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(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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