Monday, April 29, 2024

Opportunity: Medieval Afterlives at Newberry Library (5/15/2024; Chicago 9/20/2024)

From the Medieval Academy of America news feed:

Newberry Workshop: Medieval Afterlives


Posted on April 26, 2024


Led by Christopher Fletcher (Newberry Library)

Sep 20, 2024

9:30am–4:30pm

At the Newberry

This workshop explores the long reach of the Middle Ages into the present through the editions, versions, and reimaginings of medieval culture produced through the early modern period and into the modern day. Through discussions, group work, and hands-on activities with Newberry collection items, participants will better understand what post-medieval manifestations of texts, artworks, and other objects can teach us about the medieval past. In this way, we will also consider how the medieval can inform our present and guide our future.

This workshop is free and open to all, but space is limited. Priority will be given to qualified applicants from CRS Consortium institutions. Consortium members may also be eligible to receive a CRS Consortium Grant to cover the costs of attending the workshop.

The application deadline is Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 11:59:59 pm Central Time.

Click here for more info and to apply.


DESCRIPTION

This workshop explores the long reach of the Middle Ages into the present through the editions, versions, and reimaginings of medieval culture produced through the early modern period and into the modern day. Through discussions, group work, and hands-on activities with Newberry collection items, participants will better understand what post-medieval manifestations of texts, artworks, and other objects can teach us about the medieval past. In this way, we will also consider how the medieval can inform our present and guide our future.

This workshop forms part of a series of programming exploring the future of medieval studies to mark the Centennial of the Medieval Academy of America in 2025, which is co-organized by Shirin Fozi (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Lynley Herbert (Walters Art Museum), and Christopher Fletcher (Newberry Library).

Update CFP Books and Transgressions: New England Medieval Consortium 2024 Conference (6/15/2024; Boston 11/16/2024)

My thanks to Eric Weiskott for sharing this update:

New England Medieval Consortium 2024: “Books and Transgressions”


16 November 2024

Boston College

Chestnut Hill, MA

local organizing committee: Tina Montenegro and Eric Weiskott

This conference will provide an opportunity for medievalists working across a range of disciplines and geographic areas to join in conversation about premodern cultures of the book, boundary crossing, and the law and other normative cultural expressions. Given this year’s conference location at a Jesuit, Catholic university, and our keynote speakers, we particularly (but not exclusively) invite submissions focused on regions other than England, including the Middle East; language traditions other than English; and religious cultures.

We interpret “transgressions” broadly, including the notions of access, trespass, and desire. Accordingly, we welcome papers from medievalists in any discipline, concerned with any region or polity of Europe, Asia, or Africa. Papers might consider any of the following subtopics, or others:

● books whose form, content, or provenance is transgressive;

● textual cultures: books, authors, texts, audience expectations;

● the codification of law and law-books;

● transgression and sin in medieval philosophy and theology;

● etiquette, diplomacy, or cultural norms, or remediations or contestations of these in written texts;

● stylistic norms (e.g., poetic and rhetorical precepts) and their transgressions in writing or the visual arts;

● modern theoretical or methodological approaches to medieval texts;

● vernacularity in literature, religion, or the visual arts as a mediation of cultural transgression; ● the transgressive potential of medieval studies in the present day;

● heterodoxy, heresy, or the function of the written word in regulating the boundaries of orthodoxy.


We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers. Please send abstracts of 300 words to medieval2024@gmail.com by 15 June 2024.

Our keynote speakers are Dr. Ariane Bottex-Ferragne and Dr. Ahmed El Shamsy. 

Professor Bottex-Ferragne is Assistant Professor of French at New York University. Her presentation is provisionally entitled “Rules of Transgression in Medieval Poetry: Lessons from a Forgotten Bestseller.” 



Professor El Shamsy is Professor of Islamic Thought at the University of Chicago. His presentation is provisionally entitled “Authors and their Audiences in Medieval Arabic Book Culture.”



The 2024 conference marks the quinquagenary (fiftieth anniversary) of the founding of the NEMC. As the conference returns to Boston College for the first time since 1981, we hope to make it an especially festive occasion. With our theme of “Books and Transgressions” and with our two invited keynotes, we also propose to expand, geographically, disciplinarily, linguistically, and conceptually, what “the Middle Ages” has signified to our colleagues and students.

