Call for Service: Self-nominations for Volunteers to Serve as Contributing Reviewers of Proposals for Sponsored and Special Sessions (4/1/2021)

Self-nominations for Volunteers to Serve as Contributing Reviewers of Proposals for Sponsored and Special Sessions

Posted on March 22, 2021

Source: http://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/self-nominations-for-volunteers-to-serve-as-contributing-reviewers-of-proposals-for-sponsored-and-special-sessions/


The International Congress on Medieval Studies, hosted by the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, is now accepting self-nominations for volunteers to serve as contributing reviewers of proposals for Sponsored and Special Sessions for the 57th and 58th congresses (2022 and 2023). 

The deadline for self-nomination is April 1: wmich.edu/medievalcongress/submissions/selection.

CFP Medieval and Early Modern Studies Summer Festival (4/30/21; Kent 6/18-19/21 online)

CFP - Medieval and Early Modern Studies Summer Festival

Source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/03/18/cfp-medieval-and-early-modern-studies-summer-festival

Event website: https://memsfestival.wordpress.com/


deadline for submissions: April 30, 2021

full name / name of organization: MEMS Festival 2021

contact email: memsfestival@gmail.com



Join us online for the University of Kent’s seventh annual MEMS Summer Festival.

This two-day event celebrates Medieval and Early Modern history, 400 – 1800, and encourages a wide range of interdisciplinary topics, including but not limited to, politics, religion, economics, art, drama, literature, and domestic culture. MEMS Fest aims to be an informal space in which postgraduate students, early career researchers, and academics can share ideas and foster conversations, whilst building a greater sense of community. Undergraduate students in their final year of study are also welcome at the conference.

We invite abstracts of up to 250 words for individual research papers of 20 minutes in length on ANY subject relating to the Medieval and Early Modern periods. The research can be in its earliest stages or a more developed piece.

We also encourage 700-word abstracts proposing a three-person panel, presenting on a specific subject or theme in Medieval or Early Modern studies. If you have an idea and would like us to advertise for it, please contact us at memsfestival@gmail.com.

Deadline for all Paper and Panel Proposals is Friday 30th April 2021. All applications must be sent to memsfestival@gmail.com with ‘MEMS Fest 2021 Abstract’ as the subject of the email.

This opportunity allows you to showcase your research in a friendly environment and to network with fellow scholars from far-reaching institutions. For more information please contact us on Facebook, Twitter, or at memsfestival.wordpress.com. Please do not hesitate to ask questions.

MEMS Festival 2021 is supported by the Centre of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent.



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CFP Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Association Conference (4/15/21; online 6/25+/21)

Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Association
2021 Virtual Conference – June 2021

Source: http://www.rmmra.org/2020-conference-cedar-city-utah/


Due to continuing concerns about COVID-19, difficulty in obtaining institutional permissions and/or funding, and other potential pandemic-related travel concerns, RMMRA’s 53rd Annual Meeting and Conference will be held virtually over the weekend of June 25, 2021.

We are excited to host a variety of events this year ranging from works-in-progress workshops through traditional panel presentations.

The RMMRA invites paper and panel submissions on any topic relating to the period 400-1700CE and welcomes scholars in a broad range of disciplines including history, pedagogy, literature, art history, music, and gender studies. Papers may wish to respond to this year’s theme of “Reimagining the Medieval and Renaissance in a Post-Pandemic World.”

Participants are encouraged to propose: 1) A paper to be read in a typical panel; 2) A full panel of papers linked by theme or approach; 3) A work-in-progress for detailed workshop-style feedback; or 4) A moderated discussion panel in which audience members can participate in conversation about relevant topics or texts. 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.

The proposal portal will be open through April 15, 2021.

Please contact the RMMRA with any questions or concerns.



The RMMRA is dedicated to creating an inclusive scholarly community. We encourage papers from scholars regardless of race, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, religion, political views, military status, (dis)ability, and career paths. Our organization is committed to providing a safe, accessible, harassment-free, and collegial conference experience for all attendees. The RMMRA recognizes and supports the inclusion of diverse scholars from across the academy.

CFP Reflections/Refractions: Victorian(ist) Ways of Seeing Conference (5/15/21; Charlotte 10/22-23/21)

Of related interest:

2021 Victorians Institute Conference: Reflections/Refractions: Victorian(ist) Ways of Seeing

Source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/03/13/2021-victorians-institute-conference-reflectionsrefractions-victorianist-ways-of

deadline for submissions:
May 15, 2021

full name / name of organization:
Victorians Institute

contact email:
thevictoriansinstitute@gmail.com



The Victorians Institute is excited to welcome you to Charlotte, NC on
October 22-23rd 2021 for our rebooted annual conference:

 
“Reflections/Refractions: Victorian(ist) Ways of Seeing." This conference seeks essays that explore how Victorians saw their world, how they depicted what they saw, and the ways that modern scholars, in turn, see the Victorians. Papers or panels on poetry, prose, nonfiction, biography, digital humanities, or visual art are welcome, as are presentations on the pedagogy and ethics of teaching Victorian literature (either during or not during a global pandemic).

