Confrences 2008


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Most recent conferences where I have presented:

  

·         44th International Congress on Medieval Studies

May 7–10, 2009 Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University
Session: Alchemy

Organizer: Nancy L. Turner

Paper:  "Voynich has a Meaning: Alchemy and Exotic Plants in the Most Mysterious  Manuscript  in the World"

My name posted here: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/Assets/pdf/congress/Schedule09.pdf

 

·        MARS Workshops:

April 6, 2009 Indiana: Purdue University

Session: European Renaissance

Organizer: Michael Ryan

Paper: New Herbs from Americas and their Use in the Renaissance Italian Medicine

My name posted here: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/mars/events/marsmondays.html

·         CSAS 2009 Conference
April 2-5, 2009 Urbana-Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois campus

Session:"Body, Culture and Society"

Organizer: Myrdene Anderson

Paper: The Role of Human Prints and Divine Traces in Persuasive Rituals

My name posted here: http://courses.missouristate.edu/mbuckner/CSAS09PrelimProgram.htm   

Abstract here:   http://courses.missouristate.edu/mbuckner/CSAS%2009%20Paper%20Abstracts.htm        

 

  • Congreso Internacional Chymia. Ciencia y Naturaleza en la Europea Moderna (1450-1750) September 2008, El Escorial, Madrid (attended)

 

  • HGSA 2008 Conference, Purdue.  Paper: "Voynich Manuscript and its Genuine Alphabet" (12 April 2008)

 

  • OAH 2008 Annual Meeting, New York, (Hilton Hotel).  Paper: "Understanding the "Voynich", the Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World. American Shamanism and Exotic Plants" (29 March 2008)

 

  • MARS Conference (Medieval and Renaissance Society, Purdue) Paper: "New Contributions to Voynich Manuscript's Mystery" (24 March 2008)
  • Purdue students workshop: "Voynich Manuscript is not a Hoax. Uncovering New Evidence" (29 January 2008)


Upcoming:  These papers have been accepted to the following conferences listed below. However, I plan on going only for 5 conferences selected from here:

·         Annual Graduate Student Conference

March 6-7, 2009 University of Alabama

Session: Power and Struggle

Organizer: Becky Bruce

Paper:  "The Power of Magic during Carolingians"

My name posted here: http://www.bama.ua.edu/~gha/program.html

 

 ·         North Central Sociological Association 2009 Conference

April 16-18, 2009  Hyatt Regency – Dearborn, Michigan

Session on "Body, Culture and Society"

Organizer: Jason Whitesel

Paper: "Handprints, Footprints and Representations of Human Body in Magical Rituals"

My name can be found if click on Preliminary Program from this site:

http://www.ncsanet.org/meetings/index.html 

    

·         SCÉR (Congrès de la Société Canadienne d'Études de la Renaissance)

May 23-25, 2009 Ottawa: Université Carleton

Session: De Fabrica Artis Medicinae: the parts of medicine in Early Modern Times.

Organizer: Mawy Bouchard and Don Beecher

Paper: "Products of American Arid and Semi-Arid Lands in European Renaissance : Trading Medicine Knowledge, Herbs, and Drugs"

My name posted here: http://www.crrs.ca/csrs-scer/conferences/cong-09.pdf

 

·         SCSC 2009 (The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference)

May 28-30, 2009 Switzerland: Geneva, Crown Plaza Hotel

Session: The Supernatural in Early Modern European Society

Organizer: Kathryn A. Edwards

Paper:  "The Role of the Irrational in the Rationality of Early Modern Europe"

My name posted here: http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/2009GenevaProgramv2.pdf

 

·         Collecting East and West

June 25-29, 2009 Italy: Florence, Florence Univ. of Arts & British Institute of Florence

Session: The West: New Worlds of Knowledge

Organizer: Andrea Galdy

Paper:  "Products of American Arid and Semi-arid Lands in the Italian Renaissance: Trading Knowledge, Herbs, Food, and Drugs"

My name is on their preliminary program sent as word format, not available online yet. However, their conference website is: http://collectinganddisplay.com/conferences.html  

 

·         Vth International Congress of Ethnobotany (ICEB).