Boston College is located in Chestnut Hill, MA, and is easily accessible by car, plane, or bus. To learn more about the campus and its environs, see https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/about/maps-and-directions/directions.html.

Thursday, April 25, 2024

How Interdisciplinary Can We Be? - Kalamazoo 2024 Sponsored Session


Please join us at Kalamazoo online this May for

How Interdisciplinary Can We Be? (Re)Conceiving the Scope of Medieval Studies Today (A Roundtable) (Virtual)

59th International Congress on Medieval Studies (you must register to attend)
Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI)
Virtual Session
Session 46: Thursday, 9 May 2024, from 10:00-11:30 AM EDT



Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture


Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College


(Per request of one or more participants, this session will not be recorded.)


Presider: June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University
 

Panelists:

(Re)Writing Trauma: The (Good) Wife of Bath as Therapy

Lindsay Pereira, Concordia University


Lindsay Pereira (she/her) is a neurodivergent MA student in her final year of English Literature at Concordia University, in Montreal, Quebec (Canada), with a BA Specialization in English Literature and a background in Health Sciences. At the university level, she is a T.A. Instructor and Evaluator for Concordia’s English Department, working in conjunction with the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) to facilitate the inclusion of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in pedagogy creation at the graduate level. At the pre-college level, Lindsay provides UDL-based literature-centered workshops for the Lester B. Pearson School Board of Montreal in inclusive, adaptive learning environments and makerspaces. Her research interests include medieval Arthurian literature, learning and teaching through gaming, and inclusive pedagogy, with an aim to destigmatize neurodiversity and disability in education through the lens of English writing. Lindsay has presented her work on medieval studies and experiential pedagogy at conferences, including the 2024 Dies Medievales Conference, 2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies, and 2023 SAGE Graduate Student Colloquium, and looks forward to presenting at the upcoming 29th International Medieval Congress at Leeds University in July.



Toward a new Interdisciplinary approach in Arabic Medieval Literature

Amina Boukail,University of Jijel



Amina Boukail is an Associate Professor of comparative literature and Arabic Medieval literature at the University of Jijel, Algeria. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Annaba (Algeria) in 2016. Her dissertation title was “Arabic’s elements in Hebrew andalusian literature.” Her research interests include Arabic medieval literature, Judeo-Arabic, Iberian studies, Algerian literature, minorities in Arabic world. Her publications include: Arabic Maqamat in Universal literatures 2022 in Arabic, and The representation of the Other in Hebrew Andalusian literature in Arabic, Damascus 2023.







Thursday, April 18, 2024

CFP EDIA in the Middle Ages and Medieval Studies (Spec Issue of Florilegium) (5/15/2024)

A Special Issue of Florilegium, Dedicated to EDIA in the Middle Ages and Medieval Studies


Florilegium is an international, peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the study of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (c. 500-1500) broadly defined from a geographic and cultural perspective.

The journal is currently seeking proposals for a special issue devoted to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Middle Ages and in Medieval Studies, to be guest edited by Donna Trembinski and Michael Kightley. The issue is open to non-traditional forms and genres of scholarly publication.
The issue will be published in print and open access online.
The digital format will adhere to principles of universal design.

Send any enquiries to edia.florilegium@gmail.com.

The work of this edition will recognize that:
  • The discipline of Medieval Studies has a long history of exclusion of scholars of colour (particularly Black and Indigenous scholars), women scholars, LGBTQ2+ scholars, scholars with disabilities, and others.
  • The discipline has created a culture that is resistant, even hostile, to research on EDIA issues in the Middle Ages.
  • The harms from this history and this culture are ongoing today.

We define EDIA broadly, including but not limited to diversities of ability, accessibility, age, cultural tradition, gender, geography or region, race and ethnicity, religion, sexuality, and socioeconomic background. We are interested in proposals including but not limited to:
  • The Global Middle Ages;
  • Medieval Studies scholarship and community, past and present;
  • Teaching the Middle Ages;
  • Medievalism.

