CFP Asian Medievalism (Online) (9/15/2026; ICMS Kalamazoo/Online 5/13-15/2027)

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

13-15 May 2027



Organizer: Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Online session



ASIAN MEDIEVALISMS


Asian medievalisms can be seen from two perspectives: either as continuations of the global Middle Ages in various Asian countries, including Japan and China, or as popular culture phenomena at least partly inspired by the European Middle Ages or simply by European medievalisms in popular culture. TV shows about Chinese culture, such as Kingdom, or Japanese manga can be seen as global medievalisms or as what demonstrates interest in Western fantasy. They can be inspired by such texts as Chinese wuxia narratives, which situate warriors in the distant past, and by how Western fantasy creates alternative worlds.



Please enter your proposal into the Confex system by 15 September 2026.


Asian Medievalisms


Additionally, please send your proposal at: annaczarnowus@op.pl.

CFP ISSM Sponsored Sessions List for Kalamazoo 2026 (proposals by 9/15/2025)

ISSM at ICMS 2026

Source: https://medievalisms.org/issm-at-icms-2026/

ISSM will be sponsoring four online sessions during the 61st ICMS (May 14-16, 2026). Submissions for possible inclusion on one of our panels listed below need to be made in ICMS’s Confex System by Friday, September 15. For questions on any of the topics, please email the contact person listed after the session description. And feel free to share widely with anyone who might be interested in these topics!

1: Political Medievalisms 

(Michael Evans: michaelevans@delta.edu )

Medievalism continues to play a significant role in the world of politics. This session seeks to reach beyond the many discussions of the Alt-Right to consider other forms of medievalisms in politics, including modern monarchies, real or imagined; the use of medievalism, new feudalism, and historical claims in labor and worker’s rights movements; the Papal Conclave and election of Pope Leo XIV; medieval imagery, language, or claims in political campaigns; recollections of the medieval past in government’s self-constructions or as justifications for actions, etc.

II: Medievalisms in Space 

(Angela Weisl: angela.weisl@shu.edu for now)

Building on several successful sessions on Science Fiction Medievalisms, this session seeks to consider specifically what happens when the Middle Ages turns up in Outer Space. How is the past created in the future, and to what end? How is the Middle Ages imagined disconnected from the planet on which it took place? How does Medieval space get negotiated in Outer Space?

III: Global Medievalisms 

(Angela Weisl: angela.weisl@shu.edu)

This session seeks to consider medievalisms outside of Europe and North America. We are particularly interested in papers on medievalism in the Global South and how European implanted cultures have left their medieval mark far from home, as well as how these non-European cultures make use of, understand, and imagine their own pasts to contrast, combat, or reject colonial medievalisms. We are also particularly interested in how Catholic medievalisms function and create continuity (or discontinuity) in places where the Church has played an instrumental part of colonial implantation of Western culture, and what about its current function might reflect its medieval past.

IV: Medievalism and Costume 

 (Angela Weisl: angela.weisl@shu.edu )

This session seeks to investigate the medieval in clothing, costume, and ritual. How does the medieval influence fashion? What is the rhetoric of clothing at Renaissance Fairs? In LARPing and Reenactment? In Academic Regalia? Papers might consider popular figures, such as Chappell Roan, who inflect the medieval in their costuming, and what it says about how they understand themselves and their public position.

New Book - Medievalisms in a Global Age

Just released. Looks like a great resource.

Medievalisms in a Global Age

Edited by Angela Jane Weisl and Robert Squillace

Full details, preview, and ordering information at https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781843847038/medievalisms-in-a-global-age/.

TITLE DETAILS

282 Pages

23.4 x 15.6 cm

3 graphs and 3 b/w illus.

Series: Medievalism

Series Vol. Number: 27

Imprint: D.S.Brewer

July 2024

DESCRIPTION

Discusses contemporary medievalism in studies ranging from Brazil to West Africa, from Manila to New York.

