CFP Worlds of Exploration Conference (4/17/2023; Minnesota 9/21-23/2023)

Cross-posted from H-Albion:

CFP: Society For the History of Discoveries

by Lydia Towns

source: https://networks.h-net.org/node/16749/discussions/12359930/cfp-society-history-discoveries

Worlds of Exploration

The James Ford Bell Library, with its extensive collection of rare books, maps, manuscripts, and archival collections, documenting the history and impact of trade and cultural exchange before the 19th century, offers an ideal venue to host the 2023 SHD conference. This year’s conference locale aligns with the global breadth of the Society’s mission by supporting research into the expeditions, biographies, history, cartography, as well as the technologies of travel, the impact of travel and cultural exchange, and other aspects of geographic discovery. With its expansive resources, the James Ford Bell, and other collections associated with the University of Minnesota’s libraries, offers members of the Society and presenters an ideal opportunity to conduct research prior to and after the conference. The rich and fascinating collections emboldens the inspiration for our conference.

The Society for the History of Discoveries invites papers, 20 minutes in length, on all points of view of this theme, Worlds of Exploration, including: “discovery,” encounter, exploration, conquest, resistance, settlement, economy, daily life, and all aspects of socio-cultural and political encounter, as well as on the teaching of the history of exploration, broadly defined.

SHD welcomes submissions from graduate students, emerging and independent scholars, as well as established scholars and members of the Society. Presenters are encouraged to use images (maps, paintings, photographs, etc.). For the benefit of the audience, all visuals have to be presented as PowerPoint-compatible projection. The audience at SHD meetings is diverse and includes academics and members of various professions

Where: Minneapolis-St-Paul, Minnesota

When: 21 September – 23 September, 2023 (With an optional excursion on Sunday, 24)

Venue: James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota

Please provide a proposal that includes the following components:

• the title of the presentation
• the author’s name and address, including email address and affiliation
• an abstract summarizing the paper’s scope and conclusions (maximum of 500 words)
• a statement about the originality of the contents of the paper: how much is new, unpublished material, based on research in primary sources, etc.
• a statement indicating whether PowerPoint or other digital media will be used and whether internet access is necessary for the presentation
• a brief biographic sketch of the author(s)

Paper proposals are due 17 April 2023, and must be submitted via the SHD website – an online submissions portal. Inquiries via Dr. Lydia Towns, SHD secretary: lydia.towns@sfasu.edu

Kalamazoo 2023 Updates

The organizers of the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies have recently released the schedule for the hybrid event set to take place at Kalamazoo and online from Thursday, May 11, through Saturday, May 13, 2023. The full schedule can be accessed from the conference home page at this link. 

Registration will be open in March at the following rates:

$265 (annual income $90,000 and above)

$210 (annual income $75,000-$89,999)

$175 (annual income $60,000-$74,999)

$150 (annual income $45,000-$59,999)

$95 (students and annual income below $45,000)

$10 (Kalamazoo residents)

CFP Edited Volume: The Middle Ages and Its Cultural Afterlives in the American South (proposals 6/1/2023)

Edited Volume: The Middle Ages and Its Cultural Afterlives in the American South

deadline for submissions:
June 1, 2023

full name / name of organization:
Alexandra Cook

contact email:
acook@ua.edu


source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/01/30/edited-volume-the-middle-ages-and-its-cultural-afterlives-in-the-american-south

We invite contributions to an edited collection titled The Middle Ages and Its Cultural Afterlives in the American South.

The Middle Ages and Its Cultural Afterlives in the American South seeks to address, firstly, the role that ideas of the European middle ages have played among native and indigenous, white, black, and Americans from past and present immigrant communities, particularly in the U.S. South; and secondly, the ways in which the South’s relationship to the middle ages has not only played a key role in shaping America’s perception of this period but also shaped an often racially-charged academic study of the middle ages. It seeks to address these lines of inquiry in essays that interrogate architecture and monuments, texts, curricula, material culture, film, media, and videogames.

Consequently, this collection aims to bring together scholars who specialize in a variety of field and area specializations, including, Southern Studies, American Studies, African American Studies, Native and Indigenous Studies, Latinx Studies, Asian American Studies, and Medieval Studies in order to reconsider how scholarship within these disciplines may be reshaped when put into conversation with one another.

Please submit your abstract by June 1, 2023 to

Alex Cook acook@ua.edu

Donna Beth Ellard Donna.ellard@du.edu

Cassander Smith clsmith17@ua.edu

with the subject line “The Middle Ages and Its Cultural Afterlives.”



Last updated February 2, 2023

CFP Speculations: The Centennial Issue of Speculum (Spec Issue of Speculum) (proposals by 12/1/2023)

Call for Proposals – Speculations: The Centennial Issue of Speculum

Posted on February 8, 2023 by Chris

Source: https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-proposals-speculations-the-centennial-issue-of-speculum/

Speculations
The Centennial Issue of Speculum
January 2026

The centenary of a scholarly journal offers the opportunity to recognize, reflect on, and reimagine scholarly methods and objects, including canonicity and the discursive possibilities of scholarship; the boundaries, borders and spaces that define our disciplines; the genres and taxonomies that shape our work.

