How Interdisciplinary Can We Be? - Kalamazoo 2024 Sponsored Session

Please join us at Kalamazoo online this May for

How Interdisciplinary Can We Be? (Re)Conceiving the Scope of Medieval Studies Today (A Roundtable) (Virtual)

59th International Congress on Medieval Studies (you must register to attend)
Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI)
Virtual Session
Session 46: Thursday, 9 May 2024, from 10:00-11:30 AM EDT



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


Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College


(Per request of one or more participants, this session will not be recorded.)


Presider: June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University

 

Panelists:

(Re)Writing Trauma: The (Good) Wife of Bath as Therapy

Lindsay Pereira, Concordia University


Lindsay Pereira (she/her) is a neurodivergent MA student in her final year of English Literature at Concordia University, in Montreal, Quebec (Canada), with a BA Specialization in English Literature and a background in Health Sciences. At the university level, she is a T.A. Instructor and Evaluator for Concordia’s English Department, working in conjunction with the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) to facilitate the inclusion of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in pedagogy creation at the graduate level. At the pre-college level, Lindsay provides UDL-based literature-centered workshops for the Lester B. Pearson School Board of Montreal in inclusive, adaptive learning environments and makerspaces. Her research interests include medieval Arthurian literature, learning and teaching through gaming, and inclusive pedagogy, with an aim to destigmatize neurodiversity and disability in education through the lens of English writing. Lindsay has presented her work on medieval studies and experiential pedagogy at conferences, including the 2024 Dies Medievales Conference, 2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies, and 2023 SAGE Graduate Student Colloquium, and looks forward to presenting at the upcoming 29th International Medieval Congress at Leeds University in July.



Toward a new Interdisciplinary approach in Arabic Medieval Literature

Amina Boukail,University of Jijel


Amina Boukail is an Associate Professor of comparative literature and Arabic Medieval literature at the University of Jijel, Algeria. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Annaba (Algeria) in 2016. Her dissertation title was “Arabic’s elements in Hebrew andalusian literature.” Her research interests include Arabic medieval literature, Judeo-Arabic, Iberian studies, Algerian literature, minorities in Arabic world. Her publications include: Arabic Maqamat in Universal literatures 2022 in Arabic, and The representation of the Other in Hebrew Andalusian literature in Arabic, Damascus 2023.

CFP EDIA in the Middle Ages and Medieval Studies (Spec Issue of Florilegium) (5/15/2024)

A Special Issue of Florilegium, Dedicated to EDIA in the Middle Ages and Medieval Studies

Florilegium is an international, peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the study of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (c. 500-1500) broadly defined from a geographic and cultural perspective.

The journal is currently seeking proposals for a special issue devoted to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Middle Ages and in Medieval Studies, to be guest edited by Donna Trembinski and Michael Kightley. The issue is open to non-traditional forms and genres of scholarly publication.
The issue will be published in print and open access online.
The digital format will adhere to principles of universal design.

Send any enquiries to edia.florilegium@gmail.com.

The work of this edition will recognize that:

• The discipline of Medieval Studies has a long history of exclusion of scholars of colour (particularly Black and Indigenous scholars), women scholars, LGBTQ2+ scholars, scholars with disabilities, and others.
• The discipline has created a culture that is resistant, even hostile, to research on EDIA issues in the Middle Ages.
• The harms from this history and this culture are ongoing today.

We define EDIA broadly, including but not limited to diversities of ability, accessibility, age, cultural tradition, gender, geography or region, race and ethnicity, religion, sexuality, and socioeconomic background. We are interested in proposals including but not limited to:

• The Global Middle Ages;
• Medieval Studies scholarship and community, past and present;
• Teaching the Middle Ages;
• Medievalism.

Moreover, we are particularly interested in proposals from underrepresented voices and on scholarship that works to redress the past and ongoing inequities in the discipline of Medieval Studies, whether in publication or in the classroom.

Submission instructions:

Please send a short abstract for your proposed paper as detailed below.

Contributors need not be members of the Canadian Society of Medievalists / Société canadienne des médiévistes.Email proposals to edia.floriliegium@gmail.com by May 15, 2024.
Proposals should be approximately 500 words in .doc or .pdf formats.