September 21-24, 2009 San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina: Universidad Nacional de La Plata and Universidad Nacional del Comahue

            Session: Medicinal Plants

Organizer: María Lelia Pochettino

Paper: "European Renaissance: Trading Knowledge, Herbs, Food and Drugs from Arid America"

The conference has been advertized here, but no program is yet complete or available online:

http://www.hssonline.org/profession/meetings/detail.lasso?-Search=Action&-Table=Events%20web&-Database=hssguides&-KeyValue=4414

 

 


Here it is a list about conferences on the field I am interested, that I try to keep updated:

 

5-8 March 2008            "S0MA 2008" Mediterranean Archaeology

                                     The twelfth annual meeting of the Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (SOMA)

                                     Eastern Mediterranean Univ., North Cyprus

 

7-8 March 2008          "Nomads, Tribes, and the State in the Ancient Near East: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives"

                                    The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

                                    1155 East 58th Street, Chicago, IL, USA

 

14-15 March 2008      "Conference Boundaries of Witchcraft in the Upper Rhine Region"

                                   University of Oxford , UK


 

14-15 March 2008        "Looking Beyond: Visions, Dreams and Insights in Medieval Art and History"

                                      The Center for Religion and Civic Culture

                                      University of Southern California, USA

 

24 March 2008            MARS Conference

                                    Medieval And Renaissance Studies

                                    Purdue University, IN, USA                         

 

28-31 March 2008        OAH Annual Meeting 2008

                                     Hilton, New York, USA

 

April 3-5, 2008             "Chicago 2008" Renaissance Conference

                                     The Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA)

                                     Chicago, IL, USA

 

3-5 April 2008              Prophetstown Revisited: A Summit on Early Native American Studies

                                     Stewart Center, Purdue University, USA

 


 April 3-5, 2008             "Renaissance In-Betweenness"

                                      The Annual Conference of the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society (PNRS)

                                      & The Medieval Academy of America (MAA)

                                      downtown Vancouver, Hyatt Regency

                                      with an optional tour  

 

12 April 2008                 HGSA Conferences Series

                                      Purdue University History Graduate Students' Association

                                      Purdue University, Indiana, USA

 

June 30–July 25, 2008  "The Medieval Mediterranean & the Emergence of the West"

                                         NEH Summer Institute for College and University Professors

                                         Barcelona, Spain

                                         deadline: 3 March 2008

 

3-6 July 2008                "Tyndale, More and their Circles: Persecution and Martyrdom under the Tudors"

                                     Liverpool Hope Univ., UK

                                     deadline: 20 May 2008

 

7-10 July 2008              "International Congress of the European Middle Ages"

                                      The fifteenth International Medieval Congress

                                      Univ. of Leeds, UK

 

6-8 August 2008           "Trauma and the Sublime"

                                     Swansea University, Wales, UK

 

7-12 September 2008   "CHYMIA. Science and Nature in Early Modern Europe (1450-1750)

                                     International Conference on Alchemy

                                     El Escorial, Madrid, Spain

 

25-27 September 2008 The Thirtieth Mid-America Conference on History

                                     Dept. of History, Missouri State University

                                     Springfild, Missouri, USA

                                     deadline: 1 May 2008                                    

 

2-5 October 2008      "Language Typology and Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics"

                                   International conference, Egyptological Institute of the University of Leipzig and the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

                                   location: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany

                                  deadline: 31 March 2008

 

4-5 October 2008        "The Conference on Precession and Ancient Knowledge"

                                     CPAK controversional conference of alternative history 

 

16-19 October 2008   33th Annual SSA Meeting

                                   Semiotic Society of America

                                   Renaissance Hotel in conjuction with Univ. of St. Thomas, Huston, TX, USA

                                  

17-18 October 2008   The Devil in Society in the Pre-Modern World

                                   Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

                                   Victoria College, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

 

9-10 December 2008    "New Worlds Reflected: Representations of Utopia, The New World and Other Worlds (1500-1800)"

                                      Birkbeck College, Univ. of London, UK

                                      deadline: 20 May 2008

 

29-31 December 2008  "History: From Ancient to Modern"

                                     6th International Conference

                                     Athens, Greece

                                    

2-5 January 2009        "Globalizing Historiography"

                                    AHA Annual Meeting

                                    New York City, USA

                                    deadline: 15 February 2008

 

21-24 September 2009 "Vth International Congress of Ethnobotany (ICEB)" (it welcomes magical plants too)

                                     Universidad Nacional de La Plata and Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina

                                     location: San Carlos de Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina


click here for Past Conferences (2007)