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 Mythical Pasts, Fantasy Futures: The Middle Ages in Modern Visual Culture (4/15/2022; online 9/8-9/2022)

Mythical Pasts, Fantasy Futures: The Middle Ages in Modern Visual Culture

Announcement published by Sarah Schaefer on Thursday, March 10, 2022

Source: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9901715/mythical-pasts-fantasy-futures-middle-ages-modern-visual

Type: Call for Papers

Date: September 8, 2022 to September 9, 2022

Subject Fields: Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Cultural History / Studies, Popular Culture Studies

Mythical Pasts, Fantasy Futures: The Middle Ages in Modern Visual Culture

A Digital Symposium co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Haggerty Museum of Art

September 8th and 9th, 2022

Call for Papers

This virtual symposium will bring together an interdisciplinary group of academics and museum professionals working on the broad topic of how the Middle Ages appears in the contemporary imagination, and the legacies of medieval-inspired aesthetics in a wide variety of artistic traditions and media. The rise of modern fantasy visual culture is closely tied to the renewed interest in the medieval past that emerged in the late eighteenth century and which is ongoing today. Medievalisms pervade modern fantasy, illuminating not only the complex receptions of the Middle Ages when subjected to new modes of inquiry, but also the challenges and anxieties that coincided with what is broadly conceived as “modernity.” The visual and conceptual relationships between modern fantasy and medievalisms has become an urgent subject in a variety of cultural studies disciplines and constitute key points of departure in the two exhibitions that frame this symposium: The Fantasy of the Middle Ages (The Getty Center, June 21–September 11, 2022) and J. R. R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript (Haggerty Museum of Art, August 19–December 12, 2022). While much of the scholarly work on this topic has been focused on literary uses of medieval tropes, this symposium presents an opportunity to reframe the conversation in terms of the visual and especially engage issues of popular culture.

The symposium organizers seek submissions in two different categories: Conference Papers and Lightning Talks. We welcome proposals from scholars, museum professionals, graduate students, and independent researchers.

Conference Papers will be approximately 20 minutes and organized in thematic panels. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• Fantasy imagery in the museum (e.g. curatorial and pedagogical approaches)
• Medieval fantasy recreations in all media (comic books, trading cards, film, television, reenactment, etc.)
• Historicizing fantasy representations
• Fantasy within and on the historical margins of art institutions
• Media and the supernatural
• Intersections of fantasy imagery and colonialism

Lightning Talks will be approximately 5-7 minutes each and focus on a single object. These shorter talks will be an opportunity for speakers to engage closely and concisely with the visual language of their chosen image and what it reveals with respect to the broader conversations of the symposium. Images in any medium and from any geographical context will be considered, but should be limited to the period from approximately the eighteenth century to the present.

For Conference Papers, please submit an abstract (approximately 500 words) and a CV.

For Lightning Talks, please submit your proposed image, an abstract identifying the themes and questions it prompts (approximately 250 words), and a CV.

Submissions should be sent to mythicalpastsfantasyfutures@gmail.com by April 15th. Accepted speakers will be notified by May 15th.

All participants will receive a speaker’s fee, the details of which will be outlined in the notice of acceptance.

Participants may be invited to submit their contributions for inclusion in published proceedings.

Contact Info: 

Sarah C. Schaefer, PhD

Assistant Professor, Art History

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Co-curator, J. R. R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript

Larisa Grollemond

Assistant Curator, Manuscripts Department

J. Paul Getty Museum

Co-curator, The Fantasy of the Middle Ages

Contact Email: 

mythicalpastsfantasyfutures@gmail.com

New from D S Brewer -- Studies in Medievalism 28

My thanks to Boydell & Brewer for providing a copy of this to add to our bibliographic efforts. It looks like another great volume of the long-running series. 

Studies in Medievalism XXVIII
Medievalism and Discrimination
https://boydellandbrewer.com/a-z/studies-in-medievalism-xxviii-hb.html

Edited by Karl Fugelso

Hardback
9781843845171

$99.00

April 2019
6 colour, 4 black and white illustrations
268 pages
23.4x15.6 cm
Studies in Medievalism
ISBN: 9781843845171
Format: Hardback
D.S.Brewer


The difficult and nuanced issue of discrimination - race, gender, ethicity, religion - is the focus of this volume.

Discrimination has long played a part in medievalism studies, but it has rarely been weaponized as thoroughly and publicly as in recent exchanges. The essays in the first part of this volume respond to that development by examining some of the many forms discrimination has taken in medievalism (studies) relative to race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and ethnicity. These papers thus inform many of the subsequent chapters, which address a wide variety of aspects of medievalism, showing how many cultural areas it touches upon. Subjects include Evelyn Underhill's literary interest in the Arts and Crafts Movement; the Anchoresses of the filmmaker Chris Newby and novelist Robyn Cadwallader; cinematic battle orations; contemporary representations of Viking helmet horns; modern board-game culture; and Vincent Van Gogh's Studio of the South. The volume also includes a transcription and contextualization of the celebrated scholar Helen Waddell's notes on medieval texts.

KARL FUGELSO is Professor of Art History at Towson University.

