Saint Louis 2012. The annual meeting of the Medieval Academy will be held 22-24 March 2012, on the campus of Saint Louis University (Saint Louis, Missouri) and hosted by the Saint Louis University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal, except that those who presented papers at the annual meetings of the Medieval Academy in 2010 and 2011 are not eligible to speak in 2012. Please do not submit more than one proposal.

Sessions usually consist of three thirty-minute papers, and proposals should be geared to that length. A different format for some sessions may be chosen by the Program Committee after the proposals have been reviewed. Session organizers may wish to propose different formats for their sessions, subject to Program Committee approval.

Themes. The annual meeting of the Medieval Academy brings together medievalists from all disciplines and time periods. The Program Committee will capitalize on this strength by encouraging sessions that (1) address subjects of interest to a wide range of medievalists, and (2) put scholars from different disciplines and time periods in dialogue with each other. We are seeking innovative proposals for papers and sessions and hope to see cross-disciplinary participation wherever possible. For both the commissioned and the open sessions, we are looking for the broadest possible range of proposals of topics and of time periods, within and across all disciplines.

Selection procedure. Papers will be evaluated for promise of quality and significance of topic. Session organizers make an initial selection of papers and submit a plan to the Program Committee, which makes final decisions by 15 September 2011. Notification of acceptance or rejection will take place shortly thereafter.

Submissions. Proposals should be submitted to Thomas F. Madden, preferably by e-mail to maddentf@slu.edu, or, on paper to Thomas F. Madden, Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University, 3800 Lindell Blvd. Saint Louis, MO 63108.

The deadline is 1 August 2011. Please do not send proposals to session organizers or to the Academy office.

The proposal must have two parts: (1) a cover sheet containing the proposer's name, statement of Academy membership (or statement that the individual's specialty would not normally involve membership in the Academy), professional status, postal address, home and office telephone numbers, fax number (if available), e-mail address, and paper title; (2) a second sheet containing the proposer's name, session for which the paper should be considered (if applicable), paper title, 250-word abstract, and audio-visual equipment requirements. If the proposer will be at a different address when decisions are announced in September, that address should also be included.

Topics. The Program Committee solicits papers for the sessions listed below. For information
about a specific session, contact the session organizer.

1. The Age of Saint Louis: Court Culture and Art
Organizer: Cathleen Fleck (Saint Louis Univ.)

2. The Age of Saint Louis: Kingship and Sanctity
Organizer: Cathleen Fleck (Saint Louis Univ.)

3. The Age of Saint Louis: Crusade and the Wider World
Organizer: Thomas Madden (Saint Louis Univ.)

4. Cities and their Saints
Organizer: Steven Schoenig, S.J. (Saint Louis Univ.)

5. Rivers: Bridges
Organizer: Daniel Bornstein (Washington Univ.)

6. Rivers: Travel and Trade Networks
Organizer: Daniel Bornstein (Washington Univ.)

7. Rivers: Boundaries and Borders
Organizer: Daniel Bornstein (Washington Univ.)

8. Digital Culture: After Ong I (In Memory of Walter J. Ong., S.J.)
Organizer: Ruth Evans (Saint Louis Univ.)

9. Technologies of Writing: After Ong II (In Memory of Walter J. Ong, S.J.)
Organizer: Ruth Evans (Saint Louis Univ.)

10. Medieval Libraries in Large and in Small
Organizer: Gregory Pass (Saint Louis Univ.)

11. The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: Eight-Hundred-Year Anniversary
Organizer: Damian Smith (Saint Louis Univ.)

12. The Children's Crusade: Eight Hundred Year Anniversary
Organizer: Thomas Madden (Saint Louis Univ.)

13. Medieval Latin Philosophy
Organizer: Eleonore Stump (Saint Louis Univ.)

14. Affect: History (History of Emotion)
Organizer: Frank Grady (Univ. of Missouri, Saint Louis)

15. Affect: Medievalisms (The Enduring Role of Affect in Recovery/Reconstruction of the
Middle Ages)
Organizer: Frank Grady (Univ. of Missouri, Saint Louis)

16. Affect: Methodology (The "Affective Turn" in Contemporary Medieval Studies)
Organizer: Frank Grady (Univ. of Missouri, Saint Louis)

17. The Byzantine Historians
Organizer: Warren Treadgold (Saint Louis Univ.)

18. History of Science and Medicine
Organizer: Philip Gavitt (Saint Louis Univ.)

19. Science, Religion, and the Body
Organizer: Daniel Bornstein (Washington Univ.)

20. Heresy and Dissent
Organizer: Mark Gregory Pegg (Washington Univ.)

21. Crusade and the Mediterranean World: Studies in Memory of James M. Powell
Organizer: Thomas Madden (Saint Louis Univ.)

