CFP More Perilous and Fair: Women and Gender in Mythopoeic Fantasy (3/31/2025; 8/2-3/2025)

 

OMS 4 - Online MidSummer Seminar 2025

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Online MidSummer Seminar 2025
More Perilous and Fair: Women and Gender in Mythopoeic Fantasy

August 2-3, 2025
Via Zoom and Discord

OMS Overview

OMS 4 Call for Papers

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ONLINE MIDSUMMER SEMINAR 2025
More Perilous and Fair: Women and Gender in Mythopoeic Fantasy
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the publication of Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien

Co-chairs: Cami Agan, Clare Moore, and Robin Anne Reid

Join us for an online conference that focuses on intersectional feminist approaches to women and gender in fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction, or other mythopoeic work and that will honor the first anthology on women and Tolkien, Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien (2015), edited by Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie A. Donovan.

Intersectionality, or intersectional approaches, developed out of research and scholarship by Black women, highlighting how aspects of identity (such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or class) overlap and intersect. Since then, feminist scholars in a number of disciplines, including literary studies, have adapted intersectionality in their work.

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GUESTS OF HONOR: Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie A. Donovan, co-editors of Perilous and Fair

Janet Brennan Croft is an Associate University Librarian at the University of Northern Iowa. She is the author of the Mythopoeic Award winning War in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien (Praeger 2004, reissued in paperback 2024), and has written on the Peter Jackson Middle-earth films, the Whedonverse, Orphan Black, J.K. Rowling, Terry Pratchett, Lois McMaster Bujold, The Devil Wears Prada, and other authors, TV shows, and movies. She is editor or co-editor of many collections of literary essays, the most recent being Loremasters and Libraries in Fantasy and Science Fiction, co-edited with Jason Fisher. She has edited the semi-annual refereed scholarly journal Mythlore since 2006, and is archivist and assistant editor of Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+.

Leslie A. Donovan is Interim Dean and Professor for the Honors College at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. As a faculty member, she teaches varied interdisciplinary humanities courses for undergraduates, among which are six different versions of Tolkien courses. Her Tolkien studies publications include “The Valkyrie Reflex in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: Galadriel, Shelob, Éowyn, and Arwen” (republished several times), “Middle-earth Mythology: An Overview” (Blackwell 2022), and four entries for the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia (Routledge 2006). She edited Approaches to Teaching Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and Other Works (MLA 2015). In addition, she is the Editor of Mythopoeic Press.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The CFP deadline is March 31st, 2025.

Download the CFP in PDF format HERE.

The Mythopoeic Society invites paper submissions for an online conference that focuses on intersectional feminist approaches to women and gender in fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction or other mythopoeic work. While the focus of this seminar is women and gender in mythopoeic works, we encourage proposals that acknowledge and analyze the intersectionality of gender with other aspects of identity, experience, and embodiment, including the non-human. Proposals should engage with developments in women and gender studies that both acknowledge and seek to move beyond the work of Perilous and Fair, drawing on theories and methodologies from recent years.

Aspects of this topic might include but are certainly not limited to any of the following:

• • Intersections of gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, or neurodiversity with female, asexual, agender, or nonbinary characters (mortal or immortal) in:
  • ⬞ Tolkien’s legendarium
  • ⬞ The works by other Inklings
  • ⬞ Works of contemporary mythopoeic fantasy in any medium
  
  
• • How mythopoeic fantasy texts engage with gender and its intersections with markers such as race, class, speciesism, or material culture, whether through character, structure, or other fantasy conventions such as magic/enchantment, Faerie, non-human and animal sentience, and worldbuilding/Sub-Creation in:
  • ⬞ Tolkien’s legendarium
  • ⬞ The works by other Inklings
  • ⬞ Works of contemporary mythopoeic fantasy in any medium

Papers, panels, and roundtables from a variety of critical perspectives and disciplines are welcome. We are interested in ANY form of media — text, graphic novels, comics, television, movies, music and music videos, games — as long as it can be described as fantasy or otherwise mythopoeic. We also welcome papers on the work of either of our Guests of Honor.

Each presentation will receive a 50-minute slot to allow time for questions, but individual presentations should be timed for oral presentation in 40 minutes maximum. Two or three presenters who wish to present short, related papers may also share one 50-minute slot.

Individual proposals (~200 words) with bios (150 words, maximum) should be sent to: oms-chair @ mythcon.org by March 31, 2025.

Group (two or three presenters) proposals should group the individual proposals together to send to: oms-chair @ mythcon.org by March 31, 2025.

Working bibliographies are welcome, but not required.

Participants are encouraged to submit papers chosen for the conference to Mythlore, the refereed journal of the Mythopoeic Society. All papers should conform to the 9th edition of the MLA Style Manual.

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About the co-chairs:

Cami Agan is Distinguished University Professor of English at Oklahoma Christian University, where she teaches British Literature, including a Studies in Tolkien course. Her Tolkien research concentrates on the First Age materials with a particular interest in cultural geography and the elegiac resonances of the lost Beleriand. Her recent publications include articles in Mythlore and Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, a chapter in Robin Anne Reid’s forthcoming work on race, racisms in Tolkien, and the recently published Cities and Strongholds in Middle-earth (Mythopoeic Press).

Clare Moore is a Ph.D. student at the University of Glasgow. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. Her research focuses on disability, gender, and race in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and other fantastic literature and has appeared in Mallorn, Journal of Tolkien Research, and Mythlore. Her essay “‘A Song of Greater Power’: Tolkien’s Construction of Lúthien Tinúviel” won the 2022 Tolkien Society Award for Best Article.

Robin Anne Reid happily retired in 2020 to become an independent scholar. She is editing two anthologies for McFarland: one (co-edited with Christopher Vaccaro and Stephen Yandell) on queer approaches to Tolkien, and the other on race and racisms in Tolkien. She recently curated a collection of responses to a ground-breaking and posthumously published work on racism and The Lord of the Rings by Charles W. Mills (Mythlore #143, 2023). She is the editor for a new McFarland series, Studies in Tolkien, which opens for proposals in 2025. Somewhere in there, she’ll start working on her book about atheist, agnostic, and animist readers of Tolkien.

