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Annual Meeting 2010: Call for Papers
New Haven 2010. The annual meeting of the Medieval Academy will be held 18–20 March 2010, on Yale University Campus, New Haven, hosted by Connecticut College, Southern Connecticut State University, Trinity College (Hartford), University of Connecticut, Wesleyan University, and Yale University.
The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal, except that those who presented papers at the annual meetings of the Medieval Academy in 2008 and 2009 are not eligible to speak in 2010. Please do not submit more than one proposal.
Sessions usually consist of three thirty-minute papers, and proposals should be geared to that length. A different format for some sessions may be chosen by the Program Committee after the proposals have been reviewed. Session organizers may wish to propose different formats for their sessions, subject to Program Committee approval.
Themes. The annual meeting of the Medieval Academy brings together medievalists from all disciplines and time periods. The Program Committee will capitalize on this strength by encouraging sessions that (1) address subjects of interest to a wide range of medievalists, and (2) put scholars from different disciplines and time periods in dialogue with each other. We are seeking innovative proposals for papers and sessions and hope to see cross-disciplinary participation wherever possible. For both the commissioned and the open sessions, we are looking for the broadest possible range of proposals of topics and of time periods, within and across all the disciplines.
Selection procedure. Papers will be evaluated for promise of quality and significance of topic. Session organizers make an initial selection of papers and submit a plan to the Program Committee, which makes final decisions by 15 September 2009. Notification of acceptance or rejection will take place shortly thereafter.
Submissions. Proposals should be submitted to Anders Winroth, preferably by e-mail to anders.winroth@yale.edu, or, on paper in two copies, to Anders Winroth, Department of History, Yale University, P.O. Box 208324, New Haven CT 06520-8324.
The deadline is 15 May 2009. Please do not send proposals to session organizers or to the Academy office.
The proposal must have two parts: (1) a cover sheet containing the proposer’s name, statement of Academy membership (or statement that the individual’s specialty would not normally involve membership in the Academy), professional status, 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, session for which the paper should be considered, paper title, 250-word abstract, and audio-visual equipment requirements. If the proposer will be at a different address when decisions are announced in September, that address should be included.
Topics. The Program Committee solicits papers for the sessions listed below. For information about a specific session, contact the session organizer.
1. A Millennium Ago: Scandinavia 1010
Organizer: Oren Falk (Cornell Univ.)
2. A Millennium Ago: Literature 1010: Notker Labeo and His Contemporaries
Organizer: William Whobrey (Yale Univ.)
3. A Millennium Ago: Law 1010
Organizer: Greta Austin (Univ. of Puget Sound)
4. A Millennium Ago: Thought 1010: Political, Philosophical, Scientific
Organizer: Elizabeth Dachowski (Tennessee State Univ.)
5. A Millennium Ago: Courtiers and Bishops 1010
Organizer: C. Stephan Jaeger (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
6. A Millennium Ago: Art 1010
Organizer: Lawrence Nees (Univ. of Delaware)
7. Religious Interaction: Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Pagans
Organizer: Nora Berend (Univ. of Cambridge)
8. Old English Studies: A Celebration of Fred C. Robinson
Organizer: Daniel Donoghue (Harvard Univ.)
9. Performance Theory and Medieval Texts
Organizer: Irina Dumitrescu (Yale Univ.)
10. Macaronic Texts and the Implications for Multilingualism
Organizer: Elizabeth F. Archibald (Bristol Univ.)
11. Law, Church, and Crown in the Long Twelfth Century
Organizer: Joshua C. Tate (Southern Methodist Univ.)
12. The Medieval Book: Structure and Symbol
Organizer: Raymond Clemens (Illinois State Univ.)
13. Gregory of Tours Reappraised
Organizer: Walter Goffart (Yale Univ.)
14. New Voices in Medieval Paleography
Organizer: Barbara Shailor (Yale Univ.)
15. Food Production, Distribution, and Consumption in Medieval Europe
Organizer: M.A.R.S (Medieval Association for Rural Studies Society)/Phil Slavin (Yale Univ.)
16. Ecclesiastical Politics and the Pseudo-Isidore
Organizer: Eric C. Knibbs (Yale Univ.)
17. Tree Lines: Nature and Culture in Medieval Woodlands
Organizer: Paolo Squatriti (Univ. of Michigan)
18. Anselm of Laon and His School
Organizer: John Wei (Grinnell Coll.)
