95th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, University of California, Berkeley, March 26–28, 2019
The 95th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. The meeting is jointly hosted by the Medieval Academy of America, the Program in Medieval Studies of the University of California, Berkeley, and the Medieval Association of the Pacific.
The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper or session proposal; others may submit proposals as well but must become members in order to present papers at the meeting. Exceptions may be made for individuals whose field would not normally involve membership in the Medieval Academy. Please note: the prohibition against presenting a paper more than once every three years is no longer in effect.
Theme(s): Rather than an overarching theme, the 2020 meeting will provide a variety of thematic connections among sessions. The Medieval Academy welcomes innovative sessions that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries or that use various disciplinary approaches to examine an individual topic. To both facilitate and emphasize interdisciplinarity, the Call for Papers is organized in “themes.” The list provided below is not meant to be exhaustive or exclusive; innovative proposals not related to the themes below are also welcome.
Proposals: Individuals may propose to offer a paper in one of the themes below, a full panel of papers and speakers, a full panel of papers and speakers for a theme they wish to create, or a single paper not designated for a specific theme. Sessions usually consist of three 25-minute papers, and proposals should be geared to that length, although the committee is interested in other formats as well (poster sessions, digital experiences, etc.). The Program Committee may choose a different format for some sessions after the proposals have been reviewed.
Themes
- Acculturation, Appropriation, or Influence? Conceptualizing Jewish Embeddedness in Medieval Europe
- Canticles of Living Things: Nature and Animals in the Visual Arts in Italy Before and After Giotto
- The Codex across Centuries: Materials, Techniques, Uses
- The Creation of Medieval Lay Orders
- Fictionality
- From Anatolia to India: Medieval Persianate Literatures and Cultures
- Gender and Power in Late Medieval Iberia
- Law and Sovereignty in the Medieval State
- Lay Piety in the Early Middle Ages
- Medieval Aesthetics
- Medieval Health and Medicine
- Medieval Islamic Bodies
- Medieval Philosophy
- Medieval Temporalities
- Migration Myths
- Multilingualism, Multiculturalism, Multiconfessionalism in the Medieval Mediterranean
- Music and/as Language
- Narratives of the Dead
- Old Archives, New Sources and Approaches
- Pan-Mediterranean Dialogues: Classical Culture
- Pan-Mediterranean Dialogues: Natural Sciences
- Philosophies of the Arts
- Sensory Perception in Medieval Prose and Verse
- Translation and Literary/Textual Transmission across Religio-Cultural Spheres
- Travel and Transculturation
- Walls and Portals: Borders and Limits in Architecture, Law, and the Visual Arts