Thursday, March 7, 2024

REMINDER Tribal Medievalisms (Studies in Medievalism 34) (06/01/2024)

CALL FOR PAPERS

STUDIES IN MEDIEVALISM XXXIV: TRIBAL MEDIEVALISMS


Traditional applications of the word “tribal” in medievalism studies and elsewhere in academia have recently come under intense criticism and sometimes been censored. Yet, in broader cultural contexts, the term seems to be gaining ever greater currency as a synonym for group identity, particularly of a partisan nature. In that regard, what relevance does it have for medievalism? For medievalism studies? Does it accurately capture the way one or more communities within those fields are perceived by their own members and/or others? How, if at all, do these newer applications apply to the traditional uses of the term? How does the word relate to practices among medievalists, by medievalists with regard to their medieval sources, by scholars of medievalism with regard to their subjects, and among scholars of medievalism? 

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 to Karl Fugelso at kfugelso@towson.edu in English and Word by 1 June 2024, 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.)

Friday, March 1, 2024

Medieval in Popular Culture at NeMLA 2024

Medievalisms Today: Aspects of the Medieval Past in the 21st-century World 

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

Organizers: Michael A. Torregrossa, June-Ann Greeley, and Rachael Warmington


55th NeMLA Convention

Boston, MA

7-10 March 2024


Friday

Mar 8 Track 6

08:15-09:45

6.13 Medievalisms Today: Aspects of the Medieval Past in the Twenty-first-century World (Part 1)

Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Bristol Community College

Location: Conference Room (Media Equipped)

Cultural Studies and Media Studies & Global Anglophone

"King Mansa Musa's Mines: Finding a Lost Medieval Africa" Angela Weisl, Seton Hall University

"The Convergence of Eras and Cultures: The Global Arthurian Ethos in Contemporary Comic Series" Rachael Warmington, Seton Hall University

"AfroComics: African Medievalism and the Comic Book Form" Afrodesia McCannon, New York University


Friday

Mar 8 Track 7

10:00-11:30

7.13 Medievalisms Today: Aspects of the Medieval Past in the Twenty-first-century World (Part 2)

Chair: Rachael Warmington, Seton Hall University

Location: Conference Room (Media Equipped)

Cultural Studies and Media Studies & Global Anglophone

"Crusader Kings III: Medievalism Thriving Within the Corners of Video Games" Mosammat Sultana, St. John’s University

"Between Life and Death: Traversing Disease and Mortality in The Black Parade" Shataparni Bhattacharya, Indiana University-Bloomington

"Is Chivalry Dead? Medievalism in Modern Dating and the Male Identity Crisis" Kiernan Sullivan, Binghamton University, SUNY

"Reviving Iranian Medieval Philosophy: A Path to Liberation From Contemporary Oppression in Iran" Faegheh Hajhosseini, University at Buffalo, SUNY


Thursday, February 29, 2024

CFP Books and Transgressions: New England Medieval Consortium Conference (6/15/2024; Boston 11/9/2024)

New England Medieval Consortium conference Nov 9: Books and Transgressions


deadline for submissions: June 15, 2024

full name / name of organization: New England Medieval Consortium

contact email: weiskott@bc.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/01/22/new-england-medieval-consortium-conference-nov-9-books-and-transgressions


This conference will provide an opportunity for medievalists working across a range of disciplines and geographic areas to join in conversation about premodern cultures of the book, boundary- crossing, and the law and other normative cultural expressions. Given this year’s conference location at a Jesuit, Catholic university, and our keynote speakers, we particularly (but not exclusively) invite submissions focused on regions other than England, including the Middle East; language traditions other than English; and religious cultures.

We interpret “transgressions” broadly, including the notions of access, trespass, and desire. Accordingly, we welcome papers from medievalists in any discipline, concerned with any region or polity of Europe, Asia, or Africa. Papers might consider any of the following subtopics, or others:

  • bookswhoseform,content,orprovenanceistransgressive;
  • textual cultures: books, authors, texts, audience expectations;
  • the codification of law and law-books;
  • transgression and sin in medieval philosophy and theology;
  • etiquette, diplomacy, or cultural norms, or remediations or contestations of these in written texts;
  • stylistic norms (e.g., poetic and rhetorical precepts) and their transgressions in writing or the visual arts;
  • modern theoretical or methodological approaches to medieval texts;
  • vernacularity in literature, religion, or the visual arts as a mediation of cultural transgression;
  • the transgressive potential of medieval studies in the present day;
  • heterodoxy, heresy, or the function of the written word in regulating the boundaries of orthodoxy.

We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers. Please send abstracts of 300 words to medieval2024@gmail.com by 15 June 2024.

Our keynote speakers are Dr. Ariane Bottex-Ferragne and Dr. Ahmed El Shamsy. Professor Bottex-Ferragne is Assistant Professor of French at New York University. Her presentation is provisionally entitled “Rules of Transgression in Medieval Poetry: Lessons from a Forgotten Bestseller.” Professor El Shamsy is Professor of Islamic Thought at the University of Chicago. His presentation is provisionally entitled “Authors and their Audiences in Medieval Arabic Book Culture.”