Moreover, we are particularly interested in proposals from underrepresented voices and on scholarship that works to redress the past and ongoing inequities in the discipline of Medieval Studies, whether in publication or in the classroom.

Submission instructions:

Please send a short abstract for your proposed paper as detailed below.

Contributors need not be members of the Canadian Society of Medievalists / Société canadienne des médiévistes.Email proposals to edia.floriliegium@gmail.com by May 15, 2024.
Proposals should be approximately 500 words in .doc or .pdf formats.

The review of proposals will be anonymized: please include your name and contact information in your submission email but not in the proposal filename or file itself

Proposals will be reviewed by May 30, 2024.
For accepted proposals, we hope to have completed articles by October 15, 2024.

Manuscripts, written in English or French, should be submitted electronically as Microsoft Word documents to the journal management system. Articles should normally not exceed 8,000-9,000 words, including footnotes, and should be formatted according to Chicago style. A brief abstract (one or two sentences) should be included with the submission.

CFP Medieval Academy at 100 (6/3/2024; Cambridge, MA 3/20-22/2023)

The Medieval Academy at 100


The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America


Harvard University, Cambridge MA
20-22 March 2025

Call for Papers


The Centennial Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosted by Harvard University, Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis University, Fitchburg State University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stonehill College, Tufts University, and Wellesley College. While the conference will take place in person, the plenary lectures and some other events also will be live streamed. Plenary addresses will be delivered by Kristina Richardson (Professor of History and Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Virginia), Sara Lipton (Incoming President of the Medieval Academy of America and Professor of History, Stony Brook University), and Wendy Belcher (Professor of Comparative Literature and African American Studies, Princeton University). The Annual Meeting will be followed by the Sunday annual meeting of the Medieval Academy's Committee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA).

Conference Location: The conference sessions, receptions, and pre-conference programs will take place at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Harvard campus is accessible by taxi and public transit from Boston's Logan Airport as well as from the South and Back Bay Amtrak stations. In addition to Harvard's own museums and libraries, visitors can take advantage of greater Boston's rich dining, entertainment, and cultural resources, including the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Boston Public Library, all easily reached by the MBTA subway from Harvard Square.

Proposals: The Program Committee invites proposals for papers and panels on any topic from scholars studying the medieval world in all its variety, in all disciplines, regions, and periods of Medieval Studies. Panels usually consist of three 25-minute papers, and proposals should be geared to that length. Panel organizers, however, may wish to propose different formats for their panels, and the Program Committee may choose a different format for some panels after the proposals have been reviewed. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper or panel proposal. Others may submit proposals as well, but they must become members in order to present at the meeting. Exceptions may be given to individuals whose specialty would not normally involve membership in the Medieval Academy. Please contact MAA Executive Director Lisa Fagin Davis (lfd@themedievalacademy.org) with any questions about this policy.

We are particularly interested in papers and panels that cross traditional disciplinary and geographical boundaries, or that use various approaches to examine a given topic. Our goal is to create a rich and diverse program that embodies the conference theme "The Medieval Academy at 100,” placing detailed, methodologically rigorous scholarship on the Middle Ages into conversation with broader reflections on the histories and possible futures of Medieval Studies itself. We encourage those proposing papers and panels to engage with one or more of the threads below.

Threads: The Program Committee has created six threads for the Centennial Meeting, meant to promote critical engagement between scholars working on all aspects of the medieval world, as well as on more modern appraisals and interpretations of that world. These are:

1. Who? Subjects of Medieval Studies. Possible topics might include: identities (race, ethnicity, gender, religion); animals and the non-human; abilities and disabilities; and communities in theory and practice.

2. What? Definitions, Reevaluations, and Transformations. Possible topics might include: canons and canonicity; orthodoxies and heterodoxies; laws and norms; science and scientia; disciplines of/and Medieval Studies; and making the "Middle Ages", 1925-2025.

3. When? Beginnings, Endings, and Possible Futures. Possible topics might include: remembering and forgetting; periodizations and paradigms; environmental, evolutionary, and geological perspectives on the medieval; and the future(s) of Medieval Studies, 2025-2125.