Across the world, revivals of medieval practices, images, and tales flourish as never before. The essays collected here, informed by approaches from Global Studies and the critical discourse on the concept of a "Global Middle Ages", explore the many facets of contemporary medievalism: post-colonial responses to the enforced dissemination of Western medievalisms, attempts to retrieve pre-modern cultural traditions that were interrupted by colonialism, the tentative forging of a global "medieval" imaginary from the world's repository of magical tales and figures, and the deployment across borders of medieval imagery for political purposes. The volume is divided into two sections, dealing with "Local Spaces" and "Global Geographies". The contributions in the first consider a variety of medievalisms tied to particular places across a broad geography, but as part of a larger transnational medievalist dynamic. Those in the second focus on explicitly globalist medievalist phenomena whether concerning the projection of a particular medievalist trope across borders or the integration of "medieval" pasts from different parts of the globe in a contemporary incarnation of medievalism. A wide range of topics are addressed, from Japanese manga and Arthurian tales to The O-Trilogy of Maurice Gee, Camus, and Dungeons and Dragons.

CONTENTS

Introduction: Medievalisms: Local Spaces and Global Geographies

Part I: Local Spaces

1. Metamorphosis Metamorphosed: Fox Daemon, (Anti-)Colonialism, and Global Medievalism in Ken Liu's 'Good Hunting' - Minjie Su

2. The Medievalist Simulacra of Kafka's The Castle in Graphic Adaptations - Elizabeth Allyn Woock

3. Mangaesque Knights: Japan's Path to Global Medievalism - Maxime Danesin & Manuel Hernández-Pérez

4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Maurice Gee's The O Trilogy - Anna Czarnowus

5. Trading a Bow for a Machine Gun: Robin Hoods, Nationalism and the Personas of Philippine Politics - Stefanie Matabang

6. Tropical Templars? Medievalism and Pseudohistory in Brazil's Largest City - Luiz Guerra

7. Plague Temporality and Chronicle in Camus's La peste - Sara Torres

8. The Griot in Sunjata: A Paradigmatic Herald of an Afrofuturistic Messianic Age - Joseph Osei-Bonsu

9. Toward a Place-Based, North Pacific Medieval Studies: Medievalism, Pedagogy, Indigeneity - Daniel T. Kline

Part II: Global Geographies

10. Revolt: "Peasants" and Protest in the Twenty-First Century - Matthias D. Berger

11. "Taking a Step Back into the Thirteenth Century": Reading the Globe through a Medieval Lens: In the Footsteps of Marco Polo - Kara L. McShane

12. A Pinch of Flour, a Cup of Tall Tales, and one Khaleesi: Getting Medieval Across Time and Space - Meriem Pagès

13. The Boys Are Back in Town: Capital One's Propagandic Commercials for Alt-Right Nostalgic Imperialism - Carol Robinson

14. Memes, Covid-19, and Global Medievalism - Andrew B.R. Elliott

15. Dichotomies of Arthurian Medievalism: Dismantling and Reinforcing the Status Quo - Rachael Warmington

16. Thor versus Juracán: Premodern Storm Gods and Goddesses in Popular Culture - Marian E. Polhill

17. Geo-mapping the In-Betweens: Medieval Daoist Correlatives in Pokémon Go - Anne Giblin Gedacht

18. Worldbuilding Dungeons and Befriending Dragons: How the Global TTRPG Community Combats Western Hegemony - Miranda Hajduk

19. Marrying Medievalism, Post-Apocalypse, and the Global in Digital Games - Emily Price

List of Contributors

Index

ABOUT THE EDITORS

ANGELA JANE WEISL is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Seton Hall University.

ROBERT SQUILLACE is a Clinical Professor in Arts, Text, and Media and Educational Technology Liaison at New York University's School of Liberal Studies.

CFP Medievalisms Today: Aspects of the Medieval Past in the 21st-century World (Panel) (9/30/2023; NeMLA 3/7-10/2024)

Medievalisms Today: Aspects of the Medieval Past in the 21st-century World (Panel)

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

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, June-Ann Greeley, and Rachael Warmington


Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 30 September 2023

55th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association

Sheraton Boston Hotel (Boston, MA)

On-site event: 7-10 March 2024

Session Rationale

Medievalisms Today: Aspects of the Medieval Past in the 21st-century World (Panel)


A frequent conception of the medieval period is that it was a barbaric, fanatical, and unenlightened era, yet, despite these (actual or perceived) faults, there remains an appeal to the era in modern culture. As Umberto Eco wrote a number of decades ago, “it seems people like the Middle Ages,” and this statement continues to ring true today in 2023. Regardless of the centuries (and often geography) that separate them from this time, creators worldwide are still engaged with adapting, adopting, appropriating, and/or transforming elements of the medieval past. The resulting works (referred to as medievalisms) appear in a startling array of media and have been employed (both positively and negatively) for a variety of purposes, including in materials with commercial, educational, entertainment, and propagandist motives.


