The Medieval Academy of America
The Medieval Academy of America offers many opportunities for novice and tried medievalists alike. One particularly helpful resource is the mailing list that has been created for graduate students. Here is what the MAA has to say about it:
"The Academy's Graduate Student Committee maintains two listserves, with the help and support of the University of Pennsylvania. The first, Med-Grad, is a listserve for any graduate student member interested in the Middle Ages. The second, Euro-Med-Grad, is designed to bring together graduate medievalists working in the U.K. and continental Europe. While this list will predominantly include student members whose university affiliations are outside North America, we also welcome those whose research interests, national backgrounds, and conference travel plans are situated in a European context.
To join either list, please send a message to listproc@ccat.sas.upenn.edu with the command "subscribe med-grad (add your name without parentheses)" for the med-grad listserve or "subscribe euro-med-grad (add your name without parentheses)" for the euro-med-grad listserve. Once subscribed, you can post messages to the lists at the following addresses:
med-grad@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
euro-med-grad@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
To make changes to your subscription, you will need to send plain-text commands to listproc@ccat.sas.upenn.edu. You will find a complete list of commands and instructions at http://listproc.sourceforge.net/manuals.html."
UPenn
The University of Pennsylvania offers a CFP database in which students and faculty alike can find relevant conferences. Though, in the past, the site offered a Listserv function, it no longer does so—however, the word on the street (and on the UPenn page) is that the Listserv function will return in the future. Nevertheless, the archive is still fully searchable.
Here is what UPenn has to say about the page:
"Announcements can include upcoming conferences, panels, essay collections, and special journal issues related to English and American literature, and can include calls for completed papers, abstracts, and proposals. The boundaries are flexible: all English-language literatures, cultural studies, literary theory, bibliography, humanities computing, and comparative literature (even when not concerned specifically with English or American literature) are within the pale. Conferences or panels devoted exclusively to literature not in English, to music or art, to history, etc., are excluded unless they are relevant to students of English and American literature, as are lecture series, regular meetings of small local societies, fellowship opportunities, etc. Essay competitions and prizes are excluded unless they will result directly in publication or presentation of a paper. Calls for creative writing are also excluded. Due to the volume of postings and the fact that each posting must be approved and edited by hand, the CFP list and web archive is only for calls for papers, not for general conference announcements."—(http://cfp.english.upenn.edu/cfp.html)
For more information about the Listserv visit the University of Pennsylvania.