MAMA Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS:MAMA 33



MAMA 33 (Mid-America Medieval Association) will host its annual conference

at UMKC, February 28, 2009. The theme of the conference will be: Urban Life and

Culture.



If you wish to give a paper, organize a panel, etc., send your one-page abstracts no later

than December 15, 2008 to: Dr. Shona Kelly Wray, President, 203 Cockefair Hall,

Department of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Missouri, 64110. Email copies to wrays@umkc.edu or fax 816-235-5723.

Although the theme is urban life and culture, topics on any medieval topic will be considered.



The keynote speaker will be Lester K. Little, Professor Emeritus of History, Smith

College: “Who did the heavy lifting in Italian cities?”



Graduate students who wish to compete for the Jim Falls Graduate Paper Prize should submit three copies of their paper (the one to be read at the conference) with handouts to

Jim Falls, 203 Cockefair Hall, Department of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 64110, no later than February 1, 2009.



We hope you will stay over Saturday as the Kansas City Friends of Chamber Music

will showcase Benjamin Bagby’s Beowulf at Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral,

February 28, 2009, 8 PM. The Friends collaborated with MAMA at the last conference,

and it was a great success! (Check the Beowulf link for tickets.)



Check the MAMA website for other information. By October we should have the

hotel information available. www.midamericamedievalassociation.org.