CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

for the Forty First Annual Meeting of the

MID-AMERICA MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION

at

The University of Missouri-Kansas City

Saturday, 16 September 2017

CONFERENCE THEME: NETWORKS
Plenary speaker: Cynthia J. Brown,  Distinguished Professor of French
University of California-Santa Barbara
Plenary Title: Paratextual Cues in Late Medieval Books: Detecting Family Female Networks

Papers are invited on any the conference theme of “Networks” or any medieval topic.  Networks could include: family networks; monastic and other religious networks; intellectual, artistic, professional, or political networks; networks of texts, of manuscripts, of artworks, etc.

Graduate students and advisors: please see the information about the Jim Falls Paper Prize on this site!

Please send 250-word abstracts of papers, or 3-4 person panels, no later than 20 May 2017 to:

Kathy Krause
Director of Medieval and Modern Studies
Professor of French
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of Missouri-Kansas City
krausek@umkc.edu