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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.

Members may be interested to know that a new volume of the journal, Erasmo has appeared in circulation (and is available here.) The journal's successful first and second volumes suggest an additional venue for contributions ot the study of Medieval Iberia, and members are invited to consult the journal's homepage for more information about the underlying project that supports it. One brief highligh from this volume: a contribution from the distinguished former AARHMS President, Teo Ruiz, is included .

Additionally, Erasmo, Revista de Historia Bajomedieval y Moderna's Call For Articles is now open for its third number. Erasmo is an open-acess and peer-review journal whose headquarters are located at the University of Valladolid (Spain). We accept original papers focused on case studies or longue-durée essays related to the European and American contexts between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. The theme of the issue is miscellaneous, covering different topics that include, though are not limited to, History, Art History, Literature, or Musicology. The articles, including footnotes, tables, figures and appendices may not exceed 75,000 characters. Especially welcome are interdisciplinary perspectives and new methodological contributions to each discipline. For more information please contact as at revista.erasmo.fyl@uva.es

A valuable web site, associated with a CSIC research project on "Knowledge, Heresy and Political Culture in the Islamic West" (eighth to fifteenth centuries): http://kohepocu.cchs.csic.es/

Congratulations to Simon Doubleday (Hofstra University) and Miguel Gómez (University of Dayton) on their election as president and secretary-treasurer, respectively, of AARHMS.  Their three-year terms will begin in 2015. 

Voting for new AARHMS officers is open until 1 December 2014.  Only active (paid) members are eligible to vote, and have received an email with a URL link to the ballot.