Reshaping the
Middle Ages in, and through, Asian Popular Culture
Sponsored by
the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval
in Popular Culture and the Mutual Images Research Association.
For Medievalism
Today: 36th Annual International Conference on Medievalism, organized by the
International Society for the Study of Medievalism and hosted by Delta College,
Michigan.
Online
Conference: 4-6 November 2021.
Proposals due
30 June 2021.
As medievalists
and medievalismists, we often focus our attention on the reception of the
Middle Ages in Europe and the Americas; however, medievalism is both an
international and a transnational phenomenon, and one that is especially
prevalent in Asian popular culture. Anime, collectible card games, light
novels, manga, video games, visual novels, and related media have had an
incredible impact on the world, but few medievalists have explored how this
material has adapted and/or appropriated material like the Arthurian tradition,
Beowulf, the life and writings of
Dante Alighieri, the hero stories of medieval Ireland, the life of Joan of Arc,
Norse mythology, tales of Robin Hood, narratives of Viking exploration, and
legends of Vlad the Impaler. Fewer still have explored the impact of the phenomenal
spread of these texts across the globe and their impact on creating perceptions
about the medieval world. It is our intent with this session to allow consumers
of these media to share their knowledge and passion with fellow enthusiasts of
the medieval. We also hope that a collection of essays will result from this
session.
Please send
paper proposals (along with your contact information and a brief academic
biography) and/or questions directly to session organizers at medievalinpopularculture@gmail.com.
Unless otherwise directed, we will submit the panel details to the conference.
More
information about the conference can be found at https://medievalism.net/conference/.
Further
information about the session sponsors may be found at https://medievalinpopularculture.blogspot.com/
and https://mutualimages.org/.
Hello! I have a question! In your examples you list a number of European stories and myths that have made their way into modern Asian culture, but I am wondering if you also welcome studies of Asian medieval folklore (for instance: Shinto or Buddhist beliefs, The Tale of Genji, etc.) as represented in modern Asian cultural depictions? Or are you just wanting to look at adaptations of European stories? Thanks!
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