2010 Call for Papers

University of North Texas Medieval Graduate Student Symposium
February 4th and 5th, 2010

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to announce that the College of Visual Arts and Design of the University of North Texas will be sponsoring our 5th Annual Medieval Graduate Student Symposium. The Graduate Student Symposium will take place on Friday and Saturday, February 4th and 5th, 2010. Details can be found on the UNT medieval symposium website.

Call for Papers
This year’s theme is Language and Communication in the Middle Ages. While we will entertain papers from any discipline of Medieval Studies and on any topic, we particularly welcome those that engage the multiple languages and forms of communication in the Middle Ages to include the visual, the lyrical, the liturgical, the legal, the dramatic, the kinetic, the spatial, as well issues of translation, lingua Franca, and literacy.
We will again be awarding a $300.00 travel award for the best abstract.
We encourage submission of papers that have been submitted and/or delivered elsewhere. The deadline for submission is November 1st, 2009.

Our Keynote speaker will be Dr. Anne D. Hedeman, University of Illinois, Urbana, who will speak on “Presenting the Past: Visual Translation in Thirteenth- to Fifteenth-Century France.”

The College of Visual Arts and Design will again be providing lunch for the break in our symposium day. With the success of last year’s symposium they are looking forward to another day of interesting conversation and graduate student interaction. We hope that you can join us.

Paper Abstracts should be sent to:
abel@unt.edu
or
Dr. Mickey Abel
Assistant Professor, Art History
University of North Texas
1155 Union Station #305100
Denton, TX 76203-5017