CARA Meeting 2010

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Chris

The Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame is delighted to host the 2010 Medieval Academy of America CARA (Committee on Centers and Regional Associations) Meeting on Friday, October 1, and Saturday, October 2, 2010.

Register online at: http://cce.nd.edu/attend.shtml

Meeting Location: Center for Continuing Education, University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Indiana)

Friday, October 1

Morning Executive Committee meeting

12:00 Lunch, followed by the Business Meeting

Afternoon OPTIONAL excursion to the Studebaker Museum
(http://www.studebakermuseum.org) and the Oliver Mansion (Copsaholm)
at the Center for History (http://www.centerforhistory.org)

The Studebaker Museum features dozens of Studebaker automobiles that were manufactured in South Bend, the company’s headquarters. Copsaholm, the 38-room residence of industrialist J. D. Oliver, built in 1895-96, retains its original furnishings and is situated on 2.5 acres of landscaped gardens.

5:30-7:00 Reception and Dinner
7:00 Concert (at Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center) by Pomerium

Pomerium was founded by Alexander Blachly in New York in 1972 to perform music composed for the famous chapel choirs of the Renaissance. Widely known for its interpretations of Du Fay, Ockeghem, Busnoys, Josquin, Lassus, and Palestrina, the 14-voice a cappella ensemble has performed for numerous international festivals and released recordings on the Deutsche Grammophon/Archiv Produktion, Dorian, Classic Masters, and Glissando/Pure Classics labels. Web site: http://www.pomerium.com/.

Saturday, October 2

9:00-11:30 Music and the Visual: Teaching and Singing Medieval Music

Panel presentation by Notre Dame faculty:

Alexander Blachly, Professor of Music and Director of Pomerium
Margot Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy
Peter Jeffery, Michael P. Grace Chair in Medieval Studies and Professor of Music

12:00-1:30 Lunch
2:00-5:00 Meeting of the Delegates (information exchange)

5:30 Reception and Banquet

Hotel Information:

Rooms are being held at The Morris Inn, on the Notre Dame campus, directly across the street from the conference center, for the nights of September 30, October 1, and October 2. The rates are: single $149.16 and double $171.76 (both include all applicable taxes and hot breakfast). Please contact The Morris Inn (http://morrisinn.nd.edu/) directly at 574-631-2000 and let them know you are with the Medieval Academy of America CARA Meeting.
Registration Fee:

The $80 fee includes all conference materials, refreshments, meals, receptions, and the Pomerium concert. The cost of the optional excursion to the Center for History and Studebaker Museum is $20 and includes transportation and admission fees.
Additional Questions:

Call 574-631-8304 or email rbaranow@nd.edu

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Updated 2011 Call for Papers

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Chris

As you probably know, the fate of the annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America for 2011, scheduled to be held in Arizona, was in question because of Arizona’s recently passed immigration law, SB1070, which many across the country found to be morally and legally deeply flawed. On August 3, the Executive Committee of the Academy voted to hold the meeting as planned for reasons that the Committee explained in the statement posted on the Academy’s website. Because of this decision, we are extending the deadline for submissions of papers to October 15. The Executive Committee and the local Program Committee are working to ensure that the program of the meeting reflects and relates to similar issues at stake in Arizona and in medieval society, including such topics as race, ethnicity, immigration, tolerance, treatment of minority groups, protest against governmental policies judged unjust, and standards of judicial and legislative morality. We are particularly interested now in receiving proposals on those topics, although we will still consider proposals on any topic. Please consult the Academy’s website (or visit http://acmrs.org/conferences/MAA_2011/MAAconference.html) for an updated call for papers and instructions on how to submit your proposals. If you have any questions about the 2011 meeting or the call for papers, please contact Audrey Walters at acmrs@asu.edu.

Thank you very much.

The Executive Committee
The 2011 Program Committee

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Statement Regarding the Annual Meeting at Tempe, AZ

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Chris

On behalf of the Council, the Executive Committee wishes to thank the many members of the Academy and the medieval community for their active engagement with the question of holding the Academy’s Annual Meeting next April in Tempe. As you know, the Council asked the Executive Committee to make a final decision concerning this question on 3 August 2010. We are writing to inform you of our decision, and are also posting this message on the Academy’s website.

