Congratulations to Alex Kaczenski and Sam Truman on passing their doctoral exams with flying colors! Alex and Sam were joined by the alumna Mia Hafer and the honorary medievalist Delilah for a little celebration in Prof. Gertsman's back yard.
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At long last, the CMA is opened for small special tours, and the first such tour was offered by Dr. Gerhard Lutz to CWRU medievalists, who convened today at the Treasures from Münster Cathedral. The extraordinary collection of reliquaries is on display through 8/14/2022 and will form an integral part of the next course in the Global Middle Ages series, which will be co-taught by Prof. Gertsman and Dr. McCormick next spring.
Join us for the latest installment of the project Abstraction Before the Age of Abstract Art, jointly administered by the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Case Western Reserve University! The symposium on June 16th, organized and introduced by Prof. Elina Gertsman and her colleague at EHESS...
Celebrate the end of the spring semester with UCITE and engage with Glennan Fellows and Nord Grant recipients — including Prof. Gertsman who received the Nord grant for her innovative course on medieval Jewish art — to learn about their projects and how they are empowering people to learn. Our virtual Teaching & Learning Colloquium will take place Friday, May 14 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Register HERE for the event.
Congratulations to Professor Elina Gertsman who will be the professeure invitée at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris in 2022 and 2023! Each year, EHESS invites outstanding researchers from around the world to give talks and seminars in Paris within the framework of international scholarly...
Join us for the many papers presented by the CWRU graduate students and alumni at the International Congress for Medieval Studies! Among them are Reed O’Mara, Ben Levy, and Julia LaPlaca (MA, 2020), speaking about medieval Hebrew manuscripts, and Kristen Herdman (MA, 2016) presenting on Medingen Prayer Books. Click below to learn more about their papers or go directly to see the full program here.
Click here to register for Prof. Gertsman’s lecture, “Animal Affinities,” which will considers a striking Hebrew manuscript as a nucleus of images and ideas that coalesce around medieval Jewish identity. Professor Gertsman is recipient of the 2021 Baker-Nord Center Award for Distinguished Scholarship in the Humanities, which recognizes outstanding achievement in a field of humanistic scholarship.
The episcopal city of Hildesheim in northern Germany was one of the most important centers in Central Europe between about 1000 and 1250. It was home to a host of extraordinary medieval objects, such as the bronze doors of the cathedral, as well as innovative buildings, such as the...
Congratulations to this year’s Friends of Art Awards winners, Reed O’Mara, Mackenzie Clark, and Bing Wang!
Congratulations to Ben Levy, who has been appointed an officer of The Association of Print Scholars! APS is one of the primary professional organizations that encourage innovative and interdisciplinary methodological approaches to the history of printmaking. Ben will be responsible for developing and implementing programming for his 2021-2022 term....
Congrats to Reed who will be giving two conference papers this spring. One, "The Monstrous Script: Instances of Pseudo-Hebrew in Fifteenth-Century German Prints," will be presented at the Medieval Academy of America's annual meeting, Saturday, 17 April, at 11:00 EDT. Another, "'The voice is the voice of Jacob, but...
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities has announced that the recipient of its 2020-21 Award for Distinguished Scholarship in the Humanities is Elina Gertsman, the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II and Professor of Art History. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in a field of humanistic scholarship. ...