UPDATE CFP (Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media (10/15/2024; NeMLA Philadelphia 3/6-9/2025)

UPDATED DEADLINE

(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media

Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa, Karen Casey Casebier, and Carl B. Sell

Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 15 October 2024

56th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown (Philadelphia, PA)

On-site event: 6-9 March 2025

Rationale

Our conception of the Middle Ages is usually formed by the versions of the medieval past we experienced as children, and, because they are considered suitable for young viewers, animated depictions of this world often represent our earliest exposure to the events, personages, and stories of this era. Consequently, the animated creations of the Walt Disney Company have played a huge part in shaping our collective image of the Middle Ages, but the corpus of medieval-themed animation is truly vast. It has been expanded greatly by the output of many other content producers across the globe through anime, cartoons, films, games, streaming videos, and theatrical shorts. (See our list of representative texts–at https://tinyurl.com/ReAnimatingtheMiddleAgesCFP–for examples.)

Despite animation's important role in shaping how we perceive and receive the medieval past, the field of Medieval Animation Studies remains limited, especially compared to the fluorescence of Medieval Film Studies and Medieval Television Studies over the past four decades. In this panel, we seek in particular to build upon the pioneering work of medieval-animation scholar Michael N. Salda and provide additional insights into the ways medieval-themed animation has impacted our contemporary world. Presenters might explore anime, cartoons, films, games, shorts, and videos produced through traditional ink-and-paint, stop-motion, claymation, or computer-generated imagery. Selections should represent and/or engage with some aspect of the medieval, such as artifacts, characters, settings, themes, etc. These might be central to the narrative, tangential, or appearing solely as cameos. (For ideas and support, we have created a list of representative texts and a resource guide devoted to studies of medieval-themed animation. It can be accessed at https://tinyurl.com/ReAnimatingtheMiddleAgesCFP.) 

Submission Instructions

In this panel, we seek in particular to build upon the pioneering work of medieval-animation scholar Michael N. Salda and provide additional insights into the ways medieval-themed animation has impacted our contemporary world. Presenters might explore anime, cartoons, films, games, shorts, and videos produced through traditional ink-and-paint, stop-motion, claymation, or computer-generated imagery. Selections should represent and/or engage with some aspect of the medieval, such as artifacts, characters, settings, themes, etc., presented as central to the narrative, tangential, or appearing solely as cameos.  

For ideas and support, please see our list of representative texts and resource guide devoted to studies of medieval-themed animation at https://tinyurl.com/ReAnimatingtheMiddleAgesCFP. 

All proposals must be submitted into the CFPList system at https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21105 by 15 October 2024. You will be prompted to create an account with NeMLA (if you do not already have one) and, then, to complete sections on Title, Abstract, and Media Needs. 

Notification on the status of your submission will be made by 16 October 2024. If accepted, NeMLA asks you to confirm your participation with the session chairs by accepting their invitations and by registering for the event. The deadline for Registration/Membership is 9 December 2024.

Be advised of the following policies of the Convention: All participants must be members of NeMLA for the year of the conference. Participants may present on up to two sessions of different types (panels/seminars are considered of the same type). Submitters to the CFP site cannot upload the same abstract twice.(See the NeMLA Presenter Policies page, at https://www.nemla.org/convention/policies.html, for further details,)

NeMLA offers limited funding for travel to graduate students and to contingent faculty, adjunct instructors, independent scholars, and two-year college faculty. Details can be found at the NeMLA Travel Awards page at https://www.nemla.org/awards/travel.html.  

Thank you for your interest in our session. Please address questions and/or concerns to the organizers at MedievalinPopularCulture@gmail.com. 

For more information on the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, please visit our website at https://MedievalinPopularCulture.blogspot.com/.  

Sponsored Session Medieval Monsters as Modern Monsters (virtual) (9/15/2024; ICMS Kalamazoo 5/8-10/2025)

 

Medieval Monsters as Modern Monsters: Exploring Continuums of the Monstrous (virtual)

Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa


60th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

Hybrid event: Thursday, 8 May, through Saturday, 10 May, 2025

Please Submit Proposals by 15 September 2024

Full CFP at the Popular Prenaturaliana site: https://popularpreternaturaliana.blogspot.com/2024/08/cfp-medieval-monsters-as-modern.html.

CFP NVSA 2025: The Twentieth Century (10/15/2024; Boston 4/4-6/2025)

NVSA 2025: The Twentieth Century – 50th Anniversary Conference

deadline for submissions:
October 15, 2024

full name / name of organization:
Northeast Victorian Studies

contact email:
seckert@wesleyan.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/08/07/nvsa-2025-the-twentieth-century-%E2%80%93-50th-anniversary-conference

The Northeast Victorian Studies Association 2025

50th Anniversary Conference

April 4-6, 2025

Keynote panel with Kristin Mahoney, Nasser Mufti, and John Plotz



View the full call here >> https://nvsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/call-for-papers-nvsa-2025-1.pdf



The Northeast Victorian Studies Association seeks proposals on the theme “The Twentieth Century” for its annual conference at Boston University. A product of the twentieth century, NVSA held its first official meeting on “The Victorian Family” at Assumption University in 1975. Fifty years later, we invite you to join us in celebrating an organization that has been a pillar of the field across the decades.



There is a paradox in a Victorianist conference organized around the twentieth century. How did the desires and needs of the twentieth century lead to the invention of our field of study? What got dragged, kicking and screaming, into twentieth century from the nineteenth? We welcome submissions that probe such contradictions and anachronisms: the lingering presence of one era in another, as well as more conceptual approaches to the idea of the literary period as such. Where do scholarly commitments to periodization stand now?



From work in reception history, adaptation studies, intellectual history, and disciplinary history, what versions of the Victorian have been mobilized, returned to, or remade in its wake? What supposedly “Victorian” ideas, concepts, and genres owe their origin to their close descendants? Does the line between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries feel harder or softer than it did for previous generations? And why do so many scholars of the Victorian period extend their interests forward rather than backward in time?



Submissions are also encouraged that consider both the afterlives and immediate adjacencies of the Victorian period. We invite papers that explore specific forms, authors, genres, media, movements, and ideas of modernity that emerge across and between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: late Victorian realism and genre fiction, aestheticism, fin-de-siècle media (especially film and photography), imperial networks of circulation, and shifts in the conceptualization of national, ecological, aesthetic, colonial and biopolitical categories at the century’s turn.



Our hope is that scholars who have joined us before (in this century or the last) will return by one of two traditional paths: submitting an anonymous abstract for the consideration of the programming committee, or attending simply to enjoy.