The results of the advisory poll of the membership held by the Council was divided. The poll was sent to 3881 members, of whom 1025 responded. Of the respondents, 431 voted against holding the meeting in Tempe (42%), 477 (46.5%) voted to hold it as planned, and 110 (10.7%) expressed no opinion. Seven responses [<1%] were invalid. Only 32.7% of the respondents said they were prepared to contribute towards offsetting the cost of canceling the meeting, whereas 65 % declared their unwillingness to do so. Of the 477 voting against canceling, 186 included comments; of the 431 voting to cancel, 111 wrote comments; of the 110 expressing no preference, 18 added a message. In reaching its decision the Executive Committee discussed at great length a wide range of issues, including its fiduciary responsibility for the Academy's endowment, the appropriateness of making collective political statements, the precedents that would be set if the Academy canceled the meeting, the scholarly effects of canceling the annual meeting, the work done by the Arizona programming committee, the difficulty of finding any alternative meeting place, the timing of cancellation, and the possibility of legal challenge to Arizona's legislation (which in fact occurred on 28 July). After weighing all these issues, the Executive Committee has voted to hold the meeting, as planned, in Tempe. The Committee is working with Robert Bjork and the Progam Committee to ensure that the program of the meeting reflects and relates to similar issues at stake in medieval society, including such topics as race, ethnicity, immigration, tolerance, treatment of minority groups, protest against governmental policies judged unjust, and standards of judicial and legislative morality. We are delighted that the Episcopal bishop of Arizona, Kirk Smith, who has been deeply involved in the immigration legislation debate (and whose doctoral dissertation Brian Tierney directed), has agreed to speak to us. Elizabeth A.R. Brown, President Alice-Mary Talbot, First Vice-President Maryanne Kowaleski, Second Vice-President Constance Berman Peggy McCracken Brian Patrick McGuire Danuta Shanzer

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Annual Meeting, Tempe, 2011: Call for Papers Deadline for submission is 31 May 2010

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Chris

The annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will be held jointly with that of MAP (the Medieval Association of the Pacific) at the Chaparral Suites Hotel (http://chaparralsuites2-px.trvlclick.com/) in Scottsdale, Arizona, 14-16 April 2011. It will be hosted by ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) at Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe.

The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Given the Academy’s tradition of suggesting possible areas of investigation, the Committee also offers the following for your consideration:

1. Fiefs, feudal institutions, and property holding
2. Testaments and testamentary acts, lay and clerical
3. Liturgical reform and innovation
4. The crafting and creation of liturgical lives and offices
5. Reliquaries and their fates
6. Color and color theory in art and architecture
7. Translation of scriptural and devotional works: patrons and audiences
8. Universities and their involvement in secular politics
9. Representative assemblies, lay and clerical
10. Periodization and the Middle Ages: beginnings and endings
11. The study of the Middle Ages from the 17th through the 20th century
12. The Medieval Mediterranean
13. Ballads and balladry
14. The Pope and the Church in Literary and Artistic Representations
15. Holy Women: Power and Influence in Medieval Europe
16. Musica as Mediatrix between the Mortal and the Immortal
17. Medical Texts: Authors, Readership, Uses
18. The Professionalization of Medicine in the Medieval Period
19. Chronicles and Chroniclers in Medieval Europe
20. The Exile in Medieval Literature and Art
21. Time, Remembrance, and Its Representations
22. Innovations in Scientific Thought and Inquiry
23. Animals and the Animalistic
24. The Garden, Gardening, and Plants
25. Conduct and Behavior in the Middle Ages: Pro Forma and Explicit Guides

Any member of the Medieval Academy, except those who presented papers at the annual meetings of the Medieval Academy in 2009 and 2010, and any member of MAP may submit a proposal. Please do not submit more than one proposal.

Sessions usually consist of three papers of thirty minutes each, and proposals should be geared to this length. The Committee may choose a different format for some sessions after the proposals have been reviewed. We shall try to develop sessions that (1) address subjects of interest to a wide range of medievalists and (2) invite scholars from different disciplines and periods into dialogue with one another. We seek proposals for innovative papers and sessions and hope to see, wherever possible, cross-disciplinary participation in a broad range of topics and of periods.

