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
12th Annual ACMRS Conference
Poverty
and Prosperity, the Rich and the Poor in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
16 - 18 February 2006
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The 12th Annual ACMRS Conference will be held 16-18 February 2006 at the Embassy Suites Hotel Phoenix-Tempe. Sessions will be held all day Friday and Saturday, 17 and 18 February. Thursday's conference activities will be limited to registration and the opening reception.
The conference keynote speaker will be Mark R. Cohen, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Professor Cohen's research focuses on the history of Jews living in Arab lands in the Middle Ages, and he has just completed a study of poverty and charity in the Geniza period. You may learn more about him at http://www.princeton.edu/~nes/profiles/cohen.htm
Before the conference, ACMRS will host a "Workshop on Manuscript Studies" to be led by Timothy Graham, Director of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of New Mexico. The workshop will be Thursday afternoon, February 16, and the limited number of participants will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. E-mail acmrs @asu.edu, with "conference workshop" as the subject line to be added to the list.
The conference registration fee is $80 ($45 for students) and includes welcoming and concluding receptions, two days of concurrent sessions (Friday and Saturday), and keynote address. Please note that there will be an opening reception in the evening on Thursday, but there will be no sessions that day. The high temperature in the "Valley of the Sun" during February averages 70 degrees Fahrenheit (21 degrees Celsius).
The conference hotel is the Embassy Suites Hotel, 4400 South Rural Road, Tempe, AZ 85282. The phone number is 1-800-362-2779 (toll free), 480-897-7444 (local), and the fax number is 480-897-6830. To get the conference room rate ($139 before tax), let them know that you will be attending the ACMRS Conference (group code ACM). There is no additional charge for double, triple, or quadruple occupancy, and breakfast is included daily. Reservations are due by January 20, 2006, and we recommend that you book your room early.
Questions about the conference? Call 480-965-9323
or email acmrs@asu.edu.
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