CFP: New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference

DEADLINE: 1 DEC.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 26th Annual New England Medieval Studies
Consortium Graduate Student Conference

Yale University
April 4, 2009.

Theme: "Authority and the Book in Medieval Culture."

Abstracts from graduate students are now being
accepted for the 26th Annual New England
Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student
Conference, the theme of which will be “Authority and
the Book in Medieval Culture.”

The organizers hope that this broad heading will
elicit proposals for papers from all disciplines of
Medieval Studies.

Of especial interest are papers dealing with
palaeography and manuscript studies; hagiography;
literary studies; art history; history and
historiography; gender studies; religious studies;
musicology and medieval liturgical studies; as well as
biblical exegesis and the relationship between Latin
and various medieval vernaculars. Further, we look
forward to receiving proposals that take more
theoretical approaches to ideas of authority in the
medieval period. We also hope to have one panel
devoted to papers that explore different aspect of the
history of modern Medieval Studies.

Papers are to be no more than twenty minutes in length
and read in English. Abstracts of no more than 250
words should be sent by e-mail to

Andrew.Kraebel@Yale.edu or SamanthaLily.Katz@Yale.edu.

A hardcopy may be mailed to:
Andrew Kraebel
Department of English
Yale University
P.O. Box 208302
New Haven, CT 06520-8302

The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2008.

Graduate students whose abstracts are selected for the
conference will have the opportunity to submit their
paper in its entirety for consideration for the Alison
Goddard Elliott Award.

The conference will also feature a plenary speaker, to
be announced at a later date.