CALL FOR PAPERS: The Mediterranean Seminar (www.mediterraneanseminar.org) is proposing panels on the Medieval Mediterranean for the 2011 meeting of the Medieval Academy of America to be held 14-16 April in Tempe AZ. Session organizers: Brian A. Catlos, History: University of California, Santa Cruz/ Religious Studies: University of Colorado at Boulder & Sharon Kinoshita, Literature: University of California, Santa Cruz.

Papers are welcome on a wide range of topics, including: religious, social, political, economic, institutional, cultural, and literary history as well as the history of art, science, and philosophy. Successful proposals will focus on "history of" rather than 'history in" the Mediterranean, which is to say, they will focus on region-wide phenomena, on movement, acculturation, conflict, inter-ethnic or inter-confessional relations, take a comparative approach, or address the nature of the Mediterranean as region across either a broad chronological or geographical sweep.

Please submit a 250-word proposal, short CV (3 pages) maximum, and a request for AV/computing equipment (if necessary). Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes in length and must be delivered in person. Proposals should be submitted by email no later than May 1, 2010. Send inquiries and proposals to mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org, with the subject line “MAA 2011.”