The review of proposals will be anonymized: please include your name and contact information in your submission email but not in the proposal filename or file itself

Proposals will be reviewed by May 30, 2024.
For accepted proposals, we hope to have completed articles by October 15, 2024.

Manuscripts, written in English or French, should be submitted electronically as Microsoft Word documents to the journal management system. Articles should normally not exceed 8,000-9,000 words, including footnotes, and should be formatted according to Chicago style. A brief abstract (one or two sentences) should be included with the submission.

CFP Medieval Academy at 100 (6/3/2024; Cambridge, MA 3/20-22/2023)

The Medieval Academy at 100

The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America

Harvard University, Cambridge MA
20-22 March 2025

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

Call for Papers

The Centennial Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosted by Harvard University, Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis University, Fitchburg State University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stonehill College, Tufts University, and Wellesley College. While the conference will take place in person, the plenary lectures and some other events also will be live streamed. Plenary addresses will be delivered by Kristina Richardson (Professor of History and Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Virginia), Sara Lipton (Incoming President of the Medieval Academy of America and Professor of History, Stony Brook University), and Wendy Belcher (Professor of Comparative Literature and African American Studies, Princeton University). The Annual Meeting will be followed by the Sunday annual meeting of the Medieval Academy's Committee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA).

Conference Location: The conference sessions, receptions, and pre-conference programs will take place at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Harvard campus is accessible by taxi and public transit from Boston's Logan Airport as well as from the South and Back Bay Amtrak stations. In addition to Harvard's own museums and libraries, visitors can take advantage of greater Boston's rich dining, entertainment, and cultural resources, including the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Boston Public Library, all easily reached by the MBTA subway from Harvard Square.

Proposals: The Program Committee invites proposals for papers and panels on any topic from scholars studying the medieval world in all its variety, in all disciplines, regions, and periods of Medieval Studies. Panels usually consist of three 25-minute papers, and proposals should be geared to that length. Panel organizers, however, may wish to propose different formats for their panels, and the Program Committee may choose a different format for some panels after the proposals have been reviewed. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper or panel proposal. Others may submit proposals as well, but they must become members in order to present at the meeting. Exceptions may be given to individuals whose specialty would not normally involve membership in the Medieval Academy. Please contact MAA Executive Director Lisa Fagin Davis (lfd@themedievalacademy.org) with any questions about this policy.

We are particularly interested in papers and panels that cross traditional disciplinary and geographical boundaries, or that use various approaches to examine a given topic. Our goal is to create a rich and diverse program that embodies the conference theme "The Medieval Academy at 100,” placing detailed, methodologically rigorous scholarship on the Middle Ages into conversation with broader reflections on the histories and possible futures of Medieval Studies itself. We encourage those proposing papers and panels to engage with one or more of the threads below.

Threads: The Program Committee has created six threads for the Centennial Meeting, meant to promote critical engagement between scholars working on all aspects of the medieval world, as well as on more modern appraisals and interpretations of that world. These are:

1. Who? Subjects of Medieval Studies. Possible topics might include: identities (race, ethnicity, gender, religion); animals and the non-human; abilities and disabilities; and communities in theory and practice.

2. What? Definitions, Reevaluations, and Transformations. Possible topics might include: canons and canonicity; orthodoxies and heterodoxies; laws and norms; science and scientia; disciplines of/and Medieval Studies; and making the "Middle Ages", 1925-2025.

3. When? Beginnings, Endings, and Possible Futures. Possible topics might include: remembering and forgetting; periodizations and paradigms; environmental, evolutionary, and geological perspectives on the medieval; and the future(s) of Medieval Studies, 2025-2125.

4. Where? Space, Place, and Geographies. Possible topics might include: people, things, and ideas on the move; frontiers and boundaries; opportunities and challenges of the “global turn”; landscapes, wilderness, and lived environments; and preservation and effacement of the medieval.

5. Why? Reverence, Recycling, and Rejection of the Middle Ages. Possible topics might include: medievalisms and popular cultures of the medieval; aesthetics of the medieval; politics and the medieval, then and now; and what the Middle Ages might do for us today.

