CFP ISSM 2022 The Lost Provinces, or Lost and Found Medievalisms (6/1/2022; Boone, NC/hybrid 10/20-22/2022)

ISSM 2022 The Lost Provinces, or Lost and Found Medievalisms

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/04/05/issm-2022-the-lost-provinces-or-lost-and-found-medievalisms

deadline for submissions:
June 1, 2022

full name / name of organization:
International Society for the Study of Medievalism

contact email:
gulleyea@appstate.edu



October 20-22, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC*

Plenary Speakers: Kristen Carella (Assumption University), “Crossing Every Border: Transgender Identity from Merlin to Laura Jane Grace;” and Orville Hicks, renowned Appalachian storyteller

Southern Appalachia has long been perceived as a region in the American margins, both materially and metaphorically. In colonial times it formed part of the frontier; in the modern era, it continues to lie at the edges of regional, political, cultural, and even historical consciousness. Within the Appalachian mountains in North Carolina, one discrete region in the northwest part of the state was even more marginalized prior to the 20th century: the Lost Provinces, separated from the rest of the state by the Eastern Continental Divide—with mountains towering up to 4,700 feet above sea level—which forms their eastern and southern borders. As Flatlanders liked to say, “the only way to get there was to be born there.”

In the public imaginary, the Middle Ages is similarly “lost” to us, bordered by the glories of Rome on one side and the European Renaissance on the other. Such perception is particularly apparent in popular medievalism which depicts a Dark Ages fraught with violence—particularly sexual violence—plague, superstition, and filth, features, incidentally, often associated with the Appalachian people.

In this spirit, ISSM 2022 asks participants to examine how the “lost Middle Ages” has been found through various medievalisms past and present. We particularly welcome those that explore the following areas:

• Medievalisms that purport to rediscover the lost relics of the Middle Ages (e. g., the Holy Grail in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusader or The Davinci Code); medievalism and material culture
• Medievalisms that return to the “lost” past (e. g., A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Timeline, or Fuqua’s King Arthur—aka “the Untold True Story that Inspired the Legend”); medievalism and politics or political movements
• Medievalisms that recover “lost” peoples or identities (e. g., representations of people of color in Legendborn or the queering of the Robin Hood legend in the Greenwode series); medievalism and issues of race, gender, sexuality, and gender identity; medievalism and games across media

However, we invite papers and presentations on all topics of medievalism, not limited to these suggested themes. We particularly welcome proposals from presenters in (or addressing topics related to) regions outside North America, Western Europe, and the Anglophone world.

Send paper and/or panel proposals (abstracts of 250-300 words each) by June 1, 2022 to Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand (hellenbranda@appstate.edu). Other members of the organizing committee include Alison Gulley, English (gulleyea@appstate.edu) and Mary Valante, History (valantema@appstate.edu)

*The conference will be hybrid, with some dedicated Zoom sessions. The plenary sessions will be in-person and streamed.




Last updated April 8, 2022

Sponsored Sessions at International Conference on Medievalism This Week

36th Annual Conference on Medievalism Schedule

4-6 November 2021

Virtual Event hosted by Delta College

Full conference schedule available at https://medievalism.net/conference/.


Reshaping the Middle Ages in and through Asian Popular Culture Sessions



Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and the Mutual Images Research Association.




FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5
Session 5b (9-10:30 AM EDT)



Reshaping the Middle Ages in and through Asian Popular Culture, 1

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



Organizer and moderator: Michael Torregrossa



Snakes and Ladders: The Serpent Allegory in Medieval Religious Art - Priyanka Das, Presidency University Kolkata (student)


Priyanka Das is an undergraduate student of English Literature at Presidency University Kolkata. She was selected at the Virtual Global Leaders Programme 2020 and Global Leaders Virtual Cultural Hackathon 2021 organized by the University of Exeter and Immersive Trails, erstwhile known as Heritage Walks Calcutta. Her research interests broadly encompass Medievalism, Colonialism, and Art. She has presented papers pertaining to these interests at several conferences including– the International Conference on Global Medievalism in Brazil and asynchronous Twitter Conference on Medieval Ages and Modern Games in the UK.