The 2024 conference marks the quinquagenary (fiftieth anniversary) of the founding of the NEMC. As the conference returns to Boston College for the first time since 1981, we hope to make it an especially festive occasion. With our theme of “Books and Transgressions” and with our two invited keynotes, we also propose to expand, geographically, disciplinarily, linguistically, and conceptually, what “the Middle Ages” has signified to our colleagues and students.

Boston College is located in Chestnut Hill, MA, and is easily accessible by car, plane, or bus. To learn more about the campus and its environs, see https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/about/maps-and-directions/directions.html.



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CFP Wooden O Symposium 2024 (4/20/2024; Cedar City, Utah 8/5-7/2024)

Wooden O Symposium


deadline for submissions: April 20, 2024

full name / name of organization: Southern Utah University - Utah Shakespeare Festival

contact email: tvordi@suu.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/02/23/wooden-o-symposium


The 2024 Wooden O Symposium will be held in conjunction with the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association’s annual conference in Cedar City, UT.

We are also pleased to announce our keynote speaker is Vanessa I. Corredera (Andrews University), author of Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).

The Wooden O Symposium invites panel and paper proposals on any topic relating to Shakespeare and his plays:

  • Literary Analysis & Theoretical Approaches
  • Shakespeare and Adaptation
  • Shakespeare on Screen
  • Shakespeare in Performance
  • Shakespeare and History, Culture, and Society
  • Shakespeare and Rhetoric
  • Shakespeare and the Arts


We encourage papers and presentations that speak to the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s 2024 summer season: Henry VIII, The Winter’s Tale, The Taming of the Shrew, and Much Ado About Nothing.



The deadline for proposals is April 20, 2024.



Please include a 100-200-word abstract or session proposal (including individual abstracts) and the following information:
  • name of presenter(s)
  • participant category (faculty, graduate student, undergraduate, or independent scholar)
  • college/university affiliation
  • mailing address
  • email address
  • audio/visual requirements and any other special requests.

All abstracts should be submitted through the following link: www.memberplanet.com/s/rmmra/rmmra2024application



For more information, please contact the conference co-organizers, Scott Knowles at scottknowles@suu.edu or Jessica Tvordi at tvordi@suu.edu



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Wednesday, February 21, 2024

UPDATE - CFP Games of Medievalism - International Society for the Study of Medievalism Annual Conference (3/08/2024; New Jersey 07/09-11/2024)

Call for Papers: The Games of Medievalism

International Society for the Study of Medievalism Annual Conference


Montclair and South Orange, NJ, July 9-11, 2024


Abstracts are welcomed for the thirty-seventh annual conference of the International Society for the Study of Medievalism, co-sponsored by Montclair State and Seton Hall Universities, located in northern New Jersey, 14 miles from New York City (accessible by public transit). Abstracts for in-person and virtual papers and panels are welcome. To propose a panel, please include all abstracts in a single file submitted by the organizer. This file should also include the names and contact information for all participants.  


Celebrating games and sport in this Olympic summer and considering the various kinds of play inherent in Medievalism, the conference will consider the discipline’s many layers. We will arrange local visits (as interest permits) for those participating in person: to the New Jersey branch of Medieval Times, the Yogi Berra Museum, the Montclair Art Museum, and/or The Cloisters branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 


Housing options will include low-cost single or double accommodations on the campus of Montclair State University (circa $50-60/night) and room blocks in local hotels. 


We welcome papers and presentations on all topics of Medievalism, not limited to the conference theme.  We enthusiastically welcome proposals from presenters in (or addressing topics related to) regions outside North American, Western Europe, and the Anglophone World.  



Keynote

“A ‘Carnival of Architecture’: Race, Place, and Play in Oblivion and the Elder Scrolls Franchise," Kevin and Brent Moberly, Old Dominion University and Indiana University



Suggested Topics

  • Medievalism in Video Games
  • Gaming the System (Medievalism in Geo-Politics, Economics)
  • Medievalism in Sports and Sports Culture
  • Games in Medieval Film
  • The Interplay of Medieval and Modern
  • Games in Medievalist Narratives
  • Jousts, Tournaments, Bohorts
  • Disguise, Cosplay, and Cross-Dressing
  • Games of Chance, Gambling, and Tavern Pursuits
  • Medievalism in Tabletop Games
  • Poetry Competitions or Challenges
  • The Play(s) of Medievalism
  • Playing with Medieval Medicine and other Techniques in the Modern World
  • Medievalist Musicals: Spamalot, Six, Pippin, Camelot, etc.
  • Games in the Construction of Medievalism
  • Medieval games in medievalist art or generative AI
  • Medievalism as Game
  • Chivalry, Courtesy, and other codes in Medievalism


Submission Instructions

Please submit your 200 to 250-word abstracts on the following Google Form by March 8 (date extended):

https://forms.gle/KCmquR8VungYzEoz9



Questions

Please contact conference organizers Elizabeth Emery and Angela Weisl:

gamesissm@gmail.com


Friday, February 16, 2024

CFP The Games of Medievalism (2/20/2024; ISSM 7/9-11/2024)

