ANST - conference data: utexas austin medieval studies

[j'lynn yeates]

... from another list i subscribe to

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>CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
>
>	Next Saturday, November 20, in the Texas Union Eastwoods Room, the
>Medievalist Association of Graduate Students (MAGS) will host its first
>ever interdisciplinary graduate student conference. Presenters from
>backgrounds in literary criticism, history and art history will address
>divergent themes in Medieval Studies as well as discuss the future of the
>field. Admission, of course, is free to all with an interest in the
>subject. The conference begins at 10 am. I have included the conference
>program below.
>
>M. Hammond
>
>Converging on the Middle Ages
>MAGS Conference Program
>
>Society, Politics and Identity (10:00 - 11:45)
>Chair: Dr. Alison Frazier
>Colleen Whitney: Death, children and social hierarchies in Chaucer
>Kait Allocco: Edward II, Walter of Hemingburgh and the De legibus et
>consuetudinibus Angliae
>Tracy Chapman-Hamilton: Competing for the Crown: Marie de Brabant and her
>Carolingian Heritage
>Matthew Hammond: On the edge of the world: Imagining twelfth-century Scotland
>
>Romance (12:00 - 1:30)
>Chair: Dr. Gerry Heng
>Laura Kramarsky: Borders, Boundaries and Spaces for Commentary: Vocal
>Closure in Medieval Manuscripts
>Peter Larkin: De ortu Waluuanii: the Subordination of Christian elements in
>Medieval Romance
>Sarah Crisler: The Beauty or the Beast: Women, Power, and Beauty in a
>Contemporary Merlin
>
>Religion (2:00 - 3:30)
>Chair: Dr. Martha Newman 
>Eileen McKiernan-Gonzalez: Alfonso X, the Learned, and the Construction of
>Piety and Power in the Cantigas de Santa Maria 
>Michael Bednar: Image and Symbol in the Architecture of the Somanatha Temple
>Jes St. Lawrence: Simon de Montfort: Dead rebel, unauthorized saint
>
>Round Table Discussion (3:45 - 5:00)
>Promoting Medieval Studies at the University Level
> 


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