(On a completely superficial note: Cardoos is catering the Sat. eve 
banquet at the museum: their food is excellent. - AW)

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New England Medieval Conference
Oct. 22 &23, 2005
Higgins Armory Museum and Clark University
Worcester, MA

Medieval Conflicts, Modern Concerns

Registration fees include Sat. cocktail reception and banquet.
Before Oct. 7: $65 Full-time faculty / $45 Students and independent scholars
After Oct. 7 (Space Permitting): $75 Full-time faculty / $55 Students 
and independent scholars
Optional Sat. lunch: $15

To download a registration form: http://www.higgins.org/Calendar/NEMC/

Program:

Saturday Oct. 22

Higgins Armory Museum
8:00 Registration
9:00 Session I: Boundaries
        What If We Had the WWW in the Middle Ages? Anisa Mehdi, 
Whetstone Productions
        Just War, Holy War, and Jihad: Early Encounters and Mutual 
Influences. Sohail Hashmi, Mount Holyoke College
10:30 Session II: Politics and Identity
         An Enemy We Cannot See: Identifying the Jew in Medieval 
Christian Art. Sara Lipton, SUNY Stony Brook.
         Medieval Dukes and Modern Problems: Prospero Strikes Back. 
Virginia Mason Vaughan, Clark University.

Clark University
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Session III:
        Performance: A Woman Taken in Adultery. Directed by Raymond 
Munro, Clark University.

Higgins Armory Museum
3:30 Session IV: Christianity and Identity
         Borders and Bodies: Performing the Christian/Imitating the 
Jew. Sylvia Tomasch, Hunter College.
         Boccaccio and Non-Christian Culture. Winthrop Wetherbee, 
Cornell University.
5:00 Session V: Opening Up Corpora
        Reading and Rejection: English Reformation Bible Reading. 
James Simpson, Harvard University.
        Medieval Byzantine Medical and Herbal Practices. Alain 
Touwaide, Historian, Dept. of Botany, National Museum of Natural 
History.
6:30 Cocktail Reception
7:30 Banquet (catered by Cardoos)

Sunday Oct. 23

Higgins Armory Museum
9:00 Session VI: Round Table Discussion with Conference Speakers
10:00 Tour with HAM Executive Director Kent dur Russell

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