Selection procedure: Proposals will be evaluated for promise of quality and significance of topic. The Committee will make final decisions by 15 September 2010. Notification of acceptance or regrets will be sent shortly thereafter.

Submissions: Proposals should be submitted online at

http://cf.itergateway.org/medacad/conference/

which will be available from 15 January 2010 to 31 May 2010. Note that your statement of Academy or MAP membership (or statement that your specialty would not normally involve membership in either organization) must be made at the end of your abstract.

If you wish to submit a hard-copy proposal instead, please send two copies to the Committee Chair, Robert E. Bjork, Director, ACMRS, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4402. The proposal must consist of two parts: (1) a cover sheet containing the proposer’s name, professional status and affiliation, postal address, home and office telephone numbers, fax number (if available), e-mail address (if available), and paper title; (2) a second sheet containing the proposer’s name, paper title, 250-word abstract, statement of Academy or MAP membership (or statement that your specialty would not normally involve membership in either organization), and audio-visual equipment needs. If the proposer will be at a different address when decisions are announced in September 2010, that address should be included. Please DO NOT send proposals to the Academy office.

Session proposals: The Committee will consider proposals for entire sessions. Please consult with the Committee Chair before preparing a proposal. Session proposals require the same information as individual paper proposals; abstracts for the papers in proposed sessions will be evaluated by the Committee.

Audio-visual equipment: Requests for audio-visual equipment must be made with proposals.

Graduate Student Prizes: The Medieval Academy will award up to seven prizes of $300 each to graduate students for papers judged meritorious by the local Committee. To be eligible for an award graduate students must, of course, be members of the Medieval Academy and, once their proposed papers have been accepted for inclusion in the program, must submit complete papers to the Committee by 10 January 2011.

Program Committee: Robert E. Bjork, ACMRS (Chair); William F. Gentrup, ACMRS; Carl Berkhout, English, University of Arizona, UA; Albrecht Classen, German Studies, UA; Roger Dahood, English, UA (MAP representative); Cynthia White, Classics, UA; Alyce Jordan, Art History, Northern Arizona University; Karen Bollermann, English, ASU; Monica Green, History, ASU; Richard Newhauser, English, ASU; Catherine Saucier, Music, ASU; Corine Schleif, Art History, ASU; Juliann Vitullo, Italian, ASU; Rosalynn Voaden, English, ASU; Chauncey Wood, Adjunct Professor, ACMRS.

Local Arrangements Committee: Audrey Walters, ACMRS (Chair); Robert E. Bjork, ACMRS; William F. Gentrup, ACMRS; Emilie Roy, ACMRS.

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Boydell & Brewer Discount For MAA Members

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Chris

Boydell & Brewer is pleased to offer members of the Medieval Academy a 25% discount on books featured in their online newsletter, “The Medieval Herald,” until 31 July 2010 (postage extra). Members may also order titles from their Medieval Library – the pick of their publishing programme in this subject area – at the same discount. To order your books, simply visit the Boydell website at

http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/medieval_herald_newsletter_offer.asp

and follow the links. Subscribing to the online newsletter will also give you access to further offers and exclusive material based on their medieval history and literature publishing programme.

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Call for Applications and Nominations for Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Chris

The Medieval Academy of America will be appointing a new Executive Director to succeed Paul E. Szarmach, who is not seeking reappointment. A search committee to recommend his successor has been named by the Council of the Medieval Academy: Elizabeth A. R. Brown (chair), Richard K. Emmerson, Herbert L. Kessler, Maryanne Kowaleski, Susan J. Noakes, Harvey Sharrer, and Alice-Mary Talbot. The appointment will commence no later than 1 September 2011. Salary will be commensurate with professional achievements and standing; additional compensation includes health and retirement benefits.