4. Where? Space, Place, and Geographies. Possible topics might include: people, things, and ideas on the move; frontiers and boundaries; opportunities and challenges of the “global turn”; landscapes, wilderness, and lived environments; and preservation and effacement of the medieval.

5. Why? Reverence, Recycling, and Rejection of the Middle Ages. Possible topics might include: medievalisms and popular cultures of the medieval; aesthetics of the medieval; politics and the medieval, then and now; and what the Middle Ages might do for us today.

6. How? Frameworks for Research, Teaching, and Public Engagement. Possible topics might include: translation in theory and practice; digital medieval studies; the science of the medieval past; the Middle Ages in the contemporary classroom; and curating and exhibiting the medieval.

Submissions: Individuals may either propose individual papers or a full panel of papers and speakers, using the links provided below. Paper proposals should include the individual's name, professional affiliation (including independent scholar), contact information, paper title, and a brief (c. 150-word) abstract. Session proposals should include the name and contact information for the session organizer, the session title, a c. 500-word abstract, and information for each of the session participants (including proposed chairs and respondents). Those submitting paper and session proposals also will be asked to indicate the thread(s) with which their contributions might best be associated. All submissions are due by Monday, 3 June 2024. If you have any questions, please direct them to the Program Committee chairs at MAA2025@themedievalacademy.org.

Individual paper proposals

Panel proposals



Selection Process: The Program Committee will assess paper and panel proposals via blind review during the summer of 2024, evaluating their quality, significance, and relevance to the conference themes. Those proposing papers and sessions will be informed of the Committee's decision by 15 September 2024, with the final program announced in late 2024. Please note that all Annual Meeting participants will be required to agree to abide by the MAA's Professional Behavior Policy, which can be found here.

The Medieval Academy offers several travel bursaries and awards in conjunction with the Annual Meeting:

1) Student Bursaries: Graduate students who are members of the Medieval Academy of America and who have had their papers accepted for presentation at the 2025 meeting are eligible to apply for a Medieval Academy Annual Meeting Bursary of up to $500. The bursaries will be awarded to graduate students for papers judged meritorious by the local Program Committee, and one applicant will be awarded the prize for Best Student Paper. The application includes a biographical form and the completed paper. The deadline for applications is 31 December 2024. Click here to apply.

2) Medieval Academy of America Travel Grants: The Medieval Academy provides a limited number of travel grants to help Academy members who hold doctorates but are not in full-time faculty positions, or are contingent scholars without access to institutional funding, attend conferences (including the Annual Meeting) to present their work. Awards to support travel in North America are $500; for overseas travel the awards are $750. These awards are adjudicated by the Academy's Committee for Professional Development, and the deadline for applications to travel to the Annual Meeting is 1 November 2024. Click here to apply.

3) Inclusivity and Diversity Travel Grant: The Academy will present the annual Inclusivity and Diversity Travel Grant of $500 to one Annual Meeting participant presenting an accepted proposal on the study of inclusivity and diversity in the Middle Ages, broadly conceived. This Grant will be adjudicated by the Academy's Inclusivity and Diversity Committee, and preference will be given to student, junior, adjunct, or unaffiliated scholars. The deadline for applications is 31 December 2024. Click here to apply.

Some additional travel funding may be available for those whose papers are accepted by the Program Committee, and who lack other sources of research funding. Priority will be given to part-time and contingent faculty, independent scholars, and graduate students whose institutions do not provide conference support. If you or members of your proposed session would like to be considered for travel funding, please check the appropriate box(es) in the submission portal.


Program Committee Members


Sean Gilsdorf, Medieval Studies, Harvard University (co-chair)

Eileen Sweeney, Philosophy, Boston College (co-chair)

Arthur Bahr, Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Suzanne Preston Blier, History of Art & Architecture/African & African American Studies, Harvard University

Alexander Brey, Art History, Wellesley College

Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, Romance Languages & Literatures, Harvard University

Jonathan Decter, Near Eastern & Judaic Studies, Brandeis University

Luis Girón Negrón, Comparative Literature/Romance Languages & Literatures, Harvard University

Eric Goldberg, History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School

Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Harvard Law School

Deeana Klepper, Religion, Boston University

Peter Mahoney, Spanish, Stonehill College

Christina Maranci, Near Eastern Languages & Literatures/History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University

Alexander Riehle, Classics, Harvard University

Daniel Lord Smail, History, Harvard University

Riccardo Strobino, Classics, Tufts University

Alice Sullivan, History of Art & Architecture, Tufts University

Xiaofei Tian, East Asian Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University

Kisha Tracy, English, Fitchburg State University

Julia Verkholantsev, Russian & East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania (ex officio)

Nicholas Watson, English, Harvard University

Eric Weiskott, English, Boston College

Anna Wilson, English, Harvard University

Ling Zhang, History, Boston College

Monday, April 8, 2024

CFP Medievalisms Area at SWPACA Summer Salon 2024 (4/15/2024; Virtual 6/20-22/2024)

Medievalisms Area at SWPACA Summer Salon 2024


deadline for submissions:
April 15, 2024

full name / name of organization:
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)

contact email:
adunai@tamuct.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/03/16/medievalisms-area-at-swpaca-summer-salon-2024

conference site (with registration info): https://southwestpca.org/summer-registration-information/



Call for Papers


Medievalisms Area


Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2024 SWPACA Summer Salon



June 20-22, 2024

Virtual Conference

https://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on March 25, 2024

Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2024



Proposals for papers are now being accepted for the SWPACA Summer Salon. SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas in a variety of categories encompassing the following: Film, Television, Music, & Visual Media; Historic & Contemporary Cultures; Identities & Cultures; Language & Literature; Science Fiction & Fantasy; and Pedagogy & Popular Culture. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit https://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/



The Medievalisms area invites paper and session proposals on any and all topics relevant to medievalism, which is described by Tison Pugh and Angela Jane Weisl in Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present (2013) as “the art, literature, scholarship, avocational pastimes, and sundry forms of entertainment and culture that turn to the Middle Ages for their subject matter or inspiration, and in doing so…comment on the artist’s contemporary sociocultural milieu” (1). Medievalism can be approached in many ways, including in terms of media (e.g., literature, architecture, cinema, music, games), chronology (e.g., Early Modern, Romantic, Victorian), geography, and from any number of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives (e.g., cultural studies, media studies, race and ethnic studies, gender and queer studies). Presentations that engage with current conversations in the field are particularly welcome.



Examples of topics relevant to the Medievalisms area include (but are not limited to): 
  • Literary Medievalisms
  • Cinematic Medievalisms
  • Medievalisms in Art, Architecture, Music, and Performance
  • Medievalisms in Gaming, LARPing, and Role-Playing
  • Medievalisms of Place and Space
  • Gender, Sexuality, Race, Ethnicity, Class, etc. in Medievalisms
  • Global Medievalisms
  • Queer Medievalisms
  • Political Medievalisms
  • Medievalisms in the Classroom



All proposals must be submitted through the conference’s database at https://register.southwestpca.org/southwestpca



For details on using the submission database and on the application process in general, please see the Proposal Submission FAQs and Tips page at https://southwestpca.org/conference/faqs-and-tips/ Registration information for the conference will be available at https://southwestpca.org/conference/conference-registration-information/



Individual proposals for 15-minute papers must include an abstract of approximately 200-500 words. Only one proposal per person, please; no roundtables.



If you have any questions about the Medievalisms area, please contact its Area Chair, Amber Dunai, at adunai@tamuct.edu. If you have general questions about the conference, please contact us at support@southwestpca.org, and a member of the executive team will get back to you.



We look forward to receiving your submissions!


Last updated March 23, 2024

CFP UVa Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXVII (6/21/2024; Virginia 9/19-21/2024)

UVa Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXVII (6/21; 9/19-21)


deadline for submissions:
June 21, 2024

full name / name of organization:
Center for Medieval-Renaissance Studies, UVA Wise

contact email:
kjt9t@uvawise.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/03/08/uva-wise-medieval-renaissance-conference-xxxvii-621-919-21


