CONFERENCES

ANZAMEMS holds biennial international conferences, hosted by one of the universities in Australia or New Zealand.

CALL FOR PAPERS: ANZAMEMS CONFERENCE 2008: ALTER ORBIS

2-6 December 2008. Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Inc.) 7th  Biennial International Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Keynote speakers: Mary Carruthers, Conal Condren, Ruth Evans, Edward James, Rodney Thomson. 

Open theme. Papers on all aspects of medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies welcome.

Abstracts (maximum 300 words) for individual 20-minute papers due 1 September 2008. 

Proposals for panels are also welcome, with abstracts also due 1 September 2008. 

Participants who need to make travel arrangements are welcome to submit their proposals early and the convenors will assess their abstracts promptly.

Conference convenors:
Elizabeth Freeman Elizabeth.Freeman@utas.edu.au
Jenna Mead Jenna.Mead@utas.edu.au

Please send enquiries to the convenors or to anzamems2008@utas.edu.au

Conference Web site: http://www.anzamems2008.utas.edu.au/

The Sixth Conference of ANZAMEMS was held at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, 7-10 February 2007. Co-convenors: Dr Heather Kerr and Dr Lawrence Warner.

Keynote speakers:

• Professor Jaynie Anderson, University of Melbourne, author of Tiepolo's Cleopatra (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); Judith (Éditions du Regard, 1997) Giorgione: The Painter of Poetic Brevity ( Flammarion, 1997)

• Professor John Ganim, University of California-Riverside , author of Medievalism and Orientalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), Chaucerian Theatricality (Princeton UP, 1990), and Style and Consciousness in Middle English Literature (Princeton UP, 1983)

• Dr Vanessa Harding, Birkbeck College London, author of A Short History of Early Modern London (Cambridge UP, 2005); The Dead and the Living in London and Paris, 1500-1670 (Cambridge UP, 2002)

• Professor David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania , author of Premodern Places (Blackwell, 2005); The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature (ed.; Cambridge UP, 1999); and Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages, Associational Forms in England and Italy (Stanford UP, 1997)

Old Worlds, New Worlds: the Fifth Conference of ANZAMEMS was held at the University of Auckland from 2 - 5 February 2005. Please visit the Conference Web site for more details.

Memory and Commemoration: the Fourth Conference of ANZAMEMS was held at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from February 5-8, 2003. The Conference Web site has been archived by the Internet Archive.

The Third Conference, Metamorphoses -- Peoples, Places, Times, was held at the University of Western Australia in Perth in July 2001. The programme for this conference has been archived here as a PDF file (366KB).

A closely related conference, Cultural Encounters in the Indian Pacific Region, 1200-1800 was also held in Perth on 10-13 July 2001 under the aegis of Parergon. The programme for this conference has been archived here as a PDF file (193KB).

The First Conference of ANZAMEMS was held at the Victoria University of Wellington in 1998 and the Second at the University of Sydney in 2000.