6. How? Frameworks for Research, Teaching, and Public Engagement. Possible topics might include: translation in theory and practice; digital medieval studies; the science of the medieval past; the Middle Ages in the contemporary classroom; and curating and exhibiting the medieval.

Submissions: Individuals may either propose individual papers or a full panel of papers and speakers, using the links provided below. Paper proposals should include the individual's name, professional affiliation (including independent scholar), contact information, paper title, and a brief (c. 150-word) abstract. Session proposals should include the name and contact information for the session organizer, the session title, a c. 500-word abstract, and information for each of the session participants (including proposed chairs and respondents). Those submitting paper and session proposals also will be asked to indicate the thread(s) with which their contributions might best be associated. All submissions are due by Monday, 3 June 2024. If you have any questions, please direct them to the Program Committee chairs at MAA2025@themedievalacademy.org.

Individual paper proposals

Panel proposals



Selection Process: The Program Committee will assess paper and panel proposals via blind review during the summer of 2024, evaluating their quality, significance, and relevance to the conference themes. Those proposing papers and sessions will be informed of the Committee's decision by 15 September 2024, with the final program announced in late 2024. Please note that all Annual Meeting participants will be required to agree to abide by the MAA's Professional Behavior Policy, which can be found here.

The Medieval Academy offers several travel bursaries and awards in conjunction with the Annual Meeting:

1) Student Bursaries: Graduate students who are members of the Medieval Academy of America and who have had their papers accepted for presentation at the 2025 meeting are eligible to apply for a Medieval Academy Annual Meeting Bursary of up to $500. The bursaries will be awarded to graduate students for papers judged meritorious by the local Program Committee, and one applicant will be awarded the prize for Best Student Paper. The application includes a biographical form and the completed paper. The deadline for applications is 31 December 2024. Click here to apply.

2) Medieval Academy of America Travel Grants: The Medieval Academy provides a limited number of travel grants to help Academy members who hold doctorates but are not in full-time faculty positions, or are contingent scholars without access to institutional funding, attend conferences (including the Annual Meeting) to present their work. Awards to support travel in North America are $500; for overseas travel the awards are $750. These awards are adjudicated by the Academy's Committee for Professional Development, and the deadline for applications to travel to the Annual Meeting is 1 November 2024. Click here to apply.

3) Inclusivity and Diversity Travel Grant: The Academy will present the annual Inclusivity and Diversity Travel Grant of $500 to one Annual Meeting participant presenting an accepted proposal on the study of inclusivity and diversity in the Middle Ages, broadly conceived. This Grant will be adjudicated by the Academy's Inclusivity and Diversity Committee, and preference will be given to student, junior, adjunct, or unaffiliated scholars. The deadline for applications is 31 December 2024. Click here to apply.

Some additional travel funding may be available for those whose papers are accepted by the Program Committee, and who lack other sources of research funding. Priority will be given to part-time and contingent faculty, independent scholars, and graduate students whose institutions do not provide conference support. If you or members of your proposed session would like to be considered for travel funding, please check the appropriate box(es) in the submission portal.

Program Committee Members

Sean Gilsdorf, Medieval Studies, Harvard University (co-chair)

Eileen Sweeney, Philosophy, Boston College (co-chair)

Arthur Bahr, Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Suzanne Preston Blier, History of Art & Architecture/African & African American Studies, Harvard University

Alexander Brey, Art History, Wellesley College

Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, Romance Languages & Literatures, Harvard University

Jonathan Decter, Near Eastern & Judaic Studies, Brandeis University

Luis Girón Negrón, Comparative Literature/Romance Languages & Literatures, Harvard University

Eric Goldberg, History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School

Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Harvard Law School

Deeana Klepper, Religion, Boston University

Peter Mahoney, Spanish, Stonehill College

Christina Maranci, Near Eastern Languages & Literatures/History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University

Alexander Riehle, Classics, Harvard University

Daniel Lord Smail, History, Harvard University

Riccardo Strobino, Classics, Tufts University

Alice Sullivan, History of Art & Architecture, Tufts University

Xiaofei Tian, East Asian Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University