Proposals (no more than 300 words) are due by Oct. 15, 2024(email only, in Word format). Submit them to Sierra Eckert, Chair, Program Committee: seckert@wesleyan.edu. Please note: all submissions to NVSA are evaluated anonymously. Successful proposals will stay within the 300-word limit and make a compelling case for the talk and its relation to the conference topic. Please do not send complete papers, and do not include your name on the proposal. Include your name, institution, email address, and proposal title in the body of the email. Papers should be 15 minutes long.



For more information on recommended topics, travel grants, and essay prizes please see: https://nvsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/call-for-papers-nvsa-2025-1.pdf



Last updated August 8, 2024

CFP Teaching the Middle Ages at the K-12 Level (10/1/2024; Symposium IMA 11/22/2024)

Teaching the Middle Ages at the K-12 Level

deadline for submissions:
October 1, 2024

full name / name of organization:
Illinois Medieval Association

contact email:
mwgeorge.51@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/08/02/teaching-the-middle-ages-at-the-k-12-level

Deadline for Proposals: October 1
Session: 2:00 pm (Central) November 22, online via Zoom

Medieval topics tend to intrigue elementary, middle-school, and high-school students. In a teaching environment where time is precious, how do teachers approach the Middle Ages? This session seeks papers addressing issues, opportunities, and innovations in the K-12 classroom to inform the larger community of K-12 teachers and post-secondary educators about how the topic is approached at the K-12 level.

Submit full session proposals or paper proposals (no more than 300 words) to mwgeorge.51@gmail.com no later than October 1, 2024.

Last updated August 8, 2024

CFP Teaching the Middle Ages: Issues, Opportunities, and Innovations (9/11/2024; Symposium IMA 10/18/2024)

Teaching the Middle Ages: Issues, Opportunities, and Innovations

deadline for submissions:
September 11, 2024

full name / name of organization:
Illinois Medieval Association

contact email:
mwgeorge.51@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/08/02/teaching-the-middle-ages-issues-opportunities-and-innovations

Deadline for Proposals: September 11
Session: 2:00 pm (Central) October 18

In the last few decades, courses on the Middle Ages and medieval studies programs have been either cut or severely restricted in the United States. In fact, recently a variety of humanities programs have been on the chopping block, forcing and providing an opportunity for specialists in medieval studies to integrate our specialties into other courses. This year’s Illinois Medieval Association Symposium seeks to explore issues incorporating medieval studies into our curricula. We seek papers that deal with problems/solutions, opportunities, and innovations. Single papers (20-minute length) and, especially, full sessions are encouraged.

The 2023-24 IMA Symposium is distributed throughout the academic year, with sessions occurring on specific Fridays beginning at 2:00 pm Central time. All sessions are online via Zoom, and presenters can share their screens.

This session a general session on the topic. Papers and full sessions that don’t fit with the later topics are welcome.

Submit full session proposals or paper proposals (no more than 300 words) to mwgeorge.51@gmail.com no later than September 11, 2024.


Last updated August 8, 2024

CFP Fantasy and the Middle Ages (Special Issue of Messengers from the Stars; 2/2/2025)

Messengers from the Stars: On Science Fiction and Fantasy No. 8, 2025

deadline for submissions:
February 3, 2025

full name / name of organization:
Messengers from the Stars

contact email:
mfts.journal@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/07/22/messengers-from-the-stars-on-science-fiction-and-fantasy-no-8-2025.

Messengers from the Stars is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, offering academic articles, reviews, and providing an outlet for a wide range of creative work inspired by Science fiction and Fantasy. The 2025 issue will be dedicated to the following theme:

‘Getting Medieval’: Fantasy and the Middle Ages

Traditionally distinguished by the presence of supernatural or magical elements, otherworldly settings, epic quests and archetypal characters, Fantasy fiction has been an incredibly popular genre since its inception. Indeed, as highlighted by scholars like John Clute, much of world fiction “has been described, at one time or another, as fantasy” (337). Although Fantasy is sometimes perceived as a form of escapism and at other times as a legitimate fictional realm with its own internal logic, the influence of the Middle Ages has remained a constant element in the construction of Fantasy worlds. From the use of folklore, myths, medieval legends and sagas, different contemporary authors look to the past as a source of inspiration, adapting, transforming and rewriting narratives to not only suit contemporary tastes and ideals but also to mirror present-day anxieties and fears. The works of J. R. R. Tolkien, George R. R. Martin, Robin Hobb, Joe Abercrombie, Marion Zimmer Bradley or Juliet Marillier, among others, are good examples of how the Middle Ages have served to fire the imagination.

Bearing this in mind and acknowledging that Fantasy continues to expand and develop, offering a diverse array of narratives as well as endless possibilities for storytelling and creative exploration, in this number we are especially interested in how Fantasy fiction uses the medieval past to create storylines that resonate with contemporary audiences across geographic, linguistic, cultural and political boundaries. We consider Fantasy in broader terms, including literature, cinema, television, comics/graphic novels, video games, music, etc., and are especially interested in submissions that expand the fields of knowledge and landscapes represented in the journal.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Arthuriana in Fantasy;
• Female Agency in Medieval Fantasy;
• Fantasy and the Global Middle Ages;
• Heroism and Monstrosity in Fantasy;
• Medieval Emotions in the Fantasy Genre;
• Medieval Spaces and Places in Fantasy;
• Medievalism, Neomedievalism and Fantasy;
• (Mis)Perceptions of the “Medieval” and the “Middle Ages” in Works of Fantasy;
• Which Middle Ages is it? – Identity in Fantasy.

Submissions, between 4000 and 6000 words in English, must be sent to mfts.journal@gmail.com by February 3, 2025. The authors will be notified by the end of March, 2025.

In addition, you can propose a book or film review. We welcome book and film reviews on current science fiction and fantasy research and PhD dissertations. Reviews should be between 500 to 1,000 words. Longer reviews, e.g. dealing with more than one book, must be agreed upon with the Editorial Board.

Books available for review:Carroll, Jordan S. Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right. University of Minnesota Press, 2024. ISBN 978-1-5179-1708-1.
Lapoujade, David. Worlds Built to Fall Apart: Versions of Philip K. Dick. Trans. by Erik Beranek. University of Minnesota Press, 2024. ISBN 978-1-5179-1461-5.