Source: https://sites.google.com/view/thegamesofmedievalism/home

Call for Papers: The Games of Medievalism


International Society for the Study of Medievalism Annual Conference

Montclair and South Orange, NJ, July 9-11, 2024


Abstracts are welcomed for the thirty-seventh annual conference of the International Society for the Study of Medievalism, co-sponsored by Montclair State and Seton Hall Universities, located in northern New Jersey, 14 miles from New York City (accessible by public transit). Abstracts for in-person and virtual papers and panels are welcome. To propose a panel, please include all abstracts in a single file submitted by the organizer. This file should also include the names and contact information for all participants.


Celebrating games and sport in this Olympic summer and considering the various kinds of play inherent in Medievalism, the conference will consider the discipline’s many layers. We will arrange local visits (as interest permits) for those participating in person: to the New Jersey branch of Medieval Times, the Yogi Berra Museum, the Montclair Art Museum, and/or The Cloisters branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.


Housing options will include low-cost single or double accommodations on the campus of Montclair State University (circa $50-60/night) and room blocks in local hotels.


We welcome papers and presentations on all topics of Medievalism, not limited to the conference theme. We enthusiastically welcome proposals from presenters in (or addressing topics related to) regions outside North American, Western Europe, and the Anglophone World.


Keynote

“A ‘Carnival of Architecture’: Race, Place, and Play in Oblivion and the Elder Scrolls Franchise," Kevin and Brent Moberly, Old Dominion University and Indiana University


Suggested Topics

  • Medievalism in Video Games
  • Gaming the System (Medievalism in Geo-Politics, Economics)
  • Medievalism in Sports and Sports Culture
  • Games in Medieval Film
  • The Interplay of Medieval and Modern
  • Games in Medievalist Narratives
  • Jousts, Tournaments, Bohorts
  • Disguise, Cosplay, and Cross-Dressing
  • Games of Chance, Gambling, and Tavern Pursuits
  • Medievalism in Tabletop Games
  • Poetry Competitions or Challenges
  • The Play(s) of Medievalism
  • Playing with Medieval Medicine and other Techniques in the Modern World
  • Medievalist Musicals: Spamalot, Six, Pippin, Camelot, etc.
  • Games in the Construction of Medievalism
  • Medieval games in medievalist art or generative AI
  • Medievalism as Game
  • Chivalry, Courtesy, and other codes in Medievalism




Submission Instructions

Please submit your 200 to 250-word abstracts on the following Google Form by February 20:

https://forms.gle/KCmquR8VungYzEoz9


Questions

Please contact conference organizers Elizabeth Emery and Angela Weisl:

gamesissm@gmail.com

Monday, November 13, 2023

CFP Adapting In and Out of the Classroom (12/1/2023; LFA/AAS online 2/22-24/2024)

Call for Papers:

LFA /AAS ONLINE 2024: ADAPTING IN AND OUT OF THE CLASSROOM


Main site: https://litfilm.org/conference/

THIRD ANNUAL JOINT LITERATURE / FILM ASSOCIATION & ASSOCIATION FOR ADAPTATION STUDIES CONFERENCE

ONLINE

FEBRUARY 22-24, 2024



Adaptation scholars constantly swap anecdotes about what it’s like teaching adaptations of Jane Austen or the Marvel Universe, but surprisingly few of their conference presentations focus on the pedagogy of adaptation. So the organizers of this year’s online joint conference of the Literature/Film Association and the Association of Adaptation Studies—Julie Grossman, Peter Kunze, Thomas Leitch, Seda Öz, John Sanders, and Allen Redmon—invite anyone who’s ever taught adaptations, or adaptation, to share their experiences with audiences who may be far distant geographically but are likely to be highly sympathetic professionally. The conference, scheduled for 22–24 February 2024, aims to foster more global conversations among adaptation teachers and scholars, promote closer interaction between the Literature/Film Association and the Association of Adaptation Studies, and invite participation from active members of either organization who would not normally consider traveling far away for an in-person conference. Although all presentations will be in English, we hope the event’s online format will attract colleagues from around the globe, interested peers in related fields, and anyone else who wants to learn more about contemporary adaptation studies.

The success of the first two joint conferences of the LFA and the AAS has made us aware that virtual conferences, though they cannot serve all the same social and networking functions as face-to-faces conferences, are themselves indispensable adaptive mutations that serve certain important tasks—especially bringing people together who would be unable or unwilling to travel to a live conference—better than the conferences they rapidly replaced in the Covid era. We hope that online events assembling an ever more diverse network of adaptation scholars, a supplement rather than a replacement for our in-person conferences, might take their place as part of a new normal that exploits new possibilities for discussions of ideas that could blossom in and out of the classroom.