For a full CFP, see
http://victoriansinstitute.org/cfp-for-vi-2020-in-charlotte-nc/



Deadline for Submissions: May 15th, 2021. Please send a 300-word abstract and 1-page c.v. to conference organizers Bonnie Shishko and Casey Cothran at thevictoriansinstitute@gmail.com (Word or PDF format). Individual proposals should include contact information. Panel proposals should include contact information for all participants, a synopsis of the panel, and abstracts for all papers.

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr. Amy M. King, St. John's University

Covid-19 Update: The Omni Hotel and the Victorians Institute are working hard to follow Covid-19 precautions as outlined by the CDC and the NC State Governor. While we are confident we can provide a safe in-person conference experience, should you have a personal circumstance that requires you to participate virtually, opportunities will be available. Please feel free to communicate directly with the conference organizers if you have a concern.



Last updated March 16, 2021

CFP Global Medievalism Conference (4/11/21; Brazil virtual 4/28-30/21)

From the ISSM listserv:

Call for Papers

GLOBAL MEDIEVALISM: culture, appropriations and reinventions

From Q-Shaman's tattoos to Game of Thrones' resounding success, the medieval is undoubtedly the order of the day. With this popularity, the need to understand the origins of these many representations of the Middle Ages, their mistakes, interests, inspirations and objectives, is also reinforced. The field of study of medievalism is currently the fastest growing within medieval studies around the world. In Brazil, it could not be different: over the past 5 years, we have seen more and more academic and dissemination works focused on the reception of the medieval and an increasing interest in the subject.


Organized by GEHM (Grupo de História Medieval-Unimontes) and by the Estate University of Montes Claros, Brazil, this conference was conceived in dialogue with professors and researchers from different countries and institutions, aiming to put the Brazilian public in direct contact with the international academic debates in medievalism studies.


The conference is accepting papers, and entire sessions, submitted in Portuguese, English or Spanish. The selected works will, later, be considered for a digital peer-reviewed publication. Submissions are open until April 11, 2021.

This is a 100% online conference to reduce foreign interaction costs and per the precautionary measures recommended by WHO concerning the COVID-19 pandemic.


For more information, please see the website: https://en.globalmedievalism.com/.


Proposal:

• Each participant may submit up to 2 papers.
• Proposals for entire sessions can include a maximum of up to 6 people divided into two tables of 3.
• Papers in Portuguese, English and Spanish will be accepted. The themes of the proposals must include medievalisms, neo-medievalisms or medieval reception. Papers that work with representations and memories of the medieval period and the history of historiography about the period are also welcome.
• In addition to the abstract (maximum of 500 words), it is possible, but not mandatory, to send the full text upon registration. This can assist in the evaluation of the proposal.
• A revised version of the full text may be sent from April 30 to September 30, 2021, to compose the e-book of the event's proceedings.
• For proposals for a complete session, the abstract must (in up to 600 words) describe the theme as a whole, as well as clearly identify what each proponent will talk about.

Evaluation:

• The evaluation, acceptance, or elimination of submission are the conference's Scientific Council's responsibility through a double-blind reviewing process.

General Observations:

• The certificate of presentation will be issued only to presenters who were not absent during the entire panel in which they participated.
• The result will be published on the website until April 25, 2021

CFP 97th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (3/15/21; Charlottesville 3/9-13/2022)

Medieval Academy Annual Meeting 2022
97th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America

Source: https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/2022AnnualMeeting

University of Virginia, Charlottesville
9-13 March, 2022



Call for Papers


The 97th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The meeting is jointly hosted by the Medieval Academy of America and the Program in Medieval Studies at the University of Virginia, with the generous support and collaboration of colleagues from Virginia Tech, the College of William & Mary, and Washington and Lee University. The conference program will feature a diverse range of sessions highlighting innovative scholarship across the many disciplines contributing to medieval studies.

The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies and medievalism studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal; others may submit proposals as well but must become members in order to present papers at the meeting. Special consideration will be given to individuals whose field would not normally involve membership in the Medieval Academy. We are particularly interested in receiving submissions from those working outside of traditional academic positions, including independent scholars, emeritus or adjunct faculty, university administrators, those working in academic-adjacent institutions (libraries, archives, museums, scholarly societies, or cultural research centers), editors and publishers, and other fellow medievalists.

Plenary addresses will be delivered by Roland Betancourt, Professor of Art History, University of California, Irvine; Seeta Chaganti, Professor of English, University of California, Davis; and Thomas E. A. Dale, Professor of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and incoming president of the Academy.

Location: Charlottesville is a diverse and historic city in the eastern foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The area is home to a UNESCO World Heritage site including the campus of the University of Virginia as well as Monticello. The local airport, the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport, has routine service to several major airline hubs, and is complemented by nearby service to Richmond International (RIC) and Dulles International (IAD) airports. For those along the eastern corridor, Amtrak supplies an alternative (CVS). Registration, book exhibits, and other events will take place on the campus of the University of Virginia within easy walking distance of conference hotels and numerous downtown restaurants. More specific information on venues, accommodations, and MAA student bursaries and travel grants will be made available next fall.