If you wish to review a title which is not in the list, then please email the Editors directly with your suggestion, as we do consider all requests for recent and forthcoming titles, especially from publishers already listed. If the book or film you wish to review is more than 3 years old, then you would need to demonstrate its significance to its field for it to be considered.

All submissions must follow the journal’s guidelines available here: https://messengersfromthestars.letras.ulisboa.pt/journal/submission-guidelines.


Last updated July 22, 2024

CFP (Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media (9/30/2024; NeMLA Philadelphia 3/6-9/2025)

(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media

Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa, Karen Casey Casebier, and Carl B. Sell

Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 30 September 2024

56th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown (Philadelphia, PA)

On-site event: 6-9 March 2025

Rationale

Our conception of the Middle Ages is usually formed by the versions of the medieval past we experienced as children, and, because they are considered suitable for young viewers, animated depictions of this world often represent our earliest exposure to the events, personages, and stories of this era. Consequently, the animated creations of the Walt Disney Company have played a huge part in shaping our collective image of the Middle Ages, but the corpus of medieval-themed animation is truly vast. It has been expanded greatly by the output of many other content producers across the globe through anime, cartoons, films, games, streaming videos, and theatrical shorts. (See our list of representative texts–at https://tinyurl.com/ReAnimatingtheMiddleAgesCFP–for examples.)

Despite animation's important role in shaping how we perceive and receive the medieval past, the field of Medieval Animation Studies remains limited, especially compared to the fluorescence of Medieval Film Studies and Medieval Television Studies over the past four decades. In this panel, we seek in particular to build upon the pioneering work of medieval-animation scholar Michael N. Salda and provide additional insights into the ways medieval-themed animation has impacted our contemporary world. Presenters might explore anime, cartoons, films, games, shorts, and videos produced through traditional ink-and-paint, stop-motion, claymation, or computer-generated imagery. Selections should represent and/or engage with some aspect of the medieval, such as artifacts, characters, settings, themes, etc. These might be central to the narrative, tangential, or appearing solely as cameos. (For ideas and support, we have created a list of representative texts and a resource guide devoted to studies of medieval-themed animation. It can be accessed at https://tinyurl.com/ReAnimatingtheMiddleAgesCFP.) 

Submission Instructions

In this panel, we seek in particular to build upon the pioneering work of medieval-animation scholar Michael N. Salda and provide additional insights into the ways medieval-themed animation has impacted our contemporary world. Presenters might explore anime, cartoons, films, games, shorts, and videos produced through traditional ink-and-paint, stop-motion, claymation, or computer-generated imagery. Selections should represent and/or engage with some aspect of the medieval, such as artifacts, characters, settings, themes, etc., presented as central to the narrative, tangential, or appearing solely as cameos.  

For ideas and support, please see our list of representative texts and resource guide devoted to studies of medieval-themed animation at https://tinyurl.com/ReAnimatingtheMiddleAgesCFP. 

All proposals must be submitted into the CFPList system at https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21105 by 30 September 2024. You will be prompted to create an account with NeMLA (if you do not already have one) and, then, to complete sections on Title, Abstract, and Media Needs. 

Notification on the status of your submission will be made by 16 October 2024. If accepted, NeMLA asks you to confirm your participation with the session chairs by accepting their invitations and by registering for the event. The deadline for Registration/Membership is 9 December 2024.

Be advised of the following policies of the Convention: All participants must be members of NeMLA for the year of the conference. Participants may present on up to two sessions of different types (panels/seminars are considered of the same type). Submitters to the CFP site cannot upload the same abstract twice.(See the NeMLA Presenter Policies page, at https://www.nemla.org/convention/policies.html, for further details,)

NeMLA offers limited funding for travel to graduate students and to contingent faculty, adjunct instructors, independent scholars, and two-year college faculty. Details can be found at the NeMLA Travel Awards page at https://www.nemla.org/awards/travel.html.  

Thank you for your interest in our session. Please address questions and/or concerns to the organizers at MedievalinPopularCulture@gmail.com. 

For more information on the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, please visit our website at https://MedievalinPopularCulture.blogspot.com/.  

Recent Release - Fantasies of Music in Nostalgic Medievalism

Recently published:

Fantasies of music in nostalgic medievalism

By Helen Dell

Full details and ordering information at https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526173959/fantasies-of-music-in-nostalgic-medievalism/.

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ISBN: 978-1-5261-7395-9

Pages: 264

PRICE: £85.00

ISBN: 9781526173959

PUBLISH DATE: January 2024

PUBLISHER: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

Also availble as a eBook,

DESCRIPTION

In the period between the Second World War and the present, there has been an extraordinary rise in the production of medievalist fantasy literature and film. This has been accompanied by the revival, performance and invention of medieval music. In this enterprise modern fantasies of the Middle Ages have exercised great influence.

Fantasies of music in nostalgic medievalism shows how music, medievalism and nostalgia have been woven together in the fantasies of writers and readers, musicians, musicologists, directors and listeners, film-makers and film-goers. This book studies the ways in which three fields of creative activity inspired by the medieval - musical performance, literature, cinema and their reception - have worked together to produce and sustain, for some, the fantasy of a long-lost, long-mourned paradisal home.

CONTENTS

Introduction: Music, nostalgia and the medieval

1 More real than reality: nostalgia for the medieval in high fantasy fiction

2 'Yearning for the sweet beckoning sound': Musical longings and the unsayable in medievalist fantasy fiction

3 The lost world inside a song: from the book to the record

4 Exotic sexualities: the countertenor voice in the late twentieth-century medieval music revival

5 The call of the mother: music for myth and fantasy in two Arthurian films

Aftermath

AUTHOR

Helen Dell is a research fellow at the University of Melbourne

CFP Classics x Medieval for NeMLA 2025

Classics x Medieval: Exploring the Past in the Present through Literature, Art, and Popular Culture (Panel)

Submit Abstract

Primary Area / Secondary Area
Comparative Literature / Classics
Chair(s)


Jared Simard (New York University)

Afrodesia McCannon (New York University)
Abstract


Both antiquity and the Middle Ages have been manipulated in the present in creative and destructive ways. The past has been weaponized often with racialization as its barb, but also used to posit alternative, culturally diverse worlds as spaces of creative, generative play. How might the uses of these periods be compared? How can we de-silo the disciplines to enrich the study of their manipulations and expressions in the present? Can we think of “classicism” or “medievalism” as a methodology that can be extended to any period or does each period have its own -ism? The panel hopes to bring classicists and medievalists together (and those who study both) to produce an interdisciplinary discussion about how different pasts intersect with the present.