19. Communication and Reform
Organizer: Maureen Miller (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
20. Beauty in the Two Cities: Religious Faith and Embodied Perception in the High Middle Ages
Organizer: Sara Lipton (State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook)
21. The Middle Ages in Film
Organizer: Brian Noell (Quinnipiac Univ.)
22. Medieval Elementary Education: Schools, Schoolrooms, Schoolbooks
Organizer: Christopher Cannon (New York Univ.)
23. Continental Holy Women at Home and Abroad
Organizer: Rosalynn Voaden (Arizona State Univ.)
24. Dante: Theology, the Arts, and Poetry
Organizers: Filippo Naitana (Fairfield Univ.) and Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale Univ.)
25. Revisiting Enclosure: New Directions in the Study of Medieval Religious Women
Organizer: Research Group for the Study of Medieval Religious Women/Sigrid Schmitt (Universität Trier)
26. Jewish Identities
Organizer: Jonathan Elukin (Trinity Coll., Hartford)
27. Chaucer Criticism: The Next Ten Years
Organizer: Alastair Minnis (Yale Univ.)
28. Grand Narratives in Contemporary Medieval Studies
Organizer: James Rhodes (Southern Connecticut State Univ.)
29. Julian of Norwich: Sin and the Problem of Evil
Organizer: Denys Turner (Yale Univ.)
30. Global French, Multilingual France in the High Middle Ages
Organizer: R. Howard Bloch (Yale Univ.)
31. John Boswell’s Medieval World
Organizer: María Rosa Menocal (Yale Univ.)
32. Jewish-Christian Relations and Vernacular Culture
Organizer: Anthony Bale (Birkbeck Coll., Univ. of London)
33. Mediterranean Society and the Cairo Geniza in Retrospective: Goitein and His Work
Organizer: Youval Rotman (Yale Univ.)
34. Writing Work: Narrating Labor in the Later Middle Ages
Organizer: Kellie Robertson (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)
35. Script as Image: Epigraphy and Inscription in Medieval Art
Organizer: Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard Univ.)
36. Editorial and Textual Theory: Training a New Generation of Editors
Organizer: Robert Hasenfratz (Univ. of Connecticut)
37. The Aesthetics of Enigma in Medieval Literature, Art, and Architecture
Organizer: Jeff Rider (Wesleyan Univ.)
38. Medieval Drama: New Approaches
Organizer: Theresa Coletti (Univ. of Maryland)
39. Musicologists as Editors of Medieval Rules, Ordinals, and Customaries
Organizer: Margot Fassler (Yale Univ.)
40. The Gift of Literature: New Perspectives on Medieval Patronage and Literary Circulation
Organizer: Deborah McGrady (Univ. of Virginia)
41. Literature and the Courts: From Aachen to Baghdad
Organizer: Beatrice Gruendler (Yale Univ.)
42. Sensitive Silencings: The Neglected Occitan Tradition
Organizer: Mark Burde (Univ. of Michigan)
43. The Toronto Feminists: How Did We Get Here from There? And Where Is Here?
Organizer: Nancy Partner (McGill Univ.)
Other topics. The Program Committee welcomes submissions on other topics and will organize additional sessions to accommodate the best submissions.
Session proposals. The Program Committee will consider proposals for entire sessions if their subject matter does not conflict with that of other sessions. Please consult with the Program Committee chair before preparing a proposal. Session proposals require the same information as individual paper proposals; abstracts for the papers in the proposed session will be evaluated by the Program Committee.
Audio-visual equipment. Requests for audio-visual equipment must be made with the proposal.
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 Program Committee by 10 January 2010.
Program Committee. The Program Committee consists of Anders Winroth, Chair (Yale Univ.), Marcia Colish (Yale Univ.), Jonathan Elukin (Trinity Coll.), Roberta Frank (Yale Univ.), Beatrice Gruendler (Yale Univ.), Robert Hasenfratz (Univ. of Connecticut), Alastair Minnis (Yale Univ.), Brian Noell (Quinnipiac Univ.), Frederick Paxton (Connecticut Coll.), James Rhodes (Southern Connecticut State Univ.), Jeff Rider (Wesleyan Univ.), and Youval Rotman (Yale Univ.).
Local Arrangements Committee. The Local Arrangements Committee consists of Jacqueline Jung, Chair (Yale Univ.), Margot Fassler (Yale Univ.), Paul Freedman (Yale Univ.), Walter Goffart (Yale Univ.), María Rosa Menocal (Yale Univ.), Brian Reilly (Yale Univ.), Susanne Roberts (Yale Univ.), and Barbara Shailor (Yale Univ.).
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