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The Conference program is included in the registration flyer, so you may want to download this file.This document is a PDF file and you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open it.
It is also published on the web on the Medieval Academy of America's Web Site.
Second Floor of the Radisson Hotel Metrodome
(Source of floorplan:
http://www.radisson.com/hoteldirectory/hotelmeetingdetailshome.jsp?hotelFeatures2HighlightID=164&hotelCode=
UNIVERSI&hotelID=105&hotelName=Radisson+Hotel+Metrodome&detail=meeting&PackageLevelID=3&hotelFeatures2ID=536 Room identifications added by Evelyn Meyer.)Publishers and booksellers will exhibit at the Radisson Hotel in the Northrop and Coffman rooms. Exhibit hours are noon to 6 pm on Thursday, 9 am to 6 PM on Friday, and 9 am to 4 PM on Saturday.
- Ashgate Publishing Co.
- Boydell & Brewer
- Brepols Publ.
- Brill Academic Publ., Inc.
- Broadview Press
- The David Brown Book Co.
- The Scholar's Choice
- University of Minnesota Press
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- University of Toronto Press
- Wipf and Stock Publishers
Coffee and tea breaks will be held in the foyer outside of the University Ballroom on the second floor of the Radisson Hotel.
Continental Breakfasts. On Friday and Saturday mornings continental breakfast will be provided in the foyer of the University Ballroom of the Radisson Hotel.
Lunches. Friday lunch, which will coincide with the Academy’s Business Meeting, and Saturday lunch will be served in the Hubert Humphrey Ballroom of the Radisson Hotel. The newly established Graduate Student Committee of the Medieval Academy will be meeting for lunch on Saturday in the Center for Medieval Studies' Library (235 Nolte Center).
Nolte Center, home of the Center for Medieval Studies
http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/NCCE/NCCE-photo.html
Use the registration form to sign up for these lunches and include payment with your registration fee. In addition, there are several restaurants and bars within walking distance of the hotel, and the hotel has its own restaurant.
Receptions and Banquet. There will be a reception on Thursday evening, which will be held at the Campus Club of Coffman Memorial Union on the University of Minnesota campus, a short walking distance from the hotel.
Coffman Memorial Union
http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/CMU/CMU-photo.html
There will be a reception at the Hotel, followed by a banquet Friday evening at the Hubert Humphrey Ballroom. The Saturday closing reception will be held at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul, in conjunction with the Viking Exhibit. Transportation will be provided from the Radisson to the Science Museum.
To attend any of these receptions and the banquet, reserve tickets by March 19 on the registration from and include appropriate payment with your registration fee.Meal Costs:
Thursday reception: Free
Friday business lunch: $20
Friday reception: Free
Friday banquet: $44
Saturday lunch: $19
Saturday Graduate student lunch: $15
Saturday reception: Free
Vegetarian Meal Option (for all meals) is available
On Thursday evening the Concentus Musicus Minnesota, directed by Dr. Arthur Maud, will perform a concert of music from the fourteenth century, written for the Papal court at Avignon. The concert will be at 8:30 PM in 125 Willey Hall on the University of Minnesota West Bank Campus. The cost for this concert is $10 per person.
Willey Hall
http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/WilleyH/WilleyH-photo.html
The closing reception will be held at the Science Museum in St. Paul. Busses will be leaving the Radisson Hotel at 5:30 PM Guests at the reception will receive complimentary tickets to the Viking Exhibit. The Museum will be open until 9 PM Busses will return from the Science Museum to the hotel approximately every half hour beginning at 7:30 until 10 PM There are many restaurants in the vicinity of the Science Museum, should you be interested in having dinner in historic downtown St. Paul. Click here for a list of restaurants (at some restaurants, reservations should be made by phone at least a week in advance).
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One bus will depart from the Radisson Hotel at 9:00 for those who would like to attend 10:30 Palm Sunday Mass at the spectacular Abbey Church with the monastic community. All are welcome. A second bus will depart at 10:00. Visitors may spend time with the Library's dynamic staff and members of the academic community, exploring informally the natural and the institutional setting of the library. Lunch will be served at noon in the Alumni Lounge. Please sign up for the excursion on your registration material and include appropriate payment. During lunch, the Director and the Associate Director will give brief presentations regarding the scope, content and resources for using the collection. After lunch, visitors from the Academy will be invited to an open forum for discussion of the Library’s new initiatives: expanding its scope to include the Eastern Mediterranean, as well as Europe and Russia; engaging the opportunities offered by digital and web technology; and collaborating more actively with libraries and scholars producing electronic scholarship. Buses will return to Minneapolis, departing
Collegeville at 2:00 and 3:00. The trip takes about 90 minutes.
The cost for this excursion, including lunch and bus transportation,
is $40 per person.
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