In our panel, we explore the interplay between the ancient and medieval worlds and their reverberation in contemporary culture. We are especially interested in global and interdisciplinary perspectives on this topic and invite a broad range of topics in literature, art, and popular culture that employ a variety of critical perspectives. We hope to create a space for academics of all levels to enter into conversation with one another and dialogue with scholars from equally interdisciplinary fields. Papers that explore decentering or challenging Eurocentric interpretations of history or that seek to uncover alternative narratives and marginalized voices are especially welcome.

Description
Antiquity and the Middle Ages have been manipulated and at times weaponized in their many reception histories down to the present. This panel invites scholars of all levels, Classicists and Medievalists alike, to explore together how different pasts intersect in the present.

CFP Special Issue on Borders / Crossing in medieval English literature, language, and culture (10/15/2024; Special Issue of Etudes Médiévales Anglaises)

Special Issue on "Borders / Crossing in medieval English literature, language, and culture"

deadline for submissions:
October 15, 2024

full name / name of organization:
ÉTUDES MÉDIÉVALES ANGLAISES

contact email:
colette.stevanovitch@unvi-lorraine.fr

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/06/21/special-issue-on-borders-crossing-in-medieval-english-literature-language-and-culture

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue of EMA (Etudes Médiévales Anglaises) on the theme
"Borders / Crossing in medieval English literature, language, and culture."

The notions of borders and crossing, and the articulation between them, can be conceived in many ways. Borders, whether natural or arbitrary, sealed or porous, fixed or mobile, as limits or confines, spatial or temporal, can be seen as an obstacle or a wall. They are also a challenge to be taken up and overcome (expansion, threshold to a new era), hence the notion of crossing (movement, transfer, transformation). As delimitations, borders help to constitute an identity which refers to the outside as otherness.

The theme "Borders / Crossing" invites scholars to investigate the literal and metaphorical boundaries that shaped the medieval English world. This includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• Geopolitical Borders: Examining territorial boundaries and their impact on medieval English society, politics, literature, and language.

• Cultural and Social Crossings: Investigating the interactions and exchanges between different cultures, classes, and communities.

• Linguistic Boundaries: Exploring the evolution of the English language and its dialects, as well as the influence of other languages.

• Literary Crossings: Analyzing themes of travel, pilgrimage, and adventure in medieval English literature.

• Religious and Ideological Borders: Discussing the delineations between different religious beliefs, heresies, and philosophical ideas.

• Temporal Borders: Reflecting on the concept of historical periodization and the transitions between different eras in medieval England.


Submission Guidelines

We welcome submissions of original research articles from scholars at all stages of their careers. Please submit full papers of 5,000-8,000 words, including an abstract of 250-300 words, keywords, and a brief biography. Papers can be written in English or in French. Please ensure that your manuscript adheres to the journal's formatting and style guidelines (Chicago Manual of Style).

Key Dates

• Submission Deadline: October 15, 2024

• Notification of Acceptance: November 1, 2024

• Publication Date: June 15, 2025


Contact Information

For inquiries regarding this special issue, please contact the guest editor at Colette.Stevanovitch@univ-lorraine.fr. Further details about the journal are available on our website https://amaes.fr/en/our-scientific-journal-ema.

Professor Colette Stevanovitch
Universite de Lorraine
Colette.Stevanovitch@univ-lorraine.fr


Last updated June 24, 2024

CFP J.R.R. Tolkien & Children’s Literature (9/15/2024; Special Issue of Children’s Literature Association Quarterly)

J.R.R. Tolkien & Children’s Literature

deadline for submissions: September 15, 2024

full name / name of organization: Children's Literature Association Quarterly

contact email: jtthomas@sdsu.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/06/20/jrr-tolkien-children%E2%80%99s-literature

CFP: J.R.R. Tolkien & Children’s Lit

A Special Issue of Children’s Literature Association Quarterly

Joseph T. Thomas, Jr., Guest Editor

San Diego State University



The deadline for submissions to this special issue is September 13, 2024.

J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for his seminal fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. Even his renowned children’s book, The Hobbit, is primarily considered an “Enchanting Prelude to The Lord of the Rings” (a sentiment often rehearsed on the covers of most paperback editions of the work). This special issue of the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, however, asks us to put aside The Lord of the Rings and focus instead on those works that might be called “minor”—and specifically those works made for minors: Tolkien’s unfortunately neglected children’s books (including The Hobbit, Letters from Father Christmas, Mr. Bliss, and Roverandom) as well as his playful visual art and many children’s poems (a good number of the latter eventually published in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil). Of course, we’re especially interested in scholarship and criticism exploring the first edition of The Hobbit, a novel that, while borrowing some names from Tolkien’s inchoate Silmarillion and Lost Tales, was originally conceived and published as a children’s story set outside of the mythos that he would eventually fold into the revised second edition and its influential sequel. Additionally, we’re hoping for scholarship and criticism treating Tolkien’s folk and fairy tales (such as “Leaf by Niggle” and Smith of Wootton Major, Farmer Giles of Ham and “The Sellic Spell”), those marginal texts resting on the borders between children’s literature and faerie.

Finally, we are curious to see scholarship examining Tolkien’s conception(s) of childhood and the influence children’s literature and “the rhetoric of childhood” have had on Tolkien’s writings (see Lois Kuznets’ “Tolkien and the Rhetoric of Childhood”). What a wonder to receive a piece placing Edward Wyke-Smith’s The Marvellous Land of Snergs in conversation with Roverandom and/or Mr. Bliss. That is, we encourage submissions investigating the question of influence—especially on Tolkien’s conception of children’s literature (including his thoughts on illustration and book design, both practical and theoretical). One can imagine critical reappraisals of the first edition of The Hobbit in relation to the work of Lewis Carroll, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Andrew Lang, George MacDonald, William Morris, Edith Nesbit, or even Snorri Sturluson (among many others).

Which is to say, we are not looking for work that engages The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion (as published), or the wider Legendarium informing both (including, for the most part, Christopher Tolkien’s magisterial twelve-volume The History of Middle-earth).

