The Dynamic Middle Ages, Third International Doctoral Training School, The Centre for Medieval Studies of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, September 28–October 2, 2020

This announcement comes out in a highly uncertain period for all of us. Nowadays, any plans are aspirational and will have to be postponed, if the situation requires so.

Still, the Centre for Medieval Studies of the National Research University Higher School of Economics invites applications to the Third International Doctoral Training School ‘The Dynamic Middle Ages’ to be held in Moscow on 28 September - 1 October, 2020.

This is the third ‘Dynamic Middle Ages’ School, that follows the first meeting in Moscow in 2012 and the second, dual, programme in Moscow and Düsseldorf in 2014 and 2016 respectively.

The School is organised by the Higher School of Economics (Professor Mikhail Boytsov), with the support of the German Historical Institute in Moscow (Professor Sandra Dahlke).

The programme of the School will comprise series of discussions of research projects presented by doctoral students and a field seminar at a medieval site or museum in or around Moscow (TBA).

Invited scholars, who will deliver lectures and seminars and comment on the students’ papers, include: Professors Mikhail Dmitriev (Moscow), Verena Epp (Marburg), Johannes Helmrath (Berlin), Sergey Ivanov (Moscow), Klaus Oschema (Bohum), Steffen Patzold (Tübingen), Eva Schlottheuber (Düsseldorf), Hans-Joachim Schmidt (Fribourg).

The working language of the School is English.

Applications are invited from early-stage PhD students (1st and 2nd years of doctoral programmes at the moment of application) of the Latin European Middle Ages, Ancient Rus' and the 'Byzantine Commonwealth'.

Doctoral students based in Europe, broadly understood as to incorporate adjacent countries, are eligible. An applicant must have started their PhD programme at the time of application.