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aDate: Wed, November 11, 2009 From: "Tryntje Helfferich" <tryntje@mail.h-net.msu.edu> Subject: CFP: ACMRS Conference The 16th Annual ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) Conference Call for Papers (Deadline extended to November 16) Humanity and the Natural World in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 11 – 13 February 2010 in Tempe, Arizona ACMRS invites session and paper proposals for its annual interdisciplinary conference to be held February 11 – 13, 2010 in Tempe, Arizona. We welcome papers that explore any topic related to the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and especially those that focus on this year’s theme of humanity and the natural world, both in literal and metaphorical manifestations. The deadline for proposals is 9:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time on 16 November 2009. Proposals must include audio/visual requirements and any other special requests. Subsequent a/v requests may not be honored without additional charge. In order to streamline the committee review process, submissions will only be accepted at http://link.library.utoronto.ca/acmrs/conference/ from 1 June through 16 November. The conference registration fee is $95 ($45 for students and emeriti/ae faculty) and includes welcoming and farewell receptions, two days of concurrent sessions (Friday and Saturday), and keynote address. Please note that there will be an opening reception Thursday evening, but there will be no sessions that day. Questions? Call 480-965-9323, email acmrs@asu.edu, or http://www.acmrs.org/conferences/2010/conferences.html. Manuscript Workshop Before the conference, ACMRS will host a workshop on manuscript studies to be led by Timothy Graham, Director of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of New Mexico. The workshop will be Thursday afternoon, February 11, and participation will be limited to 20 participants, who will be determined by the order in which registrations are received. Email acmrs@asu.edu with “conference workshop” as the subject line to be added to the list. The cost of the workshop is $25 and is in addition to the regular conference registration fee. Keynote Speaker The conference keynote speaker will be Pamela O. Long, an independent historian who has published widely in late medieval and Renaissance history of science and technology, and intellectual history. Her book, Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance was awarded the Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the best book in intellectual history published in 2001. She is the author of two SHOT/AHA booklets, Technology, Society, and Culture in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 1300-1600 (2000); and Technology and Society in the Medieval Centuries: Byzantium, Islam and the West, 500-1300 (2003). Recent work includes Obelisk: A History (co-authored with Brian Curran, Anthony Grafton, and Benjamin Weiss, MIT Press, 2009); and a three volume edition, translation, and group of studies of a book written by a fifteenth century oarsman: The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript (co-edited with David McGee and Alan Stahl, MIT Press, 2009). She is at work on a cultural history of engineering in late sixteenth-century Rome. Publications Selected papers related to the conference theme will be considered for publication in the conference volume of the Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance series, published by Brepols Publishers (Belgium).
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