All theoretical approaches are welcomed, as are works that challenge the conventions of the scholarly essay: collaborative pieces; works that blur the line between the personal essay and academic paper; performance works; interviews; comics; short plays; essays in verse; short papers (notes and queries) or micro essays; really, the sky’s the limit. However, we do suggest that formally innovative and unconventional submissions make clear—perhaps in a short preface—how their form informs or illuminates the arguments being made.

That said, traditional academic articles submitted for publication should shoot for approximately 20-30 pages and conform to MLA style. We follow the bibliographical format specified in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook, omitting the designations “Print” and “Web,” but including URLs when appropriate. Please send completed essays by e-mail attachment in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format to chlaquarterly@cmich.edu & jtthomas@sdsu.edu. In your subject line, flag your message with Tolkien Special Issue. Submissions should follow the ChLAQ submission guidelines found at https://www.childlitassn.org/chla-quarterly. (Note: please anonymize the essay itself—that is, remove words and phrases that clearly identify the author[s]—so we can immediately send the work to peer reviewers.)

Last updated June 24, 2024

CFP Robin Hood: The Legend in Social-Cultural and Political Contexts (7/7/2024; SEMA Augusta, GA 10/10-12/2024)

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Robin Hood: The Legend in Social-Cultural and Political Contexts

International Association for Robin Hood Studies
Call for Papers
2024 Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association
10-12 October, Augusta College, Augusta, Georgia

The Robin Hood/Greenwood legend has endured for over 500 years, largely because of its mutability. As social-cultural and political climates change, Robin and Marian and the legend shift accordingly, sometimes in seemingly extreme directions. From the late 15th-early 16th-century Gest of Robyn Hood to the Late Medieval and Early Modern ballads and plays; to the folklore enthusiasts and the plays, poems, and episodic 19th-century novels; to the 20th-century’s plethora of novels, children’s books, movies, television programs, comics, and games; to the 21st-century’s novels, films, and streaming video: Robin and Company have been yeoman outlaws, aristocratic outlaws, outlaws who help the poor and oppressed, outlaws who seek to help restore traditional government, outlaws who seek to help create a more equality-based government, outlaws who protest foreign wars, outlaws who participate in foreign wars. They can be congenial, aloof, intense, detached. Their Greenwood homes range from forest floor to treehouse community. Their numbers include men, women, and even children of an increasingly wide variety of races, ethnicities, and religions. They may appear medieval, somewhat medieval, early modern, modern, or a bewildering mix of times and places. They inhabit not only England, but Scotland, Wales, and the United States, among other places.
What social-cultural or political climate changes might influence one or more of these expressions of the Greenwood legend?

In keeping with the 2024 conference theme of the Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA), “Climate,” the International Association for Robin Hood Studies invites paper proposals for a session titled “Robin Hood: The Legend in Social-Cultural and Political Contexts.” SEMA 2024 will be in-person in Augusta, Georgia, 10-12 October. 

Please send a 150- to 250-word abstract or proposal on any aspect of social-cultural and/or political climate and the Greenwood legend or various aspects thereof to Sherron Lux at sherron_lux@yahoo.com by Sunday 7 July 2024, with any technology requests.

CFP Studies in Medievalism 35: Medievalism in Theory (6/1/2025)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

STUDIES IN MEDIEVALISM XXXV: MEDIEVALISM IN THEORY

At one time or another, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and many other stars of late twentieth- or early twenty-first-century theory built at least a portion of their approach on medieval examples. Indeed, quite a few of those scholars, such as Umberto Eco and Hans Jauss, began their career as students of the Middle Ages. We are therefore invited to ask why medievalism played such a prominent role in these developments. Of all the possible past and/or imaginary milieux on which these approaches could have been built, why the Middle Ages? And to the degree that these scholars have referenced specific aspects of that era, why did they do so? What did those particular references bring to theory and how have they impacted its development? Moreover, how has that development commented on those references and perhaps on the Middle Ages as a whole, not to mention Medieval Studies and Medievalism Studies? How has it informed our understanding of what we study and what we do? 

Studies in Medievalism, a peer-reviewed print and on-line publication, is seeking not only feature articles of 6,000-12,000 words (including notes) on any postmedieval responses to the Middle Ages, but also 3,000-word essays that respond to one or more of these questions. Applicants are encouraged to give particular examples, but submissions, which should be sent in English and Word to Karl Fugelso at kfugelso@towson.edu by 1 June 2025, should also address the implications of those examples for the discipline as a whole. 

(Note that priority will be given to papers in the order they are received and submissions that have not been translated into fluent English will not be considered.)

New Book - Medievalisms in a Global Age

Just released. Looks like a great resource.

Medievalisms in a Global Age

Edited by Angela Jane Weisl and Robert Squillace

Full details, preview, and ordering information at https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781843847038/medievalisms-in-a-global-age/.

TITLE DETAILS

282 Pages

23.4 x 15.6 cm

3 graphs and 3 b/w illus.

Series: Medievalism

Series Vol. Number: 27

Imprint: D.S.Brewer

July 2024

DESCRIPTION

Discusses contemporary medievalism in studies ranging from Brazil to West Africa, from Manila to New York.

Across the world, revivals of medieval practices, images, and tales flourish as never before. The essays collected here, informed by approaches from Global Studies and the critical discourse on the concept of a "Global Middle Ages", explore the many facets of contemporary medievalism: post-colonial responses to the enforced dissemination of Western medievalisms, attempts to retrieve pre-modern cultural traditions that were interrupted by colonialism, the tentative forging of a global "medieval" imaginary from the world's repository of magical tales and figures, and the deployment across borders of medieval imagery for political purposes. The volume is divided into two sections, dealing with "Local Spaces" and "Global Geographies". The contributions in the first consider a variety of medievalisms tied to particular places across a broad geography, but as part of a larger transnational medievalist dynamic. Those in the second focus on explicitly globalist medievalist phenomena whether concerning the projection of a particular medievalist trope across borders or the integration of "medieval" pasts from different parts of the globe in a contemporary incarnation of medievalism. A wide range of topics are addressed, from Japanese manga and Arthurian tales to The O-Trilogy of Maurice Gee, Camus, and Dungeons and Dragons.

