CARMEN Annual Meeting 2016

CARMEN Annual Meeting
Essen, Germany
9-11 September, 2016

CARMEN, as stated on its website, “is a worldwide network of medievalists, its name being an acronym for the “Co-operative for the Advancement of Research through a Medieval European Network”. It links a number of research institutions, universities, interest groups and individuals with common scholarly interest in the study of the Middle Ages. While based in Europe, it reaches out to all continents to create an open and truly international platform of co-operation in the field of medieval research and teaching.” For more information about CARMEN please visit: http://www.carmen-medieval.net.

CARMEN’s next Annual Meeting will take place in Essen, Germany, organised by the Historical Institute at the University of Duisburg-Essen (https://www.uni-due.de/geschichte). The general theme of the Annual Meeting will be Futures. Mark the dates 9-11 September, 2016, in your medieval events calendar, join us, make friends, and enjoy the charming medieval city of Essen, the home of the famous golden Madonna. Participants are advised to fly to Düsseldorf or Cologne/ Köln; practical information on travel and accommodation, and the program of the meeting will be available in spring 2016 on the CARMEN webpage.

Essen is a medieval site in the Ruhr region that has been a center of Carolingian missionary activity, with a cathedral church going back to a 9th century female monastery that held with close ties to the Ottonian family in the 10th century. There has been a male Benedictine monastery in Essen (Werden) from c. 800 as well.

Graduate students: If you’re interested in attending the meeting or learning more about CARMEN, please get in touch with Professor Robert E. Bjork (Foundation Professor of English and Director, ACMRS – Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) at: robert.bjork@asu.edu