Kisha Tracy, English, Fitchburg State University

Julia Verkholantsev, Russian & East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania (ex officio)

Nicholas Watson, English, Harvard University

Eric Weiskott, English, Boston College

Anna Wilson, English, Harvard University

Ling Zhang, History, Boston College

CFP Medievalisms Area at SWPACA Summer Salon 2024 (4/15/2024; Virtual 6/20-22/2024)

Medievalisms Area at SWPACA Summer Salon 2024

deadline for submissions:
April 15, 2024

full name / name of organization:
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)

contact email:
adunai@tamuct.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/03/16/medievalisms-area-at-swpaca-summer-salon-2024

conference site (with registration info): https://southwestpca.org/summer-registration-information/

Call for Papers

Medievalisms Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2024 SWPACA Summer Salon



June 20-22, 2024

Virtual Conference

https://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on March 25, 2024

Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2024



Proposals for papers are now being accepted for the SWPACA Summer Salon. SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas in a variety of categories encompassing the following: Film, Television, Music, & Visual Media; Historic & Contemporary Cultures; Identities & Cultures; Language & Literature; Science Fiction & Fantasy; and Pedagogy & Popular Culture. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit https://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/



The Medievalisms area invites paper and session proposals on any and all topics relevant to medievalism, which is described by Tison Pugh and Angela Jane Weisl in Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present (2013) as “the art, literature, scholarship, avocational pastimes, and sundry forms of entertainment and culture that turn to the Middle Ages for their subject matter or inspiration, and in doing so…comment on the artist’s contemporary sociocultural milieu” (1). Medievalism can be approached in many ways, including in terms of media (e.g., literature, architecture, cinema, music, games), chronology (e.g., Early Modern, Romantic, Victorian), geography, and from any number of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives (e.g., cultural studies, media studies, race and ethnic studies, gender and queer studies). Presentations that engage with current conversations in the field are particularly welcome.



Examples of topics relevant to the Medievalisms area include (but are not limited to): 

• Literary Medievalisms
• Cinematic Medievalisms
• Medievalisms in Art, Architecture, Music, and Performance
• Medievalisms in Gaming, LARPing, and Role-Playing
• Medievalisms of Place and Space
• Gender, Sexuality, Race, Ethnicity, Class, etc. in Medievalisms
• Global Medievalisms
• Queer Medievalisms
• Political Medievalisms
• Medievalisms in the Classroom

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



For details on using the submission database and on the application process in general, please see the Proposal Submission FAQs and Tips page at https://southwestpca.org/conference/faqs-and-tips/ Registration information for the conference will be available at https://southwestpca.org/conference/conference-registration-information/



Individual proposals for 15-minute papers must include an abstract of approximately 200-500 words. Only one proposal per person, please; no roundtables.



If you have any questions about the Medievalisms area, please contact its Area Chair, Amber Dunai, at adunai@tamuct.edu. If you have general questions about the conference, please contact us at support@southwestpca.org, and a member of the executive team will get back to you.



We look forward to receiving your submissions!


Last updated March 23, 2024

CFP UVa Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXVII (6/21/2024; Virginia 9/19-21/2024)

UVa Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXVII (6/21; 9/19-21)

deadline for submissions:
June 21, 2024

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

contact email:
kjt9t@uvawise.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/03/08/uva-wise-medieval-renaissance-conference-xxxvii-621-919-21

Keynote Address

Matthew Biberman

University of Louisville

Teaching Milton Reading Shakespeare 

The University of Virginia’s College at Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference promotes scholarly discussion in all disciplines of Medieval and Renaissance studies. The conference welcomes proposals for graduate and undergraduate papers and panels on Medieval or Renaissance literature, language, history, philosophy, science, pedagogy, and the arts. Abstracts for papers should be 300 or fewer words; undergraduate proposals should include the name of a faculty mentor. Proposals for panels should include: a) title of the panel; b) names and institutional affiliations of the chair and all panelists; c) abstracts for papers to be presented (300 or fewer words). A branch campus of the University of Virginia, the University of Virginia’s College at Wise is a public four-year liberal arts college located in the scenic Appalachian Mountains of Southwest Virginia. For more information, please visit our website: https://www.uvawise.edu/academics/departments/language-literature/mediev...

