[Englecturers] Call for papers: UCSB Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference

[John Ganim]

>Dear Professor Ganim,
>
>Please find below the call for papers for "Emotion and Environment,"
>UCSB's seventh annual Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference.
>We warmly invite graduate students in medieval studies to submit
>proposals to present their research.  We also welcome in particular
>graduate students from UC Riverside who would be interested in
>attending our conference and getting acquainted with our medieval
>studies community.  Please circulate this call for papers to graduate
>students who might be interested in participating in our conference
>this coming year.
>
>Thank you,
>Jennifer Hammerschmidt
>
>Call for Papers:
>
>Emotion and Environment
>
>Keynote Speaker: Professor Jacqueline Jung, Yale University
>
>The Medieval Studies Program at the University of California, Santa
>Barbara, invites graduate students to submit paper proposals for
>"Emotion and Environment," the Seventh Annual Medieval Studies
>Graduate Student Conference.
>
>This one-day symposium on Saturday, May 3rd will explore the ways in
>which medieval people's social, natural, and built environments
>colored and shaped their states of mind in a process of dynamic
>exchange and mutual inflection.  The conference will address questions
>of how people invested their environments with emotional value and how
>they framed their responses to the spaces, both literal and
>figurative, in which they circulated.
>
>We invite papers from diverse academic disciplines and a variety of
>thematic, methodological, and philosophical perspectives, including
>eco-criticism, as well as a wide range of geographical designations.
>In addition, we are particularly interested in interdiscipinary
>approaches to this year's conference theme.  Possible topics include
>discussions of natural and architectural spaces, ritual and theatrical
>performances, the interrelationships between texts and images, and
>gendered spaces.
>
>Abstracts of approximately 300 words for 20 minute papers should be
>sent to Jennifer Hammerschmidt at jen_hammerschmidt at umail.ucsb.edu by
>January 30, 2008.  Please visit our website at
>http://medievalstudies.ucsb.edu to learn more about the conference and
>the Medieval Studies Program at UCSB.
>
>
>--
>Jennifer Hammerschmidt
>PhD Student, History of Art and Architecture
>Curatorial Intern, Architecture and Design Collection, UAM
>jen_hammerschmidt at umail.ucsb.edu

John M. Ganim
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