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We offer updates about what the RGME is doing, what we plan, and how you might participate in our activities and contribute to our mission. Please send us suggestions for what to do and what to add.<\/p>\nWe offer updates about what the RGME is doing, what we plan, and how you might participate in our activities and contribute to our mission. Please send us suggestions for what to do and what to add.<\/p>\n
At the start of 2025, catching up after a series of set-backs with our website in 2024 through changes in the hosting-service, we offer an update for our activities accomplished in our 2024 Anniversary Year<\/strong> and planned for the Year 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n For the former, the Theme<\/strong> was “Bridges”<\/a>.<\/p>\n For the latter, the Theme<\/strong> is “Thresholds and Communities”.<\/p>\n London, British Museum. Door-sill carved as a carpet. From the North Palace of Ashurbanipal II at Nineveh, Iraq. Photograph (2014) Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n To open the year, we introduce the theme at Episode 19<\/strong> of our series “The Research Group Speaks”<\/a> (18 January 2025, online). We describe how the activities of the year have come into shape and offer reflections upon the power and potential of Thresholds<\/strong>, Portals<\/strong>, Gateways<\/strong>, and other Liminal Spaces<\/strong> as we construct meeting points for communities during the year’s activities.<\/p>\n The next Episodes are lined up for March and May:<\/p>\n Among our activities for the year, we prepare our Spring and Autumn Symposia, which focus on “Agents and Agencies” when it comes to books.<\/p>\n Other events await, variously in hybrid format or online.<\/p>\n To learn about Current Events<\/strong> in our RGME Eventbrite Collections<\/a>, where you can register for them, please visit:<\/p>\n There you can register for our events (online, in-person, and hybrid). For many of our events, registration is free. With registration, you can make a Volunteer Donation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n For more News, with a twist of opinions and observations, see:<\/p>\n News of projects, publications, and activities of RGME People outside RGME Events can be found on our Electronic Bulletin Board:<\/p>\n To join the Friends of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (it is free!), please visit:<\/p>\n You are welcome to join the Meetings of the Friends. See our Eventbrite Collection for these Meetings:<\/p>\n Consider donating funds or making contributions in kind (goods, pro-bono services) for our nonprofit educational organization powered principally by volunteers.<\/p>\n Join us!<\/p>\n “Study on a Medieval Bridge” at Amares, Braga District, Portugal. Image by Pedro Nuno Caetano (2019) via Wikimedia Commons via Creative Commons 2.0 Generic.<\/p><\/div>\n *****<\/p>\n This new, year-long project focuses upon Special Collections<\/strong> and Teaching for the Liberal Arts<\/strong>, in the interlinked pair of Spring and Autumn Symposia<\/strong> and their follow-up.<\/p>\n For this Project, Research Group Associate Hannah Goeselt<\/strong> (Hannah Goeselt<\/a> and Hannah Goeselt, Library Assistant<\/a>) has been appointed the part-time Intern Executive Assistant\/Associate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Congratulations!<\/p>\n To register for the Symposia and other RGME events, please visit:<\/p>\n For our activities in this RGME Anniversary Year, see:<\/p>\n Toledo, Castilla la Mancha, Spain, Puente de San Mart\u00edn, view from the north-west. Constructed in the late 14th century over the River Tagus. Photograph (24 May 2017) by \u0412\u0432\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0435\u043d\u043a\u043e\/Volodymyr Vlasenko via Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.<\/p><\/div>\n See these projects and events.<\/p>\n Save-the-Date Poster for 2024 Anniversary Symposium in Thanks to Jesse Hurlbut. Poster set in RGME Bembino.<\/p><\/div>\n Three co-sponsored Sessions 1. First, we gladly announce the<\/p>\n 2023 Spring Pre-Symposium\/Symposium Booklet Front Cover.<\/p><\/div>\n 2. Next, in a nutshell, a Summary of our Activities<\/strong>:<\/p>\n By now, our activities take various forms, online and in-person, after an interval since 2020 of online events only.\u00a0 Also, we prepare for our 2024 Anniversary Year<\/strong> to celebrate<\/p>\n Our events and planning throughout 2023 prepare the ground for the Anniversary celebrations in\u00a0 2024.\u00a0 Would you like to join the celebrations?<\/p>\n 3. Contributions to our Blogs<\/strong> include report our sponsored conference activities on the one hand, and on the other hand examine manuscripts and related materials.<\/p>\n In 2023, we welcome a new Guest Blogger, Hannah Goeselt, whose blogpost (October 2023) offers a guided tour to a 13th-century medieval manuscript and the online resources for studying it.<\/p>\n The first of our in-person activities since 2020 are the 2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/strong> (partly in-person and partly online, like 2024) and the 2024 Spring Symposium at Vassar College<\/strong> (hybrid).\u00a0 Other events are online.<\/p>\n Save-the-Date Poster for 2024 RGME Spring Symposium at Vassar College.<\/p><\/div>\n Some of the activities which we plan for 2024:<\/p>\n To attend our events, please register through our portal:<\/p>\n To contribute to our mission with donations in funds and in kind, please visit our pages which offer a convenient path:<\/p>\n Your donations and contributions support our nonprofit educational organization, which is powered principally by volunteers and voluntary donations. We are grateful for your support.<\/p>\n For information, Contact Us<\/a>.<\/p>\n Watch this Space!<\/p>\n Save-the-Date Poster for 2024 Anniversary Symposium in Thanks to Jesse Hurlbut. Poster set in RGME Bembino.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n For Older News, see:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To round out the Anniversary Year’s events, in December the Princeton Trustees of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence held a Trustees’ Meeting. We surveyed our Anniversary Year’s accomplishments. It was a stellar year! \u00a0We accomplished a wide range of activities, aided by contributions of many kinds. Keen to build upon this momentum, we addressed the plans, building upon them, for the next stages in 2015 and beyond.<\/p>\n\n
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News for 2023\u20132024<\/h1>\n
April 2024:<\/h2>\n
Announcement: Grant for 2024 Project
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\nBuilding Bridges between Special Collections and Teaching for the Liberal Arts”<\/li>\n
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\nInaugural Session sponsored by the RGME<\/li>\n
\nEpisode 16 on Saturday 15 June at 1:00 \u20132:30 pm EDT (GMT-4) by Zoom<\/li>\n
\nSaturday 26 October 2024 by Zoom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nHelp to support our work and mission:<\/h4>\n
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The 2015 Appeal<\/h2>\n