Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
Crusades: Medieval Worlds in Conflict
The Second International Symposium on Crusade Studies
February 17-20, 2010
Saint Louis University
The Second International Symposium on Crusade Studies will be held at Saint Louis University (St Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.) on February 17 to 20, 2010. The title of the Symposium, Crusades: Medieval Worlds in Conflict, will this year place the focus on the “worlds” of the Mediterranean and the impact of the crusades on them. Plenary speakers include Michael Angold (University of Edinburgh), Ronnie Ellenblum (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Eva Haverkamp (Rice University), Ahmet T. Karamustafa (Washington University), Christopher MacEvitt (Dartmouth College), Suleiman Mourad (Smith College), Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway, University of London), and John H. Pryor (University of Sydney).
Phase I of the symposium will take place on the evenings of February 17, 18, and 19 when two distinguished speakers will deliver plenary lectures of general interest followed by questions and discussion. Phase II will begin on Friday, February 19. It will consist of scholarly papers of twenty minutes in length delivered in concurrent and plenary sessions.
Call for Papers. Twenty minute scholarly papers will be delivered on February 19 and 20 in concurrent and plenary sessions. All topics relating to the crusading movement are welcome. Phase II will conclude with a plenary roundtable discussion, reception, and a banquet.
Abstracts should be submitted by mail, fax, or email by December 1, 2009 to:
Second International Symposium on Crusade Studies
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Saint Louis University
3800 Lindell Blvd.
Saint Louis, MO 63108
Fax: 314-977-1603
Email: cmrs@slu.edu
For more information go to http://crusades.slu.edu/symposium/ or call 314-977-7180.
The International Symposium on Crusade Studies is a quadrennial activity of the Crusades Studies Forum at Saint Louis University. It is sponsored by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University.