CONTENTS

Introduction: Medievalisms: Local Spaces and Global Geographies

Part I: Local Spaces

1. Metamorphosis Metamorphosed: Fox Daemon, (Anti-)Colonialism, and Global Medievalism in Ken Liu's 'Good Hunting' - Minjie Su

2. The Medievalist Simulacra of Kafka's The Castle in Graphic Adaptations - Elizabeth Allyn Woock

3. Mangaesque Knights: Japan's Path to Global Medievalism - Maxime Danesin & Manuel Hernández-Pérez

4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Maurice Gee's The O Trilogy - Anna Czarnowus

5. Trading a Bow for a Machine Gun: Robin Hoods, Nationalism and the Personas of Philippine Politics - Stefanie Matabang

6. Tropical Templars? Medievalism and Pseudohistory in Brazil's Largest City - Luiz Guerra

7. Plague Temporality and Chronicle in Camus's La peste - Sara Torres

8. The Griot in Sunjata: A Paradigmatic Herald of an Afrofuturistic Messianic Age - Joseph Osei-Bonsu

9. Toward a Place-Based, North Pacific Medieval Studies: Medievalism, Pedagogy, Indigeneity - Daniel T. Kline

Part II: Global Geographies

10. Revolt: "Peasants" and Protest in the Twenty-First Century - Matthias D. Berger

11. "Taking a Step Back into the Thirteenth Century": Reading the Globe through a Medieval Lens: In the Footsteps of Marco Polo - Kara L. McShane

12. A Pinch of Flour, a Cup of Tall Tales, and one Khaleesi: Getting Medieval Across Time and Space - Meriem Pagès

13. The Boys Are Back in Town: Capital One's Propagandic Commercials for Alt-Right Nostalgic Imperialism - Carol Robinson

14. Memes, Covid-19, and Global Medievalism - Andrew B.R. Elliott

15. Dichotomies of Arthurian Medievalism: Dismantling and Reinforcing the Status Quo - Rachael Warmington

16. Thor versus Juracán: Premodern Storm Gods and Goddesses in Popular Culture - Marian E. Polhill

17. Geo-mapping the In-Betweens: Medieval Daoist Correlatives in Pokémon Go - Anne Giblin Gedacht

18. Worldbuilding Dungeons and Befriending Dragons: How the Global TTRPG Community Combats Western Hegemony - Miranda Hajduk

19. Marrying Medievalism, Post-Apocalypse, and the Global in Digital Games - Emily Price

List of Contributors

Index

ABOUT THE EDITORS

ANGELA JANE WEISL is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Seton Hall University.

ROBERT SQUILLACE is a Clinical Professor in Arts, Text, and Media and Educational Technology Liaison at New York University's School of Liberal Studies.

Studies in Medievalism 33 Out Now

Released earlier this season:

Studies in Medievalism XXXIII: (En)gendering Medievalism

Edited by Karl Fugelso

Full details, preview, and ordering information at https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781843847175/studies-in-medievalism-xxxiii/.

TITLE DETAILS

270 Pages

23.4 x 15.6 cm

6 b/w illus.

Series: Studies in Medievalism

Series Vol. Number: 33

Imprint: D.S.Brewer

April 2024

DESCRIPTION

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages.

Though Studies in Medievalism has hosted many essays on gender, this is the first volume devoted specifically to that theme.

The first part features four short essays that directly address manifestations of sexism in postmedieval responses to the Middle Ages: gender substitutions in a Grail Quest episode of the 2023 television series Mrs. Davis, repurposed misogyny in the last two episodes of Game of Thrones (2011-19), traditional gender stereotypes in Capital One's credit card commercials from 2000 to 2013, and "shaggy" medievalism in Robert Eggers' 2022 film The Northman.

The second part contains ten longer essays, which collectively continue to demonstrate the ubiquity of gender issues and the extraordinary flexibility of approaches to them. The authors discuss the misogynistic sexualization of Grendel's mother in Parke Godwin's 1995 fantasy novel The Tower of Beowulf, in Graham Baker's 1999 film Beowulf, in three episodes from the television series Xena: Warrior Princess, and in Robert Zemeckis's 2007 film Beowulf; gender substitution in David Lowery's 2021 film The Green Knight and in Kinoku Nasu's and Takashi Takeuchi's anime series Fate (2004-); female authorship of three early-nineteenth-century plays about court ladies' medieval empowerment; extraordinary violence in medievalist video games; nationalism in fake nineteenth-century medievalist documents and in contemporary online fora; racial discrimination in video gaming and in Jim Crow literature; and the condemnation of racism in Maria Dahvana Headley's 2018 novel The Mere Wife.

CONTENTS

Preface - Karl Fugelso

I: (En)gendering Medievalism

The Peacock Television Network's Mrs. Davis, Sister Simone, and Messing Up the Quest for the Holy Grail - Kevin J. Harty

Bitches Be Crazy: Patriarchal Weaponization of Mental Distress in Game of Thrones - Lauryn Mayer

Capital One's Condemnation, Conversion, and Eventual Celebration of Mythical Medieval Northern European Males through Allegorical Commercials - Carol L. Robinson

The Northman and the Link between Past and Present Masculinities - H. Peter Johnsson

II: Other Responses to Medievalism

Maternal Games in The Green Knight: Launching Gawain - Carol Jamison

Seaxy Beast: Grendel's Mother and Responses to Third-Wave Feminism in Beowulf Adaptations - Alison Elizabeth Killilea

Artoria Pendragon: Anachronism, Gender and Self-Acceptance in the Fate Anime Series of Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi - Lisa Myers

Exalted by Honour: Women's Medievalist History Plays in the Late-Eighteenth Century - Kirsten Ogilby

A Violent Medium for a Violent Era: Brutal Medievalist Combat in Dragon Age: Origins and Kingdom Come: Deliverance - Robert Houghton

The "Old Frisian" Tescklaow as Invented Tradition: Forging Friesland's Rural Past in the Early Nineteenth Century - Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr. and Philippus Breuker

Neither Brutes, Nor Sissies: Re-imagining the Vikings on a Swedish Online Forum - Christine Ekholst

Avatar Creation and White Masculinity in Wolfram van Eschenbach's Parzival and Ernest Cline's Ready Player One - Chelsea Keane

Intersectionality in Maria Dahvana Headley's The Mere Wife - Mareike Huber

The Smith, the Devil, and Jim Crow: Medieval Hagiography, Victorian Popular Culture, and the Legacy of Slavery in Edward G. Flight's The Horse Shoe: The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil - Christina M. Heckman

Recently Published - Studies in Medievalism 31

Catching up on these:

Studies in Medievalism XXXI: Politics and Medievalism (Studies) III

Edited by Karl Fugelso

Full details, preview, and ordering information at https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781843846253/studies-in-medievalism-xxxi/.

