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The International Boethius Society sponsors sessions on Boethius at both the International Congress on Medieval Studies , Kalamazoo, MI and at the Modern Language Association Convention . In 2009, the Society will sponsor its first session at The Medieval Academy of America annual meeting.

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San Francisco 2008

The International Boethius Society will sponsor one session at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention in San Francisco, December 26-30, 2008. The day, time, and location will be announced in the convention program issue of PMLA .

Boethius through the Ages

Presider: Krista Sue-Lo Twu, Univ. of Minnesota, Duluth

The Importance of Euclid in Deciphering Problematic Aspects of The Consolation of Philosophy

Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., Troy Univ.

Looking for Boethius in Old English Places

Paul E. Szarmach, The Medieval Academy of America

Alfred, Boethius, and the Victorian Imagination

Philip Edward Phillips, Middle Tennessee State Univ.

Kalamazoo 2008

The International Boethius Society will sponsor two sessions and one special event at the 43 rd International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, may 8-11, 2008. All three events will be held on Saturday, May 10.

Boethius in the Middle Ages I (Session 445, Schneider 1350, 1:30 PM)

Organizer: Philip Edward Phillips, Middle Tennessee State Univ.; Presider: Philip Edward Phillips

Boethius and the Cognitive Process

Illo Humphrey, La BIRE (Bibliothèque Interdisciplinaire de Recherche Européenne)

Something and Nothing: The Problem of Evil in Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae and Alfred's Boethius

Collin D. B. Davey, Middle Tennessee State Univ.

Reassessing Chaucer's Debt to Boethius in Troilus and Criseyde

William E. Engel, Univ. of the South

Boethius in the Middle Ages II (Session 497, Schneider 1345, 3:30 PM)

Organizer: Philip Edward Phillips, Middle Tennessee State Univ.; Presider: Philip Edward Phillips

Moving beyond Complaint: Boethius and Late Medieval Exemplary Poetry

Michael Medwick, Univ. of Nebraska—Lincoln

Boethius and Dante on the Consolation of Philosophy

Jason Aleksander, St. Xavier Univ., and Jennifer Holt, Vanderbilt Univ.

International Boethius Society, Reception with Open Bar (Bernhard Faculty Lounge, 5:15 PM)

Further details of the Congress, including program and registration information, can be found on the International Medieval Congress web site.