Deadline for Submissions: June 21, 2024

Please direct submissions on English Language and Literature and requests for general information to:

Kenneth J. Tiller, Department of Language and Literature, kjt9t@uvawise.edu



Submissions on Art, Music, and European Language and Literature:

Amelia J. Harris, Academic Dean, ajh7a@uvawise.edu



Submissions on History or Philosophy:

Donald Leech, Department of History and Philosophy, dl4fh@uvawise.edu



Submissions for Undergraduate Papers and Panels:

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



Last updated March 18, 2024

CFP Books and Transgressions (6/15/2024; New England Medieval Consortium Conference Boston 11/9/2024)

New England Medieval Consortium conference Nov 9: Books and Transgressions

deadline for submissions:
June 15, 2024

full name / name of organization:
New England Medieval Consortium

contact email:
weiskott@bc.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/01/22/new-england-medieval-consortium-conference-nov-9-books-and-transgressions

This conference will provide an opportunity for medievalists working across a range of disciplines and geographic areas to join in conversation about premodern cultures of the book, boundary- crossing, and the law and other normative cultural expressions. Given this year’s conference location at a Jesuit, Catholic university, and our keynote speakers, we particularly (but not exclusively) invite submissions focused on regions other than England, including the Middle East; language traditions other than English; and religious cultures.

We interpret “transgressions” broadly, including the notions of access, trespass, and desire. Accordingly, we welcome papers from medievalists in any discipline, concerned with any region or polity of Europe, Asia, or Africa. 

Papers might consider any of the following subtopics, or others: 

• books whose form,content, or provenance is transgressive;
• textual cultures: books, authors, texts, audience expectations;
• the codification of law and law-books;
• transgression and sin in medieval philosophy and theology;
• etiquette, diplomacy, or cultural norms, or remediations or contestations of these in written texts;
• stylistic norms (e.g., poetic and rhetorical precepts) and their transgressions in writing or the visual arts;
• modern theoretical or methodological approaches to medieval texts;
• vernacularity in literature, religion, or the visual arts as a mediation of cultural transgression;
• the transgressive potential of medieval studies in the present day;
• heterodoxy, heresy, or the function of the written word in regulating the boundaries of orthodoxy.

We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers. Please send abstracts of 300 words to medieval2024@gmail.com by 15 June 2024.

Our keynote speakers are Dr. Ariane Bottex-Ferragne and Dr. Ahmed El Shamsy. Professor Bottex-Ferragne is Assistant Professor of French at New York University. Her presentation is provisionally entitled “Rules of Transgression in Medieval Poetry: Lessons from a Forgotten Bestseller.” Professor El Shamsy is Professor of Islamic Thought at the University of Chicago. His presentation is provisionally entitled “Authors and their Audiences in Medieval Arabic Book Culture.”

The 2024 conference marks the quinquagenary (fiftieth anniversary) of the founding of the NEMC. As the conference returns to Boston College for the first time since 1981, we hope to make it an especially festive occasion. With our theme of “Books and Transgressions” and with our two invited keynotes, we also propose to expand, geographically, disciplinarily, linguistically, and conceptually, what “the Middle Ages” has signified to our colleagues and students.

Boston College is located in Chestnut Hill, MA, and is easily accessible by car, plane, or bus. To learn more about the campus and its environs, see https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/about/maps-and-directions/directions.html.


Last updated January 24, 2024

REMINDER Tribal Medievalisms (Studies in Medievalism 34) (06/01/2024)

CALL FOR PAPERS

STUDIES IN MEDIEVALISM XXXIV: TRIBAL MEDIEVALISMS

Traditional applications of the word “tribal” in medievalism studies and elsewhere in academia have recently come under intense criticism and sometimes been censored. Yet, in broader cultural contexts, the term seems to be gaining ever greater currency as a synonym for group identity, particularly of a partisan nature. In that regard, what relevance does it have for medievalism? For medievalism studies? Does it accurately capture the way one or more communities within those fields are perceived by their own members and/or others? How, if at all, do these newer applications apply to the traditional uses of the term? How does the word relate to practices among medievalists, by medievalists with regard to their medieval sources, by scholars of medievalism with regard to their subjects, and among scholars of medievalism? 

