Marie de France Translations/Adaptations Roundtable Help for Kalamazoo 2027

Sharing on behalf of the organizers. Updated deadline 9/20/2026.

 

Reimagining Marie de France: Adaptations, Translations, and Fan-Fiction (A Roundtable)

Description

The Lais of Marie de France have been the subject of a number of translations, adaptations, and even fan-fiction. There are medieval translations like the Old Norse Strengleikar, contemporary adaptations such as Emilie Mercier’s animated short film and Kel McDonald’s graphic novel, and even novels about Marie de France, like Lauren Groff’s Matrix, a sort of fan-fiction that re-imagines the context of Marie’s Lais. This roundtable seeks contributions on any aspect of translating, adapting or re-interpreting Marie de France, using any methodological approach, in order to better define the history and significance of the works of Marie de France.

Submit an Abstract to this Session

CFP Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (6/1/2026; Toronto 4/15-17/2027)

From the Medieval Academy of America:

MAA News – 2027 Call for Papers

Posted on March 4, 2026 by Chris

Source: https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-news-2027-call-for-papers-3/.

The 102nd Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of the University of Toronto, 15-17 April, 2027. The meeting is hosted by The Centre for Medieval Studies, in partnership with the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and the Canadian Society of Medievalists. The Annual Meeting will be held at Trinity College and St Michael’s College, two of the federated colleges in the University of Toronto college system. Scholars may wish to extend their visit and take advantage of opportunities for research at the library of the Pontifical Institute, one of the premier research libraries in Medieval Studies.


The Program Commitee welcomes innovative panels that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries or that use various disciplinary approaches to examine an individual topic. We encourage papers on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, or Eastern Europe and the networks and exchanges between East and West.

Click here for more information and to submit a proposal. Proposals must be submitted by 1 June 2026.

CFP Reading Chaucer outside the Anglophone World: Receptions, Translations, and Traditions (6/30/2026; Taiwan 3/12-13/2027)

From the Global Chaucers site: https://globalchaucers.com/2026/01/20/reading-chaucer-outside-the-anglophone-world-receptions-translations-and-traditions/. 

In Sondry Ages and Sondry Londes

Reading Chaucer outside the Anglophone World: Receptions, Translations, and Traditions

Date: March 12–13, 2027
Venue: National Taiwan University, Taiwan

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The recent Mandarin Chinese translation of The Canterbury Tales (Linking Publishing, 2025) by Dr. Francis K. H. So offers a timely opportunity to reflect on the growing presence, vitality, and diversity of Chaucerian studies outside the Anglophone world. This significant contribution not only opens new avenues for engaging with Geoffrey Chaucer’s language and narrative art, but also foregrounds the crucial role of translation, pedagogy, and local scholarly traditions in shaping how Chaucer is read, interpreted, and taught across different linguistic and cultural contexts.

Aligned with the New Chaucer Society’s (NCS) ongoing initiative “In Sondry Ages and Sondry Londes” (curated by Dr. Jonathan Fruoco), this international conference seeks to advance a more globally grounded Chaucerian studies, one that situates the significance of Chaucer beyond the Anglophone world by foregrounding translation, adaptations, multilingual readerships, pedagogical practices, and cross-cultural intellectual exchange. By bringing together scholars working across diverse linguistic regions and by creating a venue for established scholars, early-career researchers, and graduate students, the conference aims to foster sustained conversations about Chaucer’s afterlives and to strengthen transnational scholarly networks shaped by translation, adaptation, and comparative inquiry.

The keynote speakers are Dr. Candace Barrington, Professor of English at Central Connecticut State University and President of the New Chaucer Society, whose work focuses on Chaucer and medieval English literature, especially global reception, translation, and adaptation, and Dr. Francis K. H. So, Professor Emeritus at National Sun Yat-sen University, whose scholarship centers on Chaucer, medieval and Renaissance English literature, East–West comparative studies, and the translation and global circulation of premodern texts.

