Kalamazoo Meetings

Every year, AVISTA organizes sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. Presently, some 15-20 papers are presented each year, below are each year's theme linked to that year's full listing of events. More recent years included paper abstracts.
Year Theme
2006

Travelling PilgrimsThe theme for 2006 will be

NEW! "Travel" NEW!

Our 5 sessions will be:

  • " Cartography: Where is There? "
  • " Navigation: Getting from Here to There "
  • " Modes of Travel "
  • " Environments of Travel "
  • " The Art of Traveling "

Call For Papers and Contact Information
2005 Sessions on

Brick & Brickwork in the Medieval World:

Forms, Production, Construction, Decoration, Historiography

FINAL Sessions

Initial Call for Papers

2004
Ars Practica: Tools, Wood, Workshops (with a special session on minting)
2003
2002 The Medieval Use of Metals (Robert Bork)
2001 The Medieval Hospital and Medical Practice (Barbara S. Bowers)
2000 Jean Gimpel: Five Decades of Medieval Science, Technology, and Art (Marie-Thérèse Zenner)
1999 Medieval Buildings: A Scientific Approach to Material Culture and Resources: Wood and Stone (Lynn T. Courtenay and William W. Clark)
1998 Arithmetic, Number, Measure. And the Building Arts (Jens Ulff-Moller and William W. Clark)
1997 Military Technology (Kelly DeVries)
in association with De re militari
1996 Cloth, Clothing, and Textiles (Barbara S. Bowers and Janet Snyder)
1995 I have been in many Lands: Villard de Honnecourt and his World (Michael T. Davis and Bert S. Hall)
1994 Medieval Metals and Metallurgy (Barbara S. Bowers and Alan M. Stahl)
1993 The Mechanical Arts: How Things Work (W. Ted Szwejkowski)
1992 The Medieval Healing Arts: Their Setting and Practice (Mark H. Infusino)
1991 Numbers, Proportions, Weights and Measures (Ronald Edward Zupko)
1990 Transportation in Art, Literature and Reality, 500-1500 (Barbara M. Kreutz)
1989 Villard de Honnecourt: the Artist and His Drawings (Carl F. Barnes, Jr.)
1988 From the Ground Up: Building Technology in the Middle Ages (Vivian T. Paul)
1987 Use and Iconography of Wheels and Circles in the Middle Ages (Yoshio Kusaba)
1986 The Technical Revolution of the Early Second Millennium A.D. and Its Impact on our Society (Carl F. Barnes, Jr.)

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