University of North Texas

Medieval Graduate Student Symposium
January 30th and 31st, 2009

Dear Colleagues,

I am happy to announce that the College of Visual Arts and Design of the
University of North Texas will be sponsoring our 4th Annual Medieval
Graduate Student Symposium. In honor of UNT's two new Graduate Student
Scholarships for the study of Islamic or Middle Eastern Art History, the
topic for this year's Symposium will be East Meets West in the Middle Ages,
and will feature a keynote address by Dr. D. Fairchild Ruggles from the
University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana. Her lecture is to be titled "The
Stratigraphy of Forgetting: the Construction and Afterlife of the
Mosque/Cathedral of Cordoba" and will be delivered at 5:00 P.M. on Friday,
January 30th. The Graduate Student Symposium will take place on Saturday,
January 31st from 10 AM until 4PM, at which time Dr. Ruggles will conclude
the symposium with discussant remarks for our student presenters. We hope
that you will put both the Symposium and Dr. Ruggles keynote address on your
calendar.

Call for Papers
We also ask that you alert your students to the opportunity to submit an
abstract for a 20 minute, conference-type paper. While we will entertain
papers from any discipline of Medieval Studies and on any topic, we
particularly welcome those that engage the intersections of the East and the
West. We encourage submission of papers that have been submitted and/or
delivered elsewhere. The deadline for submission is November 1st, 2008. A
reminder notice and second call for papers will come out in September.

The College of Visual Arts and Design will again be providing lunch for the
break in our symposium day. With the success of last years symposium they
are looking forward to another day of interesting conversation and graduate
student interaction. We hope that you can join us.

Paper Abstracts should be sent to:

Abelunt.edu
or
Dr. Mickey Abel
Assistant Professor, Art History
University of North Texas
P.O. Box 305100
Denton, TX 76203-5100