CEMERS Conferences

CEMERS conferences, inaugurated in 1966, have pioneered interdisciplinary scholarship and exchange in medieval and early modern studies. Recent topics include “In Vino Veritas: A Symposium on Wine and the Influence of Bacchus from Classical Antiquity through the Eighteenth Century (2009); “Venus and the Venereal: Interpretations and Representations from Late Antiquity through the Eighteenth Century” (2008); Accademia Dempsiana: Papers in Early Modern Italian Studies in Honor of Charles Dempsey” (2007); “Theater and the Visual Arts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Aspects of Representation” (2006); “Science, Literature, and the Arts in the Medieval and Early Modern World” (2004); “Recovery: Pre-Modern Responses to Catastrophe and Convulsion” (2002); “North and South: Identity, Imagination, and Memory in Pre-Modern Cultures Worldwide” (2001).