I am pleased to announce the return of "The Comics Get Medieval" sessions this fall at the 29th Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association. My thanks to the Medieval & Renaissance Area chairs for their support.
Details on "The Comics Get Medieval 2018 (A Roundtable)" can be found on our outreach site, The Medieval Comics Project, at https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/2018/03/cfp-comics-get-medieval-2018-round.html.
Friday, March 9, 2018
53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies Updates
The program and registration information is now available for the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies to be held at Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo from 10-13 May 2018. Both can be accessed at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress.
Our sponsored sessions run on Saturday afternoon this year under our Medieval Studies on Screen outreach. Full details of the sessions can be found at https://medievalstudiesonscreen.blogspot.com/2018/02/past-present-future-medieval-monsters.html.
Our sponsored sessions run on Saturday afternoon this year under our Medieval Studies on Screen outreach. Full details of the sessions can be found at https://medievalstudiesonscreen.blogspot.com/2018/02/past-present-future-medieval-monsters.html.
From Iceland to the Americas Conference Information
I came across this on the Medieval Academy of America blog (http://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/conferences-from-iceland-to-the-americas/). The organizers offer limited information on the conference, but it seems this could have been so much more. Details to date follow.
From Iceland to the Americas
September 24-26, 2018
https://notredame-web.ungerboeck.com/coe/coe_p2_details.aspx?eventid=20156&sessionid=ff8fblfa6fg5ff2fan
The medieval Icelandic sagas claim that around the year 1000 Leif Eriksson and other Nordic explorers sailed westwards from Iceland to a place they called Vinland. Although archeological evidence has verified only one small, short-lived Norse settlement in Newfoundland, the contact initiated by Leif has had an outsized impact on cultural imagination in and of the Americas. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, indeed, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, and now films and video games have all reflected a rising interest in the medieval Norse presence. In this three-day conference, 14 international authorities on archeology, mythology, literature, language, and cultural studies will gather to discuss this Nordic dynamic, not only exploring the connections among medieval Iceland and the modern Americas, but also probing why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone.
Speakers: Christopher Abram, Adolf Friðriksson, Dustin Geeraert, Simon Halink, Kevin J. Harty, Jón Karl Helgason, Verena Höfig, Seth Lerer, Emily Lethbridge, T. W. Machan, Amy Mulligan, Heather O’Donoghue, Matthew Scribner, Angela Sorby, Bergur Þorgeirsson.
Short version:
A three-day international conference exploring the impact that brief medieval Norse settlements have had on cultural imagination in and of the Americas – in novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films, and video games.
For additional information, contact Tim Machan (tmachan@nd.edu)
Promotional flier available for view at https://medieval.nd.edu/news-events/events/2018/09/26/from-iceland-to-the-americas/.
REGISTRATION: (link)
Registration includes meeting materials, refreshments, reception, Monday 24th, and lunch on Tuesday 25th.
Faculty Registration $50
Graduate Students/Post Doc $20
ND/St Mary’s Faculty/Student/Staff $0
REGISTRATION deadline September 17, 2018
From Iceland to the Americas
September 24-26, 2018
https://notredame-web.ungerboeck.com/coe/coe_p2_details.aspx?eventid=20156&sessionid=ff8fblfa6fg5ff2fan
The medieval Icelandic sagas claim that around the year 1000 Leif Eriksson and other Nordic explorers sailed westwards from Iceland to a place they called Vinland. Although archeological evidence has verified only one small, short-lived Norse settlement in Newfoundland, the contact initiated by Leif has had an outsized impact on cultural imagination in and of the Americas. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, indeed, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, and now films and video games have all reflected a rising interest in the medieval Norse presence. In this three-day conference, 14 international authorities on archeology, mythology, literature, language, and cultural studies will gather to discuss this Nordic dynamic, not only exploring the connections among medieval Iceland and the modern Americas, but also probing why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone.
Speakers: Christopher Abram, Adolf Friðriksson, Dustin Geeraert, Simon Halink, Kevin J. Harty, Jón Karl Helgason, Verena Höfig, Seth Lerer, Emily Lethbridge, T. W. Machan, Amy Mulligan, Heather O’Donoghue, Matthew Scribner, Angela Sorby, Bergur Þorgeirsson.
Short version:
A three-day international conference exploring the impact that brief medieval Norse settlements have had on cultural imagination in and of the Americas – in novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films, and video games.
For additional information, contact Tim Machan (tmachan@nd.edu)
Promotional flier available for view at https://medieval.nd.edu/news-events/events/2018/09/26/from-iceland-to-the-americas/.
REGISTRATION: (link)
Registration includes meeting materials, refreshments, reception, Monday 24th, and lunch on Tuesday 25th.
