[Englecturers] 14th Annual ACMRS Conference, "Law and Sovereignty in the Middle Ages and Renaissance"

[John Ganim]

>Subject: CFP: 14th Annual ACMRS Conference, "Law 
>and Sovereignty in the Middle Ages and Renaissance"
>Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:42:08 -0700
>Thread-Topic: CFP: 14th Annual ACMRS Conference, 
>"Law and Sovereignty in the Middle Ages and Renaissance"
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>From: "Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies" <cmrs at humnet.ucla.edu>
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>Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
>Call for Papers
>
>The 14th Annual ACMRS Conference
>Law and Sovereignty in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
>
>14 – 16 February in Tempe, Arizona
>
>ACMRS invites session and paper proposals for 
>its annual interdisciplinary conference to be 
>held 14 – 16 February 2008 at the Fiesta Inn 
>Resort in Tempe, Arizona. We welcome papers that 
>explore any topic related to the study and 
>teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and 
>especially those that focus on this year’s theme 
>of law and sovereignty, both in its literal and metaphorical manifestations.
>
>Selected papers related to the conference theme 
>will be considered for publication in the 
>conference volume of the Arizona Studies in the 
>Middle Ages and the Renaissance series, 
>published by Brepols Publishers (Belgium).
>
>The conference keynote speaker will be Richard 
>F. Green, Humanities Distinguished Professor of 
>English and Director of the Center for Medieval 
>and Renaissance Studies at Ohio State 
>University. Among his many publications are A 
>Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian 
>England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 
>1998), Poets and Princepleasers: Literature and 
>the English Court in the Late Middle Ages 
>(University of Toronto Press, 1980), 
>Interstices: Studies in Middle English and 
>Anglo-Latin Texts in Honor of A. G. Rigg, ed. 
>with Linne R. Mooney (University of Toronto 
>Press, 2004), and The Singer and the Scribe: 
>European Ballad Traditions and European Ballad 
>Cultures, ed. with Phillip Bennett (Rodopi, 2004).
>
>Before the conference, ACMRS will host a 
>workshop on manuscript studies to be led by 
>Timothy Graham, Director of the Institute for 
>Medieval Studies at the University of New 
>Mexico. The workshop will be Thursday afternoon, 
>February 14, and participation will be limited 
>to 25 participants, who will be determined by 
>the order in which registrations are received. 
>Email <mailto:acmrs at asu.edu>acmrs at asu.edu with 
>“conference workshop” as the subject line to be 
>added to the list. The cost of the workshop is 
>$15 and is in addition to the regular conference registration fee.
>
>The conference registration fee is $85 ($45 for 
>students) and includes welcoming and farewell 
>receptions, two days of concurrent sessions 
>(Friday and Saturday), and keynote address. 
>Please note that there will be an opening 
>reception Thursday evening, but there will be no sessions that day.
>
>The deadline for proposals is 5:00 p.m. Mountain 
>Standard Time on 15 October 2007. Proposals must 
>include audio/visual requirements and any other 
>special requests. Subsequent a/v requests may 
>not be honored without additional charge. In 
>order to streamline the committee review 
>process, submissions will only be accepted at 
><http://link.library.utoronto.ca/acmrs/conference/>http://link.library.utoronto.ca/acmrs/conference/ 
>from 1 May through 15 October 2007. Questions? 
>Call 480-965-9323 or email <mailto:acmrs at asu.edu>acmrs at asu.edu.
>
>Please distribute and forward as widely as possible.
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>
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>for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (faculty 
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><mailto:cmrs at humnet.ucla.edu>cmrs at humnet.ucla.edu.
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>

John M. Ganim
President, New Chaucer Society
Professor of English
Department of English
University of California, Riverside
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