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
15th Annual ACMRS Conference
The Five Senses
in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
12 - 14 February 2009 in Tempe, Arizona
The conference will be held at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, Tempe, Arizona. Please make your reservations early if you would like to stay there by calling 1-800-368-7764. Tell them you will be attending the ACMRS Conference to get the special rate of $135.00 plus tax.
Selected papers related to the conference theme will be considered for publication in the conference volume of the Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance series, published by Brepols Publishers (Belgium).
The conference
keynote speaker will be Stephen G. Nichols, James M. Beall Professor of French
and Humanities and Chair of the Romance Languages and Literatures Department at
The Johns Hopkins University. Among his many publications are Rethinking the Medieval Senses: Heritage /
Fascinations / Frames, ed. with Andreas Kablitz and Alison Calhoun (Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2007), Mimesis:
From Mirror to Method, Augustine to Descartes, ed. with John D. Lyons (The
Davies Group, 2005), and Romanesque
Signs: Early Medieval Narrative and Iconography (Yale University Press,
1985). His two current publications are Seeing Voices: On Reading Troubadour Poetry
(forthcoming), and Laughing Matters: The
Enigma and Exasperation of Laughter (University of Chicago Press, in
progress).
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 12, and participation will be limited to 25 participants, who will be determined by the order in which registrations are received. Email acmrs@asu.edu with "conference workshop" as the subject line to be added to the list. The cost of the workshop is $15 and is in addition to the regular conference registration fee.
The conference registration fee is $90 ($45 for students) if you register by 16 January 2009; after that date the registration fee increases by $10. The fee includes welcoming and farewell receptions, two days of concurrent sessions (Friday and Saturday), and keynote address. Please note that there will be an opening reception Thursday evening, but there will be no sessions that day.
Questions? Call 480-965-9323 or email acmrs@asu.edu.
First
Undergraduate Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies in the United
States:
Discipuli Juncti: Students Connected through the Middle Ages and Renaissance