Category: Symposia

Peace, Community, and Happiness in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age University of Arizona, Tucson, May 2-3, 2025 (first social meeting on May 1, if you like to join us). Our world faces increasing violence, hatred, disagreements, and wars. It would be inaccurate to project the pre-modern world as peaceful, on the contrary. But…Continue Reading 2025 22nd International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Topic: Light and Darkness in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time: Spirituality, the Physical Space, Sciences, and Architecture…Continue Reading 2027: 24th International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Topic: Schools, Teachers, and Education in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age…Continue Reading 2026 23rd International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Miracles and Wonders, Science and Faith in the Pre-Modern Age: The Experience of Transcendence – Reality or Imagination 21st International Symposium on the Middle Ages and the early modern age, to be held at the University of Arizona, Tucson, May 3-4, 2024 Duccio di Buoninsegna, Christ raising Lazarus from the dead, ca. 1310-1311 Caesarius of Heisterbach…Continue Reading 2024: 21st International Symposium, University of Arizona: Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Abstracts Registration Program Checklist for the Preparation of the Article Submission Concept and Framework This 7th international symposium will complement our project from 2008, when we examined Urban Space. At this new symposium, we will investigate how the world outside of the court and the city were viewed, what we know about the rural population,…Continue Reading 2009: 7th International Symposium on the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

Welcome International Symposium on East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age Abstracts Registration Program Checklist for the Preparation of the Article Submission Concept and Framework This 10th international symposium will bring into focus what social, economic, political, literary, medical-scientific, religious, and military contacts connected the Eastern with the Western world from…Continue Reading 2012: 10th International Symposium on the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time

Abstracts | Program | Burgen | Childhood in MA | Old Age | Sexuality Conference | Urban Space | Words of Love | Laughter | Crime and Punishment | Rural Space 5th International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Culture, University of Arizona, Tucson Urban Space: The Experience of Urban Life in the Middle Ages…Continue Reading 2008: 5th International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Culture

1st International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Culture, University of Arizona, Tucson, 2004 CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY RELATIONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE EARLY MODERN AGE APRIL 30-MAY 2, 2004 Adoration of the Magi, Book of Hours, Syracuse University, Ms 7, fol. 86v (ca. 1484-1529) How did people perceive children and childhood? Can we…Continue Reading 2004: 1st International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Culture

3rd International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Culture, University of Arizona, Tucson, 2006 OLD AGE IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, APRIL 27-30, 2006 UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, TUCSON Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Neglected Topic University of Arizona, Tucson, Thursday, April 27-Sunday, April 30, 2006 Organized by Albrecht Classen, Dept. of German…Continue Reading 2006: 3rd International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Culture

From: Manessische Liederhandschrift, figure 031: Kristan von Hamle. A courtly lady helps her lover to reach her up on the tower. In many literary accounts, however, the cunning woman suddenly lets him dangle in the air and so exposes him to the mockery of people when they discover him in the basket. At the University…Continue Reading 2007: 4th International Symposium on the History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 2007

University of Arizona, Tucson, May 5-8, 2011 Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time A follow-up symposium will take place at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, UK, July 15-16, 2011 (details to follow) Concept and Framework This 9th international symposium will complement our project from 2008, when we examined Urban Space. At this…Continue Reading 2011: 9th International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Culture

6th International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Culture, University of Arizona, Tucson, April 30-May 3, 2009 Abstracts Program Laughter in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: Epistemological Investigations from an Interdisciplinary Perspective Organizer: Dr. Albrecht Classen University Distinguished Professor This symposium will investigate fundamental questions concerning the meaning of laughter in the…Continue Reading 2009: 6th International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Culture

WORDS OF LOVE AND LOVE OF WORDS IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, TUCSON April 29-May 1, 2005 Deadline for submission: January 28, 2005 Professor Albrecht Classen Department of German Studies University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 aclassen@u.arizona.edu www.gened.arizona.edu/aclassen phone: (520) 621-1395 fax: (520) 626-8268 This will be an interdisciplinary symposium…Continue Reading 2005: 2nd International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time Program Organizer: Dr. Albrecht ClassenUniversity Distinguished Professor What constituted crime in the Middle Ages and early modern time (ca. 800 to ca. 1800 C.E.)? How did people regard and treat criminals? What kind of punishments were meted out? How did society survive in a…Continue Reading 2010: 8th International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Culture

