I think the museum community will be as interested in this as the medievalists.
Karen Reeds
cc: Janet Marquardt <[log in to unmask]>

>From: Janet Marquardt <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: [MEDART] CFP-Leeds 2009
>Sender: "MEDART-L: Medieval Art History"	<[log in to unmask]>
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>Call for papers:
>
>International Medieval Congress, Leeds University, 13-16 July 2009
>Session sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art
>
>Shaping Reception of Medieval Sites: What are we doing?
>
>Organized by: Janet T. Marquardt, Eastern Illinois University
>
>With the eleven-hundredth anniversary of the Abbey of Cluny's 
>foundation in 910 approaching, it seems timely to evaluate our 
>current understanding of medieval monuments as cultural patrimony. 
>We have seen two centuries of rising awareness to the historical 
>importance, cultural meaning, and tourism potential of medieval 
>structures in Western Europe. They have changed from outdated and 
>neglected ruins past fashionable appreciation to picturesque relics 
>claiming large investments toward their restoration. Yet some 
>countries have too many historical monuments to maintain and the 
>oldest represent the largest resource drain. How relevant are 
>medieval sites today and why should modern administrations continue 
>to market them as "authentic" representatives of culture? Who 
>determines popular views of the past in our society and are they 
>merely following formulae initiated in the nineteenth century? Why 
>are we still commemorating anniversaries of medieval institutions 
>long gone?
>
>This session would ideally be composed of papers about sites that 
>have been reevaluated or which have been recently "rediscovered," 
>their reception and commemoration, as well as how their role in the 
>past and towards the future continues to be shaped.
>
>
>Please email paper proposals of no more than 300 words to 
><mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] by September 15, 
>2008 and indicate whether you would require a digital data or 
>traditional slide projector.

-- 
Karen Reeds, PhD, FLS
Guest Curator
Come into a New World: Linnaeus & America
Exhibition, February 15-July 1, 2007 American Swedish Historical 
Museum, Philadelphia http://www.americanswedish.org/linnaeus.htm
May 3-September 2008 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton 
http://www.newjerseystatemuseum.org
Exhibition guide available from 
http://www.dianepublishing.net/category_s/490.htm


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