Fifteenth Annual Conference

University of Houston

October 14-15, 2005

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

Thursday, October 13

Pre-conference Gathering, UH Hilton Hotel, room to be announced

CONFERENCE EVENTS (in the Rockwell Pavilion, Library)

Friday, October 14

8:30-10:00 am Sessions I (3 sessions simultaneously)
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12 noon Sessions II
12:00-1:00pm -lunch on your own-
1:00-2:00 -First Plenary Address: John Friedman, "The Humor and Folly of the World in Odd Places: A Fifteenth Century Manuscript Herbal"
2:15-3:45 Sessions III
3:45- 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-5:00 [5:30?] Sessions IV
5:00 Wine Reception
5:30 Official UH Welcome during Wine Reception
6:00 -7:00 2nd Plenary Address: Charles M. Radding, "How Many Middle Ages? Periodization, the Problem of Transition, and the Disappearing Eleventh Century"

Saturday, October 15

8:30-10:00 am Sessions V
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12 noon Sessions VI
12 noon-2 pm Luncheon. Business Meeting.
Presidential Address: Sally N. Vaughn, "Envisioning the Past in the Eleventh Century: Recollection, Restoration, Recapitulation and Reenactment"
2:00-3:30 Sessions VII
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 Sessions VIII

With thanks to our generous sponsors and underwriters:

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, University of Houston
Department of History, University of Houston
Department of English, University of Houston
Dean of the Libraries, University of Houston