Notice: MAA Graduate Student Committee Webinar – Medievalists Beyond the Academy (Zoom 3/29/2023)

Crossposted from The Medieval Academy of America Blog. The original post and link to register for the session can be accessed at https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-graduate-student-committee-webinar-medievalists-beyond-the-academy/.

MAA Graduate Student Committee Webinar – Medievalists Beyond the Academy

Posted on March 8, 2023 by Chris


MAA Graduate Student Committee Webinar: Medievalists Beyond the Academy

Join the MAA Graduate Student Committee on March 29th, 2023 at 7 pm EST for a panel on employment for medievalists outside of what we traditionally envision as the “academy” (university-based research and teaching). From grant writing and archival management to secondary education and academic publishing, our participants represent a wide range of experience levels and professional opportunities. In this conversation moderated by GSC members Kersti Francis and Will Beattie, panelists will share their pathways from their PhD to their current position, followed by a live Q and A with questions submitted by our audience. We hope you can join us!

Panelists include:

Dr. Joaneath Spicer, James A. Murnaghan Curator of European Art 1400-1700 at the Walters Art Museum
Dr. Lucy Hinnie, Wikimedian-in-Residence at the British Library
Dr. Kacie Morgan, Grants Manager at HealthRIGHT360
Dr. Rebecca Straple-Sovers, Marketing Specialist at Medieval Institute Publications

CFP Frontiers, Borders, & Borderlands in the Early Global World Conference (4/10/2023; UC:A/Hybrid 6/2/2023)

Crossposted from The Medieval Academy of America blog. The original can be accessed at https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-papers-frontiers-borders-borderlands-in-the-early-global-world/. 

Call for Papers – Frontiers, Borders, & Borderlands in the Early Global World

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Chris


The officers of UCLA MEMSA announce this year’s conference, “Frontiers, Borders, & Borderlands in the Early Global World,” to be held in the UCLA Humanities Seminar Room, 306 Royce Hall, on June 2, 2023, as a hybrid event. MEMSA invites submissions from graduate students in any discipline of medieval and early modern studies, at UCLA and beyond. Abstracts of 250 words are due April 10. Please email them to memsa.ucla@gmail.com. Acceptances will be sent by April 20. More information at https://cmrs.ucla.edu/memsa/cfp-frontiers-borders-borderlands-in-the-early-global-world/

CFP UVa Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXVI (6/16/2023; Wisa, VA 9/21-23/2023)

UVa Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXVI

deadline for submissions:
June 16, 2023

full name / name of organization:
Center for Medieval-Renaissance Studies

contact email:
kjt9t@uvawise.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/03/02/uva-wise-medieval-renaissance-conference-xxxvi.


The Center for Medieval-Renaissance Studies at the University of Virginia's College at Wise announces the Thirty-Sixth Medieval-Renaissance Conference, September 21-23, 2023




Keynote Address

Matthew Gabriele

Virginia Tech University

Oathbreakers: The Long Shadow of Fontenoy (841 CE) in the European Middle Ages

Within a couple generations, the Franks under their Carolingian kings built the idea that they were God’s new chosen people – a new Israel. After a coup brough them to power in the middle of the 8th century, their successes seemed unmatched. Particularly under Charlemagne and his son Louis the Pious, the Franks expanded their empire to encompass much of continental Europe. But just as quickly as it was built, it tore asunder – riven by civil war, punctuated by a bloody fratricide in June 841 at the battle of Fontenoy. This keynote will revisit the importance of this battle itself for the 9th century, but more importantly focus in on the memory of the event and later medieval nostalgia for what seemed lost when brother fought brother and father fought son.”


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 16, 2023


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:

John Mark Adrian, Department of Language and Literature, jma6x@uvawise.edu



Last updated March 7, 2023

CFP Medieval Academy Annual Meeting 2024

Medieval Academy Annual Meeting 2024

The main conference site is available at this link.

Call for Papers

2024 Annual Meeting of The Medieval Academy of America

Hosted by the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame
MARCH 14–16, 2024

The 99th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Indiana). The meeting is hosted by The Medieval Institute, St. Mary's College, Holy Cross College, and Indiana University, South Bend.

The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval 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 can be given to individuals whose specialty would not normally involve membership in the Medieval Academy.

Location: 

The Medieval Institute has one of the preeminent library collections for medieval studies in North America. Notre Dame is located about two hours’ drive from Chicago, with commuter train service available. Scholars may wish to extend their visit and take advantage of opportunities for research or sightseeing.

