Medieval Academy of America CFP for Chicago 2009

For those of you interested in presenting at a prestigious conference, the MAA released its annual call for papers earlier this spring. The basic information is below, or if you would like, you can access the MAA Newsletter online here:

http://www.medievalacademy.org/pdf/2008spring.pdf

The CFP appears on pg. 2 of the newsletter, and the abstracts are due by 15 May. If you look at the newsletter directly, be sure to check out the E-Resources listed on pg. 4.

Chicago 2009. The annual meeting of the Medieval Academy will be held 26–28 March 2009, at the Renaissance Chicago Hotel, hosted by the Illinois Medieval Association, DePaul University, Loyola University of Chicago, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. 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 2007 and 2008 are not eligible to speak in 2009. 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 2008. Notification of acceptance or rejection
will take place shortly thereafter.

Submissions. Proposals should be submitted, in two copies, to Barbara Newman, Dept. of English, University Hall 215, 1897 Sheridan Rd.,
Evanston, IL 60208-2240. The deadline is 15 May 2008. 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 equipmentrequirements. 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. Music and Mysticism. Organizer: Anne Robertson (Univ. of Chicago)
2. History of Emotions. Organizer: Barbara Rosenwein (Loyola Univ.)
3. Matters of Exchange: Byzantine Art and the Mediterranean. Organizer: Cecily Hilsdale (Northwestern Univ.)
4. Theology in the Early Middle Ages. Organizer: Willemien Otten (Univ. of Chicago)
5. Biblical Exegesis. Organizer: Frans van Liere (Calvin Coll.)
6. Jewish and Christian Magic. Organizer: Kate Mesler (Northwestern Univ.)
7. Political Theorists and the Rule of Women. Organizer: Theresa Earenfight (Seattle Univ.)
8. Medieval Drama across Boundaries. Organizer: Edward Wheatley (Loyola Univ.)
9. Chicago’s Chaucer: Manly and Rickert’s Edition, Seventy Years On. Organizer: Christina von Nolcken (Univ. of Chicago)
10. Bishops in the Empire. Organizer: Jonathan Lyon (Univ. of Chicago)
11. Parish Life: Town and Country. Organizer: Katherine French (SUNY-New Paltz)
12. Metalworking: Sacred and Secular. Organizer: Scott Montgomery (Univ. of Denver)
13. Medieval Chinese Philosophy. Organizer: Brook Ziporyn (Northwestern Univ.)
14. Minority Languages and Interlinguistic Contact. Organizer: Ray Wakefield (Univ. of Minnesota)
15. Roads, Bridges, and Waterways. Organizer: Chuck Bowlus (Univ. of Arkansas-Little Rock)
16. Fires and Phoenixes: Catastrophe and Opportunity. Organizer: Richard Kieckhefer (Northwestern Univ.)
17. Angels and Demons. Organizer: Dyan Elliott (Northwestern Univ.)
18. Late Medieval Ecclesiology. Organizer: Takashi Shogimen (Univ. of Otago, New Zealand)
19. Humanist Hagiography. Organizer: Ray Clemens (Illinois State Univ.)
20. Santiago: A Computer Model of the Pilgrimage Church. Organizer: John Dagenais (UCLA)
21. Law and Legal Culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Organizer: Andrew Rabin (Univ. of Louisville)
22. The Romance of the Rose and Its Offshoots. Organizer: Lori Walters (Florida State Univ.)
23. Cultural Crossings: Medieval Travel Writing. Organizer: Susie Phillips. (Northwestern Univ.)
24. Urban Legends: Foundational Myths and Medieval Cities in Western and Eastern Europe. Organizer: Alfred Thomas, Univ. of Illinois-Chicago)
25. British Holy Women. Organizer: Anne Clark Bartlett (DePaul Univ.)
26. 1300 Years of Reading Aldhelm. Organizer: Carin Ruff (Cornell Univ.)
27. New Directions in Boethian Studies. Organizer: Philip Phillips (International Boethius Soc., Middle Tennessee State Univ.)
28. Mapping Baltic Worlds: Centers, Peripheries, Conversions, and Crusades. Organizer: Elspeth Carruthers (Univ. of Illinois-Chicago)
29. Iberian Voices. Organizer: Ron Surtz (Princeton Univ.)
30. Translation and the Canon: Redefining the Boundaries of “Medieval Spain.” Organizer: Maria Menocal (Yale Univ.)
31. History, Law, and Theology: Iberian Cultures in the Americas. Organizer: Sabine MacCormack (Univ. of Notre Dame)

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 with be evaluated by the Program Committee.

Audio-visual equipment. Requests for audiovisual equipment must be made with the proposal. Late requests cannot be honored.

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 2009.

Program Committee. The Program Committee consists of Barbara Newman, Chair (Northwestern Univ.), Anne Clark Bartlett (DePaul Univ.), Thomas Bestul (Univ. of Illinois-Chicago), Rachel Fulton (Univ. of Chicago), Theresa Gross-Diaz (Loyola Univ. of Chicago), Richard Kieckhefer (Northwestern Univ.), Susie Phillips (Northwestern Univ.), and Christina von Nolcken (Univ. of Chicago).

Local Arrangements Committee. The Local Arrangements Committee consists of Thomas Bestul, Chair (Univ. of Illinois-Chicago), William Fahrenbach (DePaul Univ.), Mark Johnston (DePaul Univ.), Barbara Rosenwein (Loyola Univ.), and Christian Sheridan (St. Xavier Univ.).

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