We invite abstracts for ten-minute presentations that deal with any aspect of adaptation. We are especially interested in the opportunities and problems that arise when participants teach adaptations. But we do not wish to exclude adaptation scholars with other matters on their minds. So presentations for the conference may focus on teaching particular adaptations or adaptation as a more general practice, or they may highlight archives, performances, and networks, borders and contact zones, divisions and bridges, epistemological and phenomenological experiences, new media and transmedia, linearity, spatiality, and seriality, and challenges, defenses, and alternatives to the humanities. We particularly encourage submissions on the following topics:
  • introducing students to adaptations
  • teaching adaptations in literature courses
  • teaching adaptations as supplements or substitutes
  • teaching adaptations in different national settings
  • teaching adaptations vs. teaching adaptation
  • nurturing budding adaptation scholars
  • adaptation and the post-human world
  • remaking and readapting
  • adaptation and seriality
  • building and maintaining adaptation networks

Please send all inquiries, abstracts of 250 words, and biographies of 100 words to teachingadaptations2024@gmail.com by 1 December 2023. We plan to notify all participants whose proposals are accepted for presentation by 15 December.

Saturday, November 11, 2023

CFP Medievalisms Area (11/14/2023; SWPACA Albuquerque 2/21-24/2024)

Medievalisms Area at SWPACA

deadline for submissions:
November 14, 2023

full name / name of organization:
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)

contact email:
adunai@tamuct.edu


source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/08/30/medievalisms-area-at-swpaca



Call for Papers

Medievalisms Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)



45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on September 1, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2023



Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 45th annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/



The Medievalisms area invites paper and session proposals on any and all topics relevant to medievalism, which is described by Tison Pugh and Angela Jane Weisl in Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present (2013) as “the art, literature, scholarship, avocational pastimes, and sundry forms of entertainment and culture that turn to the Middle Ages for their subject matter or inspiration, and in doing so…comment on the artist’s contemporary sociocultural milieu” (1). Medievalism can be approached in many ways, including in terms of media (e.g., literature, architecture, cinema, music, games), chronology (e.g., Early Modern, Romantic, Victorian), geography, and from any number of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives (e.g., cultural studies, media studies, race and ethnic studies, gender and queer studies). Presentations that engage with current conversations in the field are particularly welcome.



Examples of topics relevant to the Medievalisms area include (but are not limited to): 

  • Literary Medievalisms
  • Cinematic Medievalisms
  • Medievalisms in Art, Architecture, Music, and Performance
  • Medievalisms in Gaming, LARPing, and Role-Playing
  • Medievalisms of Place and Space
  • Gender, Sexuality, Race, Ethnicity, Class, etc. in Medievalisms
  • Global Medievalisms
  • Queer Medievalisms
  • Political Medievalisms
  • Medievalisms in the Classroom



All proposals must be submitted through the conference’s database at http://register.southwestpca.org/southwestpca



For details on using the submission database and on the application process in general, please see the Proposal Submission FAQs and Tips page at http://southwestpca.org/conference/faqs-and-tips/



Individual proposals for 15-minute papers must include an abstract of approximately 200-500 words. Including a brief bio in the body of the proposal form is encouraged, but not required.



For information on how to submit a proposal for a roundtable or a multi-paper panel, please view the above FAQs and Tips page.



The deadline for submissions is November 14, 2023.



SWPACA offers monetary awards for the best graduate student papers in a variety of categories. Submissions of accepted, full papers are due January 1, 2024. SWPACA also offers travel fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students. For more information, visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/



Registration and travel information for the conference will be available at http://southwestpca.org/conference/conference-registration-information/

For 2023, we are excited to be at a new venue, the Marriott Albuquerque (2101 Louisiana Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110), which boasts free parking and close proximity to dining, shopping, and other delights.



In addition, please check out the organization’s peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, at http://journaldialogue.org/



If you have any questions about the Medievalisms area, please contact its Area Chair, Amber Dunai, at adunai@tamuct.edu. If you have general questions about the conference, please contact us at support@southwestpca.org, and a member of the executive team will get back to you.



This will be a fully in-person conference. If you’re looking for an online option to present your work, keep an eye out for details about the 2024 SWPACA Summer Salon, a completely virtual conference to take place in June 2024. However, do keep in mind that the Summer Salon is a smaller conference with limited presentation slots and no student funding assistance.



We look forward to receiving your submissions!



Last updated November 1, 2023

CFP Medievalism in Popular Culture Area (11/30/2023; PCA Chicago 3/27-30/2024)

Medievalism in Popular Culture

deadline for submissions:
November 30, 2023

full name / name of organization:
Christina Francis/Popular Culture Association (PCA)

contact email:
cfrancis@commonwealthu.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/10/04/medievalism-in-popular-culture


CFP: Medievalism in Popular Culture

PCA/ACA 2024 National Conference

March 27-30, Chicago, IL (In-Person)

The Medievalism in Popular Culture Area (including Early to Later Middle Ages, Robin Hood, Arthurian Legend, Chaucer, Norse, and other materials connected to medieval studies) accepts papers on all topics that explore either popular culture during the Middle Ages or transcribe some aspect of the Middle Ages into the popular culture of later periods. These representations can occur in any genre, including film, television, novels, graphic novels, gaming, advertising, art, etc. For this year’s conference, I would like to encourage submissions on some of the following topics:

  • Medievalism in YA Literature and Fan Fiction
  • Queer and/or BIPOC medievalism
  • Medievalism and Intersectionality
  • The Arthurian World
  • “Medieval” as a social and political signifier
  • Medievalism in Television (e.g., The Last Kingdom, House of Dragons, etc.)
  • Medievalism in Film (The Green Knight, Outlaw King, The Last Duel, etc.)
  • Robin Hood
  • Medievalism and Teaching (especially remote/distance education strategies)
  • Board Games (e.g., Coup, Carcassone, etc.)/Online Gaming and/or Cosplay
  • Anglo-Saxon or Norse Representations in Popular Culture
  • Medievalism in Novels/Short Stories/Poems/Graphic Novels

If your topic idea does not fit into any of these categories, please feel free to submit your proposal as well. I would like to encourage as much participation as possible, and depending on submissions, I may rearrange the topic groupings.

All papers will be included in sessions with four presenters each, so plan to present on your topic for no more than 15 minutes, inclusive of any audio or visual materials.

Panel submissions are also welcome on any topic of medievalism. If you would like to propose a panel, please submit your complete panel to me directly at cfrancis@commonwealthu.edu. Individual papers will then have to be submitted to the PCA online system (see below).

Submission requirements:

Please submit a title and a 250 word abstract after reviewing the submission guidelines at https://pcaaca.org/page/submissionguidelines. All submissions must be directed to the online database.



Deadline for submission: November 30, 2023.



If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Christina Francis, Professor of English, Bloomsburg University, at cfrancis@commonwealthu.edu.


Last updated October 4, 2023

Saturday, September 23, 2023

CFP Tribal Medievalisms (6/1/2024)

Posted on behalf of the organizer:


CALL FOR PAPERS


STUDIES IN MEDIEVALISM XXXIV:


TRIBAL MEDIEVALISMS




Traditional applications of the word “tribal” in medievalism studies and elsewhere in academia have recently come under intense criticism and sometimes been censored. Yet, in broader cultural contexts, the term seems to be gaining ever greater currency as a synonym for group identity, particularly of a partisan nature. In that regard, what relevance does it have for medievalism? For medievalism studies? Does it accurately capture the way one or more communities within those fields are perceived by their own members and/or others? How, if at all, do these newer applications apply to the traditional uses of the term? How does the word relate to practices among medievalists, by medievalists with regard to their medieval sources, by scholars of medievalism with regard to their subjects, and among scholars of medievalism? 

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 to Karl Fugelso at kfugelso@towson.edu in English and Word by 1 June 2024, 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.)


Sunday, September 10, 2023

Kalamazoo 2024 Deadline Reminder

 Just a reminder that proposals for papers and roundtable presentations for the 2024 International Congress on Medieval Studies are due by the end of this week. Materials must be posted to the Confex system by 15 September 2023.




Thursday, September 7, 2023

CFP How Interdisciplinary Can We Be? (Re)Conceiving the Scope of Medieval Studies Today (A Roundtable) (virtual) (9/15/2023; ICMS 5/9-11/2024)

How Interdisciplinary Can We Be? (Re)Conceiving the Scope of Medieval Studies Today (A Roundtable) (virtual)




Sponsoring Organization: Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa




Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 15 September 2023

59th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

Hybrid event: Thursday, 9 May, through Saturday, 11 May, 2024



Session Rationale





How Interdisciplinary Can We Be? (Re)Conceiving the Scope of Medieval Studies Today (A Roundtable) (virtual)




Through recent contact with medieval scholars, we've been hearing from individuals (many outside literature or history departments) who are excluded from current conversations in Medieval Studies. Their work is as valid as anyone else’s, but, because of the approach, they are unsupported by the larger community of medievalists. In organizing this session, we wish to expand the focus of Medieval Studies beyond the currently expected fields and to highlight the ways that other disciplines (including those outside the humanities) can contribute to discussion and debate about the medieval past as well as the post-medieval reception of the era.




Explorations might come from anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, comparative studies, engineering, folklore, genetics, linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, technology, etc. Other perspectives might highlight concerns from humanities scholars outside Medieval Studies who also feel left out.



Submission Information





All proposals must be submitted into the Confex system at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/call by 15 September 2023. You will be prompted to complete sections on Title and Presentation Information, People, Abstract, and Short Description.




Be advised of the following policies of the Congress: “You are invited to make one paper proposal to one session of papers. This may be to one of the Sponsored or Special Sessions of Papers, which are organized by colleagues around the world, OR to the General Sessions of Papers, which are organized by the Program Committee in Kalamazoo. You may propose an unlimited number of roundtable contributions. However, you will not be scheduled as an active participant (as a paper presenter, roundtable discussant, presider, respondent, workshop leader, or performer) in more than three sessions.”.




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

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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/.

