It is particularly concerned with the ideas and ideals of western Mediterranean cultures from Late Antiquity to the Enlightenment and their influence beyond these geographical and temporal boundaries. Registration fee for the annual meeting. Annual meeting in late February. Includes medieval and Renaissance specialists from mid-Hudson Valley colleges, chiefly Vassar, Marist, SUNY New Paltz, Mount Saint Mary, Bard, and West Point. Attend the annual meeting.
Members pay for lunch at the annual meeting.
The group meets once a year in the early fall for papers and lunch. The program is based on a theme, which is often proposed at the previous meeting. Notice of the meeting is sent to appropriate departments between New York City and Albany. It has no formal membership or dues. Attendance at the annual meeting has fluctuated in recent years between 40 and 60.