Tuesday, February 17, 2009
News on the 2009 conference
As part of our expansion of the event, we will be offering two forms of publication to the delegates. Firstly, all panels will be recorded and made available as Pod casts. Secondly, we will be publishing a selection of the papers in our newly established peer-reviewed journal, which will be available through our website and open-access journal databases.
Our new conference website is under construction; for now, we can be contacted at info@medievalpower.com
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Power in the Middle Ages, National University of Ireland, Galway, November 7-9th 2008.
In May 2008, three doctoral students of the English Department, NUIG - Grace Windsor, Lisa Padden and Dermot Burns- organized a three day conference for postgraduate students of Medieval Studies. The conference was a major success, with twenty-two delegates from Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales and Portugal in attendance. Our theme was Power in the Middle Ages: the cfp, conference program and paper abstracts are available at www.medievalpower.com. A review of the conference is available at http://fmrsi.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/cuttingsissuefour.pdf. A selection of the conference papers will be published electronically via our website in March 2009.
The 2009 conference committee- Grace Windsor, Lisa Padden, Jena Web and Francesca Bezzone- are currently organizing the event for November 13-15th 2009. Further information will be posted in due course.