The following description of the position has been approved by the Council of the Medieval Academy:
The Executive Director is the chief administrative officer of the Medieval Academy, a nonprofit association formed in 1925 to promote and support research, publication, and teaching in all areas of medieval studies. He or she is appointed by the Academy’s elected Council for a five-year term (with the possibility of renewal for a second term) and reports to the Council and the elected President.
In consultation with the Academy’s officers and committees, the Executive Director provides intellectual, pedagogical, and technological leadership, keeping abreast of current developments in the field of medieval studies and recommending ways in which these can be supported or incorporated in the Academy’s various activities, including Academy publications. Therefore he or she should hold an advanced degree in a discipline related to medieval studies and must have knowledge of technology sufficient to evaluate the continuously changing electronic resources necessary to maintaining the Academy’s position in the field and to implementing appropriate electronic innovations. She or he should have experience managing a budget and staff and working with committees and individual persons on various projects. Fund-raising and grant administration experience is also desirable. Traditionally the Executive Director has also served as Editor of Speculum, the Academy’s journal.
NB. The Academy has been deliberating over the possible separation of the duties of the Editor of Speculum from those of Executive Director. The new Executive Director will be expected to participate in ongoing discussions on the subject.
Responsible for managing the Academy’s annual cycle of programs, the Executive Director supervises an office with a full-time staff, comprising an Associate Director, an Assistant to the Executive Director (who also serves as an office manager), the editor of Medieval Academy News, and an Office Assistant, who is also Webmaster.

The Executive Director’s major responsibilities include:
Leadership
• implementing the organization’s long-range planning
• enhancing and maintaining the Academy’s Web site and electronic presence
• preparing grant applications, working with potential donors, and raising funds for the Academy
• overseeing the evaluation and publication of Medieval Academy Books and Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching and developing electronic publications
Execution
• overseeing all aspects of a membership organization—the annual cycle of programs, elections, meetings of the Council, Finance Committee, and Fellows, etc.
• working with the presidential officers and the Council
• organizing materials for and supervising the election of Academy officers, Councillors, and Fellows
• instructing and assisting all committees; also suggesting possible members for committee appointments made by the Council and the President
• planning the annual meeting, including negotiating with host institutions and hotels, establishing program and local arrangement committees, and overseeing meeting events
• communicating with the Treasurer and members of the Finance Committee, attending meetings, and helping the Finance Committee manage the financial resources of the Academy
• keeping the Academy’s books and preparing the annual budget and materials for the annual audit
• keeping the official records of the governing bodies and reporting to the Council
• serving as liaison with the Committee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA) and the Digital Initiatives Advisory Board (DIAB)
• working with the President to represent the Academy at meetings of the American Council of Learned Societies, at the International Congress of Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, the International Medieval Congress at Leeds, and other academic and professional groups

Management
• supervising the staff and administration of the Academy office
• hiring and evaluating staff and renting office space
• maintaining the computer network including the Web site and listservs
• overseeing membership services and support and responding to requests and complaints in a timely and helpful manner
• recruiting new members and soliciting payment of dues
• supervising preparation of the online publication of Medieval Academy News and other administrative publications
• overseeing programs for book subventions and prizes, travel grants, research grants, dissertation fellowships and CARA stipends, including publicity, supervision, evaluation, and the appointment of committees

Letters of nomination should be directed to the committee as soon as possible. Applications should include a letter focusing on qualifications and experience, a curriculum vitae, and the names of at least three referees. Nominations and applications should be directed to Elizabeth A. R. Brown and sent by e-mail attachment to smc@medievalacademy.org. The search will continue until the position is filled, but to receive full consideration applications should be submitted no later than 1 July 2010.

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Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy at Yale University

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Chris

REGISTRATION DESK

The registration desk will be located in the foyer of Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High Street) and will be open Thursday 12:00-6:00, Friday 8:00-6:00, and Saturday 8:00-1:00. Those who have registered should pick up their meeting packets at the registration desk. The meeting packets will include a campus map and a program detailing locations of all events.

The desk will also accept new registrations, at the late registration rate. Payment may be made by credit card or by check payable to Yale University.

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Medieval Academy News Has Been Posted

Posted on March 2, 2010 by Chris

The new Medieval Academy News is now available on the Medieval Academy website. Just follow this link.

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2011 Annual Meeting Call for Papers

Posted on March 2, 2010 by Chris

Please click here for information regardingthe Call for Papers for the Annual Meeting in Tempe, 2011.

Deadline for submission is 15 May 2010.

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2011 Annual Meeting Proposal Submissions

Posted on March 2, 2010 by Chris

Please click here for the Medieval Academy of America’s online proposal submission site.

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