CFP: Medieval Graduate Student Symposium, Univ. of North Texas, Denton, Apr 2013

7th Annual University of North Texas
Medieval Graduate Student Symposium
April 11th and 12th, 2013

http://www.art.unt.edu/medieval-symposium/.

Theme:  “To Move and Be Moved: Physical and Psychological Transportation and Transformations in the Middle Ages.”

While we will entertain papers on any topic from any discipline of Medieval Studies­Art History, Religion, Philosophy, English, History, Foreign Languages, Music, we particularly welcome those that engage the aforementioned theme. Papers can have been submitted and/or delivered elsewhere.

Keynote Lectures:
Susan Boynton, Professor of Music, Columbia University: “From Seeing, to Reading, to Singing: Transformations of the Man of Sorrows, ca. 1340-1503.” (Soloists from the UNT Collegium Singers will perform selections from the motet cycles “O Domine Jesu Christe” by Josquin Des Pres and “Officium de Cruce” by Loyset Compere.)

Janet Snyder, Professor of Art History, West Virginia University: “The Medieval Metamorphosis of Materials: Discovering Power and Meaning in Appropriated Eastern Textiles as Depicted in Western Art.”

Travel subvention of $300 will be awarded to the best paper.

Deadline for submission of a 300 word abstract is December 1, 2012.
Paper Abstracts of 300 words should be sent to:  Mickey.Abel at unt.edu  or
Dr. Mickey Abel
Associate Professor, Medieval Art History
University of North Texas
1155 Union Station #305100
Denton, TX 76203-5017