Friday, March 26, 2021

Call for Service: Self-nominations for Volunteers to Serve as Contributing Reviewers of Proposals for Sponsored and Special Sessions (4/1/2021)

Self-nominations for Volunteers to Serve as Contributing Reviewers of Proposals for Sponsored and Special Sessions

Posted on March 22, 2021

Source: http://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/self-nominations-for-volunteers-to-serve-as-contributing-reviewers-of-proposals-for-sponsored-and-special-sessions/


The International Congress on Medieval Studies, hosted by the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, is now accepting self-nominations for volunteers to serve as contributing reviewers of proposals for Sponsored and Special Sessions for the 57th and 58th congresses (2022 and 2023). 

The deadline for self-nomination is April 1: wmich.edu/medievalcongress/submissions/selection.

Thursday, March 25, 2021

CFP Medieval and Early Modern Studies Summer Festival (4/30/21; Kent 6/18-19/21 online)

CFP - Medieval and Early Modern Studies Summer Festival


Event website: https://memsfestival.wordpress.com/


deadline for submissions: April 30, 2021

full name / name of organization: MEMS Festival 2021

contact email: memsfestival@gmail.com



Join us online for the University of Kent’s seventh annual MEMS Summer Festival.

This two-day event celebrates Medieval and Early Modern history, 400 – 1800, and encourages a wide range of interdisciplinary topics, including but not limited to, politics, religion, economics, art, drama, literature, and domestic culture. MEMS Fest aims to be an informal space in which postgraduate students, early career researchers, and academics can share ideas and foster conversations, whilst building a greater sense of community. Undergraduate students in their final year of study are also welcome at the conference.

We invite abstracts of up to 250 words for individual research papers of 20 minutes in length on ANY subject relating to the Medieval and Early Modern periods. The research can be in its earliest stages or a more developed piece.

We also encourage 700-word abstracts proposing a three-person panel, presenting on a specific subject or theme in Medieval or Early Modern studies. If you have an idea and would like us to advertise for it, please contact us at memsfestival@gmail.com.

Deadline for all Paper and Panel Proposals is Friday 30th April 2021. All applications must be sent to memsfestival@gmail.com with ‘MEMS Fest 2021 Abstract’ as the subject of the email.

This opportunity allows you to showcase your research in a friendly environment and to network with fellow scholars from far-reaching institutions. For more information please contact us on Facebook, Twitter, or at memsfestival.wordpress.com. Please do not hesitate to ask questions.

MEMS Festival 2021 is supported by the Centre of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent.



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Saturday, March 20, 2021

CFP Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Association Conference (4/15/21; online 6/25+/21)

Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Association
2021 Virtual Conference – June 2021

Source: http://www.rmmra.org/2020-conference-cedar-city-utah/


Due to continuing concerns about COVID-19, difficulty in obtaining institutional permissions and/or funding, and other potential pandemic-related travel concerns, RMMRA’s 53rd Annual Meeting and Conference will be held virtually over the weekend of June 25, 2021.

We are excited to host a variety of events this year ranging from works-in-progress workshops through traditional panel presentations.

The RMMRA invites paper and panel submissions on any topic relating to the period 400-1700CE and welcomes scholars in a broad range of disciplines including history, pedagogy, literature, art history, music, and gender studies. Papers may wish to respond to this year’s theme of “Reimagining the Medieval and Renaissance in a Post-Pandemic World.”

Participants are encouraged to propose: 1) A paper to be read in a typical panel; 2) A full panel of papers linked by theme or approach; 3) A work-in-progress for detailed workshop-style feedback; or 4) A moderated discussion panel in which audience members can participate in conversation about relevant topics or texts. All participants are also welcome to volunteer as readers for works-in-progress seminars, which will involve pre-reading submitted papers and offering critical feedback during the conference.

The proposal portal will be open through April 15, 2021.

Please contact the RMMRA with any questions or concerns.