Themes:

Mapping the Middle Ages: Under this theme we invite explorations of how medieval people mapped their world and of how we, as modern scholars, have mapped or might map that world. For example, sessions or individual presentations could focus on medieval cartography or the distortions of modern maps of the medieval world, but also on other kinds of medieval and modern mappings: the creation of medieval cosmologies and cosmographies; the construction of boundaries, edges, peripheries, authorities, and jurisdictions; the positioning of marginal groups, of insiders and outsiders, of friends and enemies; the conjuring of frontiers between ‘civilizations’ across Eurasia; the figuring of past, present, and future, of ancient, medieval, and modern; the making of archives and libraries.

Bodies in Motion: This strand thematizes bodies (for example, animate bodies, celestial bodies, or material objects) as they move, whether through displacement or through movement within a space. Papers might consider celestial motion, mathematical models, music, and concepts of time; travel (e.g. for trade, pilgrimage, or war), migration and resettlement (voluntary or forced); the transmission of food, goods, art objects and diseases through patterns of human contact; bodies that transform or transcend categories; textual corpora, their material transmissions, and their transformations through translation and reception; habit, gesture, ritual, and the lived use of domestic, urban, political, or religious architectural spaces.

Communities of Knowledge: We invite papers exploring communities formed around the creation, dissemination, exchange, and preservation of knowledge in the medieval world. Papers might treat centers of learning and their students and teachers, including but not limited to the universities; virtual communities formed by epistolary networks, narrative traditions, dissident theologies, or political ideologies; communities defined in terms of medical knowledge; apocalyptic or prophetic or messianic communities bound by foreknowledge of things to come; the peripheries of knowledge, including the limits of literacy or belief; material supports for the transmission of knowledge, from shipping routes or urban spaces to fresco cycles or manuscript glosses; and the formation of political and legal knowledge in the Middle Ages and their impact on the constitution of authority.

The Medieval Academy 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.

Proposals: 

Individuals may propose to offer a paper or propose a full panel of papers and speakers to fit one of the themes above. Panels usually consist of three 25-minute papers, and proposals should be geared to that length. The Program Committee may choose a different format for some panels after the proposals have been reviewed. Panel organizers may wish to propose different formats for their panels, subject to Program Committee approval.

In order to be considered, proposals must be complete and sent in via the Submittable platform at this link:

https://bit.ly/MAA2024-ND-MI

Paper proposals will need to include the proposer’s information (name; a statement of Medieval Academy membership, or statement that the individual’s specialty would not normally involve membership in the Academy; professional status; email address; postal address; home or cell and office telephone numbers) and paper information (title, abstract of no more than 250 words, session theme for which it should be considered, and audio-visual needs).

Session proposals will need to include the above proposer’s information as well as a session title, session abstract, list of proposed papers and speakers, session theme for which it should be considered, and audio-visual needs).

If the proposer will be at a different address when decisions are announced in September 2023, that address should be included.

Submissions:

The deadline is 15 June 2023.

Please do not send proposals to the Medieval Academy office or to the conference organizers. Contact MAA2024@TheMedievalAcademy.org with questions.

Selection Procedure: 

The Committee will review paper and panel proposals 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 2023 and the Committee will inform all successful and unsuccessful proposers and announce the program in September of 2023.

Program Committee Members

Thomas Burman, co-chair
CJ Jones, co-chair
Margaret Meserve, co-chair

Hussein Abdulsater
Christopher Abram
Alexander Beihammer
Jessalynn Bird
Jeremy Brown
Theodore Cachey
Eleonora Celora
Nina Glibetic
Robert Goulding
David Gura
Megan J. Hall
Marius Hauknes
Julio Hernando
Alexander Hsu
Peter Jeffery
Robin Jensen
Sarah Noonan
Stephen Ogden
Henry Stephan, O.P.
Wiebke Marie Stock
Alexis Torrance

Updates for 43rd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum

See below for details on the program and registration for the 43rd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum. The event's main page can be accessed at this link. The program includes a session on medievalism. 

43rd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum:
Touch and Affect in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Keene State College
Keene, NH, USA
Friday and Saturday April 14-15, 2023
Draft Forum Schedule

We are delighted to announce that the 43rd Medieval and Renaissance Forum will take place in person on Friday, April 14 and Saturday April 15, 2023 at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire. The theme of this year’s conference, our fifth dedicated to the five senses, is Touch and Affect in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, focusing on the sense of touch, the sensory, and affect.

While we plan to hold the 43rd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum in person with a limited number of virtual presentations, the entire event may have to be moved online should the safety of our participants require it.