TITLE DETAILS

242 Pages

23.4 x 15.6 cm

7 b/w illus.

Series: Studies in Medievalism

Series Vol. Number: 31

Imprint: D.S.Brewer

March 2023

Description

Essays on the use, and misuse, of the Middle Ages for political aims.

Like its two immediate predecessors, this volume tackles the most pressing and contentious issue in medievalism studies: how the Middle Ages have been subsequently deployed for political ends. The six essays in the first section directly address that concern with regard to Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges's contemporaneous responses to the 1871 Commune; the hypocrisy of the Robinhood App's invocation of their namesake; misunderstood parallels and differences between the Covid-19 pandemic and medieval plagues; Peter Gill's reworking of a major medieval Mystery play in his 2001 The York Realist; celebrations of medieval monks by the American alt-right; and medieval references in twenty-first-century novels by the American neo-Nazi Harold A. Covington. The approaches and conclusions of those essays are then tested in the second section's seven articles as they examine widely discredited alt-right claims that strong kings ruled medieval Finland; Norse medievalism in WWI British and German propaganda; post-war Black appropriation of white jousting tournaments in the Antebellum South; early American references to the Merovingian Dynasty; Rudyard Kipling's deployment of the Middle Ages to defend his beliefs; the reframing of St. Anthony by Agustina Bessa-Luís's 1973 biography of him; and post-medieval Portuguese reworkings of the Goat-Foot-Lady and other medieval legends.

Contents

I: Politics and Medievalism (Studies)

Public Medievalism: Fustel de Coulanges and the Case for "Diplomatic Negotiations" - Elizabeth Emery

Rob from the Rich: The Neomedievalism of the Robinhood Stock App - Valerie B. Johnson

Pandemic Politics: Deploying the Plague - M. J. Toswell

Peter Gill and the Queering of the York Realist - Kevin J. Harty

To be a Monkish Man: Medievalism, Monasticism, Education, and Gender in the United States' Culture Wars - Jacob Doss

Political Fictions: The "Aryan" Medievalisms of Harold A. Covington - Helen Young

II: Other Responses to Medievalism

The Ancient Finnish Kings and their Swedish Archenemy: Nationalism, Conspiracy Theories, and Alt-Right Memes in Finnish Online Medievalism - Reima Välimäki and Heta Aali

The Politics of Norse Medievalism in the British Press During the First World War - Grace Khuri

A Tournament of Black Knights - Alexandria, Virginia, 1865 - Emancipationists Mobilize the Medieval - Whitney Leeson

"Eternal Legends of the Crimes of Man": The Merovingian Dynasty in Early American Media (1720-1820) - Gregory I. Halfond

Writing, Men, Empire: Kipling's Medievalist Imagination - Richard Utz

Agustina Bessa-Luís's Reinvention of St. António: A Loving Saint without an Altar - Ana Maria Machado

Celtic Imaginary: From Medieval Dama-Pé-de-Cabra to Nineteenth-century Patriotic Versions - Angélica Varandas

CFP: Jubilee! : Sewanee Medieval Colloquium 2025 (11/1/2024; 2/28-3/1/2025)

Jubilee! : Sewanee Medieval Colloquium 2025

deadline for submissions: November 1, 2024

full name / name of organization: Sewanee Medieval Colloquium

contact email: medievalcolloquium@sewanee.edu

posted from: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/05/31/jubilee

It's our 50th birthday, and we're having a party!

Please join us Feb 28th-Mar 1st, 2025 for a very special Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. This year’s conference theme is intended to be as capacious as possible to encourage previous presenters, respondents, and plenaries to return to the Colloquium to celebrate what lies ahead for Medieval Studies. The meeting is intended to celebrate the ways in which the conference has fostered conversations between established scholars and new voices in the field. To this end, we hope to create as many panels as possible that pair former attendees with new, emerging scholars as we think about the future of the discipline.

Papers and panels might consider themes of celebration, exaltation, feasting, and festivals. Presenters also might address other forms of “party,” including what it means to “take part,” to “participate,” and to “partake of.” (Parti-colored clothing is also on the table.) Other options include thinking about anniversaries, processions, and attention to commemoration and historiography. We welcome work that addresses the ways in which the natural world becomes enfolded in human celebrations, how gender roles are at play in acts of memorialization, the way legal language defines participation in a suit, how chronicles and annals encode yearly progress, how celebtrations engage ethics of care or harm, and more. And above all, we encourage work from across all disciplines and geographic areas that speaks how we think about how a marker like this represents a half century of change in the field, with an eye to where we might go next.

For more information about how to participate, see https://www.sewaneemedievalcolloquium.com/

Last updated June 2, 2024

Opportunity: Medieval Afterlives at Newberry Library (5/15/2024; Chicago 9/20/2024)

From the Medieval Academy of America news feed:

Newberry Workshop: Medieval Afterlives

Posted on April 26, 2024

Led by Christopher Fletcher (Newberry Library)

Sep 20, 2024

9:30am–4:30pm

At the Newberry

This workshop explores the long reach of the Middle Ages into the present through the editions, versions, and reimaginings of medieval culture produced through the early modern period and into the modern day. Through discussions, group work, and hands-on activities with Newberry collection items, participants will better understand what post-medieval manifestations of texts, artworks, and other objects can teach us about the medieval past. In this way, we will also consider how the medieval can inform our present and guide our future.

This workshop is free and open to all, but space is limited. Priority will be given to qualified applicants from CRS Consortium institutions. Consortium members may also be eligible to receive a CRS Consortium Grant to cover the costs of attending the workshop.

The application deadline is Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 11:59:59 pm Central Time.

Click here for more info and to apply.

DESCRIPTION

This workshop explores the long reach of the Middle Ages into the present through the editions, versions, and reimaginings of medieval culture produced through the early modern period and into the modern day. Through discussions, group work, and hands-on activities with Newberry collection items, participants will better understand what post-medieval manifestations of texts, artworks, and other objects can teach us about the medieval past. In this way, we will also consider how the medieval can inform our present and guide our future.

This workshop forms part of a series of programming exploring the future of medieval studies to mark the Centennial of the Medieval Academy of America in 2025, which is co-organized by Shirin Fozi (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Lynley Herbert (Walters Art Museum), and Christopher Fletcher (Newberry Library).