The Female King Arthur; The Moefication of Historical Characters in the Media Mix Called Fate - William Schrage, the University of Groningen


William Schrage recently graduated in his MA International Relations & International Organizations, East Asia track at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Before, he did a BA in History. His focus is on East Asian popular culture, heritage preservation and international relations. His forthcoming publication about the representation of otaku in Ore no imōto ga konnani kawaii wake ga nai will be published by the University of Minnesota Press in spring 2022.



SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6

Session 10b (9-10:30 AM EDT)

Taiwanese roundtable - Borderlands and Berserkers: Understanding Western Culture in Taiwan

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


Organizer and moderator: Carolyn F. Scott, National Cheng Kung University


Lo-Yi Zoe Wu; Wen-Chi Stella Chang; Wen-Tien Luthien Chuang; Shan-Yo Jo-Ann Fang, Students at National Cheng Kung University



Session 13b (1:45-3 PM EDT)

Reshaping the Middle Ages in and through Asian Popular Culture, 2

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


Organizer and moderator: Michael Torregrossa


Reading Malory by Moonlight: The Arthurian Theme in Sailor Moon - Matthew S. Dentice, University of Nevada


Matthew S. Dentice is an author and academic currently pursuing a Ph.D. in literature with medieval focus at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the recipient of the Medieval Association of the Pacific’s Founders’ Prize for 2019 and of the Brooks-Hudgins Essay Award for 2020. His fictional work has been published by The Write Launch and The Closed Eye Open and is scheduled to appear in two upcoming print anthologies from Alternating Current Press and Something or Other Publishing. As an essayist, his work has been published by Bad Bride and in ABC News’ Religion and Ethics section.



“There are no innocents, not anymore”: Holocaust and Medievalism in the Japanese Anime Castlevania - Priyanka Das, Presidency University (Kolkata, India)


Priyanka Das is Assistant Professor of English at Presidency University, Kolkata, India. Her MA, MPhil and PhD is from Center for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She specializes in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Popular Culture, especially television series, memes and video games. Her PhD is on Game of Thrones, and she has extensively published on American, Indian and Korean media in international peer-reviewed journals. She is currently working on the gaming boom in Asian dramas and her forthcoming publication from Routledge is a co-edited volume on Holocaust and Popular Culture.


Monster Girls in the Neomedieval Mangaesque Imagination: Between Melusinian Tales and Interspecies Eroticism - Maxime Danesin, Independent Scholar


Maxime DANESIN obtained his PhD in Modern Literature at Tours University (France), and is now an independent researcher based in France. His primary field of research is European literary and cultural transfers in Japan, with a focus on neomedievalism in Mangaesque literature. He is also the co-founder and vice-president of Mutual Images Research Association (MIRA), an organisation dedicated to develop the research on the cultural relations between Japan and other countries.

A Review of Scholarship on Asian Medievalisms - Michael A. Torregrossa, Independent Scholar


Michael A. Torregrossa is a graduate of the Medieval Studies program at the University of Connecticut (Storrs) and works as an adjunct instructor in English in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts. He is also the founder of The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and serves as editor for the organization's various blogs and moderator of its discussion lists. Michael’s research interests include the adaptation of the medieval into modern media, and, while he does not profess to be an expert on Asian popular culture, he gave one of the first presentations on medieval themes in the Fate series at a meeting of the Medieval Academy of America in 2010. His presentation today continues his exploration into the field of medievalist anime and manga studies.

CFP 36th International Conference on Medievalism (6/30/21; virtual 11/4-6/21)

Just came across this on Richard Utz's blog. Sorry, it's not in text. 

(Update 4/5/21, an official site has now been set up for the conference. Check it out at https://medievalism.net/conference/.)

CFP Impossible Pastimes: Playing With, In, and Through the Middle Ages (815/20; ICoM 2020 Notfalk, VA/virtual))

Note the possibility of a virtual event/sessions.

