“Travel, Contact, Exchange”
34th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH, USA
April 19-20, 2013
Abstract deadline: Monday January 14, 2013
Presenters and early registration: March 15, 2013
We invite abstracts in medieval and Early Modern studies that consider how travel, contact, and exchange functioned in personal, political, religious, and aesthetic realms.
- How, when, where, and why did cultural exchange happen?
- What are the roles of storytelling or souvenirs in experiences of pilgrimage or Crusade?
- What is exchanged, lost, or left behind in moments of contact?
- How do such moments of contact and exchange hold meaning today?
Papers need not be confined to the theme but may cover many aspects of medieval and Renaissance life, literature, languages, art, philosophy, theology, history and music.
Keynote speaker: David Simon, Art History, Colby College
David L. Simon is Jetté Professor of Art at Colby College, where he has received the Basset Award for excellence in teaching. He holds graduate degrees from Boston University and the Courtauld Institute of Art of the University of London. Among his publications are the catalogue of Spanish and southern French Romanesque sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters and studies on Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Aragon and Navarra, Spain. He is co-author of recent editions of Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition and Janson’s Basic History of Western Art. Since 2007 he has co-directed an annual summer course and conference on Romanesque art for the University of Zaragoza, Spain.
Students, faculty, and independent scholars are welcome.
Undergraduate student papers or sessions require faculty sponsorship.
For more information visit: www.plymouth.edu/medieval
Please submit abstracts and full contact information by Monday January 14, 2013 to Dr. Karolyn Kinane, Director or Jini Rae Sparkman, Assistant Director: PSUForum@gmail.com.