Registration is now open!
Conference dates 19-21 February
Smathers Library (East) 100, UF Campus
Program and schedule: http://vagantesconference.org/conference-program/
Vagantes is North America’s largest graduate student conference for medieval studies. Since its founding in 2002 at Harvard, Vagantes has traveled to a new university every year. The University of Florida will host the 2015 conference, which will feature thirty papers on diverse aspects of medieval studies allowing for exciting interdisciplinary conversation. Junior scholars from around the world will present their research on topics such as gender, literature, religion, fashion, conceptions of time and space, creating communities, and daily life in the Middle Ages.
The conference also will include exciting keynotes. Dr. Linda Neagley of Rice University will open the conference with: “Architectural counterpoint: Juxtaposition and Opposition as a Visual Strategy in the Late Middle Ages.” Dr. Nina Caputo of the University of Florida will close with a discussion of the unique challenge of transforming medieval history into a graphic novel. Another highlight will be an exhibition of medieval manuscripts: “Beast and the Book: Animals and Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Illustrations from the Middle Ages,” presented by Dr. Rebecca Jefferson of the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica. Finally, Dr. Florin Curta will chair a roundtable session, “Teaching the Middle Ages Hands-on,” in which University of Florida faculty will discuss pedagogical strategies pertaining to teaching medieval history in the 21st century.
Visit http://vagantesconference.org/ or email ufvagantes@gmail.com for more information!