Studies in Medievalism, a peer-reviewed print and on-line publication, is seeking not only feature articles of 6,000-12,000 words (including notes) on any postmedieval responses to the Middle Ages, but also 3,000-word essays that respond to one or more of these questions. 

Applicants are encouraged to give particular examples, but submissions, which should be sent to Karl Fugelso at kfugelso@towson.edu in English and Word by 1 June 2024, should also address the implications of those examples for the discipline as a whole. 

Note that priority will be given to papers in the order they are received and submissions that have not been translated into fluent English will not be considered.)

Medieval in Popular Culture at NeMLA 2024

Medievalisms Today: Aspects of the Medieval Past in the 21st-century World 

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

Organizers: Michael A. Torregrossa, June-Ann Greeley, and Rachael Warmington

55th NeMLA Convention

Boston, MA

7-10 March 2024

Friday

Mar 8 Track 6

08:15-09:45

6.13 Medievalisms Today: Aspects of the Medieval Past in the Twenty-first-century World (Part 1)

Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Bristol Community College

Location: Conference Room (Media Equipped)

Cultural Studies and Media Studies & Global Anglophone

"King Mansa Musa's Mines: Finding a Lost Medieval Africa" Angela Weisl, Seton Hall University

"The Convergence of Eras and Cultures: The Global Arthurian Ethos in Contemporary Comic Series" Rachael Warmington, Seton Hall University

"AfroComics: African Medievalism and the Comic Book Form" Afrodesia McCannon, New York University

Friday

Mar 8 Track 7

10:00-11:30

7.13 Medievalisms Today: Aspects of the Medieval Past in the Twenty-first-century World (Part 2)

Chair: Rachael Warmington, Seton Hall University

Location: Conference Room (Media Equipped)

Cultural Studies and Media Studies & Global Anglophone

"Crusader Kings III: Medievalism Thriving Within the Corners of Video Games" Mosammat Sultana, St. John’s University

"Between Life and Death: Traversing Disease and Mortality in The Black Parade" Shataparni Bhattacharya, Indiana University-Bloomington

"Is Chivalry Dead? Medievalism in Modern Dating and the Male Identity Crisis" Kiernan Sullivan, Binghamton University, SUNY

"Reviving Iranian Medieval Philosophy: A Path to Liberation From Contemporary Oppression in Iran" Faegheh Hajhosseini, University at Buffalo, SUNY

CFP Books and Transgressions: New England Medieval Consortium Conference (6/15/2024; Boston 11/9/2024)

New England Medieval Consortium conference Nov 9: Books and Transgressions

deadline for submissions: June 15, 2024

full name / name of organization: New England Medieval Consortium

contact email: weiskott@bc.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/01/22/new-england-medieval-consortium-conference-nov-9-books-and-transgressions

This conference will provide an opportunity for medievalists working across a range of disciplines and geographic areas to join in conversation about premodern cultures of the book, boundary- crossing, and the law and other normative cultural expressions. Given this year’s conference location at a Jesuit, Catholic university, and our keynote speakers, we particularly (but not exclusively) invite submissions focused on regions other than England, including the Middle East; language traditions other than English; and religious cultures.

We interpret “transgressions” broadly, including the notions of access, trespass, and desire. Accordingly, we welcome papers from medievalists in any discipline, concerned with any region or polity of Europe, Asia, or Africa. Papers might consider any of the following subtopics, or others:

• bookswhoseform,content,orprovenanceistransgressive;
• textual cultures: books, authors, texts, audience expectations;
• the codification of law and law-books;
• transgression and sin in medieval philosophy and theology;
• etiquette, diplomacy, or cultural norms, or remediations or contestations of these in written texts;
• stylistic norms (e.g., poetic and rhetorical precepts) and their transgressions in writing or the visual arts;
• modern theoretical or methodological approaches to medieval texts;
• vernacularity in literature, religion, or the visual arts as a mediation of cultural transgression;
• the transgressive potential of medieval studies in the present day;
• heterodoxy, heresy, or the function of the written word in regulating the boundaries of orthodoxy.