The RMMRA is dedicated to creating an inclusive scholarly community. We encourage papers from scholars regardless of race, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, religion, political views, military status, (dis)ability, and career paths. Our organization is committed to providing a safe, accessible, harassment-free, and collegial conference experience for all attendees. The RMMRA recognizes and supports the inclusion of diverse scholars from across the academy.

Thursday, March 18, 2021

CFP Reflections/Refractions: Victorian(ist) Ways of Seeing Conference (5/15/21; Charlotte 10/22-23/21)

Of related interest:

2021 Victorians Institute Conference: Reflections/Refractions: Victorian(ist) Ways of Seeing

Source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/03/13/2021-victorians-institute-conference-reflectionsrefractions-victorianist-ways-of

deadline for submissions:
May 15, 2021

full name / name of organization:
Victorians Institute

contact email:
thevictoriansinstitute@gmail.com



The Victorians Institute is excited to welcome you to Charlotte, NC on
October 22-23rd 2021 for our rebooted annual conference:
 
“Reflections/Refractions: Victorian(ist) Ways of Seeing." This conference seeks essays that explore how Victorians saw their world, how they depicted what they saw, and the ways that modern scholars, in turn, see the Victorians. Papers or panels on poetry, prose, nonfiction, biography, digital humanities, or visual art are welcome, as are presentations on the pedagogy and ethics of teaching Victorian literature (either during or not during a global pandemic).

For a full CFP, see
http://victoriansinstitute.org/cfp-for-vi-2020-in-charlotte-nc/



Deadline for Submissions: May 15th, 2021. Please send a 300-word abstract and 1-page c.v. to conference organizers Bonnie Shishko and Casey Cothran at thevictoriansinstitute@gmail.com (Word or PDF format). Individual proposals should include contact information. Panel proposals should include contact information for all participants, a synopsis of the panel, and abstracts for all papers.

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr. Amy M. King, St. John's University

Covid-19 Update: The Omni Hotel and the Victorians Institute are working hard to follow Covid-19 precautions as outlined by the CDC and the NC State Governor. While we are confident we can provide a safe in-person conference experience, should you have a personal circumstance that requires you to participate virtually, opportunities will be available. Please feel free to communicate directly with the conference organizers if you have a concern.



Last updated March 16, 2021

CFP Global Medievalism Conference (4/11/21; Brazil virtual 4/28-30/21)


From the ISSM listserv:

Call for Papers

GLOBAL MEDIEVALISM: culture, appropriations and reinventions


From Q-Shaman's tattoos to Game of Thrones' resounding success, the medieval is undoubtedly the order of the day. With this popularity, the need to understand the origins of these many representations of the Middle Ages, their mistakes, interests, inspirations and objectives, is also reinforced. The field of study of medievalism is currently the fastest growing within medieval studies around the world. In Brazil, it could not be different: over the past 5 years, we have seen more and more academic and dissemination works focused on the reception of the medieval and an increasing interest in the subject.


Organized by GEHM (Grupo de História Medieval-Unimontes) and by the Estate University of Montes Claros, Brazil, this conference was conceived in dialogue with professors and researchers from different countries and institutions, aiming to put the Brazilian public in direct contact with the international academic debates in medievalism studies.


The conference is accepting papers, and entire sessions, submitted in Portuguese, English or Spanish. The selected works will, later, be considered for a digital peer-reviewed publication. Submissions are open until April 11, 2021.

This is a 100% online conference to reduce foreign interaction costs and per the precautionary measures recommended by WHO concerning the COVID-19 pandemic.


For more information, please see the website: https://en.globalmedievalism.com/.