Graduate students are eligible for consideration for the South Wind Graduate Student Paper Award upon submission of their essays by April 1, 2023. The winner of the South Wind Graduate Student Paper Award will win $100 to be used for registration and/or travel expenses to the 44th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum (travel expenses including but not limited to transportation to and from the conference and accommodations while in Keene). The winner of the South Wind Graduate Student Paper Award will be announced at lunch on Friday, April 14, 2023.

Please email paper and contact information for consideration for the South Wind Graduate Student Paper Award, to, Dr. Meriem Pages, mpages@keene.edu

Registration is now open Register Here.

Presenters and early registration: March 15, 2023

This year’s keynote speaker is Lauren Mancia, Associate Professor of History at Brooklyn College, who will speak on “(Reach Out and) Touch Medieval Monastic Devotion.”

Dr. Mancia focuses her research on the devotional and material culture of medieval European monasteries in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. More recently, Professor Mancia has turned to the field of performance studies both to better understand medieval European monastic devotion and to innovate ways to perform that understanding for contemporary audiences. Professor Mancia’s first book, Emotional Monasticism: Affective Piety in the Eleventh-Century Monastery of John of Fécamp (2019/paper 2021), sheds light on medieval monastic practices of affective piety. Her second book, Meditation and Prayer in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastery: Struggling Toward God is forthcoming in Spring 2023 from ARC Humanities/Amsterdam University Press.

As always, we look forward to greeting returning and first-time participants to Keene in April!

Contact the Medieval and Renaissance Forum

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns:

Meriem Pagès
Professor
English Department
mpages@keene.edu

Mass Mediævalisms at NeMLA 2023

If you are attending this year's NeMLA conference, please consider supporting the work of our advisory board members.




Northeast Modern Language Association 54th Annual Convention

Niagara Falls Convention Center (Niagara Falls, NY)

23-26 March 2023

(full schedule at this link)

Friday, 3/24: 

Track 7 (10:00-11:30 AM): 7.15 King Arthur's Coconuts: Towards an Understanding of Animals and the Medieval Mind (Olmstead / NCC) - Karen Casebier (University of Tennessee-Chattanooga) presents 1st on "Men and Monsters in the Old French Werewolf Lays and Merlin, the Graphic Novel".


Track 9 (1:15-2:45 PM): 9.15 Tolkien’s Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth (Part 1) (Olmstead / NCC), organized by Nick Katsiadas (Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania) and Carl Sell (University of Pittsburgh) - Carl presents 4th on "The Blade of the King: Tolkien, Arthur, and the Remnants of Kingship".

Track 10 (3-4:30 PM): 10.15 Tolkien’s Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth (Part 2) (Olmstead / NCC), organized by Nick Katsiadas and Carl Sell - Nick presents 4th on "Romantic Nostalgia in Tolkien's Relics and Ruins: Longing for Aman, Gondolin, and Númenor".

Sunday, 3/26: 

Track 21 (10:30 AM -12:15 PM): 21.18 Discrimination in Comic Books (Part 2) (Whitney / NCC) - Rachael Warmington (Seton Hall University) presents 3rd on "Oppressive Isms in Comic and Graphic Novel Adaptations of Arthurian Legend".

CFP Worlds of Exploration Conference (4/17/2023; Minnesota 9/21-23/2023)

Cross-posted from H-Albion:

CFP: Society For the History of Discoveries

by Lydia Towns

source: https://networks.h-net.org/node/16749/discussions/12359930/cfp-society-history-discoveries

Worlds of Exploration

The James Ford Bell Library, with its extensive collection of rare books, maps, manuscripts, and archival collections, documenting the history and impact of trade and cultural exchange before the 19th century, offers an ideal venue to host the 2023 SHD conference. This year’s conference locale aligns with the global breadth of the Society’s mission by supporting research into the expeditions, biographies, history, cartography, as well as the technologies of travel, the impact of travel and cultural exchange, and other aspects of geographic discovery. With its expansive resources, the James Ford Bell, and other collections associated with the University of Minnesota’s libraries, offers members of the Society and presenters an ideal opportunity to conduct research prior to and after the conference. The rich and fascinating collections emboldens the inspiration for our conference.

The Society for the History of Discoveries invites papers, 20 minutes in length, on all points of view of this theme, Worlds of Exploration, including: “discovery,” encounter, exploration, conquest, resistance, settlement, economy, daily life, and all aspects of socio-cultural and political encounter, as well as on the teaching of the history of exploration, broadly defined.