We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers. Please send abstracts of 300 words to medieval2024@gmail.com by 15 June 2024.

Our keynote speakers are Dr. Ariane Bottex-Ferragne and Dr. Ahmed El Shamsy. Professor Bottex-Ferragne is Assistant Professor of French at New York University. Her presentation is provisionally entitled “Rules of Transgression in Medieval Poetry: Lessons from a Forgotten Bestseller.” Professor El Shamsy is Professor of Islamic Thought at the University of Chicago. His presentation is provisionally entitled “Authors and their Audiences in Medieval Arabic Book Culture.”

The 2024 conference marks the quinquagenary (fiftieth anniversary) of the founding of the NEMC. As the conference returns to Boston College for the first time since 1981, we hope to make it an especially festive occasion. With our theme of “Books and Transgressions” and with our two invited keynotes, we also propose to expand, geographically, disciplinarily, linguistically, and conceptually, what “the Middle Ages” has signified to our colleagues and students.

Boston College is located in Chestnut Hill, MA, and is easily accessible by car, plane, or bus. To learn more about the campus and its environs, see https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/about/maps-and-directions/directions.html.



Last updated January 24, 2024
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CFP Wooden O Symposium 2024 (4/20/2024; Cedar City, Utah 8/5-7/2024)

Wooden O Symposium

deadline for submissions: April 20, 2024

full name / name of organization: Southern Utah University - Utah Shakespeare Festival

contact email: tvordi@suu.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/02/23/wooden-o-symposium

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

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

The Wooden O Symposium invites panel and paper proposals on any topic relating to Shakespeare and his plays:

• Literary Analysis & Theoretical Approaches
• Shakespeare and Adaptation
• Shakespeare on Screen
• Shakespeare in Performance
• Shakespeare and History, Culture, and Society
• Shakespeare and Rhetoric
• Shakespeare and the Arts

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



The deadline for proposals is April 20, 2024.



Please include a 100-200-word abstract or session proposal (including individual abstracts) and the following information:

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

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



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



Last updated February 26, 2024
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UPDATE - CFP Games of Medievalism - International Society for the Study of Medievalism Annual Conference (3/08/2024; New Jersey 07/09-11/2024)

Call for Papers: The Games of Medievalism

International Society for the Study of Medievalism Annual Conference

Montclair and South Orange, NJ, July 9-11, 2024

Abstracts are welcomed for the thirty-seventh annual conference of the International Society for the Study of Medievalism, co-sponsored by Montclair State and Seton Hall Universities, located in northern New Jersey, 14 miles from New York City (accessible by public transit). Abstracts for in-person and virtual papers and panels are welcome. To propose a panel, please include all abstracts in a single file submitted by the organizer. This file should also include the names and contact information for all participants.  

Celebrating games and sport in this Olympic summer and considering the various kinds of play inherent in Medievalism, the conference will consider the discipline’s many layers. We will arrange local visits (as interest permits) for those participating in person: to the New Jersey branch of Medieval Times, the Yogi Berra Museum, the Montclair Art Museum, and/or The Cloisters branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Housing options will include low-cost single or double accommodations on the campus of Montclair State University (circa $50-60/night) and room blocks in local hotels. 

We welcome papers and presentations on all topics of Medievalism, not limited to the conference theme.  We enthusiastically welcome proposals from presenters in (or addressing topics related to) regions outside North American, Western Europe, and the Anglophone World.  

