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
Medieval Academy of America
and the
Medieval Association of the Pacific
Annual
Meeting 2011
14 – 16
April 2011
2011 Tempe Meeting Addendum:
As you probably
know, the fate of the annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America for
2011, scheduled to be held in Arizona, was in question because of Arizona's
recently passed immigration law, SB1070, which many across the country found to
be morally and legally deeply flawed. On August 3, the Executive
Committee of the Academy voted to hold the meeting as planned for reasons that
the Committee explained in the statement posted on the Academy's website.
Because of this decision, we are extending the deadline for submissions of
papers to October 15. The Executive Committee and the local Program
Committee are working to ensure that the program of the meeting reflects and
relates to similar issues at stake in Arizona and in medieval society,
including such topics as race, ethnicity, immigration, tolerance, treatment of
minority groups, protest against governmental policies judged unjust, and
standards of judicial and legislative morality. We are particularly
interested now in receiving proposals on those topics, although we will still
consider proposals on any topic. Please consult the Academy's website (or visit
http://acmrs.org//conferences.html)
for an updated call for papers and instructions on how to submit your
proposals. If you have further questions about the Annual Meeting or the Call
for Papers, please contact Audrey Walters at acmrs@asu.edu or 480-965-5900.
The Executive Committee
The 2011 Program Committee
Online Submission
deadline extended to 15 October 2010:
http://cf.itergateway.org/medacad/conference/
Download Call for Papers
Conference Lodging:
Directions to register online for the
MAA 2011 group rates
or
call
Chaparral Suites Scottsdale
5001
N. Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale,
AZ 85250
800-494-3146
or 480-949-1414
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Annual
Meeting, Tempe, 2011: Call for Papers.
Extended deadline for submission is 15
October 2010.
The annual meeting of
the Medieval Academy of America will be held jointly with that of MAP (the
Medieval Association of the Pacific) at the Chaparral Suites Hotel (http://www.chaparralsuites.com/)
in Scottsdale, Arizona, 14-16 April 2011.
It will be hosted by ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies) at Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe.
The
Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all
disciplines and periods of medieval studies.
Given the Academy’s tradition of suggesting possible areas of investigation,
the Committee also offers the following for your consideration:
1.
Race and ethnicity
2.
Immigration
3.
Tolerance and treatment of
minority groups
4.
Protest against governmental
policies judged unjust
5.
Standards of judicial and
legislative morality
6.
Fiefs, feudal institutions,
and property holding
7.
Testaments and testamentary
acts, lay and clerical
8.
Liturgical reform and
innovation
9.
The crafting and creation of
liturgical lives and offices
10.
Reliquaries and their fates
11.
Color and color theory in art
and architecture
12.
Translation of scriptural and
devotional works: patrons and audiences
13.
Universities and their
involvement in secular politics
14.
Representative assemblies,
lay and clerical
15.
Periodization and the Middle
Ages: beginnings and endings
16.
The study of the Middle Ages
from the 17th through the 20th century
17.
The Medieval Mediterranean
18.
Ballads and balladry
19.
The Pope and the Church
in Literary and Artistic Representations
20.
Holy Women: Power and
Influence in Medieval Europe
21.
Musica as Mediatrix between
the Mortal and the Immortal
22.
Medical Texts: Authors,
Readership, Uses
23.
The Professionalization
of Medicine in the Medieval Period
24.
Chronicles and
Chroniclers in Medieval Europe
25.
The Exile in Medieval
Literature and Art
26.
Time, Remembrance, and
Its Representations
27.
Innovations in
Scientific Thought and Inquiry
28.
Animals and the
Animalistic
29.
The Garden, Gardening,
and Plants
30.
Conduct and Behavior in
the Middle Ages: Pro Forma and Explicit Guides
Any member of the Medieval Academy, except those who
presented papers at the annual meetings of the Medieval Academy in 2009 and
2010, and any member of MAP may submit a proposal. Please do not submit more than one proposal.
Sessions usually consist of three papers of thirty minutes
each, and proposals should be geared to this length. The Committee may choose a
different format for some sessions after the proposals have been reviewed. We shall try to develop sessions that (1)
address subjects of interest to a wide range of medievalists and (2) invite
scholars from different disciplines and periods into dialogue with one another.
We seek proposals for innovative papers and sessions and hope to see, wherever
possible, cross-disciplinary participation in a broad range of topics and of
periods.
Selection procedure. Proposals will be evaluated for promise of quality and
significance of topic. The Committee
will make final decisions by 5 November
2010. Notification of acceptance or regrets will be sent shortly
thereafter.
Submissions. Submit proposals online at http://cf.itergateway.org/medacad/conference/
which will be available from 15 January 2010 to 15 October 2010. Note that your statement of Academy or MAP membership (or statement that your specialty would not normally involve
membership in either organization) must be made at the end of your abstract,
If you wish to submit a hard-copy proposal instead, please
send two copies to the Committee
Chair, Robert E. Bjork, Director, ACMRS, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
85287-4402. The proposal must consist of
two parts: (1) a cover sheet containing the proposer’s name, professional
status and affiliation, postal address, home and office telephone numbers, fax
number (if available), e-mail address (if available), and paper title; (2) a
second sheet containing the proposer’s name, paper title, 250-word abstract,
statement of Academy or MAP membership (or statement that your specialty would
not normally involve membership in either organization), and audio-visual
equipment needs. If the proposer will be at a different address when decisions
are announced in November 2010, that address should be included. Please DO NOT send proposals to the Academy
office.
Session proposals. The Committee will consider proposals for entire sessions.
Please consult with the Committee Chair before preparing a proposal. Session
proposals require the same information as individual paper proposals; abstracts
for the papers in proposed sessions will be evaluated by the Committee.
Audio-visual equipment. Requests for audio-visual equipment must be made with
proposals.
Graduate Student Prizes.
The Medieval Academy will award up to seven
prizes of $300 each to graduate students for papers judged meritorious by the local
Committee. To be eligible for an award graduate students must, of course, be
members of the Medieval Academy and, once their proposed papers have been
accepted for inclusion in the program, must submit complete papers to the
Committee by 10 January 2011.
Program Committee. Robert E. Bjork, ACMRS (Chair); William F. Gentrup, ACMRS;
Carl Berkhout, English, University of Arizona, UA; Albrecht Classen, German
Studies, UA; Roger Dahood, English, UA (MAP representative); Georgiana Donavin,
Westminster College (MAP representative); Scott Kleinman, California State
University, Northridge (MAP Representative); Cynthia White, Classics, UA; Alyce
Jordan, Art History, Northern Arizona University; Karen Bollermann, English,
ASU; Catherine Saucier, Music, ASU; Corine Schleif, Art History, ASU; Juliann
Vitullo, Italian, ASU; Chauncey Wood, Adjunct Professor, ACMRS.
Local Arrangements Committee. Audrey
Walters, ACMRS (Chair); Robert E. Bjork, ACMRS; William F. Gentrup, ACMRS;
Karen Lackey, ACMRS.
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First
Undergraduate Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies in the United
States:
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