We invite proposals that explore any aspect of Chaucer’s works, their translations and adaptations, as well as their critical or creative receptions outside the Anglophone world, or in comparative and transregional contexts. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

• Translation, Adaptation, and Literary Mediation
• New approaches to, or challenges in, translating Chaucer into non-Anglophone languages
• Histories of major translations and translators, and the role of translation in shaping local understandings of Chaucer
• Considerations of the role publishers (both university and commercial presses) supporting and promoting editions of Chaucer outside the Anglophone sphere
• Theoretical reflections on translation, vernacularity, and Middle English in multilingual or cross-cultural contexts
• Chaucer-inspired works in contemporary literature, media, or visual culture
• Reception, Pedagogy, and Intellectual HistoriesHistories of Chaucerian scholarship in non-Anglophone academic traditions
• Pedagogical practices and challenges in teaching Chaucer in multilingual or non-Anglophone classrooms
• Chaucer in textbook cultures, anthologies, curricula, and the formation of literary canons, particularly the “World Literature” category Chaucer in Global and Comparative Perspectives
• Cross-cultural approaches to medieval narrative, performance, humor, or religiosityComparative medievalisms across linguistic, national, or cultural traditions
• Reading Chaucer alongside non-Western or premodern texts (for example, The Tale of Genji, The Cloud Dream of the Nine, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms), with attention to narrative framing, irony, or social satire
• Intersections between Chaucer and local philosophical or aesthetic traditions
• Texts, Traditions, and Critical MethodsCritical innovations on Chaucer’s oeuvre (The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, the dream visions, Chaucer’s translations of Latin and French texts, and shorter poems), through lenses such as gender, race, affect, ecology, embodiment, or disability
• Manuscript studies, material culture, digital humanities, or archival research, particularly Middle English manuscripts housed in Asia and the global South.
• Chaucer, colonialism, and postcolonial reception histories in non-Anglophone contexts

The conference will be held in person on March 12–13, 2027, at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Please submit a proposal (250 words in English) along with a brief bio of 100 words to readingchaucer@gmail.com by June 30, 2026. In addition to individual paper proposals, the conference welcomes panel proposals consisting of three to four papers organized around a shared theme. Panel submissions should include a panel abstract (300 words) outlining the panel’s coherence and relevance to the conference theme, along with individual paper abstracts (250 words each) and a brief 100-word bio for each participant.

We particularly welcome submissions from graduate students and early-career scholars, and we hope this gathering will reinforce and expand long-term networks of Chaucerian research beyond the Anglophone world. There is no registration fee for the conference. For updated information, please visit the conference website: https://readingchaucer.com/.

This event is co-sponsored by the New Chaucer Society (NCS), the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS), University Paris Nanterre (CREA), and the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Taiwan.

Conference Organizers:
Sophia Yashih Liu, National Taiwan University
Yu-Ching (Louis) Wu, National Central University
Jonathan Fruoco, University Paris Nanterre (CREA)

CFP Wooden O Symposium 2026 (3/31/2026; Utah 8/3-5/2026)

Wooden O Symposium

deadline for submissions:
March 31, 2026

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/2026/01/09/wooden-o-symposium

August 3-5, 2026

Southern Utah University - Utah Shakespeare Festival



The Wooden O Symposium is a cross-disciplinary conference exploring the impact of Shakespeare's plays on culture and history, from his time to the present. This face-to-face conference aims to foster research in the field of Shakespeare Studies and to provide connections between academia and professional theatre productions through our partnership with the Utah Shakespeare Festival. The Wooden O Symposium limits participation to 25 presenters to ensure robust conversation and feedback as we strive to create a community of scholars engaged with the work of Shakespeare.

Our 2026 keynote speaker is Dr. Daniel Vitkus, Rebeca Hickel Endowed Chair in Elizabethan Literature at the University of California, San Diego

We invite proposals for presentations on any topic relating to Shakespeare and his plays, including:

• Shakespeare and Adaptation
• Shakespeare in Performance
• Shakespeare and History, Culture, and Society
• Shakespeare and Rhetoric
• Shakespeare and the Arts
• Shakespeare and his Global Contemporaries
• Theoretical Approaches

We also encourage papers and presentations speaking to the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s 2026 summer season: Troilus and Cressida, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night. Conference registration includes 1 ticket to Troilus and Cressida and 1 to Hamlet, as well as 50% off any USF ticket from August 3-5 for you and your guests.