To mark the 100th anniversary of Speculum, we aim to commemorate the journal by raising questions about the methods and parameters of our study in a prospective rather than retrospective manner. What might the future of medieval studies look like? What might the place of this journal in that future be? The volume focuses on the future of the journal and the field it helps to define by inviting a wide breadth of scholarship that can collectively speculate about how we can take medieval studies into the future. But of course those living in the medieval world broadly considered speculated on their future as well. How was the future conceived in the past and what might those past reflections about the future, and about the condition of futurity generally, have to teach us as we consider recent shifts in our field and a shifting institutional context.

The format of the centennial volume will model the kind of contributions we seek: instead of 4-5 long form articles, we plan to publish 50 short essays (of approximately 3000 words each) in an attempt to represent a broader range of voices, perspectives, methodologies, and areas of study. We welcome traditional essays as well as innovative forms of research and reflection (pedagogical speculations, creative or dialogic writing, speculative history, etc.).

We invite contributions that speculate on the past and future of scholarly work in medieval studies. We particularly welcome essays that address gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and that use comparative and interdisciplinary methods and that address at least one of the following questions:

• What kinds of methods and theoretical models shape our work and will orient us in the future?
• How might we call on more inclusive and expansive understandings of the Middle Ages in light of the global turn and critical reappraisals of periodization.
• What histories do we examine, what histories do we obscure, and what criteria will most productively guide our examination of histories in the future?
• How have scholarly understandings of medieval historicity and temporality shaped the parameters of our inquiry, and how might we critically engage these accounts?

Proposals of 300 words should be sent to speculations@themedievalacademy.org by December 1, 2023.

Speculations editorial collective

Mohamad Ballan
Peggy McCracken
Cecily Hilsdale
Katherine Jansen
Sierra Lomuto
Cord J. Whitaker

CFP Adapting Middle English Literature (3/17/2023; MLA 2024 Philadelphia 1/4-7/2024)

Adapting Middle English Literature

deadline for submissions:
March 17, 2023

full name / name of organization:
MLA Middle English Forum

contact email:
snakley@sjny.edu


source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/02/08/adapting-middle-english-literature


Please send 250-word abstracts for roundtable presentations to be delivered at the 2024 MLA National Convention in Philadephia, PA (Jan 4-7, 2024) to Susie Nakley, snakley@sjny.edu and Ruen-chuan Ma, RMa@uvu.edu by March 17, 2023.





This session invites us to consider how contemporary adaptations of Middle English literature contribute to the projects of teaching medieval literature and bringing it into contemporary public consumption. How do writers, playwrights, and directors produce new afterlives for Middle English literature as part of their projects, whether by reimagining medieval styles and genres in contemporary contexts, re-centering and valorizing the experiences of marginalized groups, or generating cultural commentary?



Recent adaptations produced in response to Middle English and other medieval literatures showcase a rich range of creative possibilities: Carol Ann Duffy’s Everyman, David Herd’s Refugee Tales, Robert Gluck's Margery Kempe, Lauren Groff’s Matrix, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Everybody, Derek Jarman's The Garden, David Lowery's Green Knight, Alex Myers's Story of Silence, Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play, Zadie Smith’s Wife of Willesden, etc. These adaptations can help us rethink the interplay of critical methodologies and creative commentary in studying and teaching the past, especially since adaptations allow a wider range of audiences to identify with recurring themes in Middle English and other medieval literature and culture. What important generic, political or other differences do we see among the various adaptations, inspirations, translations and other contemporary medievalisms? What is at stake in taking or leaving old art as we make new meaning in the realm of arts and humanities now?





Last updated February 10, 2023

CFP MLA 2024: Transtemporal Methodologies in the Study of Late Medieval English Literature (3/17/2023; MLA 2021)

MLA 2024: Transtemporal Methodologies in the Study of Late Medieval English Literature

deadline for submissions:
March 17, 2023

full name / name of organization:
MLA Middle English Forum

contact email:
meyerlee@aya.yale.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/02/04/mla-2024-transtemporal-methodologies-in-the-study-of-late-medieval-english-literature

Several recent, celebrated studies of late medieval English literature present their anchoring motivations as including one or more twenty-first century activist concerns – for example, scholarship that considers Chaucer and rape culture, examines the medieval roots or affinities of contemporary white supremacy, thinks ecocritically about the medieval beyond-human, juxtaposes medieval political events with modern ones, etc. Methodologically, such studies have involved explicit interleaving of analysis of late medieval English literary texts with considerations of texts, events, or discourses of the present. This session is interested in how such methods might be theorized, systematized, or otherwise conceptually grounded – how we might explain what we are doing when we pursue such projects. Topics to consider include the relation between these methods of interleaving or juxtaposition and various historicisms of the 80s and 90s, the problem of historical alterity, the question of the value that late medieval English literature holds for present-day activism, the bearing of diachronic aesthetic theories such as Bakhtin’s or Benjamin’s, etc.



Please send paper proposals to Bobby Meyer-Lee, meyerlee@aya.yale.edu, and Claire Waters, cmwaters@ucdavis.edu, by 17 March 2023.



