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Sailing the Western Sea:
The Atlantic Ocean in Medieval Perspective
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Saturday March 28, 2009
Organized by The Center for Medieval Studies
The twenty-first Medieval Studies conference will be held on Saturday, March 28, 2009 in the Weaver Building on the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania State University. Parking is free on campus on the weekend.
Registration: 9:30—10:00 am
Welcome: 10:00 am
Benjamin Hudson, Pennsylvania State University, “Into the West: the Medieval Atlantic”
Session I: 10:15 —noon
- Andrew McDonald, Brock University, “The late Nose Isle of Man in its North Atlantic context: contacts and communication, 1079-1265”
- <Break>
- Alfred Siewers, Bucknell University, “Desert Islands: Europe’s Atlantic Archipelago as Ascetic Landscape”
Lunch Break: noon—1:30 pm
Session II: 1:30—5:00 pm
- Thomas Haine, Johns Hopkins University, “Greenland Norse Knowledge of the North Atlantic Environment”
- Kelly DeVries, Loyola University, “Into the Atlantic or Into the Mediterranean: Spanish Military Choices in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries”
- <Break>
- Christopher Fee, Gettysburg College, “Með lögum skal land vort byggja: “With Law Shall the Land be Built” Law-Speaking and Identity in the Medieval Norse Atlantic”
The conference is sponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies with the support of the Institute for Arts and Humanities, Medieval Studies Program, and the Department of Comparative Literature
Costs and Logistics
There is no conference fee for this one-day symposium. We will be organizing a buffet lunch at the Nittany Lion Inn on campus for which people will pay for themselves at the resturant (approx. $12 plus beverage). For those remaining in State College on Saturday evening, informal groups will for head to local resturants.
Registration
Please return the REGISTRATION FORM to Professor Benjamin Hudson either electronically as an attachement to bth1@psu.edu or to the Center for Medieval Studies, Weaver Building, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802. If you have any questions, please email Prof. Hudson or phone (814) 863-7454.