Theme(s): The Program Committee is committed to fostering conversation around the fifth-year anniversary of the Unite the Right rally in August 2017. Several panels and a plenary session will explore the effects and implications of this moment and its aftermath, including but not limited to the history and theory of race and racism, the appropriation and study of the past, and the future of medieval studies inside and outside the academy. The Program Committee offers the additional themes listed below, and hopes to put in conversation papers that approach each theme from diverse chronological, geographical, methodological, and disciplinary perspectives. We also welcome innovative sessions that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries or that use various disciplinary approaches to examine an individual topic. The themes listed here have been proposed by the Program Committee; the list is not meant to be exhaustive or exclusive.

Proposals: Individuals may propose to offer a paper addressing one of the themes below, a full panel of papers and speakers for a listed theme, a full panel of papers and speakers for a session they wish to create, or a single paper not designated for a specific theme. Sessions usually consist of three 25-minute papers, and proposals should be geared to that length, although the committee is interested in other formats as well (roundtables, poster sessions, digital experiences, etc.). The Program Committee may choose a different format for some sessions after the proposals have been reviewed.

Submissions:
The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2021. All proposals, for individual papers, sessions, or special formats, should include the following information:

- Proposer's name (in format for the program)
- Statement of Medieval Academy membership (or statement that the individual’s specialty would not normally involve membership in the Academy)
- professional status/affiliation, if relevant (in format for the program)
- email address
- postal address
- telephone number(s)
- paper title
- theme for which the paper should be considered (or “general session”)
- abstract (maximum 200 words)
- audio-visual equipment requirements
-accessibility requirements

If a full panel is being proposed, the above information will be required for each paper, as well as for the session as a whole. For alternative format session proposal submissions, also a description of the alternative format (maximum 200 words).

Proposals must be submitted as a single PDF identified by the name of the submitter:
LASTNAME.FIRSTNAME.MAA2022 (example: GOWER.JOHN.MAA2022)
Please e-mail all submissions to maa2022@collab.its.virginia.edu

Selection Procedure
Paper and panel proposals will be reviewed for their quality, the significance of their topics, and their relevance to the conference themes. The Program Committee will evaluate proposals during the summer of 2021 and the Committee will inform all of acceptance or rejection by 1 September 2021.

Professional Behavior
All participants in the Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting are expected to read and adhere to our Professional Behavior Policy.

ADA Accommodations
The 2022 meeting is committed to ensuring equal access to all conference events and activities, in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), as amended, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), as well as other applicable state and local laws and University policy. The program committee has designated an Accessibility Chair (see below) who will serve as point of contact prior to the meeting for any participants requiring accommodations.

Themes and threads

• Race and its intersections
• Political medievalism
• Tyranny and resistance
• Rethinking the global medieval
• Boundaries and limits
• Vulnerability and the ethics of care
• Medieval disability/disabilities
• Gender and identities
• Queering the medieval
• Apocalypse and paradise
• Inter-religious coexistence and conflict
• Diplomacy and ambassadorial practices
• Comparative foodways and cuisines
• Trade and cultural exchange
• Environment and ecology
• Pedagogies: material, digital, embodied
• Medieval materialisms
• Restoration, preservation, looting
• Passions and emotions
• Transhistorical poetics
• Comparative text technologies
• Plague and pandemic
• Revelation and reason in medieval science

Program Committee for the 2022 Meeting (UVA faculty unless otherwise indicated):
Conference co-chairs:
Deborah McGrady, French, Director of Program in Medieval Studies
Bruce Holsinger, English, conference accessibility chair
Eric Ramírez-Weaver, Art

Committee members:
Ahmed H. al-Rahim, Religious Studies
Peter Baker, English
Courtney Barajas, English, Whitworth University, Medievalists of Color representative
Charlene Eska, English, Virginia Tech
Elizabeth Fowler, English
Matthew Gabriele, Religion and Culture, Virginia Tech
Elizabeth Harper, MAA Graduate Student Liaison
Nizar Hermes, Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Wan-Chuan Kao, English, Washington and Lee University
Jordan Love, Curator, Fralin Museum
Amy Ogden, French
Deborah Parker, Italian
Amanda Phillips, Art
Peter Potter, Virginia Tech Publishing
Lisa Reilly, Art and Architecture
Karl Shuve, Religious Studies
Julia Verkholantsev, Univ. of Pennsylvania, MAA representative
Dorothy Wong, Art and East Asia Center

CFP Global Medievalisms collection (5/1//2021)

Looks like I missed another call of relevance here.