SHD welcomes submissions from graduate students, emerging and independent scholars, as well as established scholars and members of the Society. Presenters are encouraged to use images (maps, paintings, photographs, etc.). For the benefit of the audience, all visuals have to be presented as PowerPoint-compatible projection. The audience at SHD meetings is diverse and includes academics and members of various professions

Where: Minneapolis-St-Paul, Minnesota

When: 21 September – 23 September, 2023 (With an optional excursion on Sunday, 24)

Venue: James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota

Please provide a proposal that includes the following components:

• the title of the presentation
• the author’s name and address, including email address and affiliation
• an abstract summarizing the paper’s scope and conclusions (maximum of 500 words)
• a statement about the originality of the contents of the paper: how much is new, unpublished material, based on research in primary sources, etc.
• a statement indicating whether PowerPoint or other digital media will be used and whether internet access is necessary for the presentation
• a brief biographic sketch of the author(s)

Paper proposals are due 17 April 2023, and must be submitted via the SHD website – an online submissions portal. Inquiries via Dr. Lydia Towns, SHD secretary: lydia.towns@sfasu.edu

Kalamazoo 2023 Updates

The organizers of the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies have recently released the schedule for the hybrid event set to take place at Kalamazoo and online from Thursday, May 11, through Saturday, May 13, 2023. The full schedule can be accessed from the conference home page at this link. 

Registration will be open in March at the following rates:

$265 (annual income $90,000 and above)

$210 (annual income $75,000-$89,999)

$175 (annual income $60,000-$74,999)

$150 (annual income $45,000-$59,999)

$95 (students and annual income below $45,000)

$10 (Kalamazoo residents)

CFP Edited Volume: The Middle Ages and Its Cultural Afterlives in the American South (proposals 6/1/2023)

Edited Volume: The Middle Ages and Its Cultural Afterlives in the American South

deadline for submissions:
June 1, 2023

full name / name of organization:
Alexandra Cook

contact email:
acook@ua.edu


source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/01/30/edited-volume-the-middle-ages-and-its-cultural-afterlives-in-the-american-south

We invite contributions to an edited collection titled The Middle Ages and Its Cultural Afterlives in the American South.

The Middle Ages and Its Cultural Afterlives in the American South seeks to address, firstly, the role that ideas of the European middle ages have played among native and indigenous, white, black, and Americans from past and present immigrant communities, particularly in the U.S. South; and secondly, the ways in which the South’s relationship to the middle ages has not only played a key role in shaping America’s perception of this period but also shaped an often racially-charged academic study of the middle ages. It seeks to address these lines of inquiry in essays that interrogate architecture and monuments, texts, curricula, material culture, film, media, and videogames.

Consequently, this collection aims to bring together scholars who specialize in a variety of field and area specializations, including, Southern Studies, American Studies, African American Studies, Native and Indigenous Studies, Latinx Studies, Asian American Studies, and Medieval Studies in order to reconsider how scholarship within these disciplines may be reshaped when put into conversation with one another.

Please submit your abstract by June 1, 2023 to

Alex Cook acook@ua.edu

Donna Beth Ellard Donna.ellard@du.edu

Cassander Smith clsmith17@ua.edu

with the subject line “The Middle Ages and Its Cultural Afterlives.”



Last updated February 2, 2023

CFP Speculations: The Centennial Issue of Speculum (Spec Issue of Speculum) (proposals by 12/1/2023)

Call for Proposals – Speculations: The Centennial Issue of Speculum

Posted on February 8, 2023 by Chris

Source: https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-proposals-speculations-the-centennial-issue-of-speculum/

Speculations
The Centennial Issue of Speculum
January 2026

The centenary of a scholarly journal offers the opportunity to recognize, reflect on, and reimagine scholarly methods and objects, including canonicity and the discursive possibilities of scholarship; the boundaries, borders and spaces that define our disciplines; the genres and taxonomies that shape our work.

To mark the 100th anniversary of Speculum, we aim to commemorate the journal by raising questions about the methods and parameters of our study in a prospective rather than retrospective manner. What might the future of medieval studies look like? What might the place of this journal in that future be? The volume focuses on the future of the journal and the field it helps to define by inviting a wide breadth of scholarship that can collectively speculate about how we can take medieval studies into the future. But of course those living in the medieval world broadly considered speculated on their future as well. How was the future conceived in the past and what might those past reflections about the future, and about the condition of futurity generally, have to teach us as we consider recent shifts in our field and a shifting institutional context.

The format of the centennial volume will model the kind of contributions we seek: instead of 4-5 long form articles, we plan to publish 50 short essays (of approximately 3000 words each) in an attempt to represent a broader range of voices, perspectives, methodologies, and areas of study. We welcome traditional essays as well as innovative forms of research and reflection (pedagogical speculations, creative or dialogic writing, speculative history, etc.).

