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Dear Members and Prospective Members of the Medieval Association of the Pacific: Please allow me to take this opportunity to once again welcome returning members and to introduce myself to new members as the current President of MAP. My name is James K. Otté. I am a twenty-six year veteran of the Department of History at the University of San Diego, which has twice hosted the annual MAP Conference, once in 1996 and again in 2002. In the name of MAP I would like to take this opportunity to thank Professor John Ott and his able colleagues at Portland State University in Portland, OR, for hosting this year’s MAP conference. John and his colleagues made the conference a model of organization; they created an environment conducive to both intellectual inspiration and collegial exchange. Next Year, 1-3 April, 2004, MAP will meet jointly with the Medieval Academy of America at the University of Washington, Seattle WA. Professor Miceal F. Vaughan, miceal@u.washington.edu, will be in charge of local arrangements. Because we are meeting jointly with MAA, abstracts for papers are due May 15 rather than our usual November 1 deadline. Please see the February issue of the Medieval Academy Newsletter for information about submitting proposals to the 2004 conference. For web access to the call for papers, go to http://www.medievalacademy.org/t_bar_2.htm, click on annual meetings, then future annual meetings, then CALL FOR PAPERS under annual meeting 2004. Graduate student members are reminded that MAP subsidizes your registration fees for our annual meetings, and that awards and prizes are available annually: 1) the John F. Benton Travel Awards to conferences or research for independent scholars and graduate students and 2) the Founders’ Prizes for the best graduate student papers delivered at a MAP conference. This year the deadline for Founders’ Prize submissions is May 15; the deadline for Benton Travel Award submissions is September 1. As your president, I look forward to seeing returning members and meeting new ones in Seattle, WA. Sincerely, James K.
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