MAA 2014 Annual Meeting.

Annual Meeting, Los  Angeles, 2014: Call for Papers Deadline for submission is 15 June 2013

The 2014 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will be held jointly with the Medieval Association of the Pacific on 10-12 April, in Los Angeles at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and hosted by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

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 proposal, excepting those who presented papers at the annual meetings of the Medieval Academy in 2012 and 2013; others may submit proposals as well but must become members in order to present papers at the meeting. Special consideration can be given to individuals whose specialty would not normally involve membership in the Medieval Academy.

The complete Call for Papers with additional information, submission procedures, selections guidelines, and organizers is available here.

Please contact Prof. Massimo Ciavolella at UCLA, if you have any questions.

SESSIONS

1. Encountering Byzantium: The Empire through the Gaze of Others
2. Byzantine Art as a Site of Encounter
3. Architecture and Encounter
4. On Teaching the Middle Ages to K-12 [two sessions]
5. Travel and Pilgrimage Literature
6. The Postcolonial Encounter in Medieval English Literature
7. The Traffic in Religions
8. Encounters between Cultures: Conflicts and Conflict Resolution
9. Medicine and Literature
10. Shipwrecks and Shipping
11. What’s New in Medieval Studies?
12. Empires of Fantasy
13. Encountering the Past and the Page in Medieval English Literature
14. Digital Humanities
15. Museums and the Presentation of the Middle Ages
16. Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Film and Video Games
17. Cartography: Visual Representation of Encounters
18. Preconceptions of the World outside Europe
19. Medieval Culture of Empire Language Communities
20. Frederick II and the Islamic World
21. Sites of Encounter: Armenia
22. Sites of Encounter: Norman Sicily
23. Sites of Encounter: North Africa
24. Sites of Encounter: Iberia
25. Scandinavians and Empire
26. Charlemagne
27. Queens, Empresses, and Women of Power
28. Diversity of Religious Communities in the Medieval West
29. Gifts and Exchange
30. Travel to Different Worlds
31. Ritual Encounters: Festivals, Processions, Parades and Triumphs
32. Exploration
33. Identifying Cultural Encounters and Networks from Archaeological Evidence
34. German Manuscripts and Imperial Authority: Routes of Transmission
35. Manuscript Illumination
36. Rome’s Revival: Encounters with Rome in the Middle Ages
37. Crusade Encounters
38. Sites of Encounter in Medieval Literature 

Source: The Medieval Academy Blog