Confrences 2008
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
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
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:
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)