ACMRS welcomed papers that explored any topic related to the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and especially those that focus on the topic "Trades, Talents, Guilds, and Specialists: Getting Things Done in the Middle Ages and Renaissance."

Keynote speaker: Henry S. Turner, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Program in Early Modern Studies at Rutgers University. Intellectually imaginative and energetic, Professor Turner is one of the few - and the finest - scholars now writing on the historical intersection of literature and science. His first book, The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 1580- 1630, was awarded honorable mention from the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, in competition for being the best book in interdisciplinary science studies in 2007.