Faculty Registration $50
Graduate Students/Post Doc $20
ND/St Mary’s Faculty/Student/Staff $0
REGISTRATION deadline September 17, 2018
Medieval Worlds Resource
The Medieval Academy of America recently launched an new outreach site called Medieval Worlds: K-12 Learning Resources. There is not much content yet, but I with them luck with this worthwhile endeavor.
The site can be accessed at https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/medievlalacademyk12/home.
The site can be accessed at https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/medievlalacademyk12/home.
CFP Monsters and Medievalism (6/30/2018; MAPACA 11/8-10/2018)
I am pleased to announce our next collaboration with the Medieval & Renaissance Area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association. A further notice will be posted soon on The Medieval Comics Project site.
Monsters and Medievalism
Sponsored by The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture for the Medieval & Renaissance Area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association
29th Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association
Lord Baltimore Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland
8-10 November 2018
Proposals due by 30 June 2018
Monsters remain fascinating subjects, and intense discussion in recent years has focused on their representation in medieval texts, including stories as well as the art of the period. However, scholars have largely neglected the post-medieval afterlife of these horrors in later works. Monstrous entities manufactured to exist within re-creations of the Middle Ages in contemporary media share a similar fate in the academy. In short, medievalists appear to like monsters, but they do not always seem willing to explore their depictions in modern texts. Despite this neglect, the monsters found in medievalisms have merit in our classrooms and research, and we need to promote their exploits as well as those of the creatures existing within medieval artifacts.
In furtherance of the goals of The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, we seek in this panel to unite Medieval Studies, Medievalism Studies, Monster Studies, and Popular Culture Studies to highlight connections between medieval monstrosities and their post-medieval incarnations and successors. We hope to explore both continuity and change in addressing how terrors rooted in the medieval have been portrayed and how their inheritors have been developed.
Possible topics might include:
Presentations will be limited to 10-15 minutes depending on final panel size.
Interested individuals should, no later than 30 June 2018, notify the organizers of their topic via email directed to MedievalinPopularCulture@gmail.com using “Monsters and Medievalism” as their subject heading. They will also need create an account with the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association at https://mapaca.net/conference AND submit into the system both an abstract of no more than 300 words and an academic biographical narrative of no more than 75 words.
Again, please send inquiries and copies of your submissions to the organizers at MedievalinPopularCulture@gmail.com using “Monsters and Medievalism” as the subject heading.
In planning your proposal, please be aware of the policies of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (available at https://mapaca.net/help/conference/submitting-abstracts-conference).
Further details on The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture can be found at its website: https://medievalinpopularculture.blogspot.com/.
Monsters and Medievalism
Sponsored by The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture for the Medieval & Renaissance Area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association
29th Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association
Lord Baltimore Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland
8-10 November 2018
Proposals due by 30 June 2018
Monsters remain fascinating subjects, and intense discussion in recent years has focused on their representation in medieval texts, including stories as well as the art of the period. However, scholars have largely neglected the post-medieval afterlife of these horrors in later works. Monstrous entities manufactured to exist within re-creations of the Middle Ages in contemporary media share a similar fate in the academy. In short, medievalists appear to like monsters, but they do not always seem willing to explore their depictions in modern texts. Despite this neglect, the monsters found in medievalisms have merit in our classrooms and research, and we need to promote their exploits as well as those of the creatures existing within medieval artifacts.
In furtherance of the goals of The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, we seek in this panel to unite Medieval Studies, Medievalism Studies, Monster Studies, and Popular Culture Studies to highlight connections between medieval monstrosities and their post-medieval incarnations and successors. We hope to explore both continuity and change in addressing how terrors rooted in the medieval have been portrayed and how their inheritors have been developed.
Possible topics might include:
- Demons
- Dracula
- Dragons
- Elves/Fairies/Tuatha Dé Danann
- Fomorians
- Gargoyles
- Giants
- Golems
- The Green Knight
- The Grendelkin
- Incubi/Sucubi
- Loathly Ladies
- Melusine
- Merlin
- Revenants
- Shrek
- Werewolves
- Wild Men / Wild Women
- Witches
Presentations will be limited to 10-15 minutes depending on final panel size.
Interested individuals should, no later than 30 June 2018, notify the organizers of their topic via email directed to MedievalinPopularCulture@gmail.com using “Monsters and Medievalism” as their subject heading. They will also need create an account with the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association at https://mapaca.net/conference AND submit into the system both an abstract of no more than 300 words and an academic biographical narrative of no more than 75 words.
Again, please send inquiries and copies of your submissions to the organizers at MedievalinPopularCulture@gmail.com using “Monsters and Medievalism” as the subject heading.
In planning your proposal, please be aware of the policies of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (available at https://mapaca.net/help/conference/submitting-abstracts-conference).
Further details on The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture can be found at its website: https://medievalinpopularculture.blogspot.com/.
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