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 / Medieval Association of
the Pacific
Annual
Meeting 2011
14 – 16
April 2011
Online Submission 15
January - 15 May 2010:
http://cf.itergateway.org/medacad/conference/
Download Call for Papers
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Annual Meeting, Tempe, 2011: Call for Papers.
Deadline for submission is 15 May 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://chaparralsuites2-px.trvlclick.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. Fiefs, feudal
institutions, and property holding
2. Testaments and
testamentary acts, lay and clerical
3. Liturgical reform and
innovation
4. The crafting and
creation of liturgical lives and offices
5. Reliquaries and their fates
6. Color and color theory
in art and architecture
7. Translation of
scriptural and devotional works: patrons and audiences
8. Universities and their
involvement in secular politics
9. Representative
assemblies, lay and clerical
10. Periodization and the
Middle Ages: beginnings and endings
11. The study of the Middle
Ages from the 17th through the 20th century
12. The Medieval
Mediterranean
13. Ballads and balladry
14. The Pope and the Church in Literary and Artistic
Representations
15. Holy Women: Power and Influence in
Medieval Europe
16. Musica as Mediatrix between the
Mortal and the Immortal
17. Medical Texts:
Authors, Readership, Uses
18. The Professionalization of Medicine
in the Medieval Period
19. Chronicles and
Chroniclers in Medieval Europe
20. The Exile in
Medieval Literature and Art
21. Time, Remembrance,
and Its Representations
22. Innovations in
Scientific Thought and Inquiry
23. Animals and the Animalistic
24. The Garden,
Gardening, and Plants
25. Conduct and Behavior in the Middle Ages: Pro Forma and
Explicit Guides
26. Politics and the Peasantry
27. The Social Functions of Urban
Confraternities
28. Masters and Apprentices
29. The Medieval Labor Market
30. The Domestic Economy
31. The Family as a Moral Unit
32. New Perspectives on Medieval Agriculture
33. Maidservants and Single women
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 15
September 2010. Notification of acceptance or regrets will be sent shortly
thereafter.
Submissions.
Proposals should be
submitted online at http://cf.itergateway.org/medacad/conference/
which will be available
from 15 January 2010 to 15 May 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 September 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);
Cynthia White, Classics, UA; Alyce Jordan, Art History, Northern Arizona
University; Karen Bollermann, English, ASU; Monica Green, History, ASU; Richard
Newhauser, English, ASU; Catherine Saucier, Music, ASU; Corine Schleif, Art
History, ASU; Juliann Vitullo, Italian, ASU; Rosalynn Voaden, English, ASU;
Chauncey Wood, Adjunct Professor, ACMRS.
Local Arrangements
Committee. Audrey Walters, ACMRS (Chair); Robert E. Bjork, ACMRS; William F. Gentrup,
ACMRS; Emilie Roy, ACMRS.
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First
Undergraduate Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies in the United
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