Fourth Annual
Medieval Graduate Student Symposium

University of North Texas

January 30th and 31st, 2009

Dear Colleagues,
We are 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’s keynote address on
your calendar.

NEW!! Announcement of Travel Stipend Competition
Additionally, we are happy to announce that through the support of the
Wells Fargo Foundation, we are able to award a $500.00 travel stipend to
the author of the most outstanding paper submission.

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

Call for Papers

We also ask that you alert your graduate 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. Attached is a poster that can be printed and distributed. Paper
Abstracts should be sent to: Abelunt.edu or

Dr. Mickey Abel
Department of Art History
University of North Texas
1155 Union Circle #305100
Denton, TX 76203-5017