Proposal:
  • Each participant may submit up to 2 papers.
  • Proposals for entire sessions can include a maximum of up to 6 people divided into two tables of 3.
  • Papers in Portuguese, English and Spanish will be accepted. The themes of the proposals must include medievalisms, neo-medievalisms or medieval reception. Papers that work with representations and memories of the medieval period and the history of historiography about the period are also welcome.
  • In addition to the abstract (maximum of 500 words), it is possible, but not mandatory, to send the full text upon registration. This can assist in the evaluation of the proposal.
  • A revised version of the full text may be sent from April 30 to September 30, 2021, to compose the e-book of the event's proceedings.
  • For proposals for a complete session, the abstract must (in up to 600 words) describe the theme as a whole, as well as clearly identify what each proponent will talk about.

Evaluation:
  • The evaluation, acceptance, or elimination of submission are the conference's Scientific Council's responsibility through a double-blind reviewing process.

General Observations:
  • The certificate of presentation will be issued only to presenters who were not absent during the entire panel in which they participated.
  • The result will be published on the website until April 25, 2021






Monday, March 15, 2021

CFP 97th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (3/15/21; Charlottesville 3/9-13/2022)

Medieval Academy Annual Meeting 2022
97th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America


Source: https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/2022AnnualMeeting

University of Virginia, Charlottesville
9-13 March, 2022



Call for Papers


The 97th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The meeting is jointly hosted by the Medieval Academy of America and the Program in Medieval Studies at the University of Virginia, with the generous support and collaboration of colleagues from Virginia Tech, the College of William & Mary, and Washington and Lee University. The conference program will feature a diverse range of sessions highlighting innovative scholarship across the many disciplines contributing to medieval studies.

The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies and medievalism studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal; others may submit proposals as well but must become members in order to present papers at the meeting. Special consideration will be given to individuals whose field would not normally involve membership in the Medieval Academy. We are particularly interested in receiving submissions from those working outside of traditional academic positions, including independent scholars, emeritus or adjunct faculty, university administrators, those working in academic-adjacent institutions (libraries, archives, museums, scholarly societies, or cultural research centers), editors and publishers, and other fellow medievalists.

Plenary addresses will be delivered by Roland Betancourt, Professor of Art History, University of California, Irvine; Seeta Chaganti, Professor of English, University of California, Davis; and Thomas E. A. Dale, Professor of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and incoming president of the Academy.

Location: Charlottesville is a diverse and historic city in the eastern foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The area is home to a UNESCO World Heritage site including the campus of the University of Virginia as well as Monticello. The local airport, the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport, has routine service to several major airline hubs, and is complemented by nearby service to Richmond International (RIC) and Dulles International (IAD) airports. For those along the eastern corridor, Amtrak supplies an alternative (CVS). Registration, book exhibits, and other events will take place on the campus of the University of Virginia within easy walking distance of conference hotels and numerous downtown restaurants. More specific information on venues, accommodations, and MAA student bursaries and travel grants will be made available next fall.

Theme(s): The Program Committee is committed to fostering conversation around the fifth-year anniversary of the Unite the Right rally in August 2017. Several panels and a plenary session will explore the effects and implications of this moment and its aftermath, including but not limited to the history and theory of race and racism, the appropriation and study of the past, and the future of medieval studies inside and outside the academy. The Program Committee offers the additional themes listed below, and hopes to put in conversation papers that approach each theme from diverse chronological, geographical, methodological, and disciplinary perspectives. We also welcome innovative sessions that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries or that use various disciplinary approaches to examine an individual topic. The themes listed here have been proposed by the Program Committee; the list is not meant to be exhaustive or exclusive.

Proposals: Individuals may propose to offer a paper addressing one of the themes below, a full panel of papers and speakers for a listed theme, a full panel of papers and speakers for a session they wish to create, or a single paper not designated for a specific theme. Sessions usually consist of three 25-minute papers, and proposals should be geared to that length, although the committee is interested in other formats as well (roundtables, poster sessions, digital experiences, etc.). The Program Committee may choose a different format for some sessions after the proposals have been reviewed.