We invite contributions that speculate on the past and future of scholarly work in medieval studies. We particularly welcome essays that address gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and that use comparative and interdisciplinary methods and that address at least one of the following questions:

• What kinds of methods and theoretical models shape our work and will orient us in the future?
• How might we call on more inclusive and expansive understandings of the Middle Ages in light of the global turn and critical reappraisals of periodization.
• What histories do we examine, what histories do we obscure, and what criteria will most productively guide our examination of histories in the future?
• How have scholarly understandings of medieval historicity and temporality shaped the parameters of our inquiry, and how might we critically engage these accounts?

Proposals of 300 words should be sent to speculations@themedievalacademy.org by December 1, 2023.

Speculations editorial collective

Mohamad Ballan
Peggy McCracken
Cecily Hilsdale
Katherine Jansen
Sierra Lomuto
Cord J. Whitaker

CFP Adapting Middle English Literature (3/17/2023; MLA 2024 Philadelphia 1/4-7/2024)

Adapting Middle English Literature

deadline for submissions:
March 17, 2023

full name / name of organization:
MLA Middle English Forum

contact email:
snakley@sjny.edu


source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/02/08/adapting-middle-english-literature


Please send 250-word abstracts for roundtable presentations to be delivered at the 2024 MLA National Convention in Philadephia, PA (Jan 4-7, 2024) to Susie Nakley, snakley@sjny.edu and Ruen-chuan Ma, RMa@uvu.edu by March 17, 2023.





This session invites us to consider how contemporary adaptations of Middle English literature contribute to the projects of teaching medieval literature and bringing it into contemporary public consumption. How do writers, playwrights, and directors produce new afterlives for Middle English literature as part of their projects, whether by reimagining medieval styles and genres in contemporary contexts, re-centering and valorizing the experiences of marginalized groups, or generating cultural commentary?



Recent adaptations produced in response to Middle English and other medieval literatures showcase a rich range of creative possibilities: Carol Ann Duffy’s Everyman, David Herd’s Refugee Tales, Robert Gluck's Margery Kempe, Lauren Groff’s Matrix, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Everybody, Derek Jarman's The Garden, David Lowery's Green Knight, Alex Myers's Story of Silence, Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play, Zadie Smith’s Wife of Willesden, etc. These adaptations can help us rethink the interplay of critical methodologies and creative commentary in studying and teaching the past, especially since adaptations allow a wider range of audiences to identify with recurring themes in Middle English and other medieval literature and culture. What important generic, political or other differences do we see among the various adaptations, inspirations, translations and other contemporary medievalisms? What is at stake in taking or leaving old art as we make new meaning in the realm of arts and humanities now?





Last updated February 10, 2023

CFP MLA 2024: Transtemporal Methodologies in the Study of Late Medieval English Literature (3/17/2023; MLA 2021)

MLA 2024: Transtemporal Methodologies in the Study of Late Medieval English Literature

deadline for submissions:
March 17, 2023

full name / name of organization:
MLA Middle English Forum

contact email:
meyerlee@aya.yale.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/02/04/mla-2024-transtemporal-methodologies-in-the-study-of-late-medieval-english-literature

Several recent, celebrated studies of late medieval English literature present their anchoring motivations as including one or more twenty-first century activist concerns – for example, scholarship that considers Chaucer and rape culture, examines the medieval roots or affinities of contemporary white supremacy, thinks ecocritically about the medieval beyond-human, juxtaposes medieval political events with modern ones, etc. Methodologically, such studies have involved explicit interleaving of analysis of late medieval English literary texts with considerations of texts, events, or discourses of the present. This session is interested in how such methods might be theorized, systematized, or otherwise conceptually grounded – how we might explain what we are doing when we pursue such projects. Topics to consider include the relation between these methods of interleaving or juxtaposition and various historicisms of the 80s and 90s, the problem of historical alterity, the question of the value that late medieval English literature holds for present-day activism, the bearing of diachronic aesthetic theories such as Bakhtin’s or Benjamin’s, etc.



Please send paper proposals to Bobby Meyer-Lee, meyerlee@aya.yale.edu, and Claire Waters, cmwaters@ucdavis.edu, by 17 March 2023.



Last updated February 10, 2023

CFP "Forging the Medieval" in Institutions: Call for Special Issue Contributions (Spec Issue postmedieval) (2/28/2023 proposals)

"Forging the Medieval" in Institutions: Call for Special Issue Contributions

deadline for submissions:
February 28, 2023

full name / name of organization:
postmedieval / guest editors Rebecca Menmuir and Hannah Armstrong

contact email:
r.menmuir@qmul.ac.uk

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/02/02/forging-the-medieval-in-institutions-call-for-special-issue-contributions.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: “FORGING THE MEDIEVAL” IN INSTITUTIONS

Proposals for short essays (c. 3500-8000 words) are warmly welcomed, on the topic of “forging the medieval” in institutions. In galleries, museums, schools, universities, libraries, archives, or other institutions, how is the medieval past forged? How is it created and curated, presented and (mis)represented, through the institution’s objects and the concept of the institution itself?