Saturday, September 2, 2023

CFP Ecomedieval Robin Hood (virtual) (9/15/2023; ICMS 5/9-11/2024)

Sharing on behalf of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies:


Ecomedieval Robin Hood (virtual)


Sponsoring Organization: International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS)

Organizer: Anna Czarnowus




ECOMEDIEVAL ROBIN HOOD at ICMS in Kalamazoo (May 9–11, 2024)- AN ONLINE SESSION


Even though the Robin Hood tradition is identified as medieval, most of the texts are post-medieval, hence medievalist. These are often situated against the background of natural environment, and thus Valerie Johnson coined the term “ecomedievalism” for “the application of ecocriticism to neomedieval texts.” Therefore, discussion of neomedievalist texts of popular culture, such as films and TV series about Robin Hood that relate more to the times when they were made than to the Middle Ages, is particularly welcome. The Robin Hood tradition contains different interpretations of the environment, such as the myth of unspoiled nature, but also nature as dangerous, with apocalypse as something imminent. This session invites such ecocritical readings of various neomedievalist outlaw texts that represent nature or the relationship of nature to culture. You can focus, for example, on:


  • RH and greenwood in various cultural periods
  • the culture/nature divide
  • apocalyptic visions of RH narrative

Please send your abstract to: annaczarnowus@tlen.pl by September 15, 2023, but an official proposal can only be made and accepted through the (https://icms.confex.com/icms/2024/cfp.cgi).


Wednesday, August 30, 2023

CFP Tolkien’s Medievalism in Ruins II: Relics and Ruins in Re/Visions of Tolkien’s Larger Legendarium at NeMLA 2024 (9/30/2023; NeMLA 3/7-10/2024)

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Tolkien’s Medievalism in Ruins II: Relics and Ruins in Re/Visions of Tolkien’s Larger Legendarium at NeMLA 2024


deadline for submissions:
September 30, 2023

full name / name of organization:
Carl Sell and Nick Katsiadas / Slippery Rock University and University of Pittsburgh

contact email:
nicholas.katsiadas@sru.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/06/14/tolkien%E2%80%99s-medievalism-in-ruins-ii-relics-and-ruins-in-revisions-of-tolkien%E2%80%99s-larger



With the success of two panel sessions at the 2023 NeMLA Convention, we are happy to propose a “sequel” session on the theme of “Tolkien’s Medievalism in Ruins” in 2024. For all that may be said about the 2023 panels, one thing is certain: The panelists highlighted the important roles of relics and ruins within Tolkien’s essay “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics,” The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings. While we certainly covered much ground, there is a great deal left to explore, especially within The History of Middle-earth series, The Silmarillion, and the texts that Christopher Tolkien edited and published after his father’s death (The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, The Fall of Gondolin, The Fall of Númenor). We are concerned with including presentations about the larger legendarium, and we are equally concerned with opening this sequel session to the surplus of adaptations from Tolkien’s works, including: Peter Jackson’s adaptations, Rankin & Bass adaptations, Ralph Bakshi's adaptation, Amazon's The Rings of Power, video game adaptations, graphic representations, and revisions.

We are pleased once again to welcome proposals from a variety of theoretical approaches for the 2024 NeMLA Convention in Boston. Topics and texts about Tolkien’s legendarium may include, but are certainly not limited to, the following:

  • Ruins or relics and trauma
  • Ruins or relics and war
  • Ruins or relics and nostalgia
  • Ruins or relics and melancholy
  • Ruins or relics and loss
  • Ruins or relics and memory
  • Ruins or relics and travel
  • Ruins or relics and Medievalism
  • Ruins or relics and Arthuriana
  • Ruins or relics and Classicism
  • Ruins or relics and Romanticism
  • Ruins or relics in the First, Second, or Third ages of Middle-earth
  • Ruins or relics in The History of Middle-earth series
  • Relics and the Silmarils
  • Relics and the Arkenstone
  • Relics and the Dragon-helm of Dor-lómin
  • Relics and Bard’s Black Arrow
  • Ruins or relics in adaptations of Tolkien
  • Ruins and Tolkien's critical works
  • Ruins of Golden Ages
  • Ruins or relics in Middle-earth and their Literary History
  • Ruins or relics of Abandoned cities, locations, and peoples

We seek 250 – 300 word abstracts for presentations across periods and nations that address topics related to relics or ruins in Tolkien’s Middle-earth. Panelists should use the NeMLA conference website to submit abstracts, and abstracts should clearly delineate the presentation’s argument in relation to this theme. Once abstracts have been collected and accepted, the organizers will then confer and send acceptance letters. We ask that abstract submissions follow MLA format.

Those with inquiries may email Nick Katsiadas at Nicholas.katsiadas@sru.edu and Carl Sell at cscarlsell@gmail.com.