22. Old Norse Literature and Culture
Organizer: Paul Acker (Saint Louis Univ.)

23. Medieval Studies in Catholic Universities
Organizer: Paul Acker (Saint Louis Univ.)

24. The Archival Mind
Organizer: Daniel Bornstein (Washington Univ.)

25. Clerical Culture
Organizer: Daniel Bornstein (Washington Univ.)

26. Living Together: Households without Marriage
Organizer: Daniel Bornstein (Washington Univ.)

27. Cognition and Sensation
Organizer: Julie Singer (Washington Univ.)

28. Performing Sanctity
Organizer: Julie Singer (Washington Univ.)

29. Nuns and Authority
Organizer: Colleen McCluskey (Saint Louis Univ.)

30. Gender, Emotion, and Virtue
Organizer: Colleen McCluskey (Saint Louis Univ.)

31. Medieval Archaeology
Organizer: Thomas Finan (Saint Louis Univ.)

32. Religious Dimensions of Muslim-Christian Contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean
Organizer: John Renard (Saint Louis Univ.)

33. Periculoso: Women and the Negotiation of Devotion
Organizer: Kathryne Beebe (Southeast Missouri State Univ.)

34. Art of Sultanate India, 1206-1526
Organizer: Michael Bednar (Univ. of Missouri, Columbia)

35. Books, Bodies, and Gender
Organizer: Anne Stanton (Univ. of Missouri, Columbia)

36. Civic Drama and Other Urban Performances
Organizer: Emma Lipton (Univ. of Missouri, Columbia)

37. The Conversion(s) of the North
Organizer: Lois Huneycutt (Univ. of Missouri, Columbia)

38. Gender and the Mediterranean
Organizer: Megan Moore (Univ. of Missouri, Columbia)

39. Late Medieval Popular Religion and the Urban Middle Class
Organizer: Rabia Gregory (Univ. of Missouri, Columbia)

40. Theology in the Lives of Anglo-Saxon Saints
Organizer: Johanna Kramer (Univ. of Missouri, Columbia)

41. Subverting the Mise-en-Page: Editorial Approaches before the Age of Print
Organizer: Susan L'Engle (Saint Louis Univ.)

42. Surprising Gender Constructions in Medieval Literature
Organizer: Evelyn Meyer (Saint Louis Univ.)

43. Unorthodox Imagery and Vernacular Theology in the Later Middle Ages
Organizer: Sherry Lindquist (Knox College)

44. Digital Research in Medieval Studies
Organizer: James Ginther (Saint Louis Univ.)

45. Feminism and Middle English Literature
Organizer: Ruth Evans (Saint Louis Univ.)

Other topics. The Program Committee welcomes submissions on other topics and will organize additional sessions to accommodate the best submissions.

Session proposals. The Program Committee will consider proposals for entire sessions if their subject matter does not conflict with that of other sessions. Please consult with the Program Committee chair before preparing a proposal. Session proposals require the same information as individual paper proposals; abstracts for the papers in the proposed session will be evaluated by the Program Committee.

Audio-visual equipment. Requests for audio-visual equipment must be made with the proposal.

Graduate Student Prizes. The Medieval Academy will award up to seven prizes of $300 each to graduate students for papers judged meritorious by the local committee. To be eligible for an award graduate students must be members of the Medieval Academy and, once their proposed papers have been accepted for inclusion in the program, must submit complete papers to the Program Committee by 10 January 2012.

Program Committee. The Program Committee consists of Thomas F. Madden, Chair (Saint Louis Univ.), Paul Acker (Saint Louis Univ.), Daniel Bornstein (Washington Univ.), Ruth Evans (Saint Louis Univ.), Thomas J. Finan (Saint Louis Univ.), Cathleen A. Fleck (Saint Louis Univ.), Philip R. Gavitt (Saint Louis Univ.), James Ginther (Saint Louis Univ.), Frank Grady (Univ. of Missouri, Saint Louis), David Lawton (Washington Univ.), Colleen McCluskey (Saint Louis Univ.), Evelyn Meyer (Saint Louis Univ.), Gregory Pass (Saint Louis Univ.), Mark Gregory Pegg (Washington Univ.), Julie Singer (Washington Univ.), Damian Smith (Saint Louis Univ.), Eleonore Stump (Saint Louis Univ.), and Warren Treadgold (Saint Louis Univ.).

Local Arrangements Committee. The Local Arrangements Committee consists of Teresa Harvey, Chair (Saint Louis Univ.), Jay Hammond (Saint Louis Univ.), Joan Hart-Hasler (Saint Louis Univ.), Antony Hasler (Saint Louis Univ.), Susan L'Engle (Saint Louis Univ.), Anne Romine (Saint Louis Univ.), and Thomas Rowland (Saint Louis Univ.).

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