Getting Medieval on Popular Culture at
MAPACA 2020
Submissions by 15 June 2020
The Association for the Advancement of
Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture seeks submissions
for the following sponsored roundtable and papers sessions to be included in
the Medieval & Renaissance Area for the 2020 meeting of the Mid-Atlantic
Popular & American Culture Association to be held at the Princeton Marriott
at Forrestal, Princeton, New Jersey, from 5-7 November 2020.
The Association for the Advancement of
Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture is a community of
scholars and enthusiasts organized to promote and foster research and
discussion of representations of the medieval in post-medieval popular culture
and mass media. We share the Medieval & Renaissance Area’s commitment to expanding
the corpus of Medievalism Studies and welcome research on neglected genres and
media of modern culture.
Making
Medievalisms Matter (A Roundtable)
The goal of this session is on the
professionalism of Medievalism Studies. We seek to highlight successful
strategies for integrating popular representations of the medieval into our
academic lives. Participants would share their experiences in researching,
teaching, and (hopefully) publishing.
Medieval
Monsters Now (Papers Session)
Following two past sessions on monsters
and medievalism, the goal of this session is to explore further examples of how
medieval monsters continue to have an impact on the modern world. We are
especially interested in recent examples, but discussions of depictions from
any post-medieval era are welcome.
Nordic
Medievalisms: Vikings and Their World in Popular Culture (Papers Session)
The Vikings remain enormously popular
in modern culture and continue to elicit much discussion and debate. We seek to
continue that dialogue at MAPACA with fresh insights into their depictions in
popular culture.
Please send inquiries and paper proposals
(paper title, 300-word abstract, A/V requests and a brief academic biography)
to the organizers at medievalinpopularculture@gmail.com.
Submissions are requested by 15 June
2020.
All presenters must be members of
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association or join for the
conference. Further details on MAPACA can be accessed at https://mapaca.net/.
The Association for the Advancement of
Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture maintains a variety
of blogs and discussion lists. Details on these activities can be found at our
blog, Making Medievalisms Matter,
accessible at https://medievalinpopularculture.blogspot.com/.
The full Medieval & Renaissance
Area call can be found at https://mapaca.net/areas/medieval-renaissance.
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