CFP: Global Medievalisms

Source: https://medievalism.net/?p=341

Posted on February 19, 2021 by postmedievalist


Medievalism is a multivalent phenomenon that speaks differently in and across the disparate communities that practice it; as with other fields of study, extending our perspective to view medievalism in a global context transforms the object of study itself. This edited collection will consider global medievalisms, exploring how various modern interpretations, re-enactments, and reifications of the medieval serve as reactions to the neoliberal globalization of the present. Whether or not it is accurate to speak of a “global middle ages,” since the rhetoric of the medieval is a fundamentally Western construct, global medievalism positions itself in a world before gunpowder, the dominance of urban centers, and the organization of social ties around economic relations. It thus accords both with disturbing nativist appropriations of the Middle Ages and with attempts to recover personal relations whose meaning is not defined in monetary terms. Medievalisms’ global reach testifies to the extent that the contemporary world follows a widespread paradigm for social relations and cultural production (on the junction-point of which medievalism is situated), while the profound differences in what constitutes medievalism in different localities reveals fresh aspects of the post-colonial response to Western hegemony.

We seek submission of essay proposals in two main categories:

• Work that explores particular medievalisms in a global framework; e.g., the construction of the global in Game of Thrones, global tropes in medievalist reenactments, white supremacist appropriations of medieval pasts, world-building in role-playing games (table-top or digital), etc.
• Work that explores conversations between global and local medievalisms, particularly outside of Western Europe and the United States; e.g., Disney and fantasy medievalisms (including King Arthur manga, samurai narratives, paladins, gauchos, cowboys, etc.), post-colonial responses to medievalist legacies, medievalist reclamations of non-European pasts, etc.

Among the issues the collection may interrogate are:

• Is there a global medieval? Even if not, is there still a global medievalism?
• What might constitute the tropes of global medievalism? Armor and swords (pre-gunpowder, but not “ancient”)? Fealty and anti-capitalism?
• How can medievalism act as a response to a post-colonial situations?
• How have medievalisms been harnessed for political ends?
• How do reified medievalisms travel across borders and cultures?
• How do medievalist reconstructions connect with heritage issues?
• What is the global map of medievalisms?
• How have medievalisms been used to reaffirm localism and resist globalization?
• How have medievalisms been harnessed to the purposes of global media?
• Is our current notion of a global medieval world a form of global medievalism? How can this apply both to Medieval Studies as a discipline and to political decentering?

Please send your proposal, including a title and 250-word abstract, by May 1st, 2021 to Angela Weisl (angela.weisl@shu.edu) and Robert Squillace (robert.squillace@nyu.edu); include your title and affiliation in your cover email.

Notice 41st Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum (4/16-17/21)

Also worth attending:

41st Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Scent and Fragrance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Friday and Saturday April 16-17, 2021

Register Online

Preliminary Schedule

Official site at https://www.keene.edu/campus/events/medieval/.



We're sponsoring a session on comics Saturday afternoon.

Notice MAA 2021 Conference (4/15-18/21)

 Just came across this as well.

The program and registration information have been posted for the following event:

96th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America

Indiana University Bloomington

15-18 April 2021

Further details at the conference website. Most of the events are said to be remote. 

I see a number of papers/sessions on medievalism and some devoted to pedagogy and professionalism. 

 

CFP CEMERS Conference 2021: Medieval Cultural Heritage Around the Globe (5/15/21; Binghamton/remote 10/22-23/21)

Just discovered this over the weekend. It is a very interesting theme for a conference.

Originally posted at https://www.binghamton.edu/cemers/conference/index.html.

2021 CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS:
Medieval Cultural Heritage Around the Globe:
Monuments, Literature, and the Arts, Then and Now

BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY (IN PERSON AND ONLINE) – OCTOBER 22–23, 2021

The field of cultural heritage has experienced a great increase in scholarly and media attention in recent years. Events such as the removal of Confederate monuments and memorials have made evident how controversial cultural heritage can be, and the central role it plays in defining communal identities at all levels, from small villages to multi-state entities, such as colonial empires or, more recently, the United States and the European Union. This interdisciplinary conference, hosted by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton University will explore cultural heritage, broadly conceived, as it relates to the global Middle Ages (ca. 500 – ca. 1500). Topics will range from medieval approaches to the cultural heritage inherited or claimed by medieval societies, to the transformation of medieval heritage through the centuries, to the yearning for medieval times that has inspired, in the modern era, the architecture of university campuses, the rebuilding of Japanese castles to assert communal identity, and the revival of traditional crafts and performing arts, among others.

This conference aims to bring together scholars from a range of backgrounds whose work sheds important new light on our relationship with the medieval past. We hope to foster conversations across traditional disciplinary and geographic boundaries about the definitions, cultural significance, and use of cultural heritage in disparate parts of the medieval and modern worlds. How does examining conceptions and problems related to cultural heritage inform our understanding of medieval cultures? How does modern engagement with the medieval past shape debates about power, identity and belonging? What determines how heritage is defined and what merits preservation? What is the state of medieval heritage today?