11th International Symposium on the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: Death and the Culture of Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time at the University of Arizona, Tucson, May 1-4, 2014 Richard A. Harvill Buildg. 102 and Meinel Optics Conference room, 8th floor (Fri morning), #821 Fri afternoon, 1-5 p.m., Old…Continue Reading 2013: 11th Int. Symposium: Death and the Culture of Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time

“Hygiene, Medicine, and Well-Being in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age” will be the theme for the 2015 conference, first week of May 2015, at the University of Arizona, May 1-3. Abstracts Program Concept: Modern myths about medieval and early modern ideas concerning hygiene and health continue to dominate our understanding of the…Continue Reading 2015 12th International Symposium on the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Hygiene, Medicine, and Well-Being

Topic: Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age The University of Arizona, Tucson April 28-May 1, 2016 (actual conference April 29-30) Organizer and Chair: Dr. Albrecht ClassenUniversity Distinguished Professor Dept. of German Studies, 301 LSB, The University of Arizona 520 621-1395; aclassen@u.arizona.edu; sites.arizona.edu/aclassen   Program   Abstracts Deadline to apply…Continue Reading 2016: 13th International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Arizona

Topic: “On the Road Again . . . .”: Time, Space, and Identity in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age   CHECKLIST FOR THE PREPARATION OF A PRINTED VOLUME BASED ON EXPANDED, FULLY RESEARCHED PAPERS To be held at The University of Arizona, Tucson May 4-7, 2017 (actual symposium: May 5-6) This symposium wants…Continue Reading 2017: 14th International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Topic: Pleasure and Leisure: Toys, Games, and Entertainment in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age CHECKLIST FOR THE PREPARATION OF THE EXPANDED AND FULLY RESEARCHED PAPERS   The University of Arizona, Tucson May 3-6, 2018 (actual conference May 4-5, 2018)https://sites.arizona.edu/aclassen/pleasure-and-leisure-program Organizer and Chair: Dr. Albrecht Classen University Distinguished Professor Dept. of German Studies, 301…Continue Reading 2018: 15th International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Fantasy and Imagination in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Projections, Dreams, and Illusion (also: Monsters and Monstrosity)   This symposium will explore the other part of the human brain, the world of fantasy and imagination, both certainly of central importance to human existence.  May 2-5, 2019 Abstracts are most welcome from now on (May…Continue Reading 2019: 16th Symposium

Liberty, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age Organizer and Chair of the Seventeenth international symposium at the University of Arizona: Albrecht Classen Program for the Nov. 21 and 22, 2020 Online Conference Alert: The original conference was CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 (March 16, 2020). Hence, the postponement to Nov. 21…Continue Reading 2020: 17th International Conference on Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Freedom, Slavery, and Imprisonment in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age

The 2021 International Conference on the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age at the University of Arizona will take place online from May 8 to May 9. This will be the 18th Conference organized at the UoA. Topic: (Mis)Communication, Community, and Translation in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age Any relevant paper addressing this large but powerful…Continue Reading 2021: 18th International Conference on Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, May 8-9, 2021

The 2022 symposium at the University of Arizona will focus on Globalism and Meeting the Foreign World in the Pre-Modern World. This is a broad topic, but it suggests many new reflections. I invite submissions by Jan. 31, 2022. Date of conference: April 30-May 1, 2022, online, Arizona time, 7:30 a.m. start time:  https://arizona.zoom.us/j/89140302587 That…Continue Reading 2022: 19th International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Globalism and Meeting Foreign Worlds in the Pre-Modern Era

Human and Natural Worlds in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time: From Ecocriticism to Pre-Modern Anthropology Zoom link: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/81290133292 ​​​​International Symposium, to be held at the University of Arizona, Tucson, April. 27-30, 2023 (arrival on April 27, departure on April 30) Ca. 24 papers can be included. The topic has already been discussed from…Continue Reading 2023: 20th International Symposium, University of Arizona: Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Learning and Wisdom, Insights and Ideas: Pre-Modern Epistemology as Messages for Us Today? Cancelled due to COVID-19…Continue Reading 2020: (17)th International Symposium on the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age