Impossible Pastimes: Playing With, In, and Through the Middle Ages 

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2020/05/11/impossible-pastimes-playing-with-in-and-through-the-middle-ages

Official site: https://impossiblepastimes.org/

deadline for submissions:
August 15, 2020


full name / name of organization:
International Society for the Study of Medievalism


contact email:
kmoberly@odu.edu




Impossible Pastimes: Playing With, In, and Through the Middle Ages

35th International Conference on Medievalism

Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA, November 12-14, 2020



Play is one of the most significant sites of production in contemporary medievalism. As evidenced by the popularity and ubiquity of medieval-themed games, it is one of the primary ways through which the dominant, consensus view of the Middle Ages is reproduced as a political, historical, economic, and cultural reality in both mass culture and the popular imagination. Play, as such, functions to reify many of the most problematic aspects of traditional medievalism, including the persistent racial and gendered stereotypes that explicitly imagine the Middle Ages as a period of profound cultural crisis—a crucible of violence and want in which masculine white privilege was tested and emerged in its nascent, modern form to exercise sovereignty over the peoples and cultures that, despite their threat, were simultaneously shown to be inferior.

Yet by the same token, play inherently calls this vision of reality into question. As Johan Huizinga writes, play interpellates participants in a magic circle in which space and time are suspended—an imaginary situation that, according to Lev Vgotsky, is a manifestation of “desires and tendencies of what cannot be realized immediately.” Play, in this sense, is not an expression of what is but of what is denied. Facilitated through ritual and performance, it represents an attempt to make material and therefore real a fundamentally occult vision of what its participants want their worlds to be. Play, as such, inherently calls into question the veracity of its own productions. In the context of the medievalism of the contemporary moment, it foregrounds the fact that many of the problematic worldviews that are constructed as historical reality by contemporary medievalism are themselves fantasies.

What is more, play simultaneously recognizes that other fantasies are possible. In its ability to at once conjure and critique reality, it foregrounds the fact that there are always other ways of re-imagining ourselves and our circumstances via the Middle Ages or any number of other impossible sites of desire. Conceived as an experiment in playing with—which is to say, re-imagining the generative possibilities of the Middle Ages, the 2020 ISSM Conference seeks to interrogate the doubled potential of play as it is manifested not only in contemporary medieval-themed games, hobbies, and pastimes, but in any of the myriad ways that we play with the Middle Ages through art, scholarship, or other forms of critical inquiry and cultural production broadly defined.

Please send abstracts of c. 300 words for individual papers or entire sessions on medieval-themed games, hobbies, pastimes and all other kinds of medievalisms (which is to say, other forms of medievalesque play) by August 15 to Kevin Moberly (kmoberly@odu.edu). For the wide range of topics of interest to the study of medievalism, please visit the table of contents pages of Studies in Medievalism and The Year’s Work in Medievalism, and the reviews published in Medievally Speaking. More information about the 2020 ISSM conference can be found on our conference website.

This year’s conference will be hosted by Old Dominion University, located in Norfolk, Virginia. We are not certain whether or not the university campus will be closed due to precautions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, we have not determined if the 2020 ISSM Conference will take place physically, virtually, or as a mixture of both formats. The organizing committee will announce the format of the conference once we have more information about the status of the university in the fall.


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International Conference on Medievalism 2019 News

The website for the 34th International Conference on Medievalism has been launched. The conference will run from 20-21 September 2019 at Georgia Tech. The theme is Global Medievalisms.

Check it out at https://issm2019.lmc.gatech.edu/.

CFP ICoM 2015

This is a hard one to track down. This version comes from the organization's Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/International-Society-for-the-Study-of-Medievalism/154554307982921?fref=nf).

Call for Papers: Mapping Medievalisms
The 30th Annual Conference on Medievalism
International Society for Studies in Medievalism
October 2nd - 4th , 2015
at the Doubletree Hotel in Pittsburgh, PA

Plenary Address by Susan Aronstein, University of Wyoming, author of Hollywood Knights: Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia, Medieval British Arthurian Narrative, and co-author of The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy Tale and Fantasy Past.

Each day we are flooded with increasingly dire predictions for the death of the humanities and the corporatization of the university, as politicians slash education funding and rail about the uselessness of the liberal arts. How, in this rapidly-shifting landscape, do we plot a course for medievalism studies, a (relatively) new but recently thriving field that depends so much on the institutions and ideas currently under attack?
The 30th anniversary of the International Conference on Medievalism is a perfect opportunity for investigation, self-reflection, and ‘mapping’ our field: assessing where we have been and plotting new courses and new territories to explore. Although we welcome all contributions on medievalism, we are especially interested in proposals that imagine redrawing the map of the university, the liberal arts, or the humanities through Medievalism Studies as well as those that forge new paths for Medievalism Studies through an alchemical mixture of old and new, combining the traditions of humanities research with the innovations that will help it to survive.