We invite papers from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives on any topic related to cultural heritage and the Middle Ages, including:

• Medieval heritage and identity in the early modern and modern worlds
• Trafficking in and questions surrounding the restitution of cultural artifacts
• Heritage across borders and global diasporas
• Cultural heritage sites connected to legends, literature, and theater
• Pilgrimage and tourism
• Issues of representation and exclusion
• UNESCO and the handling of medieval cultural heritage
• Literature and film tourism at heritage sites
• Violence, atrocity, and difficult heritage
• Heritage-making and cultural appropriation
• Heritage and communities
• Cultural heritage in the digital world

Click here to view event poster

We are planning for an on-site hybrid conference in Binghamton incorporating both face-to-face meetings and virtual options. We will be monitoring the situation around COVID-19 throughout the conference planning process. More information will be shared in the summer.
Deadline: May 15, 2021

Abstracts for individual papers and sessions are invited. We encourage scholars working in different disciplines to organize panels together. Papers should be 20 minutes in length.
Send abstracts and CVs to cemers@binghamton.edu. Please indicate whether you are interested in coming to Binghamton or plan to participate remotely.

Contact Roberta Strippoli for more information.

Our NeMLA 2021 Sessions

Details on our sponsored sessions this weekend. Apologies for the delay in posting. 

The 52nd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association

Virtual event, 11-14 March 2021

Full details at http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/VirtualConvention-page.html.

 

Saturday, Mar 13 (Track 22): 09:00-10:15           

22.20 Can We Be More Than the Middle Ages? Medievalism Studies and Medieval Studies (Roundtable)

Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Independent Scholar

Chair: Carl Sell, Lock Haven University

Pedagogy & Professional & Cultural Studies and Media Studies

"The Perverted Anglo-Saxon: White Nationalism in the Medieval Classroom"

Maggie Hawkins, New York University

"Medievalisms in the Medieval Literature Classroom, Or Attempts to Do Everything in One Semester"

Kara McShane, Ursinus College

"The Historical Novel. A Genre, Trespassing a Science-Literature Border?"

Paul Csillag, Universität Innsbruck

 

Saturday, Mar 13 (Track 23): 10:30-12:00           

23.42 Uncharted Medievalisms: Revealing the Medieval in Popular Fiction and Games

Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Independent Scholar

Cultural Studies and Media Studies & Comparative Literature

"Queer Roleplaying Impulses: Building Neomedieval Narratives in Dungeons & Dragons"

Lars Johnson, Cornell University

"Wizard Male Privilege: A Literary History of Misogyny and Gendered Magic"

Richard Fahey, University of Notre Dame

"These Are Fighting Words: Challenging and Perpetuating the Status Quo"

Rachael Warmington, Seton Hall University

"Arthurian Figures in the 41st Millennium: The Emperor and Roboute Guilliman in Warhammer 40,000"

Carl Sell, Lock Haven University

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 Biennial Conference of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies (10/1/21; virtual 12/3-5/21)

Cross-posted from the IARHS List

GLOBAL OUTLAWS:

The Biennial Conference of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies

Tentative Date: 3-5 December 2021.                                           

Medium: VIRTUAL

Deadline for Proposals: 11 October 2021 

 

Call for Papers

 

Every country, every timespace, every culture has its outlaws, and each tells its own stories about them, in a variety of different genres and socio-cultural forms.  As outlaw studies in general can be both a wide and a narrow field, we will consider any submission on any area of outlaw studies. Papers may present some aspect/s of outlaw culture in general, or Robin Hood/other outlaws in particular, from any period or any geographic or cultural background, in any media or literary format/genre. We encourage that submissions be classified using the following headings: 

 

Society (including economics, law and crime); Literary culture (including documents and books) and Theory; Geography and Place; Play (including music and performance) and Leisure; Gender and Sexuality; Politics and political history; Cinematic and Digital Culture and Theory; Weapons, War and Fighting; Fantasy culture and Theory; Art, Archaeology and the Visual; Mystery, Superstition and Religion; Race and Ethnicity; Other Robin Hoods.

 

In response to the extraordinary events of 2020 and the continuance of a really difficult situation into 2021, this year’s conference will be an online event.  It will be co-hosted by Dr Lesley Coote (University of Hull, UK) and Dr Steve Basdeo (The American International University of Richmond, Leeds UK).  

 

Please submit a single document by 11 October 2021, containing: 

1. a brief (100 word) presenter biography, and 

2. a brief abstract of 250 words, including proposed title and topic heading/s, as above. 

 

Address proposals to both Dr. Lesley Coote FHEA, Fellow of the University of Hull (coote081@gmail.com) and Dr. Stephen Basdeo, FHEA, Richmond: The American International University (stephen.basdeo@outlook.com).

 

In the tradition of Robin Hood himself, and of other Robin Hoods, we expect the conference to be a free event.  If there should be a cost, we would expect this to be minimal.    

 Any enquiries please get in touch with us, Lesley and Steve

Hope to see as many there as possible... we will try to manage timelines as well as we can, so that everyone can take part.  

CFP Medievalism Area at PCA Conference (2/28/21; virtual 6/2-5/2021)

cross-posted



PCA/ACA 2021 National Conference

June 2nd – 5th – PCA has gone virtual!!