Last updated February 10, 2023

CFP "Forging the Medieval" in Institutions: Call for Special Issue Contributions (Spec Issue postmedieval) (2/28/2023 proposals)

"Forging the Medieval" in Institutions: Call for Special Issue Contributions

deadline for submissions:
February 28, 2023

full name / name of organization:
postmedieval / guest editors Rebecca Menmuir and Hannah Armstrong

contact email:
r.menmuir@qmul.ac.uk

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/02/02/forging-the-medieval-in-institutions-call-for-special-issue-contributions.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: “FORGING THE MEDIEVAL” IN INSTITUTIONS

Proposals for short essays (c. 3500-8000 words) are warmly welcomed, on the topic of “forging the medieval” in institutions. In galleries, museums, schools, universities, libraries, archives, or other institutions, how is the medieval past forged? How is it created and curated, presented and (mis)represented, through the institution’s objects and the concept of the institution itself?



About the contribution and cluster:

This contribution will feature in a forthcoming issue of postmedieval, which has been accepted for publication. The issue is an essay cluster on the topic of “Medieval Forgeries / Forging the Medieval”. The cluster as a whole brings together medieval forgeries (i.e. those created during the medieval period) and forgeries of the medieval (i.e. works produced after the Middle Ages which seek to ‘forge’ the medieval in some way). All other contributions have been confirmed, and range from forged medieval documents to an examination of how Arthurian myth-making takes place at archaeological sites. Final contributions will be due in May 2023.



Proposals might include, but are not limited to:

• The various meanings of the word “forge” in the context of institutions;
• Particular objects in institutions which are inauthentic, or which contribute to the forging of the medieval past in some way;
• The role of the institution in forging the medieval past;
• Collections in institutions related to the medieval: their history and role in forging the medieval;
• Current debates about fakes and issues of authenticity and truth, with some focus on the medieval period;
• Pedagogy and forging the medieval;
• Institutions and access to the medieval.

About the journal:

postmedieval welcomes experimental scholarship (for instance, dialogues or experiments in scholarly form) as well as ‘traditional’ scholarly articles. It also aims to ‘[reach] across disciplines, language traditions, locales, modes of inquiry, and levels of access’ (http://www.palgrave.com/gp/journal/41280). As such, the essay cluster is broad in its geographical and chronological scope, with representatives from across academic disciplines. Anyone with an interest in the topic is welcome to propose a contribution, regardless of background.



Submission details:

Please send a short (c. 200 word) abstract of your proposed essay, and a brief introduction of yourself, to the guest editors: Rebecca Menmuir (r.menmuir@qmul.ac.uk) and Hannah Armstrong (hannah.armstrong@york.ac.uk). The deadline for proposals is February 28, 2023.




Last updated February 10, 2023

CFP Wooden O Symposium 2024 (3/15/2023; Utah/Online 8/7-9/2023)

I presented at this event last summer. It's nice to see their commitment to a hybrid conference.

Wooden O Symposium

deadline for submissions:
March 15, 2023

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/2023/01/20/wooden-o-symposium

August 7-9, 2023

Southern Utah University - Utah Shakespeare Festival

The 2023 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 and History, Culture, and Society
• Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
• Shakespeare and Rhetoric
• Shakespeare in Performance
• Shakespeare and the Arts

We encourage papers and presentations that speak to the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s 2023 summer season: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, and Romeo and Juliet.

This year’s meeting will be face-to-face with 1-2 panels reserved for virtual participants. Submit your proposals utilizing the linked form: Wooden O Symposium Submission Form.

The deadline for proposals is March 15, 2023. Session chairs and individual authors will be informed of acceptance no later than May 1. Please include a 250-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.

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




Last updated January 26, 2023

CFP Modern Meets Medieval: Scholars and the Public, Then and Now (4/15/2023; Midwest MLA)

Modern Meets Medieval: Scholars and the Public, Then and Now

deadline for submissions:
April 15, 2023

full name / name of organization:
Midwest Modern Language Association

contact email:
katheen.burt@mga.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/01/23/modern-meets-medieval-scholars-and-the-public-then-and-now 

MMLA 2023 Permanent Session: Old and Middle English Language and Literature

“Modern Meets Medieval: Scholars and the Public, Then and Now"

The General Call opens with an analogy between now-times and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, invoking an approach that is both medieval and modern by looking at how the arts, the academy, and general society should, can, and do interact. In that spirit, the general question for this panel is “what is the value of studying medieval history, culture, art, and/or literature in today’s world?”

Possibilities include but are not limited to considering political and social issues/questions in medieval texts and how they inform our knowledge of the past, present, and future; medievalisms and how to discuss them in the public sphere (esp. concerning appropriation by racist/misogynist/etc groups); how to deal with original texts and contexts now considered socially or otherwise unacceptable; and academic and/or governing structures medieval and modern, what they are and how they might relate or be related.

Please send abstracts of approximately 350 words, along with a cv or brief biographical statement, to Dr. Kathleen Burt at katheen.burt@mga.edu by no later than April 15, 2023.




Last updated January 26, 2023