2012 Annual Meeting, Saint Louis University (St. Louis, MO), 22-24 March

The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will be held on March 22-24 on the campus of Saint Louis University, nestled in the heart of midtown Saint Louis, Missouri. It will be hosted by the Saint Louis University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Founded in 1818, Saint Louis University is the oldest university west of the Mississippi and the second oldest Jesuit university in America. As one might expect from a city named for a medieval king, there is much to recommend it to medievalists. The university has extensive manuscript and rare book holdings and is also the home of the Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library, a microfilm copy of thousands of manuscripts in the Vatican Library in Rome.

All sessions, lectures, meetings, and receptions will be held in Busch Memorial Center and DuBourg Hall on the Saint Louis University campus.

REGISTRATION

The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will be held on March 22-24 on the campus of Saint Louis University. This year's meeting will feature fifty sessions from a wide range of disciplines and approaches. Registration is now open here.

PROGRAM

This year's meeting will feature fifty sessions from a wide range of disciplines and approaches. A complete program is available here.

Plenary Speakers

Thursday, March 22, 2:00 - 3:15 Opening Address
Caroline A. Bruzelius, Duke University
"Inside/Outside: Friars and the Dynamics of Urban Space"

Caroline Bruzelius received her Ph.D. from Yale University. Her field of research is Gothic architecture and sculpture in France and Italy. Her books include The Stones of Naples: Church Building in the Angevin Kingdom, 1266-1343 (Yale University Press, 2004) and in Italian translation as Le Pietre di Napoli: le chiese del Regno di Napoli 1266-1343 (Rome, 2005); The Thirteenth Century Church at Saint Denis (Yale University Press, 1985), The Brummer Collection of Medieval Art at Duke University (Duke University Press, 1991), The Architecture of the Cistercians in the Early Thirteenth Century, and with William Tronzo, Medieval Naples: An Architectural & Urban History, 400-1400 Italica Press, 2011). She was awarded the Duke Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award in 1985. From 1994 to 1998 she served as Director of the American Academy in Rome.

Saturday, March 24, 9:00 - 10:00 Presidential Address
"Searching for Women in the Archives of Mount Athos"
Alice-Mary Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks

Alice-Mary Talbot is Director of Byzantine Studies emerita, Dumbarton Oaks, and editor of the Byzantine Greek series of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, . B.A., Radcliffe Coll.; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia Univ. Interests: Byzantine cultural history, monasticism and hagiography; editing and translation of texts; gender studies. Publications: The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (1991, with A. Kazhdan), Holy Women of Byzantium (1996), Byzantine Defenders of Images (1998), Women and Religious Life in Byzantium (2001, with D. Sullivan), The History of Leo the Deacon: Byzantine Military Expansion in the Tenth Century (2005). Her edition and translation of the vita of St. Basil the Younger (with D. Sullivan and S. McGrath) is about to go to press.

Saturday, March 24, Saturday, 4:00 - 5:45 Fellows Session
"The Gleaners"
William Chester Jordan, Princeton University

William Chester Jordan received his B.A. from Ripon College? and his Ph.D., Princeton University. His field of research is Medieval French History, Jewish-Christian relations, French-English relations. He is the Dayton-Stockton Professor?and Chair, Department of History, Princeton University. His books include Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade: A Study in Rulership (Princeton University Press, 1979), The French Monarchy and the Jews from Philip Augustus to the Last Capetians (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989), The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century (Princeton University Press, 1996) and A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century (Princeton University Press, 2009).

HOTEL

Hotel accommodations are provided at the nearby Chase Park Plaza, an elegant and fully-restored hotel built during the 1920s. It is within walking distance of an array of excellent restaurants and bars in the Central West End district as well as Forest Park, the site of the 1904 World's Fair. The Chase Park Plaza has its own selection of restaurants too, as well as assorted bars and even a movie theater. It also offers pools, recreation facilities, and complete spa services. Reservations.