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Imagining Pilgrimage to Santiago: Itineraries, Narratives, Myths
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 24-25 April 2020

In collaboration with the government of Galicia, the Institute of Fine Arts is helping to inaugurate yearlong activities for “Xacobeo 2021,” the Jacobean holy year, with a symposium on 24-25 April 2020.  Papers for “Imagining Pilgrimage to Santiago: Itineraries, Narratives, Myths” will address the confrontation of real and imagined pilgrimage, exploring phenomenological and sensorial aspects, the visionary and eschatological implications of spiritual travel, spatial and material agency, and landscape and cartographic geographies of pilgrimage, among others.  Speakers include:  Kathryn Brush, Thomas Deswarte, James D’Emilio, Elvira Fidalgo, Elina Gertsman, Melanie Hanan, Patrick Henriet, Dominique Iogna-Prat, F. López Alsina, Wendy Pullan, Rocio Sánchez Ameijeiras, Alison Stones, Stefan Trinks, Michele Vescovi, Rose Walker. More information may be found at the Institute’s Events webpage in early 2020 (https://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/events/index.htm) or by contacting the organizers R. Maxwell (Institute of Fine Arts: robert.maxwell@nyu.edu) and M. Castiñeiras (Univ. Autònoma Barcelona: Manuel.Castineiras@uab.cat)

95th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America

University of California, Berkeley - 26-28 March 2020

The 95th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. The meeting is jointly hosted by the Medieval Academy of America and the Program in Medieval Studies of the University of California, Berkeley, and is being held concurrently with the annual meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific.  The conference program will feature a diverse range of sessions highlighting innovative scholarship across the many disciplines contributing to medieval studies.  

Proposals:  Submission of proposals is now closed.  Through a process of blind review, the Program Committee will evaluate all proposals received by the deadline of 1 June 2019 and inform all successful and unsuccessful proposers of results by 10 September 2019.

Location:  Berkeley is a diverse and multicultural city in the greater San Francisco Bay Area.  It has its own vibrant culinary, arts, and music communities but is also connected via the BART mass-transit system with the cultural offerings of nearby Oakland and San Francisco.  The meetings will take place on the University of California, Berkeley campus.  Registration, book exhibits, and other events will be in the Martin Luther King Jr. Building on Sproul Plaza, a short half-mile walk from the Downtown Berkeley BART stop, and sessions will be in historic Wheeler Hall just inside the Sather Gate.  Information on accommodations, as well as MAA student bursaries and travel grants, will be made available next fall.

Publishers and other organizations looking to advertise in the program, registration packets, and/ or display books at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America should submit this form.

The Program will be published here in the coming weeks.

For additional information, please contact the Program Committee Chairs at MAA2020@TheMedievalAcademy.org

Program Committee Members:

Maureen C. Miller & Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, University of California, Berkeley
(co-chairs)
Sabrina Agarwal, University of California, Berkeley
Asad Ahmed, University of California, Berkeley
Diliana Angelova, University of California, Berkeley
Frank Bezner, University of California, Berkeley
Mary Harvey Doyno, Sacramento State University
John Efron, University of California, Berkeley
Fiona Griffith, Stanford University
Marian Homans-Turnbull, University of California, Berkeley
Eleanor Johnson, Columbia University (Alumni/ae Representative)
Ruth Mazo Karras  (ex officio as MAA president)
Shirin Khanmohamadi, San Francisco State University
Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz (Alumnae/i Representative)
Geoff Koziol, University of California, Berkeley
Henrike C. Lange, University of California, Berkeley
Niklaus Largier, University of California, Berkeley
Daniel Lee, University of California, Berkeley
Maria Mavroudi, University of California, Berkeley
Laurent Mayali, University of California, Berkeley
Nasser Meerkhan, University of California, Berkeley
Dan Melia, University of California, Berkeley
Maura Nolan, University of California, Berkeley
John Ott, Portland State University (ex officio as MAP president)
Elaine Tennant, University of California, Berkeley
Jonas Wellendorf, University of California, Berkeley
Emily Zazulia, University of California, Berkeley

Medieval Europe in Motion V - Materialities and Devotion (5th-15th centuries) ; Batalha, Portugal; Santa Maria da Vitória Monastery