CALL FOR PAPERS
The Future of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance:
Problems, Trends, and Opportunities in Research
February 15-17, 1996
ACMRS at Arizona State University invites papers for its
second annual interdisciplinary conference on Medieval
and Renaissance studies on the general topic of problems
and new directions in the study of the Middle Ages and
Early Modern period. Possible session topics include, but
are not restricted to:
problems of interdisciplinarity
integrating literature and history
local history versus period history
copyright and technology
textual studies
the new philology
politics and agendas of disciplines
the future of Med/Ren studies in art history,
history, literature, religion, economics, etc.
While we want a broad spectrum of area studies
represented, we are particularly interested in papers on
Scandinavian, Baltic/East European, Judaic, and
Mediterranean Studies. There will also be a number of
open sessions.
Papers accepted for sessions on Mediterranean Studies will
have passed the first level of review for publication in the
journal Mediterranean Studies, sponsored by the
University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, the Medieval
and Renaissance Colloquium (MARC) at the University of
Michigan, and ACMRS at Arizona State University.
The conference will be held at the Radisson Mission
Palms Hotel, two blocks from the ASU campus in Tempe,
a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona. The high temperature in
the "Valley of the Sun" during February averages 70
degrees.
Proposals for sessions and detailed abstracts or complete
papers will be accepted beginning July 1, 1995. The
deadline will is November 1, 1995.
Please send two copies of your abstract, paper and/or
session proposal, along with two copies of your c.v., to
the program committee chair: Robert E. Bjork, Director,
ACMRS, Arizona State University, Box 872301, Tempe,
AZ 85287-2301. Email: atreb@asuvm.inre.asu.edu.
Phone: (602) 965-5900. Fax: (602) 965-1681.
T. Scott Clapp, Program Coordinator
ACMRS (AZ Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
Arizona State University
Box 872301
Tempe, AZ 85287-2301
Phone: (602) 965-5900; FAX: (602) 965-1681