In honor of Dr. Fauci's 80th birthday tomorrow, I proclaim Thursday, December 24, 2020, “Dr. Anthony S. Fauci Day” in Washington, DC. We are incredibly proud to count Dr. Fauci among the many DC residents who are sacrificing so much to keep our communities healthy and safe.

New: Pfizer expects to submit for US FDA emergency use authorization for its Covid-19 vaccine for children ages 2 to 11 years old in September, the company said.  The pediatric safety and efficacy study in children age 6 months to 11 years old is ongoing.

La corónica is pleased to announce that Prof. Sol Miguel-Prendes has received the 2021 La corónica International Book Award for her monograph, Narrating Desire: Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction in Fifteenth-Century Spain (U North Carolina P 2019) lcc.ku.edu/journal/winner…

If you’re in need of a little summer Alfonso, please join us, thank you to La corónica and KU Spanish & Portuguese.

Volume 49.1 now available on Project Muse, check out the TOC at lcc.ku.edu/journal/volume… including essays on the Libro de Alexandre, Libro de buen amor, Arcipreste de Talavera, la Lozana andaluza, and reviews of interest to Hispano-medievalists.

LLC Medieval Iberian and La corónica at MLA 2022, Washington, D.C., are sponsoring two sessions and a social event for attendees and guests. For more information, see lcc.ku.edu/announcements/…

Due to Omicron, LLC Medieval Iberian & La corónica have decided to cancel the Social Event at #MLA22 Come to the panels sponsored by the LLC Medieval Iberian now ONLINE: 629AV New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies & 290V Teaching the Female in Medieval & Early Modern Iberia

A few things have come out! @CFranquely and I just published the short essay "Whose digital middle ages?" for the JMIS issue "Connecting the Dots," ed. by Alicia Miguélez @ElsaDeLuca and Erika Loic. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The first in several futile attempts to pin down magic, this just came out in Revista Hispánica Moderna, "Talisman, Amulet, and Intention in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia," the rest of the journal issue is really fantastic! muse.jhu.edu/article/839299…

Don Juan Manuel making the rounds. On the heels of the recent article by Anita Savo, my article on the proverbs sections in the Conde Lucanor just came out, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos: Tomo 55, Número 3, Octubre 2021 muse.jhu.edu/issue/47285#.Y…

🗣️The whole special issue "Connecting the Dots. New Research Paradigms for Iberian Manuscripts as Material Objects" has been published today! Available at tandfonline.com/toc/ribs20/14/1 Thanks go to @ElsaDeLuca Heather Bamford @CFranquely Aengus Ward Pablo Acosta-García qwesterby

2023 MLA Sessions CFP Organized by LLC Medieval Iberian New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies The Labor of Care in Medieval Iberian Literature and Literary Studies Visit lcc.ku.edu/announcements/… for details, deadlines, and contact links.

This is a twenty-first century phenomenon as well, except the comely and charming woman is not a spouse, but rather a professor working in the department, underpaid to male counterparts, and serving the department and university to the detriment of their scholarship.

2023 MLA Sessions Organized by LLC Medieval Iberian. CFP, session organizers, and submission deadlines available at lcc.ku.edu/announcements/… Please circulate and publicize.

Travelers, the best kind of critics.

Next Monday May 2 at 4.00pm CST the Early Modern Mediterranean Workshop at UChicago will host a conversation via zoom between myself and @davidwacks (U of Oregon) about his recent "Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction and the Mediterranean World." Message me for link!

This year at #Kzoo2022, we are highlighting Alone Together by Henry Berlin. Alone Together reveals the political, ethical, and poetic dimensions of this phenomenon. Read more: bit.ly/3KrNsM3 International Congress on Medieval Studies #MedievalTwitter

Join us in congratulating Nadia R. Altschul, winner of the 2022 La corónica Book Award, for "Politics of Temporalization: Medievalism and Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century South America" (U Pennsylvania P, 2020). See wmich.edu/medievalcongre… for more information.

Heather Bamford @CFranquely Seb Dows-Miller @cesare_blanc Aylin Malcolm Article link: doi.org/10.1080/175465… For more info, resources, and a transcript, visit our website: codingcodices.com

Join us in congratulating the 2023 "La corónica" Book Award, Henry Berlin (SUNY Buffalo) for his monograph "Alone Together: Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia" (U of Toronto P, 2021). wmich.edu/medievalcongre…