Arizona
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Arizona State
University, P.O. Box 874402, Tempe, AZ 85287-4402
Phone: (480) 965-5900 Fax: (480) 965-1681
14th Annual ACMRS Conference
Law and Sovereignty
in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
14 - 16 February 2008 in Tempe, Arizona
Conference registration form available in MS Word or pdf
A post-conference Grand Canyon Tour will be offered Sunday, 17 February 2008-- Tour Registration Form
The conference will be held at the Fiesta Resort Conference Center in Tempe, Arizona. Please make your reservations early if you would like to stay there by calling 1-800-528-6481. Tell them you will be attending the ACMRS Conference to get the special rate of $129 plus tax.
Selected papers related to the conference theme will be considered for publication in the conference volume of the Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance series, published by Brepols Publishers (Belgium).
The conference keynote speaker will be Richard F. Green, Humanities Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Ohio State University. Among his many publications are A Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998), Poets and Princepleasers: Literature and the English Court in the Late Middle Ages (University of Toronto Press, 1980), Interstices: Studies in Middle English and Anglo-Latin Texts in Honor of A. G. Rigg, ed. with Linne R. Mooney (University of Toronto Press, 2004), and The Singer and the Scribe: European Ballad Traditions and European Ballad Cultures, ed. with Phillip Bennett (Rodopi, 2004).
Before the conference, ACMRS will host a workshop on manuscript studies to be led by Timothy Graham, Director of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of New Mexico. The workshop will be Thursday afternoon, February 14, and participation will be limited to 25 participants, who will be determined by the order in which registrations are received. Email acmrs@asu.edu with "conference workshop" as the subject line to be added to the list. The cost of the workshop is $15 and is in addition to the regular conference registration fee.
The conference registration fee is $85 ($45 for students) if you register by 15 January 2008; after that date the registration fee increases by $10. The fee includes welcoming and farewell receptions, two days of concurrent sessions (Friday and Saturday), and keynote address. Please note that there will be an opening reception Thursday evening, but there will be no sessions that day.
Questions? Call 480-965-9323 or email acmrs@asu.edu.