Possibilities include (but are not limited to):
• Digital medievalisms
• Medievalism and the university
• Ecomedievalisms
• Interdisciplinary medievalisms
• Medievalism and iconic symbolism
• Multi-genre medievalisms
• A new ethics for medievalism
• Medievalism and globalization
• Geographical medievalisms
• Medievalism and the new oligarchy
• Serf's Up! Medievalism and contingent faculty

We welcome both abstracts for 15-20 minute papers and proposals for sessions both traditional and innovative. Session proposals or abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent before June 5, 2015 to Lauryn Mayer at lmayer@washjeff.edu.

CFP ICoM 2014 (6/1/14; Atlanta 10/24-25/14)

I keep forgetting to post this:

Call for Papers, 29th International Conference on Medievalism: “Medievalisms on the Move”

One of the great epistemological strengths of medievalism studies has been its openness to the many variants of cultural reception, including multiple linguistic, ideological, geographical, and disciplinary perspectives. For this year’s conference at the Georgia Institute of Technology, we specifically invite sessions and individual papers that will investigate the manifold transformations that happen when recreations, reinventions, and redefinitions of the “medieval” move from one cultural space and time to another. The conference will feature two plenary speakers.  Sylvie Kandé’s research on the migration of medievalisms from Europe and Africa to the Americas, and Kathleen Verduin’s investigation of the North American Dante reception (see below) present excellent examples of the kind of work we invite. We also imagine contributions that would show how medievalisms move between different discourses, genres, technological modes, historical periods, geographies, religions, art forms, social levels, research paradigms, etc. In addition to these contributions to the general theme of the conference, we invite any and all papers on the reception of medieval culture in postmedieval times.

Inquiries, one page proposals for entire sessions (deadline: May 15, 2014), and one page proposals for individual papers (deadline: June 1, 2014) should be sent to the conference organizers at medievalisms@lmc.gatech.edu. The conference will be held from October 24-25, 2014, in Atlanta, GA at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

All presenters at the conference have the opportunity to revise/extend their papers and submit them to The Year’s Work in Medievalism (for texts up to 4,000 words) or Studies in Medievalism (more than 4,000 words). The editors of both journals (YWiM: Ed Risden; Richard Utz; SiM: Karl Fugelso) will be available for discussing possible contributions during the conference. Those with book-length project should contact Chris Jones and Karl Fugelso, editors of Boydell & Brewer’s book series Medievalism.

ICoM 2014 CFP (6/1/14)

Head's up coutesy Richard Utz at medievalism-medievalismo-mediävalismus-médiévalisme:

29th Conference on Medievalism to be Hosted at Georgia Tech 

One of the great epistemological strengths of medievalism studies has been its openness to the many variants of cultural reception, including multiple linguistic, ideological, geographical, and disciplinary perspectives. For this year’s conference at the Georgia Institute of Technology, we specifically invite sessions and individual papers that will investigate the manifold transformations that happen when recreations, reinventions, and redefinitions of the “medieval” move from one cultural space and time to another. The conference ("Medievalisms on the Move") will feature two plenary speakers.  Sylvie Kandé’s research on the migration of medievalisms from Europe and Africa to the Americas, and Kathleen Verduin’s investigation of the North American Dante reception (see below) present excellent examples of the kind of work we invite. We also imagine contributions that would show how medievalisms move between different discourses, genres, technological modes, historical periods, geographies, religions, art forms, social levels, research paradigms, etc. In addition to these contributions to the general theme of the conference, we invite any and all papers on the reception of medieval culture in postmedieval times.