Keynote Address

Matthew Biberman

University of Louisville

Teaching Milton Reading Shakespeare 


The University of Virginia’s College at Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference promotes scholarly discussion in all disciplines of Medieval and Renaissance studies. The conference welcomes proposals for graduate and undergraduate papers and panels on Medieval or Renaissance literature, language, history, philosophy, science, pedagogy, and the arts. Abstracts for papers should be 300 or fewer words; undergraduate proposals should include the name of a faculty mentor. Proposals for panels should include: a) title of the panel; b) names and institutional affiliations of the chair and all panelists; c) abstracts for papers to be presented (300 or fewer words). A branch campus of the University of Virginia, the University of Virginia’s College at Wise is a public four-year liberal arts college located in the scenic Appalachian Mountains of Southwest Virginia. For more information, please visit our website: https://www.uvawise.edu/academics/departments/language-literature/mediev...

Deadline for Submissions: June 21, 2024


Please direct submissions on English Language and Literature and requests for general information to:

Kenneth J. Tiller, Department of Language and Literature, kjt9t@uvawise.edu



Submissions on Art, Music, and European Language and Literature:

Amelia J. Harris, Academic Dean, ajh7a@uvawise.edu



Submissions on History or Philosophy:

Donald Leech, Department of History and Philosophy, dl4fh@uvawise.edu



Submissions for Undergraduate Papers and Panels:

Jobn Mark Adrian, Department of Language and Literature, jma6x@uvawise.edu



Last updated March 18, 2024

CFP Books and Transgressions (6/15/2024; New England Medieval Consortium Conference Boston 11/9/2024)

New England Medieval Consortium conference Nov 9: Books and Transgressions


deadline for submissions:
June 15, 2024

full name / name of organization:
New England Medieval Consortium

contact email:
weiskott@bc.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/01/22/new-england-medieval-consortium-conference-nov-9-books-and-transgressions


This conference will provide an opportunity for medievalists working across a range of disciplines and geographic areas to join in conversation about premodern cultures of the book, boundary- crossing, and the law and other normative cultural expressions. Given this year’s conference location at a Jesuit, Catholic university, and our keynote speakers, we particularly (but not exclusively) invite submissions focused on regions other than England, including the Middle East; language traditions other than English; and religious cultures.

We interpret “transgressions” broadly, including the notions of access, trespass, and desire. Accordingly, we welcome papers from medievalists in any discipline, concerned with any region or polity of Europe, Asia, or Africa. 

Papers might consider any of the following subtopics, or others: 
  • books whose form,content, or provenance is transgressive;
  • textual cultures: books, authors, texts, audience expectations;
  • the codification of law and law-books;
  • transgression and sin in medieval philosophy and theology;
  • etiquette, diplomacy, or cultural norms, or remediations or contestations of these in written texts;
  • stylistic norms (e.g., poetic and rhetorical precepts) and their transgressions in writing or the visual arts;
  • modern theoretical or methodological approaches to medieval texts;
  • vernacularity in literature, religion, or the visual arts as a mediation of cultural transgression;
  • the transgressive potential of medieval studies in the present day;
  • heterodoxy, heresy, or the function of the written word in regulating the boundaries of orthodoxy.

We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers. Please send abstracts of 300 words to medieval2024@gmail.com by 15 June 2024.

Our keynote speakers are Dr. Ariane Bottex-Ferragne and Dr. Ahmed El Shamsy. Professor Bottex-Ferragne is Assistant Professor of French at New York University. Her presentation is provisionally entitled “Rules of Transgression in Medieval Poetry: Lessons from a Forgotten Bestseller.” Professor El Shamsy is Professor of Islamic Thought at the University of Chicago. His presentation is provisionally entitled “Authors and their Audiences in Medieval Arabic Book Culture.”

The 2024 conference marks the quinquagenary (fiftieth anniversary) of the founding of the NEMC. As the conference returns to Boston College for the first time since 1981, we hope to make it an especially festive occasion. With our theme of “Books and Transgressions” and with our two invited keynotes, we also propose to expand, geographically, disciplinarily, linguistically, and conceptually, what “the Middle Ages” has signified to our colleagues and students.

Boston College is located in Chestnut Hill, MA, and is easily accessible by car, plane, or bus. To learn more about the campus and its environs, see https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/about/maps-and-directions/directions.html.


Last updated January 24, 2024