The deadline for proposals is March 31, 2026. Please include a 200-250-word abstract and the following information:

• name of presenter
• participant category (faculty, graduate student, or independent scholar)
• college/university affiliation
• email address
• audio/visual requirements and any other special requests.

All abstracts should be submitted through the following link: 2026 Wooden O Symposium Submission Form

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 9, 2026

Conference Update - 2026 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America

The Medieval Academy of America has issued the following update on its upcoming annual meeting. The program is online and includes some panels and papers devoted to the medieval in post-medieval contexts.

MAA News – 2026 Annual Meeting Registration is Open!

Posted on January 8, 2026

Source: https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-news-2026-annual-meeting-registration-is-open/.


Registration is now open for the 101st Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America. The Meeting will take place on March 19–21, 2026 on the campuses of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst College, and will also include events at Mt. Holyoke College and Smith College. Hosted by the Five College Consortium, the theme of the meeting is “Consortiums and Confluences.” The program will bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds addressing the medieval world and critical topics in Medieval Studies. Our plenary lectures will be given by Elly Truitt (Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania), Peggy McCracken (President of the Medieval Academy of America and Professor of French, Women’s Studies, and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan), and Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco (Augustus R. Street Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Comparative Literature at Yale University). We are excited to welcome you to Amherst, Massachusetts, and its environs, and look forward to meeting you, learning from you, and celebrating our shared commitment to Medieval Studies.

Click here for more information and to register!

CFP Medievalisms Area at SWPACA 2026 (10/31/2025; Albuquerque 2/25-28/2026)

Medievalisms Area at SWPACA 2026

deadline for submissions:
October 31, 2025

full name / name of organization:
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association

contact email:
adunai@tamuct.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/01/medievalisms-area-at-swpaca-2026



Call for Papers

Medievalisms Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)



47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open: September 1, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025



Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 47th annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit https://swpaca.org/subject-areas/.



The Medievalisms Area invites papers exploring constructions and representations of the medieval from any number of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. This area is broadly interested in how meanings, uses, and signifiers of the medieval are engaged and negotiated, both in specific instances and across time. Papers might approach medievalism with attention to media (e.g., literary medievalisms, cinematic medievalisms, etc.); historical, regional, and cultural contexts (among others); theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary approaches; and any other scholarly (including scholarly-creative and pedagogical) perspectives and topics.



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



For details on using the submission database and on the application process in general (including submitting proposals for roundtables and preformed panels), please see the FAQS & Resources tab on https://swpaca.org/.



Individual proposals for 15-minute papers must include an abstract of approximately 200-500 words and a brief summary of 100 words or less.



For information on how to submit a proposal for a roundtable or a multi-paper panel, please view the above FAQs & Resources link.



The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2025.



SWPACA offers monetary awards for the best graduate student papers in a variety of categories. Submissions of accepted, full papers are due January 1, 2026. More details are here: https://swpaca.org/graduate-student-paper-awards/. SWPACA also offers travel fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students as well as contingent faculty: https://swpaca.org/travel-awards-students-faculty/.



Registration and travel information for the conference is available at https://swpaca.org/albuquerque-conference/. For 2026, we will be returning to the Marriott Albuquerque (2101 Louisiana Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110), which boasts free parking and close proximity to shopping and dining.



In addition, please check out the organization’s peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, at https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dialogue/.



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@swpaca.org, and a member of the executive team will get back to you.



This will be a fully in-person conference. If you’re looking for an online option to present your work, keep an eye out for details about the 2026 SWPACA Summer Salon, a completely virtual conference to take place in June 2026.



We look forward to receiving your submissions!


Last updated September 2, 2025

CFP IARHS-Sponsored Session (6/25/2025; Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Cincinnati 11/6-8/2025)

Sharing on behalf of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies:

CFP: IARHS-Sponsored Session, Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, November 6-8, 2025, University of Cincinnati

Proposed Sponsored Session Title: “Confluences in the Robin Hood Tradition”


The theme of SEMA’s 50th annual conference is “Confluences”:
https://southeasternmedieval.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/sema-2025-cfp/


With that theme in mind, the IARHS welcomes abstracts for formal paper sessions to be considered for 1-2 possible sessions at SEMA’s in-person conference.

