Where: Kansas State University
When: Saturday,
February 25, 2012
Theme: Encountering the Other
Deadline for submission of 1-page abstracts: December 15, 2011
Plenary speaker: Dr. John McCulloh,
Professor of History, Kansas State University
"St. William of Norwich as/and the Medieval Other"
The Mid-America Medieval Association invites paper proposals for its annual conference. We welcome twenty-minute papers on the conference topic or any medieval topic. (Proposals for sessions - 3 papers, with or without a chairperson - are also welcome.)
Papers on all aspects of medieval literature, history, art, and culture are welcome, especially those that address the conference theme of “Encountering the Other,” which may be broadly construed as: encounters between East and West; encounters between different faiths/nations/cultural groups; “encounters” between post-medieval writers/scholars/film-makers with the Middle Ages; pedagogical papers on teaching the Middle Ages as Other; etc. etc.
Send a one-page abstract by December 15 to: Prof. Bob Clark
Email: rclark@k-state.edu
Location
The main campus of Kansas State University is located in Manhattan, Kansas.
The “Little Apple” is a classic college town with a zoo, a mall, 21 parks,
and a recreation trail that circles the city.
Accomodations
MAMA 2012 participants please note that there is block of rooms
that has been set aside for MAMA for both Friday and Saturday
nights at the Parkwood Inn & Suites. The hotel is 9 blocks from
campus, and its website says that there is shuttle service to
and from the Manhattan airport and conferences on campus. The
rate is $85 plus tax per night. Use “MAMA” for the conference
rate.
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