Inquiries, one page proposals for entire sessions (deadline: April 15, 2014), and one page proposals for individual papers (deadline: June 1, 2014) should be sent to the conference organizers at medievalisms@lmc.gatech.edu. The conference will be held from October 24-25, 2014, in Atlanta, GA at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

2013 International Conference on Medievalism CFP (7/1/13; 10/17-19/13)

A quick post for the day: 

Call for Papers
28th International Conference on Medievalism
St. Norbert College
(De Pere, Wisconsin)
(October 17-19, 2013)

Medievalism: Its Centers and Margins
Deadline: July 1, 2013

In addition to the authors, texts, and considerations that normally form the core of studies in medievalism, what authors occupy, haunt, or draw the boundaries of what we consider proper matter for this field? What currently lies outside that we should certainly include, and what perhaps lies near the center that doesn't really fit at all? Within the texts we study, what ideas or approaches form the core, and what has lingered at the margins, or what do we need to bring from outside toward center state for careful study and consideration? Participants should feel welcome to submit abstracts directed to the conference theme or on any other aspects of medievalism--the study of later ages' use of the material of the Middle Ages--that they choose to explore.

St. Norbert College (De Pere, Wisconsin) is just four miles from Green Bay and ten minutes from Green Bay Austin Straubel Airport (with daily service to Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, Cleveland, and Atlanta), about a two-hour dirve north from Milwaukee and four hours' drive from Chicago.

PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES: 

Presenters may feel welcome to submit papers to The Year's Work in Medievalism (edited by E. L. Risden). Longer articles (over 6000 words) should be submitted to Studies in Medievalism (edited by Karl Fugelso).

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: July 1, 2013
Please send papers, abstracts, or session proposals to:
Edward Risden, Professor of English
St. Norbert College
100 Grant St.
De Pere, WI 54115
or
edward.risden@snc.edu

ICoM 2012 Full Details

There are further details about ICoM 2012 on their website that might be of additional interest, as follows:

(October 18-20, 2012)


LOCATION: Kent State University Stark

Nestled on 200 beautiful acres, yet only minutes from the hustle and bustle of The Strip and Westfield Belden Village Mall, Kent State University at Stark provides a quiet, serene and picturesque setting for students and the community to enjoy. With rolling hills, a pond, walking trail, and a Campus Center and Food Emporium, it is located in Jackson Township, just five minutes from the Akron-Canton Airport and easily accessible from Interstate-77.

THEME: Medievalism(s) & Diversity 
Is there diversity in medievalism? How has medievalism represented diversity of religion, race, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, gender,...? How have medievalist works supported issues concerning equity and inclusion? How have medievalist works oppressed and suppressed? Are there elements of bigotry and discrimination? What about human rights as a medieval concept, as a contemporary concept? Media to consider might include (but are not limited to) any of the following: novels, plays, poetry, films, art works, the Internet, television, historical works, political works, comics, video games. Angles to consider might include (but are not limited to) any of the following: race, gender, sexuality, disability/ability, religion, corporation and/or class, nationality, human rights, political correctness, marginalization, anti-marginalization tactics, rewritten codes, rewritten ideologies, re-affirmed codes, re-affirmed ideologies.

GENERAL CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS 
100-300 Word Abstracts proposing papers on all topics relevant to medievalism(s) studies. Addressing the conference theme is encouraged but not required. Abstracts will be included in the conference program.

GENERAL CALL FOR SESSION PROPOSALS
PAPER:
Session proposals must include paper abstract proposals (100-300 words each), as well as an over-all description of the intentions of this session (100-300 words).
WORKSHOP:
Session proposals must be a 100-300 word abstract describing: 1) the purpose and/or goal of the workshop 2) the activity(ies), including a list of those presenting in the workshop.
ROUND TABLE:
Session proposals must a 100-300 word abstract describing: 1) the intentions of the round table and 2) a list of the participants.
SPECIAL UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT SESSIONS:
Students must be college undergraduates currently enrolled for for classes at their academic institution. Sessions must be proposed and moderated by a professor. Professors are responsible for completed papers. Submit: paper abstracts as well as an over-all description of the intentions of this session (100-300 words for each).

VIDEO GAME WORKSHOP
(Sponsored by Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization & Kent State University Trumbull) 
MEMO invites both established scholars and undergraduate students to submit for participation in a medievalist video game poster session workshop (co-sponsored with Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization). This workshop will be held in two ways. One way will be during an afternoon of the conference (in a room filled with the appropriate technology), where conference participants may wander from station-to-station of presented medievalist games. Each participant will have a station (a table) at which both the poster and the game will be made available to conference participants. The poster may be constructed of either paper poster board or be electronic (such as a PowerPoint presentation on a laptop). NOTE regarding the video game demonstrations at the conference: the game and the necessary equipment might have to be supplied by the presenter, but there will be some pieces available for general use. The other way that one might present would be fully online, in a password protected area, where electronic posters will be accessible to all conference participants for several weeks. Participants may be considered to present in both the physical and virtual environments. There are a limited number of stations available for the at-conference (physical) presentations. Proposals must address this conference theme. Please encourage your students to submit completed posters and the Video Game Poster Session Student Application & Checklist for consideration by June 1, 2012. In addition, please also consider submitting a paper proposal yourself (for the conference in general).

