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23-24 March 2012

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Welcome to the Sixth Annual Longwood University Undergraduate Medieval Conference. The conference theme of "Meeting in the Middle" highlights the growing place of Longwood and Farmville as a hub of Medieval Studies. Not only have faculty and library resources been augmented of late, but Farmville itself is central to a growing web of medievalists in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Maryland. In recent years, it has been our pleasure to see participants from almost the whole of the Atlantic coast. For that reason, we welcome back all of our friends who joined us last year, along with new attendees to a buffet of scholarship and collegial rejuvenation.

This year's papers will tackle one of the great intersections of the Middle Ages: “Court, Culture, and Cutlery”. We invite the best undergraduate scholarship of our region to come and nuance, overthrow, perhaps even confirm our theme. Further details on proposing a paper topic are available in our Call for Papers. In addition, we continue to welcome still more disciplines to the conference. Thus, this year's conference will also feature music, drama, art, and military technology. At the Friday evening reception, medieval music will be performed by the choral group Otter's Court.

Our plenary speakers highlight the diversity of possibilities in medieval studies. Noted feminist medievalist and an expert on Arthurian legend, Dr. Bonnie Wheeler, is joining us from Southern Methodist University. Dr. Cliff Rogers, from the United States Military Academy at West Point, who specializes in military history and technology , will be giving us a fresh look at the Order of the Garter.

All of the panels (except the First Plenary Address) will be held in Room G12 of the Chichester Science Building, which is quite easily found at the corner of High and Griffin Streets in Farmville. If one is consulting maps of the college, it is the building (#15) at the northwest corner of the main campus. Parking has been reserved across Griffin Street in the Wheeler Lot for participants.

The links to the left should take you to all the information you might need concerning the conference, lodgings, directions, and such. If, however, we have managed not to cover something you are curious about, please write either of the Conference Directors, Larissa Tracy and Steven Isaac, who will respond shortly.