Past Fora: 2000-2008

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  • 2008:  29th Medieval and Renaissance Forum
    • April 25th & 26th

      Theme(s): The Secular Realm in the Age of Faith
      Keynote Speaker: Dr. Frederic Billiet, Sorbonne, Paris: “Some Sounds for Silence: Music to Illustrate Sculptured Scenes in Medieval Choir Stalls”

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  • 2007:  28th Medieval and Renaissance Forum
    • April 27th & 28th
      Theme(s): The Social Spectacle
      Keynote Speaker: Thomas Forrest Kelly, Harvard University: “Identifying Medieval Composers: From the Anonymous and Humble to the Proud”
  • 2006:  27th Medieval and Renaissance Forum
    • April 28th & 29th
      Theme(s): Friends, Foes and Lovers
      Keynote Speaker: Dr. Debra Higgs Strickland, Columbia University: “Exotics in the middle Ages: Friends or Foes?”
  • 2005:  26th Medieval and Renaissance Forum
    • April 15th & 16th
      Theme(s): The Secular World of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
      Keynote Speaker: Dr. Malcolm Jones, University of Sheffield, England: “Bridging the Great Divide – the Continuity of Secular Imagery from the late Medieval to Early Modern Era”
  • 2004:  25th Medieval and Renaissance Forum
    • April 16th & 17th
      Theme(s): Narrative For the Eye and Ear
      Keynote Speaker: Dr. Brian Levy, University of Hull, England: “Humor in the Bayeux Tapestry”
  • 2003:  24th Medieval Forum
    • April 11th & 12th
      Theme(s): Education in the Middle Ages, Learning for a Lifetime
      Keynote Speakers: Dr. Edward Wheatley, Hamilton College: “Thus taughte me my dame’: Early Education In and Out of the Classroom”
  • 2002:  23rd Medieval Forum
    • April 19th & 20th
      Theme(s): Travel and Tourism in the Middle Ages
      Keynote Speaker: Drs. David Martin Gitlitz, Harvard University, and Lina Kay Davidson, Indiana University: “The Road to Santiago: Rebirth of a Medieval Pilgrimage”
  • 2001:  22nd Medieval Forum
    • April 6th & 7th
      Theme(s): Plants and the Medieval World
      Keynote Speaker: Dr. John M. Riddle, University of North Carolina: “Medieval Medicine: Why What They Knew Is Important to Us”
  • 2000:  21st Medieval Forum
    • April 14th & 15th
      Theme(s): Millennium Studies
      Keynote Speaker: Dr. Thomas F. Head, Harvard University: “Tradition, Translation, and Invention Around the Year 1000”