The Medieval Association of the Pacific
MAP 2013 Conference Information and Registration
Location
The 2013 MAP Conference will be held March 21-23, 2013 in Mother Rosalie Hill Hall at the in School of Leadership and Education Studies on the west end of the University of San Diego campus. The sessions will take place in rooms 131,133, 145 and the auditorium.
Registration
All conference participants must be MAP or JSMES members. If you are a speaker and have not yet joined MAP or renewed your membership, please join MAP before registering. If you are already a MAP member, please login before registering. Once you have logged in, please go to the MAP 2013 Conference Registration page.
Registration fees are $70.00 for regular members and guests, and $35.00 for students. The deadline for registration is 8 March, 2013. After this date, a late registration fee of $10 will be charged.
In addition, the following registration options are available:
- Friday Lunch – $15.00
- Friday Banquet with Hosted Bar – $50.00
- Saturday Lunch – $15.00
There will be an opening reception with a hosted bar in the Bishop Buddy Sala in Mother Rosalie Hill Hall on Thursday from 5:30 to 7:30.
A/V Equipment: All rooms are equipped with a computer and projection equipment. Cables to substitute a laptop (either MAC or PC) for the computer in the room will also be available. Please let us know if you have any unusual A/V requirements.
Conference Program
A provisional version of the Conference Program is available online.
Parking
There is no fee for guest parking on USD campus. Please obtain a visitor’s permit from the guard at the West Entrance Welcome Kiosk and park in the West Parking Structure (#2 on the campus map). Take the West campus loop tram to the main area of campus. This tram stops at the top of the hill, across the street from Mother Rosalie Hill Hall.
If you are staying either at The Dana or Days Inn, shuttles will leave these hotels for USD on Thursday afternoon at 2:30 and 5:00, on Friday morning at 8:00, on Friday evening at 6:30 and on Saturday morning at 7:30 (please note the different times). Transportation will return you to these hotels on Thursday night at 9:00, on Friday night at 5:45 and 10:00, and onSaturday evening at 5:30.
If you are staying at the Hacienda Hotel, available transportation is different for Friday and Saturday. On Friday, you can take the free shuttle provided by USD at the Old Town Transit Center. It will drop you off at the West Parking Structure, where you will board the West tram to the stop at Olin Hall. (Note—it’s only about 1/4 mile at most from the parking structure to Mother Rosalie Hill Hall.) On Friday night at 10:00 (after the banquet) transportation will take you back to the Hacienda. On Saturday, the shuttle will pick you up at the hotel at 7:30 a.m. and return to the hotel at 5:30.
Additional parking and transportation information can be obtained at the following links.
- University of San Diego Parking Information
- University of San Diego Campus Map
- Transportation Information and Directions to the University of San Diego
Accommodations
Blocks of rooms have been reserved at the following local hotels; please make your reservations through the particular hotel’s reservation department, mentioning the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference at University of San Diego.
Hacienda Hotel
4041 Harney Street
San Diego, CA 92110-2866
Reservations with Conference Rate ($130/night):
- Enter dates of stay
- Enter group code “medieval”
- Click on “Check Rates”
The Dana – Mission Bay
1710 West Mission Bay Drive
San Diego, CA 92109
Reservations with Conference Rate ($149/night)
Days Hotel
543 Hotel Circle S.
San Diego, CA 92108
Reservations with Conference Rate ($76/night)
Call for Papers for MAP/MAA 2014
Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 2014: Call for Papers The 2014 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific will be held jointly with the Medieval Academy of America on 10-12 April, in Los Angeles at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and hosted by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal, excepting those who presented papers at the annual meetings of the Medieval Academy in 2012 and 2013; others may submit proposals as well but must become members in order to present papers at the meeting. Special consideration can be given to individuals whose specialty would not normally involve membership in the Medieval Academy.
The complete Call for Papers with additional information, submission procedures, selections guidelines, and organizers is available here.
Please contact Prof. Massimo Ciavolella at UCLA, if you have any questions.
Critical/Liberal/Arts Symposium at UC Irvine
A one-day symposium on the “Critical/Liberal/Arts” will be held at UC Irvine on Friday, April 19th. The eleven speakers include specialists in medieval studies and early modern studies (Aranye Fradenburg, Bruce Smith, Aaron Kunin, Maura Nolan, Brantley Bryant, Rebecca Davis) as well as an academic activist, a digital humanist, and a filmmaker. The following partial description of the aims of the symposium series:
The “hermeneutics of suspicion” has fallen under suspicion. There has been a turn against “critique” and away from “paranoid reading.” Yet critique — understood to encompass heterogeneous practices of judgment and pursuits of justice — has not outlived its usefulness. Critical/Liberal/Arts is a project and event-space seeking new articulations and performances of critique’s timeliness, beginning with two one-day symposia: at UC Irvine in April 2013, followed by another at The Graduate Center, CUNY in September 2013, with both symposia to be documented in a special issue of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies. We have been inspired by the recent experiments of thinkers, artists, and technologists who are crafting, composing, curating, inventing, agitating, building, healing, resisting, and playing as ways of inquiring into the limits and consequences of our humanities, university, and world. Presenters were invited to think about critique in proximity to other modes of action, especially those of making and creation — to discover creation and critique inhering in one another, or wending apart, or crossing one another again and again like a pair of knives being whetted, or like the faces of the proverbial Mobius strip.
Find for day’s schedule here. Registration is open here, and space is limited.
19th ACMRS Conference Call for Papers
The 19th Annual ACMRS Conference
14 – 16 February 2013
Renaissance Hotel, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Theme: Beasts, Humans and Transhumans in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Description: The 19th Annual ACMRS Conference will be held on 14-16 February 2013, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Keynote speaker: Professor Juliana Schiesari, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis.
Call for Papers:
We welcome any topic related to the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, especially those that focus on this year’s theme of beasts, humans and transhumans both in literal and metaphorical manifestations. Proposals must be submitted electronically at http://link.library.utoronto.ca/acmrs/conference through 20 November 2012.
Details and information: http://www.acmrs.org/conferences/annual-acmrs-conference
Contact: acmrs@acmrs.org phone: 480-965-9323 fax: 480-965-1681