Submissions:
The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2021. All proposals, for individual papers, sessions, or special formats, should include the following information:

- Proposer's name (in format for the program)
- Statement of Medieval Academy membership (or statement that the individual’s specialty would not normally involve membership in the Academy)
- professional status/affiliation, if relevant (in format for the program)
- email address
- postal address
- telephone number(s)
- paper title
- theme for which the paper should be considered (or “general session”)
- abstract (maximum 200 words)
- audio-visual equipment requirements
-accessibility requirements

If a full panel is being proposed, the above information will be required for each paper, as well as for the session as a whole. For alternative format session proposal submissions, also a description of the alternative format (maximum 200 words).

Proposals must be submitted as a single PDF identified by the name of the submitter:
LASTNAME.FIRSTNAME.MAA2022 (example: GOWER.JOHN.MAA2022)
Please e-mail all submissions to maa2022@collab.its.virginia.edu

Selection Procedure
Paper and panel proposals will be reviewed for their quality, the significance of their topics, and their relevance to the conference themes. The Program Committee will evaluate proposals during the summer of 2021 and the Committee will inform all of acceptance or rejection by 1 September 2021.

Professional Behavior
All participants in the Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting are expected to read and adhere to our Professional Behavior Policy.

ADA Accommodations
The 2022 meeting is committed to ensuring equal access to all conference events and activities, in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), as amended, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), as well as other applicable state and local laws and University policy. The program committee has designated an Accessibility Chair (see below) who will serve as point of contact prior to the meeting for any participants requiring accommodations.

Themes and threads
  • Race and its intersections
  • Political medievalism
  • Tyranny and resistance
  • Rethinking the global medieval
  • Boundaries and limits
  • Vulnerability and the ethics of care
  • Medieval disability/disabilities
  • Gender and identities
  • Queering the medieval
  • Apocalypse and paradise
  • Inter-religious coexistence and conflict
  • Diplomacy and ambassadorial practices
  • Comparative foodways and cuisines
  • Trade and cultural exchange
  • Environment and ecology
  • Pedagogies: material, digital, embodied
  • Medieval materialisms
  • Restoration, preservation, looting
  • Passions and emotions
  • Transhistorical poetics
  • Comparative text technologies
  • Plague and pandemic
  • Revelation and reason in medieval science

Program Committee for the 2022 Meeting (UVA faculty unless otherwise indicated):
Conference co-chairs:
Deborah McGrady, French, Director of Program in Medieval Studies
Bruce Holsinger, English, conference accessibility chair
Eric Ramírez-Weaver, Art

Committee members:
Ahmed H. al-Rahim, Religious Studies
Peter Baker, English
Courtney Barajas, English, Whitworth University, Medievalists of Color representative
Charlene Eska, English, Virginia Tech
Elizabeth Fowler, English
Matthew Gabriele, Religion and Culture, Virginia Tech
Elizabeth Harper, MAA Graduate Student Liaison
Nizar Hermes, Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Wan-Chuan Kao, English, Washington and Lee University
Jordan Love, Curator, Fralin Museum
Amy Ogden, French
Deborah Parker, Italian
Amanda Phillips, Art
Peter Potter, Virginia Tech Publishing
Lisa Reilly, Art and Architecture
Karl Shuve, Religious Studies
Julia Verkholantsev, Univ. of Pennsylvania, MAA representative
Dorothy Wong, Art and East Asia Center


CFP Global Medievalisms collection (5/1//2021)

Looks like I missed another call of relevance here.