Recently, medievalists have begun to widen the scope of their analysis of these works, and they have strived to explore the reception of the medieval on a wider scale than the expected sites of medieval re-creation (such as Europe, Canada, and the United States) to highlight the production and dissemination of medievalisms (as recent studies phrase it) as global, international, and/or world phenomena. Medievalists have also looked more deeply at how the creators of these new works impact the local culture around them.


These studies have made a promising start toward widening the scope of medievalism, but much work remains to be done to more fully catalog and assess these materials, especially as their numbers keep increasing.


Our intent in this session is to shine the spotlight onto new and recent works of medievalism from across the planet that haven’t yet received much (if any) attention and explore how and (perhaps) why creators still find the Middle Ages so interesting and (despite their distance from the period) relevant in the twenty-first century to their own experiences, places, and times.


Presentations might highlight and engage with examples of the medieval in comics, drama, fiction, film, games, manga, memes, music, politics, streaming video, television programing, and/or translations.Other approaches are also welcome.


Please see Helen Young and Kavita Mundan Finn’s online bibliography from Global Medievalism: An Introduction (available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/global-medievalism/E555F6DCC12217351536A00E22E862E5) for ideas and support.

Submission Information

All proposals must be submitted into the CFPList system at https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20591 by 30 September 2023. You will be prompted to create an account with NeMLA (if you do not already have one) and, then, to complete sections on Title, Abstract, and Media Needs.


Notification on the fate of your submission will be made prior to 16 October 2023. If favorable, please confirm your participation with chairs by accepting their invitations and by registering for the event. The deadline for Registration/Membership is 9 December 2023.


Be advised of the following policies of the Convention: All participants must be members of NeMLA for the year of the conference. Participants may present on up to two sessions of different types (panels/seminars are considered of the same type). Submitters to the CFP site cannot upload the same abstract twice.(See the NeMLA Presenter Policies page, at https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/policies.html, for further details,)



Thank you for your interest in our session. Please address questions and/or concerns to the organizers at MedievalinPopularCulture@gmail.com.


For more information on the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, please visit our website at https://MedievalinPopularCulture.blogspot.com/.

Online This Week: Global Medievalism: Culture, Appropriations and Reinventions

The Medieval History Study Group of Unimontes (GEHM) of Brazil is hosting the online conference on Global Medievalism: Culture, Appropriations and Reinventions this week.

The full program is accessible online at https://en.globalmedievalism.com/programa%C3%A7%C3%A3o and copied below.

The event includes two keynotes, a series of roundtables, and various paper panels.

I believe you can still register for the conference while in progress. 

Program

All times are in BRT (UTC/GMT-3).

Download the Complete Program here.

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

10:00 –  12:00

Opening keynote: Medievalism is a Virus. Richard J Utz, GeorgiaTech, USA.

13:00 –  14:40

​ST 1 - Non-Western Medievalisms. Bedri Muhadri, Institution of History “Ali Hadri”, Kosovo; Leandro César Santana Neves, UFRJ, Brazil; Lucas Ricardo Simone, USP, Brazil; José Ivson Marques Ferreira de Lima, UFPE, Brazil.

14:40 –  16:45

ST 2 - Between Medieval and Medievalism. Letícia Roberto Dos Santos, UERJ, Brazil; Evellyn Ricardo, UFPE, Brazil; Julio César Cárdenas Arenas, Islamic University of Medinah, Saudi Arabia; Mayara Fernanda Silva dos Santos, UFRRJ, Brazil; Amelia Rosa Herrera Lavanchy, Universidat de La Serena, Chile

16:45 –  18:00

ST 3 - Medievalism and Conservatism. Brian Egede-Pedersen, Nykøbing K Catedralskole, Denmark; Vinícius Dreger, UNIMONTES, Brazil; Luiz Felipe Anchieta Guerra, UFMG, Brazil.