The Medievalism in Popular Culture Area (including Early to Later Middle Ages, Robin Hood, Arthurian, Chaucer, Norse, and other materials connected to medieval studies) accepts papers on all topics that explore either popular culture during the Middle Ages or transcribe some aspect of the Middle Ages into the popular culture of later periods. These representations can occur in any genre, including film, television, novels, graphic novels, gaming, advertising, art, etc. For this year’s conference, I would like to encourage submissions on some of the following topics:


· Medievalism and Intersectionality
· The Arthurian World
· Medievalism in Advertising
· “Medieval” as a social and political signifier
· Medievalism in Television (e.g., The Spanish Princess, Miracle Workers: Dark Ages, etc.)
· Robin Hood
· Medievalism and Teaching (especially remote/distance education strategies)
· Chaucer (The Cachoeira Tales, etc.)
· Board Games (e.g., Coup, Carcassone, etc.)/Online Gaming and/or Cosplay
· Anglo-Saxon or Viking Representations in Popular Culture
· Medievalism in Novels/Short Stories/Poems/Graphic Novels

If your topic idea does not fit into any of these categories, please feel free to submit your proposal as well. I would like to encourage as much participation as possible, and depending on submissions, I may rearrange the topic groupings.

All papers will be included in sessions with four presenters each, so plan to present on your topic for no more than 15 minutes, inclusive of any audio or visual materials.

Panel submissions are also welcome on any topic of medievalism. If you would like to propose a panel, please submit your complete panel to me directly at cfrancis@bloomu.edu. Individual papers will then have to be submitted to the PCA online system (see below).



Submission requirements:



Please submit a title and a 250 word abstract to http://conference.pcaaca.org. All submissions must be directed to the online database.

Deadline for submission: February 28, 2021.



If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Christina Francis, Associate Professor of English, Bloomsburg University, at cfrancis@bloomu.edu.

CFP Essays for Neo-medievalism Media in the New Millennium (2/28/2021)

 Last call for proposals:

Call for Abstracts - Essays for Neo-medievalism Media in the New Millennium

deadline for submissions: 

February 28, 2021

full name / name of organization: 

Nicholas Diak

contact email: 

vnvdiak@gmail.com

Call for Proposals: Essays for Neo-medievalism Media in the New Millennium

Introduction

The critical and commercial success of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy ushered in a new era of fantasy-medieval and historic-medieval texts in the new Millennium. These neo-medieval texts were not restricted to the big screen, but in true transmedia fashion, exploded on the small screen, in video games, comics, and a variety of other medias as the genre became popular and hence, lucrative. Nearly twenty years later, depictions of the medieval period, be it authentic or moored in fantasy, remain a dominate component in the greater pop culture, with shows like Game of Thrones, video games like Skyrim, many fantasy-medieval books, young adult comics, and the like.

With neo-medieval texts enjoying heightened popularity, it invites an academic gaze to unearth their importance. What is it about these texts that makes them fascinating, especially considering that they are rooted in the distant past as compared to the new Millennium we are living in? What are the different approaches we can take to make sense of these films, shows, books, etc. which in turn can be used to understand not just our present world, but the future we are going into?

This anthology is looking for shorter-form essays (2.5k – 4k words in length) that aim to explore fantasy-medieval and historic medieval films, television shows, comics, video games, literature, and other works that add and expand the genre’s canon. The result would an anthology of 22-28 essays that touch upon a variety of texts with a plethora of academic lenses and approaches, grouped together to support a series of wider topics under the neo-medievalism banner.

Potential Essay Topics

The following is a list of possible (but not comprehensive) topics that contributors could submit on:

Auteur theory on filmmakers and their medieval films/TV shows (e.g. Neil Marshall, Guy Ritchie, Uwe Boll, etc.)
Adaptations of the Matter of Britain
Adaptations/portrayal of historic figures (Robert the Bruce, Robin Hood, Marco Polo, etc.)
Adaptations of fairy tales, stories, and myths
Adaptations of video games (In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale [2007] (and its sequels), Warcraft [2016])
Blending medieval with other genres, such as horror (The Head Hunter [2018]) or sci-fi (Transformers: The Last Knight [2017])
Close readings of specific texts
Colonialism
Covid-19 and plague texts (A Plague Tale: Innocence [2019 video game], The Last Witch Hunter [2015], Black Death [2010]) 
Currency/economics in medieval video games (Skyrim, The Witcher, Final Fantasy) compared to current economic anxieties
Fan and fandom studies
Gender studies
History of the portrayal of medieval times from the past to the present
Intersectionality
Intertextual analysis
Medieval monsters as metaphors
Monomyth/heroes journey
Non-Occidental medieval films:
    Indian neo-peplum films: Baahubali: The Beginning (2015), Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017), and Veeram (2016 film)
    Late-era Mesoamerica films: Apocalypto (2006)
    Russian medieval films: Furious (2017)
    Chinese historic epics: Hero (2002), Genghis Khan (2018), House of Flying Daggers (2004)
    Adaptations of One Thousand and One Nights
Portrayals of religions and nationalities (Vikings, Saxons, etc.)
Portrayals of bodies (such body builders and muscular heroes)
Race portrayals (example: white characters in Eastern settings such as The Great Wall [2016])
Semiotic analysis
Surveillance/panopticon in scrying magic: Lord of the Rings films
Temporal texts (time traveling): medieval in modern times or modern times in medieval
Torture porn genre in movies with medieval torture scenes: Red Riding Hood (2011)
Vernacular film theory
And others

List of Media Texts

Below is a list of media titles (from films, TV, comics, games, etc.) that could potentially fit into the neo-medieval formula. This list is by no means complete, but it is presented to give title examples that fit within this genre and to inspire creative ideas on topics to write about. The below list contains titles that are historic-medieval, fantasy-medieval, and medieval combined with other genres.