CFP: Global Medievalisms

Source: https://medievalism.net/?p=341

Posted on February 19, 2021 by postmedievalist


Medievalism is a multivalent phenomenon that speaks differently in and across the disparate communities that practice it; as with other fields of study, extending our perspective to view medievalism in a global context transforms the object of study itself. This edited collection will consider global medievalisms, exploring how various modern interpretations, re-enactments, and reifications of the medieval serve as reactions to the neoliberal globalization of the present. Whether or not it is accurate to speak of a “global middle ages,” since the rhetoric of the medieval is a fundamentally Western construct, global medievalism positions itself in a world before gunpowder, the dominance of urban centers, and the organization of social ties around economic relations. It thus accords both with disturbing nativist appropriations of the Middle Ages and with attempts to recover personal relations whose meaning is not defined in monetary terms. Medievalisms’ global reach testifies to the extent that the contemporary world follows a widespread paradigm for social relations and cultural production (on the junction-point of which medievalism is situated), while the profound differences in what constitutes medievalism in different localities reveals fresh aspects of the post-colonial response to Western hegemony.

We seek submission of essay proposals in two main categories:
  • Work that explores particular medievalisms in a global framework; e.g., the construction of the global in Game of Thrones, global tropes in medievalist reenactments, white supremacist appropriations of medieval pasts, world-building in role-playing games (table-top or digital), etc.
  • Work that explores conversations between global and local medievalisms, particularly outside of Western Europe and the United States; e.g., Disney and fantasy medievalisms (including King Arthur manga, samurai narratives, paladins, gauchos, cowboys, etc.), post-colonial responses to medievalist legacies, medievalist reclamations of non-European pasts, etc.

Among the issues the collection may interrogate are:
  • Is there a global medieval? Even if not, is there still a global medievalism?
  • What might constitute the tropes of global medievalism? Armor and swords (pre-gunpowder, but not “ancient”)? Fealty and anti-capitalism?
  • How can medievalism act as a response to a post-colonial situations?
  • How have medievalisms been harnessed for political ends?
  • How do reified medievalisms travel across borders and cultures?
  • How do medievalist reconstructions connect with heritage issues?
  • What is the global map of medievalisms?
  • How have medievalisms been used to reaffirm localism and resist globalization?
  • How have medievalisms been harnessed to the purposes of global media?
  • Is our current notion of a global medieval world a form of global medievalism? How can this apply both to Medieval Studies as a discipline and to political decentering?

Please send your proposal, including a title and 250-word abstract, by May 1st, 2021 to Angela Weisl (angela.weisl@shu.edu) and Robert Squillace (robert.squillace@nyu.edu); include your title and affiliation in your cover email.

Notice 41st Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum (4/16-17/21)

Also worth attending:

41st Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Scent and Fragrance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Friday and Saturday April 16-17, 2021

Register Online

Preliminary Schedule

Official site at https://www.keene.edu/campus/events/medieval/.



We're sponsoring a session on comics Saturday afternoon.

Notice MAA 2021 Conference (4/15-18/21)

 Just came across this as well.

The program and registration information have been posted for the following event:


96th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America

Indiana University Bloomington

15-18 April 2021

Further details at the conference website. Most of the events are said to be remote. 

I see a number of papers/sessions on medievalism and some devoted to pedagogy and professionalism. 
 

CFP CEMERS Conference 2021: Medieval Cultural Heritage Around the Globe (5/15/21; Binghamton/remote 10/22-23/21)

Just discovered this over the weekend. It is a very interesting theme for a conference.

Originally posted at
https://www.binghamton.edu/cemers/conference/index.html.


2021 CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS:
Medieval Cultural Heritage Around the Globe:
Monuments, Literature, and the Arts, Then and Now


BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY (IN PERSON AND ONLINE) – OCTOBER 22–23, 2021

The field of cultural heritage has experienced a great increase in scholarly and media attention in recent years. Events such as the removal of Confederate monuments and memorials have made evident how controversial cultural heritage can be, and the central role it plays in defining communal identities at all levels, from small villages to multi-state entities, such as colonial empires or, more recently, the United States and the European Union. This interdisciplinary conference, hosted by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton University will explore cultural heritage, broadly conceived, as it relates to the global Middle Ages (ca. 500 – ca. 1500). Topics will range from medieval approaches to the cultural heritage inherited or claimed by medieval societies, to the transformation of medieval heritage through the centuries, to the yearning for medieval times that has inspired, in the modern era, the architecture of university campuses, the rebuilding of Japanese castles to assert communal identity, and the revival of traditional crafts and performing arts, among others.