• How does the Robin Hood tradition explore political, environmental, geographical, natural confluences in its body of literature?
• In what ways does the Robin Hood tradition merge disparate or similar cultures, ideologies, texts to form something new?
• In what ways is the Robin Hood tradition fixated upon or enamored with concepts of hybridity of physical, ideological, or textual bodies/forms? 
• "Confluences" suggests movement, which results in an overlapping, a layering, and/or a merging of objects or forms. As such, in what ways is the Robin Hood tradition (its body of literature, its various media texts) reliant upon existing or nascent textual conjunctions, accretions, convergences, and meetings not only to sustain itself but also to create new works?

Please send to Alex Kaufman (alkaufman@bsu.edu) by June 25, 2025 the following items in a Word Document or a PDF for consideration for an IARHS-sponsored session at the SEMA Conference:


1. Your name
2. Your email
3. Your affiliation
4. A 250-word abstract
5. 3-5 keywords
6. If you will need technology to present at the conference

CFP UVA Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXVIII (6/23/2025; 9/18-20/2025)

 

UVA Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXVIII (9/18-20)

deadline for submissions: 

June 23, 2025

full name / name of organization: 

University of Virginia-Wise Center for Medieval-Renaissance Studies

contact email: 

kjt9t@uvawise.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/03/07/uva-wise-medieval-renaissance-conference-xxxviii-918-20.

Sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 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 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.  Proposals for panels should include: a) title of the panel; b) names and institutional affiliations of the chair and all panelists; c) a 200-250 word description of the panel).  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. 

Keynote Address

Frederick de Armas, University of Chicago  Cervantes’ Architectures: Windows, Holes, Corners and Fissures

Professor de Armas’ keynote address arises out of his study of the architectures in Cervantes’ works, especially depictions of smaller architectural elements such as rooms in the attic, shuttered windows and even keyholes. Professor de Armas will investigate other holes, along with corners and fissures, conjugating the apparent insignificance of some architectural features or flaws, with their inordinate consequences. Specifically, his address will discuss the three moments in the Don Quixote in which the story of Pyramus and Thisbe come into play and show how its cracks and fissures are spaces for innovation in Cervantes’ novel. 

Frederick De Armas received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1969) and was awarded a doctorate Honoris Causa by the Université de Neuchatel (Switzerland) in 2018. He also received the Norman Maclean Faculty Award in 2023. Professor De Armas has taught at Louisiana State University, Duke University and Pennsylvania State University. He has been Andrew W. Mellon Professor and then Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago (2000-2024). At Chicago, he has served as Chair of the Department of RLL and Director of Graduate Studies. He has been President of the Cervantes Society of America and President of AISO (Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro). He is now Honorary President of AISO and of EMIT: Early Modern Image and Text Society.  He has been awarded several NEH Fellowships and has directed several NEH Seminars.

His interests include the politics of astrology; ekphrasis; the uses of architecture in early modern prose fiction; the relations between the verbal and the visual particularly between Spanish literature and Italian art; and the interconnections between myth and empire during the rule of the Habsburgs. He is the author of numerous books and edited volumes. Some of the more recent ones: 

Writing for the Eyes in the Spanish Golden Age (Bucknell UP2004);
Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes (Bucknell UP 2005);
Quixotic Frescoes: Cervantes and Italian Renaissance Art (Toronto 2006);
Ovid in the Age of Cervantes (Toronto UP 2010);
Don Quixote among the Saracens: Clashes of Civilizations and Literary Genres (Toronto UP 2011);
El retorno de Astrea: astrología, mito e imperio en Calderón (Iberoamericana 2016);
Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain (U of Delaware P, 2019):
Cervantes’ Architectures: The Dangers Outside (Toronto UP, 2022).He is also the author of several short stories and has published two novels: El abra del Yumurí (2016) and Sinfonía Salvaje (2019), both set in Cuba in the late 1950’s. Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words by June 23, 2025 to: https://www.uvawise.edu/webform/medieval-renaissance-proposals/ For more information, please visit our website: https://www.uvawise.edu/academics/department-language-literature/medieval-renaissance-conference/ or contact