Films

Black Death (2010)
Dragonheart: A New Beginning (2000)
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse (2015)
Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire (2017)
Dragonheart: Vengeance (2020)
The Head Hunter (2018)
The Hobbit trilogy (2012-214)
The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
Last Knights (2015)
The Last Witch Hunter (2015)
Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003)
Maleficent (2014)
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)
Robin Hood (2010)
Robin Hood (2018)
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)

Television

Britannia (2018-present)
Cursed (2020)
Deus Salve o Rei (2018)
Game of Thrones (2011-2019)
The Hollow Crown (2012, 2016)
Knightfall (2017-2019)
The Last Kingdom (2015-present)
The Letter for the King (2020)
Marco Polo (2014)
Miracle Workers (season 2)
The Name of the Rose (2019)
Robin Hood (BBC) (2006-2009)
The Witcher (2019-present)

Literature

Ascendance Series (Nielsen)
Codex Alera (Butcher)
The Kingkiller Chronicle (Rothfuss)
Ranger’s Apprentice (Flanagan)
Sabbath (Mamatas)
Sands of Arawiya series (Faizal)
A Song of Fire and Ice series (Martin)
Throne of Glass series (Maas)
The Witcher series (Sapkowski)
The Wrath & the Dawn (Ahdieh)

Comics

Berserker Unbound (Dark Horse)
Birthright (Image)
Cursed (Simon & Schuster)
A Game of Thrones (Dynamite)
Lady Castle (Boom!)
Nimona (web comic)
Northlanders (Vertigo)
The Witcher (Dark Horse comics)

Video games

Assassin’s Creed series
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare (2012)
Crusader Kings series
The Cursed Crusade (2011)
Fable series
The First Templar (2011)
Game of Thrones (2012)
Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series (2014-2015)
Kingdom Come: Deliverance (2018)
A Plague Tale: Innocence (2019)
Stronghold series
The Witcher series from CD Projekt Red

Music

Dungeon synth music
Adventure/power metal bands like Blind Guardian and Keep of Kalessin

Again, the above list is not comprehensive, but to illustrate a general idea of titles from different media that could fit into this essay collection.

Project Timetable

This anthology has not yet procured a contract, but will be submitted for consideration to Peter Lang Publishing to be part of the Genre Fiction and Film Companions series. The following a proposed timetable to realize this project:

February 28, 2021 – Deadline for abstract submissions
March 7, 2021 – Notification of acceptance
March 14, 2021 – Submission of preliminary table of contents to Peter Lang Publishing for consideration for their Genre Fiction and Film Companions series
    If rejected, submit to alternative publisher, repeat process
    If accepted, distribute style guide to authors
+ Five months after publisher acceptance – Chapter drafts are due
+ Four months – Chapter revisions are due
+ One month – Submission of manuscript to publisher

Drafts and revisions are strongly encouraged to be submitted before the deadlines.

Abstract Submission Information

Please submit your abstract(s) of roughly 500 words along with your academic CV/resume and preliminary bibliography to the email address below before February 28, 2021. Please use an appropriate subject line when submitting – have it contain the phrase “medieval submission.” I will confirm each submission via email within 72 hours. I will also accept multiple abstract submissions.

This CFP is open to all academics and scholars. Underrepresented scholars researching this genre are greatly encouraged to submit.

Nicholas Diak, editor

Email: vnvdiak@gmail.com
Website: http://www.nickdiak.com

Nicholas Diak is a pop culture scholar of neo-peplum and sword and sandal films, industrial music, synthwave, exploitation films Italian genre cinema, and H. P. Lovecraft studies. He is the editor of The New Peplum: Essays on Sword and Sandal Films and Television Programs Since the 1990s (McFarland, 2018) and the co-editor of Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern: Critical Essays (McFarland, 2020). Along with Michele Brittany, he co-created and co-chairs the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference and co-hosts the H. P. Lovecast Podcast. He has contributed articles, essays, and reviews to numerous journals, academic anthologies, magazines, and websites.

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Conferences Update February 2021

Some updates on upcoming conferences:

The program for the 56th International Congress on Medieval Studies is now available online. The event, usually held at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, is virtual this May and runs from Monday, May 10, through Saturday, May 15, 2021. Further details on the conference home page. 

On a related note. the Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University has been postponed again. The event hopes to resume in 2022. Further details on the cancelation were posted on the event's main page. 

CFP Nordic Medievalisms: Vikings and Their World in Popular Culture (Papers Session MAPACA 6/30/20; 11/5-7/20))

Nordic Medievalisms: Vikings and Their World in Popular Culture (Papers Session MAPACA 2020)

Submissions by 30 June 2020

The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture seeks submissions to round out a sponsored papers session to be included in the Medieval & Renaissance Area for the 2020 meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association to be held at the Princeton Marriott at Forrestal, Princeton, New Jersey, from 5-7 November 2020. (Please note that the event is now likely to be held virtually.)

