Although this is an off-year for our environmental sessions at Kalamazoo, this year nonetheless features several papers on environmental topics, and the MARS group (Medieval Association for Rural Studies) has organized sessions on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gardens and Gardening\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Archaeology of Landscape.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d This year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Congress is from May 12-15. See http:\/\/www.wmich.edu\/medieval\/congress\/sessions.html<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n We will be proposing a series of environmental sessions for Kalamazoo 2012. We will be proposing at least one pedagogy session, and people interested in this should share ideas for how that might be shaped. We welcome any scholars researching environmental aspects of the medieval world.\u00c2\u00a0 We encourage you to submit your own projects or encourage other colleagues or students to join our group.\u00c2\u00a0 Please feel free to pass this information along to others. This is a forum for new directions and new results, and we always welcome new people. Congress authorities rightly expect that papers be essentially original and not repetitions of work already published elsewhere. Experience teaches that the most effective papers are solid expositions of work in progress, where presenters can get useful feedback from an engaged and broadly-informed audience. Contact Ellen Arnold (efarnold@owu.edu<\/a>) if you would like to participate in one of the environmental sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Although this is an off-year for our environmental sessions at Kalamazoo, this year nonetheless features several papers on environmental topics, and the MARS group (Medieval Association for Rural Studies) has organized sessions on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gardens and Gardening\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Archaeology of … Continue reading