18:00 –  20:00

Table I: Lusophone Medievalisms. Pedro Martins, NOVA, Portugal; Marcelo Berriel, UFRRJ, Brazil; Renan Birro, UPE, Brazil.

Thursday, April 29, 2021

08:00 –  09:40

ST 4 - Medievalisms & Religion. Thamires Chagas D 'Alcântara, UFRRJ, Brazil; Robson Murilo Grando Della Torre, UNIMONTES, Brazil; João Guilherme Lisbôa Rangel, UFRRJ, Brazil; Priyanka Das, Institution Presidency University, India.

09:45 –  11:50

ST 5 - Games & Digital Media. Javier Castiñeiras López, Centro Ramón Piñeiro, Spain; Mariña Bermúdez Beloso, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Diego Neivor Perondi Meotti, UFFS, Brazil; Luísa Vilas Boas dos Santos, UFS, Brazil; Yara Fernanda Chimite, Feevale University, Brazil

13:00 –  15:00

Table II: Political Medievalism. Amy Kaufman, independent, Canada; Carlile Lanzieri, UFMT, Brazil; Daniel Wollenberg, University of Tampa, USA.

15:10 –  16:50

ST 6 - Theory, Teaching and Medievalism. Bruno Uchoa Borgongino, UFPE, Brazil; Angela Jane Weisl, Seton Hall University, USA; Robert Squillace, New York University, USA; Dan Kline, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA; Stepehen Basdeo, Richmond: the Americam International University, England.

16:50 –  18:00

ST 7 - Medievalism: Permanences or Appropriations. Gregory Ramos Oliveira, UFPel, Brazil; Geraldo Magella de Menezes Neto, SMEC / SEDUC / PA, Brazil; Giovanni Bruno Alves, UEM, Brazil.

18:00 –  20:00

Table III: Medievalism and Teaching . Cláudia Bovo, UFTM, Brazil; Brian Egede-Pederson, Nykøbing K Catedralskole, Denmark; Michael Evans, Delta College, USA.

Friday, April 30, 2021

08:00 –  09:15

ST 8 - Plastic Arts and Medievalism. Richard Gomes da Silva, UERJ, Brazil; Beatriz Nogueira de Sousa, USP, Brazil; Júlia Beatriz Fernandes Leite, UNIFESP, Brazil.

09:15 –  10:30

ST 9 - Hollywoodian Medievalisms. João Vitor de Carvalho Melo, UFPI, Brazil; Alan Rebouças Pereira, UFBA, Brazil; Beatriz Galrão Abrantes, UFBA, Brazil; José Ivson Marques Ferreira de Lima, UFPE, Brazil

10:30 –  12:30

Table IV: Medievalism and Public History . Carolina Gual, UFRRJ, Brazil; Daniele Gallindo, UFPel, Brazil; Paul Sturtevant, Smithsonian Institution, USA.

13:00 –  14:45

ST 10 - Literary Medievalisms. Michael A Torregrossa, Independent researcher, USA; Lucas Melo de Almeida, International Chinese School, Brazil; Felipe Augusto Ribeiro, UFPE, Brazil; Dominika Ruszkiewicz, Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow, Poland.

14:45 –  16:25

ST 11 - The Vikings of the 21st Century. Ricardo Hammes Stone, UFPel, Brazil; Elton Medeiros, USP, Brazil; Lukas Grzybowski, UEL, Brazil; Joao Batista, UFF, Brazil.

16:25 –  17:40

ST 12 - Medievalisms, Nationalisms and Conservatisms. Léo Araújo Lacerda, UFPel, Brazil; Luiz Felipe Anchieta Guerra, UFMG, Brazil; Thaís Monique Costa Moura, UFS, Brazil.

17:40 –  19:20

ST 13 - Societies under the eyes of Medievalism. Isadora Cristine Martins, USP, Brazil; Maria Eugenia, UFRRJ, Brazil; Clínio Amaral, UFRRj, Brazil; Éderson José de Vasconcelos, UNIFAL, Brazil; Maurício Orestes Parisi, USP, Brazil.

19:20 –  21:20

Closing conference: World Medievalisms. Louise D'Arcens, Macquarie University, Australia