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Forgive the cross-posting Dear Listmembers, I'm forwarding the following announcement on behalf of Allen Frantzen, Loyola-Chicago. I might add that the IMA is usually a small but stimulating meeting, and the 2000 conference looks wonderful. Hope to see you there. Dan Kline U of Alaska Anchorage ********************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: IMA 2000 February 18-19, 2000 Crafting History for the Present: Uses of the Past in the Middle Ages This conference is co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop of the University of Chicago and the Medieval Studies Committee of Loyola University Chicago. The Program Committee includes Michael I. Allen, Allen J. Frantzen, Rachel Fulton, Lucy Pick, and Barbara H. Rosenwein. Papers on the history of any and all disciplines in medieval studies, including papers exploring the uses of the past, medieval-to-modern connections and juxtapositions, and past or present ways of constructing medieval studies from disciplinary or multi-disciplinary perspectives, are invited. Papers addressing relations between Christians and Jews in the Middle Ages are especially welcome. Keynote speaker: Walter Goffart (Toronto), "The West Falls, the East Survives: Reconsiderations about the End of Late Antiquity" Plenary session speakers: John Dagenais (Berkeley), "'Medieval' Manuscripts: Crafting the Literary Artifact"; Mayke de Jong (Utrecht), "Hrabanus Maurus and the Uses of Biblical Historia"'; Margot Fassler (Yale), "History, Liturgy, and Politics at Chartres around 1000: Bishop Fulbert's Sermons 'Contra Judeos'"; Karl F. Morrison (Rutgers), "History Configured to the 'manifesta ratio veritatis': belard and Pope John-Paul II"; Nancy Partner (McGill), "The Pursuit of Truth and Fiction: Medieval and Modern Modes"; Linda Seidel, "Stone Archives and the Crafting of (Art) History" The keynote session and one plenary session will be held at the Divinity School, University of Chicago on Friday afternoon, February 18, 2000; two plenary sessions and all general sessions will be held at Loyola University Chicago, Water Tower Campus, 25 E. Pearson St., on Saturday, February 19, 2000. For a tentative schedule of keynote and plenary sessions, go to http://www.anglo-saxon.net/ima.html. Proceedings of the Illinois Medieval Association are published annually at http://www.luc.edu/publications/medieval (Essays in Medieval Studies). Volumes 8-15 (1992-99) are currently available online.