CFP MMLA 2025 Permanent Session: Old and Middle English Language and Literature (4/21/2025; online 11/14-16/2025)

 

MMLA 2025 Permanent Session: Old and Middle English Language and Literature

deadline for submissions: 

April 21, 2025

full name / name of organization: 

Midwest Modern Language Association

contact email: 

kathleen.burt@mga.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/25/mmla-2025-permanent-session-old-and-middle-english-language-and-literature.

Note: this conference has a hybrid format  (both virtual and in-person sessions). This session will be virtual.

The general call for this year, inviting “papers that explore the value of the Humanities in relation to a more hopeful future” in areas including but not limited to “languages, literature, pedagogy, writing studies, linguistics, folklore, film studies, the digital humanities, and library studies”, has broad possibilities within the languages, literatures, histories, and cultures related to Old and Middle English. This panel welcomes papers that address the presence, importance, and/or relevance of hope as a concept, mindset, language, and/or practice in Old and Middle English works of any kind, as well as explorations, arguments, or discussions of the relevance or importance or perceptions of these texts and ideas in both the medieval and the modern world.

Such considerations might take the form of (but need not be limited to) exploring any or all of the following: hope in, with, for, by humans and/or humanity; development of humanism as a literary, scientific, or historical or cultural movement; medieval literature/history/culture and medievalism as sources of study of or inspiration for hope; hopes for the field(s) now and in the future, and/or ways to cultivate such hopes.

 

Please send abstracts of approximately 350 words, along with a cv or brief biographical statement, to Dr. Kathleen Burt at kathleen.burt@mga.edu by no later than April 21, 2025.

Last updated March 24, 2025

CFP “Re-new-al: connecting culture and history, past and present” (4/15/2022; MMLA 2022 Permanent Session: Old and Middle English Language and Literature)

“Re-new-al: connecting culture and history, past and present” MMLA 2022 Permanent Session: Old and Middle English Language and Literature

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/03/04/%E2%80%9Cre-new-al-connecting-culture-and-history-past-and-present%E2%80%9D-mmla-2022-permanent

deadline for submissions:
April 15, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Midwest Modern Language Association

contact email:
kathleen.burt@mga.edu



“Re-new-al: connecting culture and history, past and present”

MMLA 2022 Permanent Session: Old and Middle English Language and Literature



The general conference theme “post-now” presents some very current and relevant possibilities for the study of late antique and medieval English languages and literatures. Any proposal that considers this theme in general will be welcome, but two foci will be of particular interest.

Firstly, the medieval is a common element in many modern public cultural discussions in general with varying degrees of historical accuracy and/or understanding. Discussions of medievalisms in any form and how the past is related to the present, either in historical accuracy or perception, or exploration of any intersections between the shifting understandings, uses, adaptations, and appropriations of the medieval past and our present now, are encouraged. The focus might be political, historical, ethnic or racial, cultural, linguistic, artistic or visual, literary, pop culture, etc..

Second, perception and definition of self and other in times of change is a current scholarly concern addressing medieval eras in many places, including England and Europe. Definition and perception of self or other could include individual or collective identity according to language, geography, nationality, gender, race, etc., especially in response to challenge or shift in identity or identifier. As above, the focus might be political, historical, ethnic or racial, cultural, linguistic, artistic or visual, literary, etc.



Please send abstracts of approximately 350 words, along with a cv or brief biographical statement, to Dr. Kathleen Burt at katheen.burt@mga.edu by no later than April 15, 2022.



Last updated March 8, 2022