Mass Mediævalisms at NeMLA 2023

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Northeast Modern Language Association 54th Annual Convention

Niagara Falls Convention Center (Niagara Falls, NY)

23-26 March 2023

(full schedule at this link)

Friday, 3/24: 

Track 7 (10:00-11:30 AM): 7.15 King Arthur's Coconuts: Towards an Understanding of Animals and the Medieval Mind (Olmstead / NCC) - Karen Casebier (University of Tennessee-Chattanooga) presents 1st on "Men and Monsters in the Old French Werewolf Lays and Merlin, the Graphic Novel".


Track 9 (1:15-2:45 PM): 9.15 Tolkien’s Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth (Part 1) (Olmstead / NCC), organized by Nick Katsiadas (Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania) and Carl Sell (University of Pittsburgh) - Carl presents 4th on "The Blade of the King: Tolkien, Arthur, and the Remnants of Kingship".

Track 10 (3-4:30 PM): 10.15 Tolkien’s Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth (Part 2) (Olmstead / NCC), organized by Nick Katsiadas and Carl Sell - Nick presents 4th on "Romantic Nostalgia in Tolkien's Relics and Ruins: Longing for Aman, Gondolin, and Númenor".

Sunday, 3/26: 

Track 21 (10:30 AM -12:15 PM): 21.18 Discrimination in Comic Books (Part 2) (Whitney / NCC) - Rachael Warmington (Seton Hall University) presents 3rd on "Oppressive Isms in Comic and Graphic Novel Adaptations of Arthurian Legend".