About the contribution and cluster:

This contribution will feature in a forthcoming issue of postmedieval, which has been accepted for publication. The issue is an essay cluster on the topic of “Medieval Forgeries / Forging the Medieval”. The cluster as a whole brings together medieval forgeries (i.e. those created during the medieval period) and forgeries of the medieval (i.e. works produced after the Middle Ages which seek to ‘forge’ the medieval in some way). All other contributions have been confirmed, and range from forged medieval documents to an examination of how Arthurian myth-making takes place at archaeological sites. Final contributions will be due in May 2023.



Proposals might include, but are not limited to:

• The various meanings of the word “forge” in the context of institutions;
• Particular objects in institutions which are inauthentic, or which contribute to the forging of the medieval past in some way;
• The role of the institution in forging the medieval past;
• Collections in institutions related to the medieval: their history and role in forging the medieval;
• Current debates about fakes and issues of authenticity and truth, with some focus on the medieval period;
• Pedagogy and forging the medieval;
• Institutions and access to the medieval.

About the journal:

postmedieval welcomes experimental scholarship (for instance, dialogues or experiments in scholarly form) as well as ‘traditional’ scholarly articles. It also aims to ‘[reach] across disciplines, language traditions, locales, modes of inquiry, and levels of access’ (http://www.palgrave.com/gp/journal/41280). As such, the essay cluster is broad in its geographical and chronological scope, with representatives from across academic disciplines. Anyone with an interest in the topic is welcome to propose a contribution, regardless of background.



Submission details:

Please send a short (c. 200 word) abstract of your proposed essay, and a brief introduction of yourself, to the guest editors: Rebecca Menmuir (r.menmuir@qmul.ac.uk) and Hannah Armstrong (hannah.armstrong@york.ac.uk). The deadline for proposals is February 28, 2023.




Last updated February 10, 2023

CFP Wooden O Symposium 2024 (3/15/2023; Utah/Online 8/7-9/2023)

I presented at this event last summer. It's nice to see their commitment to a hybrid conference.

Wooden O Symposium

deadline for submissions:
March 15, 2023

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/2023/01/20/wooden-o-symposium

August 7-9, 2023

Southern Utah University - Utah Shakespeare Festival

The 2023 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 and History, Culture, and Society
• Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
• Shakespeare and Rhetoric
• Shakespeare in Performance
• Shakespeare and the Arts

We encourage papers and presentations that speak to the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s 2023 summer season: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, and Romeo and Juliet.

This year’s meeting will be face-to-face with 1-2 panels reserved for virtual participants. Submit your proposals utilizing the linked form: Wooden O Symposium Submission Form.

The deadline for proposals is March 15, 2023. Session chairs and individual authors will be informed of acceptance no later than May 1. Please include a 250-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.

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 26, 2023

CFP Modern Meets Medieval: Scholars and the Public, Then and Now (4/15/2023; Midwest MLA)

Modern Meets Medieval: Scholars and the Public, Then and Now

deadline for submissions:
April 15, 2023

full name / name of organization:
Midwest Modern Language Association

contact email:
katheen.burt@mga.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/01/23/modern-meets-medieval-scholars-and-the-public-then-and-now 

MMLA 2023 Permanent Session: Old and Middle English Language and Literature

“Modern Meets Medieval: Scholars and the Public, Then and Now"

The General Call opens with an analogy between now-times and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, invoking an approach that is both medieval and modern by looking at how the arts, the academy, and general society should, can, and do interact. In that spirit, the general question for this panel is “what is the value of studying medieval history, culture, art, and/or literature in today’s world?”

Possibilities include but are not limited to considering political and social issues/questions in medieval texts and how they inform our knowledge of the past, present, and future; medievalisms and how to discuss them in the public sphere (esp. concerning appropriation by racist/misogynist/etc groups); how to deal with original texts and contexts now considered socially or otherwise unacceptable; and academic and/or governing structures medieval and modern, what they are and how they might relate or be related.

Please send abstracts of approximately 350 words, along with a cv or brief biographical statement, to Dr. Kathleen Burt at katheen.burt@mga.edu by no later than April 15, 2023.




