Call for
Papers/Sessions:
The 20th Annual MAM Conference will take place at the
University Center on the campus of Northern Michigan University in Marquette,
Michigan, Friday-Saturday, September 24-25, 2004.
Paper and
session proposals and abstracts in any area of Medieval Studies are requested by
July 1.
The plenary speaker will be Alan Gaylord of Dartmouth
College, on Chaucer's
Troilus And Criseyde, Prosody, and
Performance. Professor Gaylord is well known through his publications, his
master classes in reading Chaucer aloud, and his work with the Chaucer
Studio.
Accommodations: There will be three conference
hotels: two downtown (Landmark Inn, Ramada) about a mile from the university,
and one (Holiday Inn) a little further away on the Route 41 bypass. We
will arrange a shuttle for morning and afternoon/evening. Marquette County
Airport. about 30 minutes drive away, is served by air through Detroit
(Northwest/Mesaba), Chicago (American Eagle), and Milwaukee. Conference
details and registration information will be posted to the MAM website as they
are worked out: <
http://www-instruct.nmu.edu/English/pgoodric/mamindex.html>
Area
Description & Activities: Marquette is a small city of about
23,000 located in a beautiful, pristine natural environment on the southern
shore of Lake Superior in Michigan's Upper Peninsula 400 miles due north of
Chicago in an area famed for fishing and hunting (attracting, for example,
Ernest Hemingway), and the setting of Otto Preminger's classic film
Anatomy
of a Murder based on a real-life case in Marquette County. Time and
schedule permitting, there will be an opportunity for attendees to take either a
glass-bottomed boat tour of Munising Bay shipwrecks, or a boat tour of the
spectacular shoreline of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, also out of
Munising, 40 miles east of Marquette. There are beautiful sand beaches and
parks right in the city, and there should be colorful fall foliage in late
September which rivals that of northern New England. We hope to see you
there!