Saturday, September 19, 2020
Missouri Western State University

Plenary Speaker : Dr. Anne D. Hedeman, Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art History, University of Kansas

"History and Visual Memory in the Library of King Charles V of France"

Papers on any aspect of medieval culture, medieval studies, and medievalism will be considered, but presentations that consider and/or (re)evaluate the conference theme "Memory and Materiality" will be particularly welcome.

Potential topics could include (this is NOT an exhaustive list) :
– Historiographies
– Literature, trauma, and memory
– Memory construction
– Museums, libraries, and archives
– Borders and borderlines
– Collective space, place, and memory
– Ethics of preservation
– Memory, Memoria, and Rhetoric
– Remembrances, and shaping identity
– Teaching the medieval era : pedagogy
– Music, Art, Literature
– Pop culture
– Food culture

Proposals for either papers (250 word abstracts)
or sessions (250 word abstracts + list of title and
presenters) should be sent via email attachment to :
medieval442020 chez gmail.com