Kenneth J. Tiller
Professor of English
Co-director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
UVA’s College at Wise
Wise, VA 24293
(276) 376-4587
kjt9t@virginia.edu  

Last updated March 14, 2025

CFP 2025 Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association (3/10/2025; Logan, UT 5/29-6/1/2025)

Sharing from email:

Dearest members and friends,


Just a reminder that the CFP is open for our 2025 conference through March 10. As we get more conference info, it will be posted on our conference website: https://rmmra.org/conferences


If you have any suggestions for keynote speakers, please reply with your ideas!


The CFP is as follows:


We are excited to announce that RMMRA 2025 will be held at Utah State University!!!

The conference will be hosted by the research library and will feature a special exhibit including materials from both Utah State and University of Utah as a part of the conference! (See page 6 for more information)

Call for Proposals

The 57th annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association will take place in Logan, Utah, May 29-June 1, 2025, hosted by Utah State University in a hybrid format. Participation is welcome both in person and online for all events.

The RMMRA is seeking proposals on any topic relating to the period 400-1700 CE in a variety of formats that address some aspect of medieval and early modern studies. We encourage proposals that are both within and across traditional disciplines, including (but not limited to) history, art, literature, architecture, art history, religious studies, history of science, politics, languages, and digital humanities. We also encourage proposals that move across or outside of the traditional academy, including (but not limited to) archival work, K-12 teaching, popular history, and other venues.

We welcome papers on any medieval or early modern topic ca. 500-1700, including pedagogy, medievalisms, revisions and reimaginings, and other related works. We are particularly interested in promoting scholarship that crosses traditional boundaries of time and space, including comparative work, focus on the global medieval/early modern and precolonial cultures, and work that crosses disciplinary boundaries.

All are welcome to submit proposals until March 10, 2025.

Participants are encouraged to propose any of the following with a 100-200 word abstract:

- a paper to be read in a typical panel;

- a full panel of papers linked by theme or approach;

- a work-in-progress for detailed workshop feedback;

- a moderated discussion panel.

All participants are also welcome to volunteer as readers for works-in-progress seminars, which will involve pre-reading submitted papers and offering critical feedback during the conference.

Visit www.memberplanet.com/s/rmmra/rmmra2025submissions to submit a proposal.


Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Association

Kristin M.S. Bezio, President

Jessica Brown, Secretary

Samantha Dressel, Treasurer

Vincent Patarino, Membership Officer

Alani Hicks-Bartlet, Affiliations Officer & Associate Organization Rep.

Corinne Wieben, Communications Officer

Charles Smith, Registered Agent

CFP 2026 Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting (Amherst, MA 3/19-21/2026)

2026 Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting:

Consortiums and Confluences

Call for Papers

The 101st annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on March 19–21, 2026 on the campuses of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst College, and will also include events at Mt. Holyoke College and Smith College. Hosted by the Five College Consortium, the theme of the meeting is “Consortiums and Confluences.” The program will bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds addressing the medieval world and critical topics in Medieval Studies. Our plenary lectures will be given by Elly Truitt (Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania), Peggy McCracken (Incoming President of the Medieval Academy of America and Professor of French, Women’s Studies, and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan), and Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco (Augustus R. Street Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Comparative Literature at Yale University). We are excited to welcome you to Amherst, MA, and its environs, and look forward to meeting you, learning from you, and celebrating our shared commitment to Medieval Studies.

Click here for more information and the full Call for Papers.

