2009 CONFERENCE PANELS

44th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 7-10

"Developing Interdisciplinarity on Your Campus"
Thursday, May 7, 10:00-11:30, Valley II 200

Organizer: James Wade, Univ. of Cambridge
Chair: Jennifer A.T. Smith, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

Panelists:  Nancy van Deusen, Claremon Graduate Univ.; Jeremy duQ. Adams, Southern Methodist Univ.; Thomas F. Madden, Saint Louis Univ.; Henry Ansgar Kelly, Univ. of California, Los Angeles; and Jennifer M. Feltman, Florida State Univ.

The goal of this panel is to help students form meaningful research and professional relationships with faculty and students in different departments studying medieval topics. This panel will help students at intitutions without established medieval centers, as well as students at large institutions who need help negotiating their medieval centers.

Annual Reception
Thursday, May 7, 6:00-7:00 pm, Fetzer 2020
All graduate students are invited to our annual reception, hosted by the MAA Graduate Student Committee and the Vagantes Board of Directors. This is a good place to meet other graduate students at the beginning of the Congress and find out more about the Medieval Academy and Vagantes, the graduate student conference affiliated with the Medieval Academy.

VAGANTES

Vagantes, an annual graduate conference affiliated with the MAA Graduate Student Committee, is designed to foster a sense of community among medievalists in the early stages of their careers, provide an interdisciplinary forum for the presentation of their scholarship, and showcase the resources of host institutions. Vagantes has held eight successful conferences, at Harvard University (2002), University of Toronto (2003), Cornell University (2004), University of Notre Dame (2005), University of California, Berkeley (2006), Loyola University, Chicago (2007), The Ohio State University (2008), and The Florida State Univeristy (2009).

Vagantes 2010 will take place at The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, March 11-13. With the exception of keynote addresses, delivered by faculty, Vagantes is a student-run conference. For more information on attending and hosting Vagantes, visit VagantesConference.org