Business Meeting Minutes (2006) Spring 2007

MRDS Business Meeting Minutes

1) Welcome (Pamela Sheingorn)

2) Presentation of minutes from last meeting (Gloria Betcher)--approved

3) MRDS awards announcement (David Klausner)
a) David Bevington Award presented by Sandy Johnston—Philip Butterworth. Magic on the Early English Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Martin Stevens Award presented by Eckehard Simon—Barbara D. Palmer, "Early Modern Mobility: Players, Payments, and Patrons," Shakespeare Quarterly 56 (2005), pp. 259-305.
b) Alexandra F. Johnston Award presented by Victor Scherb—Christopher Lee, "Jews as Didactic Instruments," delivered at the New Medievalism II conference, University of Western Ontario, March 2005.

4) Reports from allied organizations and publications
a) SITM—Robert Clark, SITM Colloquium in Lille for 2007
b) METh—Gordon Kipling, METh subscriptions are now $24
c) EEDTS—Report from Elsa Strietman (given by Pamela Sheingorn)—four new works contracted by Pegasus
d) ET—Gloria Betcher
e) ROMRD—Peter Greenfield, submissions sought, 2006 volume out in August

5) Treasurer's report (Gloria Betcher)—approved

Old Business

6) Vote approving the proposed amendment to the MRDS Constitution. Proposed change to the MRDS Constitution appears below. It is proposed that [text in bold and bracketed be deleted] and text underlined, italicized, and in bold be added.

There shall be a non-profit educational society called the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society. Its purposes shall be to effect annual meetings of scholars and other persons interested in medieval and Renaissance drama, to sponsor long-range projects of interest to such persons, and to publish material of interest to the Society, including the Early European Drama in Translation (EEDT) Series and Research Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama [and its Medieval Supplement].
Approved.

New Business

7) Announcements
a) Sandy Johnston—Queen’s Men Project, U of Toronto, performances 24-29 October in Hamilton and Toronto, Conference begins 27 October 2006
b) Sandy Johnston—2 DVD set of performance of Mary Magdalene, U Toronto, available
c) David Klausner—offprints of Barbara Palmer’s Stevens Award-winning article available

8) Report on the MRDS Council meeting (Pamela Sheingorn)

9) Discussion of any proposed Constitutional Amendments identified by Council. Vote to take place at the 2007 MRDS Business Meeting.
a) Change the phrasing of publication awards language to “research and publication”

10) Nominations for Council seats and Secretary/Treasurer (Gloria Betcher)
a) Council—Jonathan Walker, J. Terry Wade, Jill Stevenson, Glenn Ehrstine
b) Sec/Treas—Gerard NeCastro, Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby

11) Session Topics for 2007
i) International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2007 (4 sessions) + one joint session
• Medieval Performance before the Millenium (Symes)
• Language as Action in the Tudor Interlude (Klausner)
• Household Accounts: A Triangulated Approach (Palmer)
• Expanding Our Resources: Where Do We Find New Evidence for Medieval Performance? (Stevenson)
Joint session proposed with Chaucer Studio
• Readers' Theater: Mankind (Co-sponsored with Chaucer Studio Readers' Theater session—Betcher)—Congress organizers later mandated that MRDS have only 4 sessions so this one was dropped.

ii) International Medieval Congress, Leeds University, July 2007 (3 sessions)
• Urban Theatricality and the Rise of the Medieval Town, 1100-1300 (Symes)
• Urban Theatricality after 1300 (Carnahan)
• Performance and Physical Memory (Stevenson)

iii) Modern Language Association Convention, December 2007 (2 sessions)
• Medieval Performance Studies, Theory and Practice (Enders)
• Medieval and Early Modern Drama: Performance and Pedagogy (Tiner)

12) Introduction of new Council members—Vicki Hamblin and Gordon Kipling

13) Closing remarks by President Pamela Sheingorn