9:00 a.m.
Coffee
9:30 a.m.
Welcome
Gary Wihl, Dean of Humanities, Rice University
Acknowledgements
Eva Haverkamp, Director of the Medieval Studies Program, Rice University
Introduction of Speakers
Linda Neagley, Department of Art History, Rice University
10:00 a.m.
Sara Wolper
University of New Hampshire
Displaying Charity and Constructing Piety in Urban Spaces:New City Centers in Medieval Anatolia
11:00 a.m.
Robert Ousterhout
Unversity of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana
From Monuments to Urbanism in Medieval Constantinople
12:00 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:30 p.m.
Caroline Bruzelius
Duke University
Merchants and Friars: the Dynamics of Death in the Medieval Italian City (and elsewhere)
2:30 p.m.
Michael T. Davis
Mount Holyoke College
4,000 Wine Taverns, 80,000 Beggars, 60,000 Scribes: the Description of Paris by Guillbert de Mets
3:30 p.m.
Round Table Discussion
4:00 p.m.
Reception