Last updated June 20, 2023

CFP Music Medievalism in Popular Culture (virtual) (9/1/2023; ICMS 5/9-11/2024)



MUSIC MEDIEVALISM IN POPULAR CULTURE at ICMS in Kalamazoo (May 9–11, 2024)



Sponsoring Organization: Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
Organizer: Anna Czarnowus





Jonathan Le Cocq (forthcoming, 2024) defines music medievalism as either the influence of the medieval on later music, or the impact on medieval music (real or imagined) on any later cultural practice. In popular culture, we can find both the music that has been influenced by the actual medieval one and music influenced by some folk music imagined as medieval. Medievalist music such as pagan folk music (Troyer in: Meyer and Yri, 2020) can be used in various media and there are various genres of it. Some music videos can be an example of the cultural practice that is influenced by the imaginary medieval music. Medievalist video games also contain “medievalized” music. Please consider such topics and similar ones:

  • medievalist music as background
  • medievalist music and similar videos
  • medievalist music/folk music as medievalist



Please send your abstract to: annaczarnowus@tlen.pl by September 1, 2023, but an official proposal can only be made and accepted through (https://icms.confex.com/icms/2024/cfp.cgi).

CFP Political Medievalism: A Global View (virtual) (9/15/2023; ICMS 2024)

Cross-posted from the ISSM listserv:



Dear Friends and colleagues,
Please consider submitting an abstract to our virtual session at ICMS 2024. The deadline for abstract submission is September 15. The link for submissions is: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2024/cfp.cgi





POLITICAL MEDIEVALISM: A GLOBAL VIEW (#4923)


In 2017, with white supremacists sporting shields and standards containing medieval-like heraldry, Charlottesville shocked the mainstream world. Not long after, in 2019, Christchurch in New Zealand followed a similar pattern, when Christian terrorist Brenton Tarrant attacked two mosques and murdered 51 people, using (amongst other weapons) an assault rifle riddled with inscriptions alluding to medieval themes, characters, and events. Despite not being a new phenomenon (let us not forget that painting of Adolf Hitler as a medieval knight) twenty-first century political (neo)medievalism seems to be finally showing its more brutal impulses; once confined to the ends of the internet and other restricted underworlds, it is now crawling its way into the public scene and even gaining relevance in places and countries where it was previously unknown. Email Luiz Guerra (anchietaguerra@gmail.com) with questions.


Best,

Luiz Felipe Anchieta Guerra
International Liaison - ISSM

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

CFP Teaching the Middle Ages and Renaissance to STEM Students: A Digital Symposium (10/1/2023; Zoom 12/4/2023)

An exciting project. Do consider giving it your support.



Call for Papers – Teaching the Middle Ages and Renaissance to STEM Students: A Digital Symposium

Posted on August 22, 2023 by Chris

Source: https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-papers-teaching-the-middle-ages-and-renaissance-to-stem-students-a-digital-symposium/


We’re pleased to announce “Teaching the Middle Ages and Renaissance to STEM Students” digital symposium hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology‘s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, together with the Studies in Medieval Renaissance Teaching (SMART) December 4, 2023. The symposium will be held entirely on Zoom and brings together colleagues with professional experience at teaching medieval and Renaissance subject matter to student audiences mostly or entirely consisting of STEM majors.

“Teaching the Middle Ages and Renaissance to STEM Students” invites proposals for 15-minute presentations that explore teaching medieval and Renaissance subject matter to student audiences mostly or entirely consisting of STEM majors. The increasing importance of the sciences and technology at institutions of higher learning suggests that medievalists and Renaissance scholars also have an increased need to understand how we should respond to student audiences whose focus lies outside the humanities and social sciences. Are STEM students’ horizons of expectation and interest substantially different from those in art, history, literary studies, music, religion, philosophy, or sociology? Do these audiences (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, medicine) and their environments (labs, future- and progress-orientedness, linkages to industry, profession-ready education) demand that we adjust our themes, philosophies, and methodological approaches? How is the instruction of medieval and Renaissance subject matter structurally integrated for these audiences and environments?

How to participate


Please send proposals of c. 350 words, in an MS Word file attached to your email, to Lainie Pomerleau (lpomerleau6@gatech.edu) and Richard Utz (richard.utz@lmc.gatech.edu) by October 1, 2023. Please also indicate if you plan on submitting an essay version of your presentation for consideration for publication. Presentations will be delivered via Zoom and should be non longer than 15 minutes (approximately 6 to 8 double-spaced pages).

CFP Medievalisms Today: Aspects of the Medieval Past in the 21st-century World (Panel) (9/30/2023; NeMLA 3/7-10/2024)

Medievalisms Today: Aspects of the Medieval Past in the 21st-century World (Panel)



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

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, June-Ann Greeley, and Rachael Warmington


Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 30 September 2023

55th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association

Sheraton Boston Hotel (Boston, MA)

On-site event: 7-10 March 2024


Session Rationale



Medievalisms Today: Aspects of the Medieval Past in the 21st-century World (Panel)


A frequent conception of the medieval period is that it was a barbaric, fanatical, and unenlightened era, yet, despite these (actual or perceived) faults, there remains an appeal to the era in modern culture. As Umberto Eco wrote a number of decades ago, “it seems people like the Middle Ages,” and this statement continues to ring true today in 2023. Regardless of the centuries (and often geography) that separate them from this time, creators worldwide are still engaged with adapting, adopting, appropriating, and/or transforming elements of the medieval past. The resulting works (referred to as medievalisms) appear in a startling array of media and have been employed (both positively and negatively) for a variety of purposes, including in materials with commercial, educational, entertainment, and propagandist motives.


