Mass Mediævalisms: The Middle Ages of Popular Culture

Welcome to home page of the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, 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. Encompassing material produced from the close of the Middle Ages to today, these medievalisms can be categorized as survivals, revivals, or re-creations of the medieval in post-medieval eras.

Sunday, May 14, 2023

CFP Southeastern Medieval Association 2023 (6/15/2023; Winthrop U 10/12-14/2023)

Southeastern Medieval Association 2023

deadline for submissions:
June 15, 2023

full name / name of organization:
Southeastern Medieval Association

contact email:
sema2023@winthrop.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/04/20/southeastern-medieval-association-2023

SEMA 2023:

Construction and (Re)Construction

Winthrop University, October 12-14, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS: ABSTRACTS DUE JUNE 15, 2023

As we watch the new silhouette of Notre Dame rising from the burned ruins of its past, participate in vigorous debates about how the study of the Middle Ages will be pursued now and in the future, and plan to meet on a campus where medieval buildings have literally been rebuilt, we invite proposals for individual papers, whole sessions, or round tables on the conference theme of “construction and (re)construction.” Papers might consider the notions of

How identities and places have been constructed in various periods of medieval history, literature, politics, art, and culture;
The ways in which medieval systems of belief, value, and thought have been constructed, deconstructed, appropriated, and/or reconstructed;
The relationships between form and construction (whether they be verse, literary, political, musical, architectural, artistic, ideologic, etc.);
Ways in which modern society, countries, organizations, and/or individuals have re-made the medieval in their modern images;
The ongoing debates about how we conceptualize, pursue, and further the study of the Middle Ages in the 21st century.

Abstracts on any aspect of medieval studies are welcome, but we will give preference to submissions related to the conference theme.

The organizers are extremely proud that Rock Hill was home to one of the earliest of the “sit-in” lunch counter protests that sparked the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. The conference will be held only a few blocks where the Friendship Nine were arrested for their lunch counter sit-in in February 1960, and a short drive from the tribal lands of the Catawba Indian Nation. In respect of these important historical and cultural contexts, we particularly invite papers and panels that focus on the ways in which diverse and/or indigenous religious, social, physical, political, legal, and/or economic identities have been constructed and reconstructed in the Middle Ages and beyond.

Proposals for individual papers should be limited to 300 words.
Session proposals or roundtables should include an overview and abstracts for the three papers for a session, or 5-6 abstracts for a roundtable, as well as the contact information for all presenters.
When considering sending an abstract, applicants should be aware that SEMA 2023 will be a fully in-person conference with no options for remote presentation and attendance.
On your submission, please indicate any Audio/Visual needs!!!

Please submit proposals using the forms at https://semarockhill2023.com/ no later than June 15, 2023. If you have questions, please reach out to us at sema2023@winthrop.edu.

Last updated April 27, 2023