2017 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, St. George Campus, University of Toronto, April 6–8, 2017
Hosted by The Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto and the Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies.
The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will feature three plenary speakers: Carmela Vircillo Franklin (President of the Medieval Academy of America; Professor of Classical Studies, Columbia University), Marina Rustow (Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, Princeton University), and Monica Green (Professor of History, Arizona State University). Over fifty concurrent sessions, held on the University of Toronto campus, cover a wide array of disciplines and include thematic threads such as ‘The Medieval Mediterranean,’ ‘Manuscript Studies,’ ‘Old English Studies’ and many others. Roundtable discussions focus on topics such as K-12 education, diversity in the medieval studies classroom, compatible careers, and scholarly publication in the age of Open Access. Selected parts of the program will be held at the Art Gallery of Ontario, with the closing plenary at the Aga Khan Museum.
Sessions of interest to Byzantinists:
3.1 Manuscript Studies III: “More Diagrams and Schematics”
Roland Betancourt (University of California, Irvine), “Schematics and Imagination in Byzantine Siege Warfare Manuscripts”
Linda Safran (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies), “Diagramming Byzantine Orthodoxy”
3.2 The Medieval Mediterranean III: “Art and Architecture”
Alexandra Kelebay (McGill University), “Imag(in)ing Imperium: Jewelry Hoards, Byzantineness, and Court Culture in Kievan Rus’ and Ottonian Germany, c. 988-1240
3.9 “Education in Europe, Byzantium and the Middle East (1000-1250)”
Floris Bernard (Central European University), “Poetry in the Classroom: Functions of Verse Texts in Educational and Social Practices at Constantinopolitan Schools (11th-12th centuries)”
Erik Hermans (New York University), “Making Aristotle Fun: Versifications of Aristotelian Logic in Latin, Greek and Arabic”
5.2 Monasticism I: “Lives on the Borders of the Enclosure”
Natalie Sherwan (University of California, Los Angeles), “Walling Off the World: Building Monastic Community in a Fourteenth-century Balkan Borderland”
Regular registration ends March 13. Surcharge for late registration.