This conference aims to bring together scholars from a range of backgrounds whose work sheds important new light on our relationship with the medieval past. We hope to foster conversations across traditional disciplinary and geographic boundaries about the definitions, cultural significance, and use of cultural heritage in disparate parts of the medieval and modern worlds. How does examining conceptions and problems related to cultural heritage inform our understanding of medieval cultures? How does modern engagement with the medieval past shape debates about power, identity and belonging? What determines how heritage is defined and what merits preservation? What is the state of medieval heritage today?

We invite papers from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives on any topic related to cultural heritage and the Middle Ages, including:
  • Medieval heritage and identity in the early modern and modern worlds
  • Trafficking in and questions surrounding the restitution of cultural artifacts
  • Heritage across borders and global diasporas
  • Cultural heritage sites connected to legends, literature, and theater
  • Pilgrimage and tourism
  • Issues of representation and exclusion
  • UNESCO and the handling of medieval cultural heritage
  • Literature and film tourism at heritage sites
  • Violence, atrocity, and difficult heritage
  • Heritage-making and cultural appropriation
  • Heritage and communities
  • Cultural heritage in the digital world

Click here to view event poster

We are planning for an on-site hybrid conference in Binghamton incorporating both face-to-face meetings and virtual options. We will be monitoring the situation around COVID-19 throughout the conference planning process. More information will be shared in the summer.
Deadline: May 15, 2021

Abstracts for individual papers and sessions are invited. We encourage scholars working in different disciplines to organize panels together. Papers should be 20 minutes in length.
Send abstracts and CVs to cemers@binghamton.edu. Please indicate whether you are interested in coming to Binghamton or plan to participate remotely.

Contact Roberta Strippoli for more information.

Friday, March 12, 2021

Our NeMLA 2021 Sessions

Details on our sponsored sessions this weekend. Apologies for the delay in posting. 


The 52nd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association

Virtual event, 11-14 March 2021

Full details at http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/VirtualConvention-page.html.
 

Saturday, Mar 13 (Track 22): 09:00-10:15           

22.20 Can We Be More Than the Middle Ages? Medievalism Studies and Medieval Studies (Roundtable)

Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Independent Scholar

Chair: Carl Sell, Lock Haven University

Pedagogy & Professional & Cultural Studies and Media Studies

"The Perverted Anglo-Saxon: White Nationalism in the Medieval Classroom"

Maggie Hawkins, New York University

"Medievalisms in the Medieval Literature Classroom, Or Attempts to Do Everything in One Semester"

Kara McShane, Ursinus College

"The Historical Novel. A Genre, Trespassing a Science-Literature Border?"

Paul Csillag, Universität Innsbruck

 

Saturday, Mar 13 (Track 23): 10:30-12:00           

23.42 Uncharted Medievalisms: Revealing the Medieval in Popular Fiction and Games

Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Independent Scholar

Cultural Studies and Media Studies & Comparative Literature

"Queer Roleplaying Impulses: Building Neomedieval Narratives in Dungeons & Dragons"

Lars Johnson, Cornell University

"Wizard Male Privilege: A Literary History of Misogyny and Gendered Magic"

Richard Fahey, University of Notre Dame

"These Are Fighting Words: Challenging and Perpetuating the Status Quo"

Rachael Warmington, Seton Hall University

"Arthurian Figures in the 41st Millennium: The Emperor and Roboute Guilliman in Warhammer 40,000"

Carl Sell, Lock Haven University


CFP 36th International Conference on Medievalism (6/30/21; virtual 11/4-6/21)

Just came across this on Richard Utz's blog. Sorry, it's not in text. 

(Update 4/5/21, an official site has now been set up for the conference. Check it out at https://medievalism.net/conference/.)