Contributors: Carla Arnell, Aida Audeh, Peter Burkholder, Christopher Caldiero, Michael Evans, Jennifer FitzGerald, Jonathan Godsall, Angus J. Kennedy, Nadia Margolis, Lauryn Mayer, Timothy S. Miller, Tison Pugh, Richard Utz, Kim Wilkins, Karen A. Winstead, Helen Young

An e-book version of this title is available (9781787444713), to libraries through a number of trusted suppliers. See here for a full list of our partners.

Keywords: Studies in Medievalism, English & American Literature, Medieval Literature


CONTENTS (updated to match print version)

Preface

Freedom to Discriminate - Helen Young

"You wouldn't want to be historically inaccurate": Online Responses to Race in Medievalist Television - Michael Evans

Mythogyny: Popular Medievalism and Toxic Masculinity - Lauryn S. Mayer

The Cool and the Queer in Bugs Bunny's Middle Ages - Tison Pugh

Medievalism, Antisemitism, and Twenty-First-Century Media: An Update - Richard Utz


Work for the Soul: Medievalism, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and the Development of a Practical Spirituality in Evelyn Underhill's Novel The Gray World - Carla A. Arnell

Exhuming the Living Dead: The Anchoresses of Chris Newby and Robyn Cadwallader - Karen A Winstead

The King's Speech: Battle Orations in Medieval Film - Peter Burkholder and Jonathan Godsall and Christopher Caldiero

Horns: Vikings, Adaptation, Evolution - Kim Wilkins

Bidding with Beowulf, Dicing with Chaucer, and Playing Poker with King Arthur: Neomedievalism in Modern Board Gaming Culture - Timothy S. Miller

Vincent van Gogh, the Tre Corone, and the Studio of the South - Aida Audeh

A Transcription of Helen Waddell's Notes on the Roman de la Rose and Christine de Pizan: Manuscript Queen's University Belfast 18/1/c - Angus J Kennedy and Nadia Margolis and Jennifer FitzGerald

Higgins Armory Update

As I think I've posted before, the Higgins Armory Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts, has been closed, its collection transferred to the Worcester Art Museum and building up for sale. I'm sorry to see the Higgins go; it was a great resource and wonderful site for developing interest in the medieval in persons of all ages. Further details of the transfer at http://www.worcesterart.org/Exhibitions/knights/.

A history of the Higgins has been produced to aid in the sale. It can be accessed at http://www.higgins.org/WermielHAM.pdf.

Studies in Medievalism for 2013

The 2013 volume of Studies in Medievalism, published as Corporate Medievalism II, has now been released. Details and contents as follows:


Studies in Medievalism XXII
Corporate Medievalism II
Edited by Karl Fugelso

Details

First Published: 18 Jul 2013
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843843559
Pages: 218
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: D.S.Brewer
Series: Studies in Medievalism
Subject: Medieval Literature
BIC Class: DSBB
Price: $90
Details updated on 25 Jun 2013

In the wake of the many passionate responses to its predecessor, Studies in Medievalism 22 also addresses the role of corporations in medievalism. Amid the three opening essays, Amy S. Kaufman examines how three modern novelists have refracted contemporary corporate culture through an imagined and highly dystopic Middle Ages. On either side of that paper, Elizabeth Emery and Richard Utz explore how the Woolworth Company and Google have variously promoted, distorted, appropriated, resisted, and repudiated post-medieval interpretations of the Middle Ages. And Clare Simmons expands on that approach in a full-length article on the Lord Mayor's Show in London. Readers are then invited to find other permutations of corporate influence in six articles on the gendering of Percy's Reliques, the Romantic Pre-Reformation in Charles Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth, renovation and resurrection in M.R. James's "Episode of Cathedral History", salvation in the Commedia references of Rodin's Gates of Hell, film theory and the relationship of the Sister Arts to the cinematic Beowulf, and American containment culture in medievalist comic-books. While offering close, thorough studies of traditional media and materials, the volume directly engages timely concerns about the motives and methods behind this field and many others in academia.

Karl Fugelso is Professor of Art History at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Contributors: Aida Audeh, Elizabeth Emery, Katie Garner, Nickolas Haydock, Amy S. Kaufman, Peter W. Lee, Patrick J. Murphy, Fred Porcheddu, Clare A. Simmons, Mark B. Spencer, Richard Utz.


Contents

1 Editorial Note (Karl Fugelso)

2 The Corporate Gothic in New York's Woolworth Building: Medieval Branding in the Original "Cathedral of Commerce" (Elizabeth Emery)

3 Our Future is Our Past: Corporate Medievalism in Dystopian Fiction (Amy S. Kaufman)

4 The Good Corporation? Google's Medievalism and Why It Matters (Richard Utz)

5 "Longest, oldest, and most popular": Medievalism in the Lord Mayor's Show (Clare A. Simmons)

6 Gendering Percy's Reliques: Ancient Ballads and the Making of Women's Arthurian Writing (Katie Garner)

7 Romancing the Pre-Reformation: Charles Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth (Mark B. Spencer)

8 Renovation and Resurrection in M. R. James's "Episode of Cathedral History" (Patrick J. Murphy and Fred Porcheddu)

9 Rodin's Gates of Hell and Dante's Inferno 7: Fortune, the Avaricious and Prodigal, and the Question of Salvation (Aida Audeh)

10 Film Theory, the Sister Arts Tradition, and the Cinematic Beowulf (Nickolas Haydock)

11 Red Days, Black Knights: Medieval-themed Comic Books in American Containment Culture (Peter W. Lee)