SPECIAL ONLINE SESSIONS (October 15-November 15, 2012) 
(Sponsored by Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization & Kent State University Trumbull) 
Papers and Session Proposals will be considered for the Special Online Sessions. Your presentation can be in any type of media format that can be hosted on the Internet: PDF, PowerPoint, Videos, and other online media. These sessions will be password protected and available only to Conference Registrants (both online and on-campus). Papers in the online sessions may not be presented in the on-campus conference. The online sessions will be available for both perusal and discussion (online) from October 15 to November 15, 2012.
PAPER:
Session proposals must include paper abstract proposals (100-300 words each), as well as an over-all description of the intentions of this session (100-300 words).
WORKSHOP:
Session proposals must be a 100-300 word abstract describing: 1) the purpose and/or goal of the workshop 2) the activity(ies), including a list of those presenting in the workshop.
ROUND TABLE:
Session proposals must a 100-300 word abstract describing: 1) the intentions of the round table and 2) a list of the participants.
SPECIAL UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT SESSIONS:
Students must be college undergraduates currently enrolled for for classes at their academic institution. Sessions must be proposed and moderated by a professor. Professors are responsible for completed papers. Submit: paper abstracts as well as an over-all description of the intentions of this session (100-300 words for each).

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STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST
SPECIAL DEADLINE: July 15, 2012 
RULES:
1. Students must be college undergraduates currently enrolled for for classes at their academic institution.
2. Essays must address the theme "Medievalism(s) and Diversity" (see description above).
3. Essays must be MLA formatted, double-spaced, and in 12 point font.
4. Essays must be submitted in PDF format via email or in paper format via regular postal mail to either Dr. Carol L. Robinson or Dr. Elizabeth Williamsen (see the addresses below).
5. NO FAXED SUBMISSIONS! 
PRIZES
1ST PLACE: The winning essay will be published in Medievally Speaking, be mentioned on the International Society for the Study of Medievalism web site, and receive $100.00 prize money. The paper will also be expected to be presented in a Special Session at the 27th International Conference on Medievalism. 
2ND PLACE: The essay that earns Second Place status will be mentioned on the International Society for the Study of Medievalism web site, and receive $75.00 prize money. The paper will also be expected to be presented in a Special Session at the 27th International Conference on Medievalism. 
3RD PLACE: The essay that earns Third Place status will be mentioned on the International Society for the Study of Medievalism web site, and receive $50.00 prize money. The paper will also be expected to be presented in a Special Session at the 27th International Conference on Medievalism. 
HONORABLE MENTION: Any essay that earns an Honorable Mention status (which may or may not happen) will be mentioned on the International Society for the Study of Medievalism web site. The paper might also be invited to be presented in a Special Session at the 27th International Conference on Medievalism.

Publication Opportunities 
Selected scholarly papers related to the conference theme will be published in The Year’s Work in Medievalism. 

Deadline: June 1, 2012
Please send paper and/or session proposals to either:

Carol L. Robinson, Conference Chair  International Conference on Medievalism Kent State University Trumbull 4314 Mahoning Avenue, NW Warren, Ohio 44483 EMAIL: clrobins@kent.edu FAX: 330-437-0490

Elizabeth Williamsen, Conference Assist. Chair  International Conference on Medievalism Kent State University Stark 6000 Frank Avenue, NW North Canton, Ohio 44720 EMAIL: ewilli46@kent.edu FAX: 330-437-0490

Medievalism(s) & Diversity CFP (6/1/12; ICoM 10/18-20/12)

My thanks (as always) to Carol Robinson for the head's up:

2ND CALL FOR PROPOSALS

24th International Conference on Medievalism
Hosted by Kent State University Regional Campuses
October 18-20, 2012
ON-CAMPUS LOCATION: Kent State University Stark
ONLINE LOCATION: A portion of this year's conference will be hosted online (October 15 to November 15) in a password-protected location.

PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES: Select papers may be published in THE YEAR'S WORK IN MEDIEVALISM, as well as be considered for publication in MEDIEVALLY SPEAKING and STUDIES IN MEDIEVALISM.

VIDEO GAME POSTER SESSION & WORKSHOP: Co-sponsored by Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization.

STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST: Undergraduate students might consider submitting completed papers to be judge by several members of the International Society for the Study of Medievalism; prizes are available for the top three essays.


DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: June 1, 2012
DEADLINE FOR STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST: July 15, 2012

THEME: Medievalism(s) & Diversity
Is there diversity in medievalism? How has medievalism represented diversity of religion, race, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, gender,...? How have medievalist works supported issues concerning equity and inclusion? How have medievalist works oppressed and suppressed? Are there elements of bigotry and discrimination? What about human rights as a medieval concept, as a contemporary concept? Media to consider might include (but are not limited to) any of the following: novels, plays, poetry, films, art works, the Internet, television, historical works, political works, comics, video games. Angles to consider might include (but are not limited to) any of the following: race, gender, sexuality, disability/ability, religion, corporation and/or class, nationality, human rights, political correctness, marginalization, anti-marginalization tactics, rewritten codes, rewritten ideologies, re-affirmed codes, re-affirmed ideologies.

Proposals for papers, paper sessions, round table sessions, workshops, and video game poster presentations will be considered.

MORE INFORMATION: http://www.medievalism.net/conferences/ksu2012conference.html


Carol L. Robinson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Kent State University Trumbull
http://www.cyberspacerobinson.net

CFP ICoM 2012

Call for Papers (download the CFP)

27th International Conference on Medievalism 

Hosted by Kent State University Regional Campuses 

(October 18-20, 2012)

THEME: Medievalism(s) & Diversity

Deadline: June 1, 2012

Conference Theme: Is there diversity in medievalism? How has medievalism represented diversity of religion, race, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, gender,...? How have medievalist works supported issues concerning equity and inclusion? How have medievalist works oppressed and suppressed? Are there elements of bigotry and discrimination? What about human rights as a medieval concept, as a contemporary concept? Media to consider might include (but are not limited to) any of the following: novels, plays, films, art works, the Internet, television, historical works, political works, comics, video games. Angles to consider might include (but are not limited to) any of the following: race, gender, sexuality, disability/ability, religion, corporation and/or class, nationality, human rights, political correctness, marginalization, anti-marginalization tactics, rewritten codes, rewritten ideologies, re-affirmed codes, re-affirmed ideologies.

Conference Location: Nestled on 200 beautiful acres, yet only minutes from the hustle and bustle of The Strip and Westfield Belden Village Mall, Kent State University at Stark provides a quiet, serene and picturesque setting for students and the community to enjoy. With rolling hills, a pond, walking trail, and a Campus Center and Food Emporium, it is located in Jackson Township, just five minutes from the Akron-Canton Airport and easily accessible from Interstate-77.

Publication Opportunities:
Selected papers related to the conference theme will be published in The Year’s Work in Medievalism.


Deadline: June 1, 2012
Please send paper and/or session proposals to either
Carol Robinson (Conference Chair) or to Elizabeth Williamsen (Conference Assistant Chair).

Carol L. Robinson, Conference Chair
International Conference on Medievalism
Kent State University Trumbull
4314 Mahoning Avenue, NW
Warren, Ohio 44483
EMAIL: clrobins@kent.edu
FAX: 330-437-0490

Elizabeth Williamsen, Conference Assist. Chair
International Conference on Medievalism
Kent State University Stark
6000 Frank Avenue, NW
North Canton, Ohio 44720
EMAIL: ewilli46@kent.edu
FAX: 330-437-0490

ICoM 2011

With apologies for cross-posting:

The International Society for the Study of Medievalism recently convened its 26th International Conference on Medievalism at the University of New Mexico under the general theme of Medievalism, Arthuriana, and Landscapes of Enchantment from 21-22 October 2011. The complete program can be accessed at http://ims.unm.edu/sim/.