Arizona
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Arizona State
University, P.O. Box 874402, Tempe, AZ 85287-4402
Phone: (480) 965-5900 Fax: (480) 965-1681
11th
Annual ACMRS Conference
"Feast, Famine, and Fasting: Food and Material Consumption in Medieval
and Renaissance Culture"
17-19 February 2005
2005
Program
Conference Registration Form ( Word
or pdf)
Grand
Canyon Tour Registration Form
The setting of the 2005 annual conference will be the Fiesta Inn Resort, 2100 S. Priest Dr. in Tempe. The conference room rate is $125 (before tax) for a single or double and $10 more per person for triple or quadruple (before tax). Early booking is recommended; to get the special rate, let them know that you will be attending the ACMRS conference.
The hotel is situated close to ASU as well as numerous attractions in Phoenix, Scottsdale and Tempe, and is approximately 15 minutes from Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport. The high temperature in the "Valley of the Sun" during February averages 70 degrees Fahrenheit (21 degrees Celsius).
The conference registration fee is $80 ($45 for Students) and includes welcoming and concluding receptions, two days of concurrent sessions (Friday and Saturday), and the keynote address by Michel Jeanneret, Director of the Department of Modern French at the University of Geneva. Professor Jeanneret is the author of, among many other works, A Feast of Words: Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance [Traduction du précédent]. University of Chicago Press and Polity Press (Cambridge), 1991. He has also published numerous articles about food and consumption in the Renaissance. Please note that there will be an opening reception in the evening on Thursday, but there will be no sessions that day.
The conference will also host The Medieval
Book: A Workshop in Codicological Practice. This pre-conference half-day workshop
will happen during the afternoon of Thursday, February 17. Led by Richard
Clement of the University of Kansas Spencer Library, the workshop will focus
on the making of the medieval codex. Participants will discuss the production
of parchment, paper, pens, and ink, and then will make several quires in preparation
for writing. Note: This workshop does not cover scripts and is not calligraphic.
If you would like to participate in this workshop send an email to acmrs@asu.edu
with "codicology workshop" as the subject. The workshop has
been canceled.
New Directions 2: The Early Middle Ages Today, sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies at Harvard
Pacific Northwest
Renaissance Society Conference, May 5 - 7, 2005 in Banff, Alberta, Canada