24th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference

University of Connecticut

The Medieval World: From the Secular to the Spiritual

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Plenary Speaker: James Simpson, Harvard University

Professor of English and American Literature and Language; Life Fellow, Girton College Cambridge;

Honorary Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities

Abstracts from first-year graduate students are now being accepted on all topics concerning late antiquity through the late Middle Ages. This is a special session for first-year graduate students only. We strongly encourage papers from a variety of disciplines, including:

Anthropology – Archaeology – Art History – Classical Studies – Comparative

Literature – Disability Studies – Drama – Gerontology – History – History of Science – Language

Studies – Literary Studies – Musicology – Philosophy – Paleography – Religious Studies – Urban

Studies – Women’s and Gender Studies

Papers are to be no more than 20 minutes long and read in English. Please send proposals of no more than 200 words, with affiliation and contact details, via email (as Word attachment) to Kisha Tracy and Britt Rothauser (uconnnemsc@yahoo.com) by February 1, 2007, or by post to:

Britt Rothauser

University of Connecticut

Department of English, U-Box 4025

215 Glenbrook Road

Storrs, CT  06269, USA