UPDATE CFP (Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media (10/15/2024; NeMLA Philadelphia 3/6-9/2025)

UPDATED DEADLINE

(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media

Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa, Karen Casey Casebier, and Carl B. Sell

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

Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 15 October 2024

56th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown (Philadelphia, PA)

On-site event: 6-9 March 2025

Rationale

Our conception of the Middle Ages is usually formed by the versions of the medieval past we experienced as children, and, because they are considered suitable for young viewers, animated depictions of this world often represent our earliest exposure to the events, personages, and stories of this era. Consequently, the animated creations of the Walt Disney Company have played a huge part in shaping our collective image of the Middle Ages, but the corpus of medieval-themed animation is truly vast. It has been expanded greatly by the output of many other content producers across the globe through anime, cartoons, films, games, streaming videos, and theatrical shorts. (See our list of representative texts–at https://tinyurl.com/ReAnimatingtheMiddleAgesCFP–for examples.)

Despite animation's important role in shaping how we perceive and receive the medieval past, the field of Medieval Animation Studies remains limited, especially compared to the fluorescence of Medieval Film Studies and Medieval Television Studies over the past four decades. In this panel, we seek in particular to build upon the pioneering work of medieval-animation scholar Michael N. Salda and provide additional insights into the ways medieval-themed animation has impacted our contemporary world. Presenters might explore anime, cartoons, films, games, shorts, and videos produced through traditional ink-and-paint, stop-motion, claymation, or computer-generated imagery. Selections should represent and/or engage with some aspect of the medieval, such as artifacts, characters, settings, themes, etc. These might be central to the narrative, tangential, or appearing solely as cameos. (For ideas and support, we have created a list of representative texts and a resource guide devoted to studies of medieval-themed animation. It can be accessed at https://tinyurl.com/ReAnimatingtheMiddleAgesCFP.) 

Submission Instructions

In this panel, we seek in particular to build upon the pioneering work of medieval-animation scholar Michael N. Salda and provide additional insights into the ways medieval-themed animation has impacted our contemporary world. Presenters might explore anime, cartoons, films, games, shorts, and videos produced through traditional ink-and-paint, stop-motion, claymation, or computer-generated imagery. Selections should represent and/or engage with some aspect of the medieval, such as artifacts, characters, settings, themes, etc., presented as central to the narrative, tangential, or appearing solely as cameos.  

For ideas and support, please see our list of representative texts and resource guide devoted to studies of medieval-themed animation at https://tinyurl.com/ReAnimatingtheMiddleAgesCFP. 

All proposals must be submitted into the CFPList system at https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21105 by 15 October 2024. 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 status of your submission will be made by 16 October 2024. If accepted, NeMLA asks you to confirm your participation with the session chairs by accepting their invitations and by registering for the event. The deadline for Registration/Membership is 9 December 2024.

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.nemla.org/convention/policies.html, for further details,)

NeMLA offers limited funding for travel to graduate students and to contingent faculty, adjunct instructors, independent scholars, and two-year college faculty. Details can be found at the NeMLA Travel Awards page at https://www.nemla.org/awards/travel.html.  

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/.  

CFP NVSA 2025: The Twentieth Century (10/15/2024; Boston 4/4-6/2025)

NVSA 2025: The Twentieth Century – 50th Anniversary Conference

deadline for submissions:
October 15, 2024

full name / name of organization:
Northeast Victorian Studies

contact email:
seckert@wesleyan.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/08/07/nvsa-2025-the-twentieth-century-%E2%80%93-50th-anniversary-conference

The Northeast Victorian Studies Association 2025

50th Anniversary Conference

April 4-6, 2025

Keynote panel with Kristin Mahoney, Nasser Mufti, and John Plotz



View the full call here >> https://nvsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/call-for-papers-nvsa-2025-1.pdf



The Northeast Victorian Studies Association seeks proposals on the theme “The Twentieth Century” for its annual conference at Boston University. A product of the twentieth century, NVSA held its first official meeting on “The Victorian Family” at Assumption University in 1975. Fifty years later, we invite you to join us in celebrating an organization that has been a pillar of the field across the decades.



There is a paradox in a Victorianist conference organized around the twentieth century. How did the desires and needs of the twentieth century lead to the invention of our field of study? What got dragged, kicking and screaming, into twentieth century from the nineteenth? We welcome submissions that probe such contradictions and anachronisms: the lingering presence of one era in another, as well as more conceptual approaches to the idea of the literary period as such. Where do scholarly commitments to periodization stand now?