Last updated January 26, 2023

Sponsored Session NeMLA 2023: Tolkien’s Medievalism in Ruins

Details on our sponsored session for the upcoming meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association in Niagra Falls, NY.

Registration information and the full schedule can be accessed at NeMLA's website from this link: https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html.

Friday

Mar 24 Track 9

01:15-02:45

9.15 Tolkien’s Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth (Part 1)

Chair: Nick Katsiadas, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

Chair: Carl Sell, University of Pittsburgh

Location: Olmstead / NCC (Media Equipped)

British & Comparative Literature

"As if It Never Were: Moria, Lothlorien, and the Temporality of the Old English Ruins Motif" Mary Kate Hurley, Ohio University

"Dead at the Mountain’s Feet: Blame and Vengeance in Dwarven and Human Ruins" Victoria Smurthwaite, Kutztown University

"Tolkien’s 'Many Dark Places': Monstrous Ruins in Old English and Norse Sagas" Morgan Hunter, University of South Florida & Kyra Lance, University of South Florida

"The Blade of the King: Tolkien, Arthur, and the Remnants of Kingship" Carl Sell, University of Pittsburgh

Friday

Mar 24 Track 10

03:00-04:30

10.15 Tolkien’s Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth (Part 2)

Chair: Nick Katsiadas, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

Chair: Carl Sell, University of Pittsburgh

Location: Olmstead / NCC (Media Equipped)

British & Comparative Literature

"Tolkien's Tower by the Sea" Angela Fulk, SUNY Buffalo State College

"'Too greedily and too deep': Decadence and the Ruins of Empire in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings" Sandra Leonard, Kutztown University

"‘Shall I always be left behind?’: Women’s Roles and Ruins Depicted in Tolkien and Wordsworth" Katie Poland, University of Alabama

"Romantic Nostalgia in Tolkien's Relics and Ruins: Longing for Aman, Gondolin, and Númenor" Nick Katsiadas, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

New Book: The Wife of Bath: A Biography

 

An imminent release:

The Wife of Bath: A Biography

Marion Turner

Ordering information and further details from the publisher's website at https://press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/9780691206028/the-wife-of-bath. Extras include a video trailer and preview (click the text marked "Look Inside") with the contents list, introduction, and index. 

Princeton University Press.

Hardcover Price: $29.95/£20.00. ISBN: 9780691206011. Pages: 336. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in. 

Ebook Price: 30% off with code PUP30 - Sale Price: $20.97/£17.50; Price: $29.95/£25.00. ISBN:

9780691206028. 

Published: Jan 17, 2023

Illus: 14 color illus.

From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeToo

Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few literary characters have led such colourful lives or matched her influence or capacity for reinvention in poetry, drama, fiction, and film. In The Wife of Bath, Marion Turner tells the fascinating story of where Chaucer’s favourite character came from, how she related to real medieval women, and where her many travels have taken her since the fourteenth century, from Falstaff and Molly Bloom to #MeToo and Black Lives Matter.

A sexually active and funny working woman, the Wife of Bath, also known as Alison, talks explicitly about sexual pleasure. She is also a victim of domestic abuse who tells a story of rape and redemption. Formed from misogynist sources, she plays with stereotypes. Turner sets Alison’s fictional story alongside the lives of real medieval women—from a maid who travelled around Europe, abandoned her employer, and forged a new career in Rome to a duchess who married her fourth husband, a teenager, when she was sixty-five. Turner also tells the incredible story of Alison’s post-medieval life, from seventeenth-century ballads and Polish communist pop art to her reclamation by postcolonial Black British women writers.

Entertaining and enlightening, funny and provocative, The Wife of Bath is a one-of-a-kind history of a literary and feminist icon who continues to capture the imagination of readers.

Author:

Marion Turner is the J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford, where she is a Professorial Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. Her books include the prize-winning biography Chaucer: A European Life.

CFP Update PCA Medievalism (now due 1/10/2023)

CFP: Medievalism in Popular Culture

PCA/ACA 2023 National Conference

April 5-8, 2023, San Antonio, TX (In-Person)



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 in YA Literature and Fan Fiction
• Medievalism and Intersectionality
• The Arthurian World
• “Medieval” as a social and political signifier
• Medievalism in Television (e.g., The Last Kingdom, House of Dragons, etc.)
• Medievalism in Film (The Green Knight, Outlaw King, The Last Duel, etc.)
• Robin Hood
• Medievalism and Teaching (especially remote/distance education strategies)
• 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: January 10, 2023.

