Registration Form for the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Texas Medieval Association, Lubbock, October 2-4, 2008.

Complete Program for the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Texas Medieval Association, Lubbock, October 2-4, 2008.

Plenary Speeches for the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Texas Medieval Association in Lubbock will include Thomas F.X. Noble (Director of the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame), "Charlemania: Writing Charlemagne 828-2008"; Jane Chance (Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English, Rice University), "Teaching the New Medievalism"; and W. Michael Mathes (Professor Emeritus of History, University of San Francisco; Library Director, El Colegio de Jalisco), "Medieval Castile on the Llano Estacado: The Vázquez de Coronado Expedition, 1540-1541"

Conference venues: The Conference will be held at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. After the opening reception on Thursday, October 2, participants will convene on Friday, October 3, in the museum quadrant in the northwestern part of the campus for a variety of sessions and Texas barbeque; on Saturday, October 4, the participants will convene in the central campus, where sessions will center on the Southwest Collection Library. Venues have been chosen for convenient parking. Bus transport to and from the conference hotel will be provided (though Saturday venues will be within fairly easy walking distance).

Associated events will include a photographic exposition on "Medieval Lubbock," a major exhibit on "The Medieval Southwest: Manifestations of the Old World in the New," and a concert by the internationally acclaimed medieval music ensemble "Altramar."

The Conference hotel is the Staybridge Suites at 2515 19th Street (near 19th & University, across the street from campus). TEMA suite rates are $85 per night. Medieval scholars still enrolled in a university will be able to purchase a "student meal ticket," providing a discounted rate on Conference meals.

Conference questions should be directed to TEMA President and Program Chair John Howe (John.Howe@ttu.edu). The local organizing committee also includes Julie Couch (Julie.Couch@ttu.edu); Chris Smith (Christopher.Smith@ttu.edu); Brian Steele (Brian.Steele@ttu.edu); and Diane Wood (Diane.Wood@ttu.edu).

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Since 1986, we have served medievalists not only throughout the state of Texas, but also nationally and internationally through our conferences and publications.

A regional affiliate of the Medieval Academy of America, we hold an annual conference each fall somewhere in the state of Texas. The 2008 meeting is at Texas Tech in Lubbock, October 2-4.

We also sponsor sessions each May at the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, as well as each July at the International Medieval Conference in Leeds, England.