The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture is a community of scholars and enthusiasts organized to promote and foster research and discussion of representations of the medieval in post-medieval popular culture and mass media. We share the Medieval & Renaissance Area’s commitment to expanding the corpus of Medievalism Studies and welcome research on neglected genres and media of modern culture.


Nordic Medievalisms: Vikings and Their World in Popular Culture (Papers Session)

The Vikings remain enormously popular in modern culture and continue to elicit much discussion and debate. We seek to continue that dialogue at MAPACA with fresh insights into their varied depictions in popular culture.



Please send inquiries and paper proposals (paper title, 300-word abstract, A/V requests and a brief academic biography) to the organizers at medievalinpopularculture@gmail.com AND submit these materials into the official proposal site at https://mapaca.net/conference/about-conference. Submissions are requested by 30 June 2020.

All presenters must be members of Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association or join for the conference. Further details on MAPACA can be accessed at https://mapaca.net/.

The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture maintains a variety of blogs and discussion lists. Details on these activities can be found at our blog, Making Medievalisms Matter, accessible at https://medievalinpopularculture.blogspot.com/.

The full Medieval & Renaissance Area call can be found at https://mapaca.net/areas/medieval-renaissance.

CFP Medieval Monsters Now (Papers Session MAPACA 2020 6/30/20; 11/5-7/20))

Medieval Monsters Now (Papers Session MAPACA 2020)

Submissions by 30 June 2020

The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture seeks submissions to round out a sponsored papers session to be included in the Medieval & Renaissance Area for the 2020 meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association to be held at the Princeton Marriott at Forrestal, Princeton, New Jersey, from 5-7 November 2020. (Please note that the event is now likely to be held virtually.)

The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture is a community of scholars and enthusiasts organized to promote and foster research and discussion of representations of the medieval in post-medieval popular culture and mass media. We share the Medieval & Renaissance Area’s commitment to expanding the corpus of Medievalism Studies and welcome research on neglected genres and media of modern culture.



Medieval Monsters Now (Papers Session)

Following two past sessions on monsters and medievalism, the goal of this session is to explore further examples of how medieval monsters continue to have an impact on the modern world. We are especially interested in recent examples, but discussions of depictions from any post-medieval era are welcome.



Please send inquiries and paper proposals (paper title, 300-word abstract, A/V requests and a brief academic biography) to the organizers at medievalinpopularculture@gmail.com AND submit these materials into the official proposal site at https://mapaca.net/conference/about-conference. Submissions are requested by 30 June 2020.

All presenters must be members of Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association or join for the conference. Further details on MAPACA can be accessed at https://mapaca.net/.

The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture maintains a variety of blogs and discussion lists. Details on these activities can be found at our blog, Making Medievalisms Matter, accessible at https://medievalinpopularculture.blogspot.com/.

The full Medieval & Renaissance Area call can be found at https://mapaca.net/areas/medieval-renaissance.

CFP New Chaucer Studies, Pedagogy and Profession vols 2 and 3 (9/1/2020)

Of potential interest:

New Journal: New Chaucer Studies, Pedagogy and Profession.

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2020/03/02/new-journal-new-chaucer-studies-pedagogy-and-profession


deadline for submissions:
September 1, 2020


full name / name of organization:
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession


contact email:
ncs.pedagogyandprofession@gmail.com




New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession CFP

The mission of the New Chaucer Society is to “provide a forum for teachers and scholars of Geoffrey Chaucer and his age.” As the working conditions of those teachers and scholars change, this forum needs to expand to reflect those changes. For this reason, NCS is happy to announce the launch of a new on-line venue, New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession, hosted on the New Chaucer Society website. This peer-reviewed, open access site will offer brief essays on teaching, service, and institutional environments/ cultures. We would like to invite submissions for this new project from a wide range of contributors, including K-12 educators and independent scholars. We are particularly interested in essays that are immediately concerned with usefulness -- to readers across institutions and non-institutional settings.

Some areas for inquiry might include the following: teaching medieval literature in a Gen Ed curriculum and/ or in a K-12 context; recruiting graduate students for the study of medieval literature; the impact of curricular change on medieval courses; issues of hiring, tenure and promotion; the workings of professional organizations, journals, and conferences; graduate training for a shrinking number of academic jobs; outreach to the public and to colleagues in other disciplines; strategies for equity and inclusivity in teaching, recruiting, and hiring; strategies for addressing or rectifying institutional constraints (budgets, criteria for tenure, etc.). We also welcome collaborative essays or responses unified around a single topic.

We are now seeking contributions for Issue 2, #MeToo, and Issue 3, Open Topic. Please submit essays of 3000 words to ncs.pedagogyandprofession@gmail.com by September 1, 2020 for consideration in Issue 2, to appear March 15, 2021, or Issue 3, to appear July 1, 2021.



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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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