From work in reception history, adaptation studies, intellectual history, and disciplinary history, what versions of the Victorian have been mobilized, returned to, or remade in its wake? What supposedly “Victorian” ideas, concepts, and genres owe their origin to their close descendants? Does the line between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries feel harder or softer than it did for previous generations? And why do so many scholars of the Victorian period extend their interests forward rather than backward in time?



Submissions are also encouraged that consider both the afterlives and immediate adjacencies of the Victorian period. We invite papers that explore specific forms, authors, genres, media, movements, and ideas of modernity that emerge across and between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: late Victorian realism and genre fiction, aestheticism, fin-de-siècle media (especially film and photography), imperial networks of circulation, and shifts in the conceptualization of national, ecological, aesthetic, colonial and biopolitical categories at the century’s turn.



Our hope is that scholars who have joined us before (in this century or the last) will return by one of two traditional paths: submitting an anonymous abstract for the consideration of the programming committee, or attending simply to enjoy.



Proposals (no more than 300 words) are due by Oct. 15, 2024(email only, in Word format). Submit them to Sierra Eckert, Chair, Program Committee: seckert@wesleyan.edu. Please note: all submissions to NVSA are evaluated anonymously. Successful proposals will stay within the 300-word limit and make a compelling case for the talk and its relation to the conference topic. Please do not send complete papers, and do not include your name on the proposal. Include your name, institution, email address, and proposal title in the body of the email. Papers should be 15 minutes long.



For more information on recommended topics, travel grants, and essay prizes please see: https://nvsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/call-for-papers-nvsa-2025-1.pdf



Last updated August 8, 2024

CFP Robin Hood: The Legend in Social-Cultural and Political Contexts (7/7/2024; SEMA Augusta, GA 10/10-12/2024)

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Robin Hood: The Legend in Social-Cultural and Political Contexts

International Association for Robin Hood Studies
Call for Papers
2024 Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association
10-12 October, Augusta College, Augusta, Georgia

The Robin Hood/Greenwood legend has endured for over 500 years, largely because of its mutability. As social-cultural and political climates change, Robin and Marian and the legend shift accordingly, sometimes in seemingly extreme directions. From the late 15th-early 16th-century Gest of Robyn Hood to the Late Medieval and Early Modern ballads and plays; to the folklore enthusiasts and the plays, poems, and episodic 19th-century novels; to the 20th-century’s plethora of novels, children’s books, movies, television programs, comics, and games; to the 21st-century’s novels, films, and streaming video: Robin and Company have been yeoman outlaws, aristocratic outlaws, outlaws who help the poor and oppressed, outlaws who seek to help restore traditional government, outlaws who seek to help create a more equality-based government, outlaws who protest foreign wars, outlaws who participate in foreign wars. They can be congenial, aloof, intense, detached. Their Greenwood homes range from forest floor to treehouse community. Their numbers include men, women, and even children of an increasingly wide variety of races, ethnicities, and religions. They may appear medieval, somewhat medieval, early modern, modern, or a bewildering mix of times and places. They inhabit not only England, but Scotland, Wales, and the United States, among other places.
What social-cultural or political climate changes might influence one or more of these expressions of the Greenwood legend?

In keeping with the 2024 conference theme of the Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA), “Climate,” the International Association for Robin Hood Studies invites paper proposals for a session titled “Robin Hood: The Legend in Social-Cultural and Political Contexts.” SEMA 2024 will be in-person in Augusta, Georgia, 10-12 October. 

Please send a 150- to 250-word abstract or proposal on any aspect of social-cultural and/or political climate and the Greenwood legend or various aspects thereof to Sherron Lux at sherron_lux@yahoo.com by Sunday 7 July 2024, with any technology requests.

CFP: Jubilee! : Sewanee Medieval Colloquium 2025 (11/1/2024; 2/28-3/1/2025)

Jubilee! : Sewanee Medieval Colloquium 2025

deadline for submissions: November 1, 2024

full name / name of organization: Sewanee Medieval Colloquium

contact email: medievalcolloquium@sewanee.edu

posted from: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/05/31/jubilee

It's our 50th birthday, and we're having a party!