Recently, medievalists have begun to widen the scope of their analysis of these works, and they have strived to explore the reception of the medieval on a wider scale than the expected sites of medieval re-creation (such as Europe, Canada, and the United States) to highlight the production and dissemination of medievalisms (as recent studies phrase it) as global, international, and/or world phenomena. Medievalists have also looked more deeply at how the creators of these new works impact the local culture around them.


These studies have made a promising start toward widening the scope of medievalism, but much work remains to be done to more fully catalog and assess these materials, especially as their numbers keep increasing.


Our intent in this session is to shine the spotlight onto new and recent works of medievalism from across the planet that haven’t yet received much (if any) attention and explore how and (perhaps) why creators still find the Middle Ages so interesting and (despite their distance from the period) relevant in the twenty-first century to their own experiences, places, and times.


Presentations might highlight and engage with examples of the medieval in comics, drama, fiction, film, games, manga, memes, music, politics, streaming video, television programing, and/or translations.Other approaches are also welcome.


Please see Helen Young and Kavita Mundan Finn’s online bibliography from Global Medievalism: An Introduction (available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/global-medievalism/E555F6DCC12217351536A00E22E862E5) for ideas and support.


Submission Information



All proposals must be submitted into the CFPList system at https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20591 by 30 September 2023. 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 fate of your submission will be made prior to 16 October 2023. If favorable, please confirm your participation with chairs by accepting their invitations and by registering for the event. The deadline for Registration/Membership is 9 December 2023.


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.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/policies.html, for further details,)



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/.

Friday, August 18, 2023

CFP Vikingism: Viking-Age Scandinavians in Modern British and North American Media (9/15/2023)

Vikingism: Viking-Age Scandinavians in Modern British and North American Media


deadline for submissions:
September 15, 2023

full name / name of organization:
Johanna Hoorenman & Tom Grant, Utrecht University

contact email:
j.e.m.hoorenman@uu.nl



CFP: Edited volume on Vikingism: Viking-Age Scandinavians in Modern British and North American Media

Vikings — their history, traditions, mythology and material culture — have taken contemporary media by storm. Popular culture is awash with Viking tropes and themes which have generated explosive interest in cinema, television, video games, music, literature, genre fiction and comics. This volume aims to provide a ground-breaking and innovative understanding of twentieth- and twenty-first century Vikingism. We are inviting scholars with relevant expertise to contribute essays which address any of the following questions:
  • What contemporary culture wars are being fought on Viking battlefields?
  • What are the main trends in the recent depictions of Vikings on screen, in video games and in literature, and what do these cultural products communicate to their audiences?
  • How have Vikings been used as a trope for British and American narratives of cultural heritage, social values, nationalism and/or Christianity? How have Viking tropes developed across popular and artistic genres and media?
  • What socio-cultural developments in Britain and North American are driving the recent surge of interest in the Viking Age?

We are interested in all media genres aimed at the British and American markets, popular and literary, including but not limited to
  • British historical fiction, including Bernard Cornwell’s The Saxon Stories and their Netflix adaptation The Last Kingdom
  • American historical (pulp) novels including Edison Marshall’s The Viking (1951) and West with the Vikings (1962)
  • AS Byatt’s Ragnarök, Joanne M Harris’ Gospel of Loki and Runemarks series
  • Children’s / YA literature, including John Flanagan’s Brotherband Chronicles and Cressida Cowell’s How to Train your Dragon series
  • Comic books: Marvel’s Thor and their screen adaptations
  • Games, including: Skyrim, Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla
  • History Channel’s Vikings and Vikings: Valhalla
  • Feature films including The Vikings (1958), Erik the Viking (1989), The Northman (2022)
  • Fantasy fiction, including Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, American Gods, Norse Mythology
  • Popular romance fiction, including queer romance and trans identities
  • Music

Please submit an abstract (max. 300 words) and a short biography (max. 150 words)to both of the editors, Johanna Hoorenman (j.e.m.hoorenman@uu.nl) and Tom Grant (t.o.grant@uu.nl) by 15 September 2023.



Last updated July 28, 2023

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

New Scholarship - The Year’s Work in Medievalism 35-36

Issues 35 and 36 of YWIM are out!

Posted on July 27, 2023 by lhaught

source: https://medievalisms.org/issues-35-and-36-of-ywim-are-out/.

The editors of The Year’s Work in Medievalism are delighted to announce the publication of volume 35.36 (2020-2021), a double issue. YWiM is the ISSM’s own peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal. The new volume represents work completed during the COVID-19 lockdown years, and so YWiM 35.36 contains: a pedagogy cluster; articles that discuss form, media, and medievalism; and a posthumous article by Alicia McKenzie (1976-2022), which we hope serves as a lasting memorial to her life and work. We encourage you to visit https://ywim.net/ to read and enjoy innovative medievalism scholarship.