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

CFP Bodies and Borders: PKMS 2023 CFP (1/31/2023; online event 5/5/2023)

Bodies and Borders: PKMS 2023 CFP

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/09/14/bodies-and-borders-pkms-2023-cfp

deadline for submissions:
January 31, 2023

full name / name of organization:
Pearl Kibre Medieval Study

contact email:
medieval.study@gmail.com



What: Pearl Kibre Medieval Study 17th Annual Conference

Where: Online, hosted through The Graduate Center, CUNY
When: Friday 5 May 2023
Submission Form: https://forms.gle/4cUBLj9oXepsvwsV7

Jeffery Jerome Cohen argues in his introduction to Medieval Identity Machines that these systems of meaning making pull the “human outside of itself, breaking its self-contained organization to disaggregate the body into pieces more intimate with stars and planets than with each other” with a “pancosmic fluidity that mingles the human, animal, vegetal, and inorganic” (xvi). Recognizable medieval images like the zodiac man, the knight riding his horse, and the lovesick lovers are all identity machines, disrupting the stable borders of the body and giving medieval people the language and the models to imagine their bodies as extending beyond their physical form alone. The barber surgeon with his scalpel; the farrier and his horses; the woman in labor wrapped in a prayer scroll to St. Margaret - all of these people learned that their bodies were not limited by the boundary of their skin. What happens to the category of “the human” when these medieval systems of meaning-making decentralize the anthropocene and disrupt definitions of bodily integrity?

This conference is interested in exploring the limits, borders, and boundaries of the medieval body, broadly understood as both the physical body and larger structural understandings of medieval societies as bodies that rely on their component parts to survive. The concept of a “body” itself in a medieval context is a flexible one, encompassing not only an individual’s body but metaphors for social concepts and institutions, in which every member of society is associated with part of a larger whole. Concepts like the social body, the body of the nation, and the king’s two bodies are both comprehensive and limited, encompassing entire societies but also frequently excluding those outside their boundaries. We are interested in projects that explore these wider systems as well as the more granular system of natural bodies, both in their normal operations and in the ways they break down, confuse, and conflict.

Papers might address the following topics:

• Boundaries and limits of the human body
• Symbolic categories of “bodies”, both human and non-human
• Posthumanism, bestiaries, and the borders of the anthropocene
• Speculative fictions, both premodern (history plays, medieval political imaginaries) and modern (cyberpunk, afrofuturism, etc.) that imagine a social body
• Disability and prosthesis
• The body as imagined in medievalism vs. the medieval conception of the body
• Medical humanities and the history of medieval emotions (the borders of the body/mind)

Abstract Deadline: Jan 31 2023
Registration Deadline: April 5 2023


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Last updated November 7, 2022

CFP 2023 International Conference for the Study of Medievalism (8/15/2023; online 10/26-28/2023)

2023 International Conference for the Study of Medievalism

October 26-28, 2023
The UNICORN Castle
Submission Deadline: August 15, 2023

cfp at https://medievalisms.org/cfp-2023-international-conference-for-the-study-of-medievalism/

The 2023 conference will be hosted by The UNICORN Castle, a haunted museum, currently in the process of evolving into an online virtual environment. Most scholarly presentations will be conducted via Zoom technology; some of the entertainment and scholarly presentations (by request) will be conducted in a 3D environment created with Mozilla Hub.

 

Theme: The Medieval in Cyberspace

From Beowulf on Steorarume to contemporary novels (in e-text form), films, and video games: the medieval has been represented in digital form on the World Wide Web since the late 1990s. This conference invites proposals for papers, paper sessions, round tables, panels, and workshops that celebrate, rebuke, categorize, visualize, analyze, and/or prophesize all items that contain elements of the medieval to be found on the Internet. However, we invite papers and presentations on all topics of medievalism, not limited to this year’s conference theme. We particularly welcome proposals from presenters in (or addressing topics related to) regions outside North America, Western Europe, and the Anglophone world.

Topic Suggestions:

• Medieval Studies Online
• Medieval Pedagogy Online
• Medievalism and Online Politics
• Medievalism and Propaganda
• Medievalism and Religion Online
• Digital Facsimiles of the Medieval
• The Business Philosophy of Medievalism
• The Video Game Industry and Medievalism
• The Film Industry and Medievalism
• Fan Fiction and Medievalism
• Art and Medievalism
• Global Medievalism Online
• Cyberpunk Medievalism
• Medievalism and Racism Online
• Medievalism and Misogyny Online
• Medievalism and Ablism Online
• Medievalism and Homophobia/Transphobia Online
• Lost Provinces, or Lost and Found Medievalisms Online

Send proposals (abstracts of 250-300 words each) by August 15, 2023 to Carol L. Robinson at clrobins@kent.edu.

*This conference will be 100% online.