{"id":10257,"date":"2017-11-14T21:21:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T21:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=10257"},"modified":"2023-10-05T20:19:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T20:19:55","slug":"panels-at-the-m-mla-convention","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/panels-at-the-m-mla-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Panels at the M-MLA Convention (from 2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Panels
\nat the Annual Convention of the
\nMidwest Modern Language Association<\/h2>\n

[Update<\/em>:\u00a0 Now see Panels at the M-MLA Convention (2016\u20132019)<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

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“Seeing the Light”. Chandelier and Ceiling Murals at the Netherland Plaza Hotel.<\/p><\/div>\n

Since 2016, through the initiative and dedication of our Associate Justin A. Hastings<\/a>, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence has sponsored Permanent Panels at the Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association<\/a> (M-MLA), held each November in a different center.<\/p>\n

With the approval of the Convention Committee, the tradition of our participation began with the preparations for the 2016 Convention, held at Saint Louis, Missouri.\u00a0 With the success of our Panels there, we approved the continuation of this tradition from year to year.\u00a0 The experience of the 2017 Convention both encourages and reinforces our willingness.<\/p>\n

We thank Justin for suggesting and organizing these Panels, choosing their subjects in accordance with the selected themes for the individual Conventions, seeking papers for the Panels, selecting their programs, moderating the contributions, and overseeing the smooth, collegial accomplishment of their discourse.\u00a0 We also thank the Convention Committee for its help and hospitality.<\/p>\n

This venue for Research Group activities at an established conference, and the accompanying expansion into more areas and periods of study than the mainly medieval focus of the International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/a> (our customary Congress venue), forms a welcome development in the history of the Research Group and its scholarly Events<\/a> of many kinds over decades.<\/p>\n

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2016 Convention at Saint Louis<\/h3>\n

That year, the responses to our Call for Papers<\/a> on the subject of “Marginalia in Manuscripts and Incunables in North America” yielded 2 Panels:<\/p>\n