Please join us Feb 28th-Mar 1st, 2025 for a very special Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. This year’s conference theme is intended to be as capacious as possible to encourage previous presenters, respondents, and plenaries to return to the Colloquium to celebrate what lies ahead for Medieval Studies. The meeting is intended to celebrate the ways in which the conference has fostered conversations between established scholars and new voices in the field. To this end, we hope to create as many panels as possible that pair former attendees with new, emerging scholars as we think about the future of the discipline.

Papers and panels might consider themes of celebration, exaltation, feasting, and festivals. Presenters also might address other forms of “party,” including what it means to “take part,” to “participate,” and to “partake of.” (Parti-colored clothing is also on the table.) Other options include thinking about anniversaries, processions, and attention to commemoration and historiography. We welcome work that addresses the ways in which the natural world becomes enfolded in human celebrations, how gender roles are at play in acts of memorialization, the way legal language defines participation in a suit, how chronicles and annals encode yearly progress, how celebtrations engage ethics of care or harm, and more. And above all, we encourage work from across all disciplines and geographic areas that speaks how we think about how a marker like this represents a half century of change in the field, with an eye to where we might go next.

For more information about how to participate, see https://www.sewaneemedievalcolloquium.com/

Last updated June 2, 2024

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

main page: https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/2025AnnualMeeting   

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

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

CFP Books and Transgressions: New England Medieval Consortium Conference (6/15/2024; 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:

• bookswhoseform,content,orprovenanceistransgressive;
• 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
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CFP Wooden O Symposium 2024 (4/20/2024; Cedar City, Utah 8/5-7/2024)

Wooden O Symposium

deadline for submissions: April 20, 2024

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/2024/02/23/wooden-o-symposium

The 2024 Wooden O Symposium will be held in conjunction with the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association’s annual conference in Cedar City, UT.

We are also pleased to announce our keynote speaker is Vanessa I. Corredera (Andrews University), author of Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).

The 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 in Performance
• Shakespeare and History, Culture, and Society
• Shakespeare and Rhetoric
• Shakespeare and the Arts

We encourage papers and presentations that speak to the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s 2024 summer season: Henry VIII, The Winter’s Tale, The Taming of the Shrew, and Much Ado About Nothing.



The deadline for proposals is April 20, 2024.



Please include a 100-200-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.

All abstracts should be submitted through the following link: www.memberplanet.com/s/rmmra/rmmra2024application



For more information, please contact the conference co-organizers, Scott Knowles at scottknowles@suu.edu or Jessica Tvordi at tvordi@suu.edu



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CFP Medievalisms Area (11/14/2023; SWPACA Albuquerque 2/21-24/2024)

Medievalisms Area at SWPACA

deadline for submissions:
November 14, 2023

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/2023/08/30/medievalisms-area-at-swpaca

Call for Papers

Medievalisms Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)



45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on September 1, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2023



Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 45th annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit http://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 http://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 http://southwestpca.org/conference/faqs-and-tips/



Individual proposals for 15-minute papers must include an abstract of approximately 200-500 words. Including a brief bio in the body of the proposal form is encouraged, but not required.



For information on how to submit a proposal for a roundtable or a multi-paper panel, please view the above FAQs and Tips page.



The deadline for submissions is November 14, 2023.



SWPACA offers monetary awards for the best graduate student papers in a variety of categories. Submissions of accepted, full papers are due January 1, 2024. SWPACA also offers travel fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students. For more information, visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/



Registration and travel information for the conference will be available at http://southwestpca.org/conference/conference-registration-information/

For 2023, we are excited to be at a new venue, the Marriott Albuquerque (2101 Louisiana Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110), which boasts free parking and close proximity to dining, shopping, and other delights.



In addition, please check out the organization’s peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, at http://journaldialogue.org/



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.



This will be a fully in-person conference. If you’re looking for an online option to present your work, keep an eye out for details about the 2024 SWPACA Summer Salon, a completely virtual conference to take place in June 2024. However, do keep in mind that the Summer Salon is a smaller conference with limited presentation slots and no student funding assistance.



We look forward to receiving your submissions!



Last updated November 1, 2023