ACMRS Symposium

Festivals to My Soul: Performance and Ritual in Celtic Cultures
October 18, 2008

ACMRS is dedicated to community outreach programs, the core of which is an annual fall symposium. These symposia explore topics of interest to the general public. In past years they have dealt with subjects such as J. R. R. Tolkien, Robin Hood, Don Quixote, love and sex in medieval and Renaissance Italy, Arthurian legends, Jews, witch hunts, music and dance, and death and dying in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Fall 2008 Festivals to My Soul: Performance and Ritual in Celtic Cultures

Fall 2007 Men in Horns: The Fancied and Real World of the Vikings

Fall 2006 - Chasing Windmills: In Search of Don Quixote

Fall 2005 - The Robin Hood Legend

Fall 2003 and January 2005 - The Many Faces of Elizabeth I

Fall 2002 - J.R.R. Tolkien: The Man Behind The Lord of the Rings

Fall 2001 - Death and Dying in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Fall 1998 - Cultural Intersections: Jewish Religion, Art, and Science in the Old World
Temple Beth Israel

Fall 1997 - Music and Dance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Kerr Cultural Center

Fall 1996 - Love and Sex in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Scottsdale Civic Center Library Auditorium

Fall 1995 - The Witch, the Child, and the Stake: Witch-hunts in Early Modern Europe and Modern America
Scottsdale Civic Center Library Auditorium

Spring 1995 - Runes, Swords, and Gold: A Reconsideration of Viking Culture
Scottsdale Civic Center Library Auditorium

Fall 1994 - Arthurian Tradition: Medieval Roots and Popular Culture
Kerr Cultural Center