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The Medieval Academy of America
Annual Meeting, UCLA, Los Angeles, 2014

The 2014 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will be held jointly with the Medieval Association of the Pacific on 10-12 April 2014 in Los Angeles at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and hosted by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

    SESSIONS
  1. Encountering Byzantium: The Empire through the Gaze of Others
  2. Byzantine Art as a Site of Encounter
  3. Architecture and Encounter
  4. On Teaching the Middle Ages to K-12 [two sessions]
  5. Travel and Pilgrimage Literature
  6. The Postcolonial Encounter in Medieval English Literature
  7. The Traffic in Religions
  8. Encounters between Cultures: Conflicts and Conflict Resolution
  9. Medicine and Literature
  10. Shipwrecks and Shipping
  11. What's New in Medieval Studies?
  12. Empires of Fantasy
  13. Encountering the Past and the Page in Medieval English Literature
  14. Digital Humanities
  15. Museums and the Presentation of the Middle Ages
  16. Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Film and Video Games
  17. Cartography: Visual Representation of Encounters
  18. Preconceptions of the World outside Europe
  19. Medieval Culture of Empire Language Communities
  20. Frederick II and the Islamic World
  21. Sites of Encounter: Armenia
  22. Sites of Encounter: Norman Sicily
  23. Sites of Encounter: North Africa
  24. Sites of Encounter: Iberia
  25. Scandinavians and Empire
  26. Charlemagne
  27. Queens, Empresses, and Women of Power
  28. Diversity of Religious Communities in the Medieval West
  29. Gifts and Exchange
  30. Travel to Different Worlds
  31. Ritual Encounters: Festivals, Processions, Parades and Triumphs
  32. Exploration
  33. Identifying Cultural Encounters and Networks from Archaeological Evidence
  34. German Manuscripts and Imperial Authority: Routes of Transmission
  35. Manuscript Illumination
  36. Rome's Revival: Encounters with Rome in the Middle Ages
  37. Crusade Encounters
  38. Sites of Encounter in Medieval Literature

The Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project (MRP) in Mediterranean Studies announces its Spring 2013 Workshop, to be held at UCSC on Saturday, May 4, 2013. This is part of a three-day event which also includes a 2-day symposium "The Mediterranean and Maritime Perspectives" to be held 2–3 May 2013.

    The Workshop consists of discussion of three pre-circulated papers:
  • ‘“‘Moors Must Not Be Taken for Black’: Islamic / French Cultural Translations Across the Early Modern Mediterranean” - Brian Sandberg (History, Northern Illinois University)
  • "The Hand of the Master: Thoughts on the Self-Perception of Icon-Painters, from Byzantium to El Greco" - Maria Evangeletou (History of Art & Visual Culture, University of California Santa Cruz)
  • "The Changing Interface between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean from Medieval to Early Modern Times as a Key Factor in the Dynamic Reconfiguration of the Network of Armenian Trade Colonies." - Peter Cowe (History, University of California at Los Angeles)

A talk by our featured scholar, William Granara (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)is "Rethinking Pirenne: Facile Divides, Historical Complexities, and the Possibilities of Cross-cultural Conflict."

Space is limited, so please register as soon as possible. Registration opens for UC faculty and graduate students and those at institutions affiliated with the Mediterranean Consortium today. Registration for all others will begin on March 15 (registration requests may be sent in at any time; early applications will be queued in the order they are received). Registration requests and other inquiries should be directed to Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu) at the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research.

Travel assistance (max.: $350) will be provided to attendees coming from outside the Bay area as available. UC graduate students have priority, followed by UC facult; others may apply. Travel assistance will be allocated after the meeting on the basis of availability; priority will be given to those who attended both events.

The City and the Book International Symposium on “Julian of Norwich: Contexts and Continuities”
Shire Hall and Norfolk Record Office, Friday 10 May 2013.
http://www.umilta.net/CBVIJulian.html for registration.

XVIII Curs d'Estiu-Reunió Científica Comtat d'Urgell
Ways of coexistence in the Late Medieval Ages which will be on 10, 11 and 12 July 2013 in Balaguer (Lleida-Spain). Spanish and foreigners specialists will take part in this event. Many grants are offered for students and researchers. For more information contact us at medieval@historia.udl.cat .

www.medieval.udl.cat

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