & Queens Conference:

We are delighted to announce that the call for papers for Kings & Queens 6: ‘In the Shadow of the Throne’ is now open. The conference will be held in Madrid, hosted by UNED and will take place 12-15 September 2017. Deadline for proposals is 30 March 2017 and please note that we have 20 bursaries for postgraduate students and early career scholars. Full details can be found on the Royal Studies Network website: http://www.royalstudiesnetwork.org/k-q-conference-series

If your research intersects with queenship and/or royal studies you might be interested in the Royal Studies Journal/CCCU prize scheme. We offer two prizes, one for the best monograph in the field and another specifically for postgraduate students/early career scholars for the best article/chapter. The prize is £50 and for the article/chapter prize, the winning piece will be published in our open access electronic journal. Prizes will be conferred at the K&Q6 conference in Madrid and submissions are now open-deadline for nominations is 15 May 2017. For more information on the prizes, including the guidelines and nomination forms, seehttp://www.rsj.winchester.ac.uk/index.php/rsj/pages/view/CCCU

News from our sister society, the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, about their annual round of prizes :

The ASPHS offers three prizes for excellence in scholarship in Iberian history. To be eligible, authors must be current members of the ASPHS. All prizes have a call for submissions in the fall of each year and are awarded the following spring.

On a three-year rotation, the Association offers a prize for the best dissertation award, the best first article award, and best first book award. Prizes carry an honorarium of $250. Click here for more information on this year’s award and call for submissions.

In 2007 ASPHS held the first competition for the A.H. de Oliveira Marques Prize in Portuguese History. The prize was created through an endowment from Dr. Harold Johnson, and it carries an honorarium of $250. Click here for more information on the Oliveira Marques prize and call for submissions.

The annual Bishko Prize, in honor of Professor Charles Julian Bishko, recognizes the best article on medieval Iberian history published by a North American scholar. The prize carries an honorarium of $250. Click here for more information on the Bishko Prize and call for submissions.

The American Academy in Rome supports innovative artists, writers, and scholars living and working together in a dynamic international community. Founded in 1894, the Academy is the oldest American overseas center for independent study and advanced research in the arts and humanities. A not-for-profit, privately funded institution, the Academy awards the Rome Prize to thirty emerging artists and scholars who represent the highest standard of excellence and who are in the early or middle stages of their working lives. The winners are invited to Rome to pursue their work in an atmosphere conducive to intellectual and artistic experimentation and interdisciplinary exchange. The Rome Prize consists of room and board, a stipend ($28,000 for full-term fellowships; $16,000 for half-term fellowships) and separate work space, and privileged access to Rome. Rome Prize winners are the core of the Academy's residential community, which also includes Affiliated Fellows, Residents and Visiting Artists and Visiting Scholars.

The deadline for the nationwide Rome Prize competition is Tuesday, November 1, 2016. Applications will also be accepted between November 2-15, 2016. 

AARHMS Call for Papers (Leeds International Congress, 3-6 July 2017): Roundtable, “Alterity in Medieval Iberia”

As part of its ongoing commitment to research, scholarship, and community-building among scholars of the Medieval Iberian and Western Mediterranean worlds, the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS) plans to host a roundtable at the 2017 International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds.

We seek welcome participants interested in addressing any form(s) of otherness/alterity, as they relate to culture and gender, religion and ethnicity, or the (ins)significance of frontiers, and to any parts of the Iberian Peninsula. We welcome encourage early career researchers as well as more advanced scholars. Send a working title and very short abstract indicating themes you wish to address by September 27 to simon.r.doubleday@hofstra.edu or Kyle.Lincoln@kzoo.edu

Participants should ensure their membership of AARHMS in advance of the International Medieval Congress.

AARHMS (the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain) is delighted to initiate a new blog series, accessible to fully-paid-up members of our organization, in which guest authors report on their research activities across the globe. Our very first blogger, Tom Devaney (University of Rochester), writes to us from Helsinki, and describes for us the resources and opportunities of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS), where he has been spending a sabbatical year. In addition to the academic and intellectual information he provides, Tom offers some fascinating glimpses into adjusting to life in Finland with a family (“it’s common to see seven-year-olds navigating the city on their own”!) and undercuts the myth of Scandinavian reserve, emphasizing the warm reception he has received in Helskini.  

We welcome volunteers for new blogs from across the globe. AARHMS currently has social media followers from most Latin American countries, and a number in Asia (from Iran to Mongolia and beyond). We would prefer blogs to be written in English, but would consider submissions in Spanish and Portuguese as well. We would be delighted to discuss possibilities with you; Tom Devaney’s model, well-illustrated with photos and replete with hyperlinks, provides an excellent model. To contribute you need not necessarily be an AARHMS member, although would we encourage this. Please write to simon.r.doubleday@hofstra.edu if you are interested.

Members will be delighted to hear that the HISPANEX Program (heir to the Ministry for Cultural Cooperation grants) has been renewed for another year.

The convocatoria went out recently, and the necessary details are to be found in the Boletín de Estado, here. 

Interested members can begin the process at the Program's own site. 

N.B. You must first obtain a clave de acesso before entering the site and completing the application. 

A final call for submissions. 

You need to be an ASPHS member by the deadline, but it's easy and inexpensive to sign up (http://asphs.net/membership.html):

The Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies solicits submissions for the annual Charles Julian Bishko Memorial Prize for the best article published in 2014 or 2015 in the field of medieval Iberian history by a North American scholar. Initiated in 2003, the Bishko Prize honors Professor Charles Julian Bishko, the distinguished historian of medieval Iberia who taught for 39 years at the University of Virginia. This year's prize, which carries an honorarium of $250, will be announced at the 2016 annual meeting of ASPHS in San Diego, California. Articles may be written in Castilian, English, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese or French. Authors must be current members of the ASPHS. Authors should submit one copy of the article and a short (2-page) CV in PDF form to each member of the committee via email by 31 December, 2015. Please direct queries to the chair of the prize committee.

Marie Kelleher, California State Univ. Long Beach: M.Kelleher@csulb.edu
Hussein Fancy, University of Michigan: fancy@umich.edu
Tom Barton, University of San Diego: barton@sandiego.edu

The Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies solicits submissions for the annual Charles Julian Bishko Memorial Prize for the best article published in 2014 or 2015 in the field of medieval Iberian history by a North American scholar. Initiated in 2003, the Bishko Prize honors Professor Charles Julian Bishko, the distinguished historian of medieval Iberia who taught for 39 years at the University of Virginia. This year's prize, which carries an honorarium of $250, will be announced at the 2016 annual meeting of ASPHS in San Diego, California. Articles may be written in Castilian, English, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese or French. Authors must be current members of the ASPHS. Authors should submit one copy of the article and a short (2-page) CV in PDF form to each member of the committee via email by31 December, 2015.  Please direct queries to the chair of the prize committee.

Marie Kelleher, California State Univ. Long Beach:  M.Kelleher@csulb.edu
Hussein Fancy, University of Michigan: fancy@umich.edu
Tom Barton, University of San Diego: barton@sandiego.edu

The 2014-2015 Charles Julian Bishko Memorial Prize went to Glaire D. Anderson, "Sign of the Cross: Contexts for the Ivory Cross of San Millán de la Cogolla," Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 6:1 (Jan. 2014), 15-41.