SENSE AND SENSIBILIA:                                          Knowledge and  Apprehension  in the Middle Ages and  Renaissance  Graduate Student Conference  Duke University  February 23-24, 2001  Keynote Lecture: "Naming and Memory from Shakespeare to Maya Lin" by Thomas Laqueur History Department, University of California at Berkeley 5:00 P.M. York Chapel in Duke University's Divinity School, West campus Friday, February 23, 2001   Conference Program Conference Organizers

~~~~Call for Papers ~~~~               The second annual North Carolina Colloquium of Medieval and Renaissance Studies is inviting submissions, ranging in historical focus from late antiquity through the seventeenth century, for an interdisciplinary conference to be held at Duke University February 23 and 24, 2001. The North Carolina Colloquium supports a regional dialogue among graduate students working in the fields of medieval and renaissance studies. Our topic this year, knowledge and apprehension, is broadly conceived: our primary goal is to encourage communication among Southeastern medieval and renaissance scholars.            We invite all papers responding to themes of knowledge and apprehension. Essays responding to the theme of knowledge might address questions of self-knowledge, education, epistemology, religious instruction, and philological or philosophical approaches to language. Essays engaging with the theme of apprehension might explore questions of audience (reception, performance), versions of devotion and contemplation (knowledge of God), or, alternatively, how a work imagines race, gender, or religious/cultural divisions. We can also anticipate papers investigating modes of material production or sociopolitical considerations.            Please submit abstracts (time limit for essays is twenty minutes) by email to ncc_mailbox@yahoo.com no later than January 5, 2001. Indicate whether audio/visual equipment will be needed. Abstracts will be acknowledged upon receipt.