Keynote

“A ‘Carnival of Architecture’: Race, Place, and Play in Oblivion and the Elder Scrolls Franchise," Kevin and Brent Moberly, Old Dominion University and Indiana University

Suggested Topics

• Medievalism in Video Games
• Gaming the System (Medievalism in Geo-Politics, Economics)
• Medievalism in Sports and Sports Culture
• Games in Medieval Film
• The Interplay of Medieval and Modern
• Games in Medievalist Narratives
• Jousts, Tournaments, Bohorts
• Disguise, Cosplay, and Cross-Dressing
• Games of Chance, Gambling, and Tavern Pursuits
• Medievalism in Tabletop Games
• Poetry Competitions or Challenges
• The Play(s) of Medievalism
• Playing with Medieval Medicine and other Techniques in the Modern World
• Medievalist Musicals: Spamalot, Six, Pippin, Camelot, etc.
• Games in the Construction of Medievalism
• Medieval games in medievalist art or generative AI
• Medievalism as Game
• Chivalry, Courtesy, and other codes in Medievalism

Submission Instructions

Please submit your 200 to 250-word abstracts on the following Google Form by March 8 (date extended):

https://forms.gle/KCmquR8VungYzEoz9

Questions

Please contact conference organizers Elizabeth Emery and Angela Weisl:

gamesissm@gmail.com

CFP The Games of Medievalism (2/20/2024; ISSM 7/9-11/2024)

Source: https://sites.google.com/view/thegamesofmedievalism/home

Call for Papers: The Games of Medievalism

International Society for the Study of Medievalism Annual Conference

Montclair and South Orange, NJ, July 9-11, 2024


Abstracts are welcomed for the thirty-seventh annual conference of the International Society for the Study of Medievalism, co-sponsored by Montclair State and Seton Hall Universities, located in northern New Jersey, 14 miles from New York City (accessible by public transit). Abstracts for in-person and virtual papers and panels are welcome. To propose a panel, please include all abstracts in a single file submitted by the organizer. This file should also include the names and contact information for all participants.


Celebrating games and sport in this Olympic summer and considering the various kinds of play inherent in Medievalism, the conference will consider the discipline’s many layers. We will arrange local visits (as interest permits) for those participating in person: to the New Jersey branch of Medieval Times, the Yogi Berra Museum, the Montclair Art Museum, and/or The Cloisters branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.


Housing options will include low-cost single or double accommodations on the campus of Montclair State University (circa $50-60/night) and room blocks in local hotels.


We welcome papers and presentations on all topics of Medievalism, not limited to the conference theme. We enthusiastically welcome proposals from presenters in (or addressing topics related to) regions outside North American, Western Europe, and the Anglophone World.


Keynote

“A ‘Carnival of Architecture’: Race, Place, and Play in Oblivion and the Elder Scrolls Franchise," Kevin and Brent Moberly, Old Dominion University and Indiana University


Suggested Topics

• Medievalism in Video Games
• Gaming the System (Medievalism in Geo-Politics, Economics)
• Medievalism in Sports and Sports Culture
• Games in Medieval Film
• The Interplay of Medieval and Modern
• Games in Medievalist Narratives
• Jousts, Tournaments, Bohorts
• Disguise, Cosplay, and Cross-Dressing
• Games of Chance, Gambling, and Tavern Pursuits
• Medievalism in Tabletop Games
• Poetry Competitions or Challenges
• The Play(s) of Medievalism
• Playing with Medieval Medicine and other Techniques in the Modern World
• Medievalist Musicals: Spamalot, Six, Pippin, Camelot, etc.
• Games in the Construction of Medievalism
• Medieval games in medievalist art or generative AI
• Medievalism as Game
• Chivalry, Courtesy, and other codes in Medievalism

Submission Instructions

Please submit your 200 to 250-word abstracts on the following Google Form by February 20:

https://forms.gle/KCmquR8VungYzEoz9


Questions

Please contact conference organizers Elizabeth Emery and Angela Weisl:

gamesissm@gmail.com

CFP Adapting In and Out of the Classroom (12/1/2023; LFA/AAS online 2/22-24/2024)

Call for Papers:

LFA /AAS ONLINE 2024: ADAPTING IN AND OUT OF THE CLASSROOM

Main site: https://litfilm.org/conference/

THIRD ANNUAL JOINT LITERATURE / FILM ASSOCIATION & ASSOCIATION FOR ADAPTATION STUDIES CONFERENCE

ONLINE

FEBRUARY 22-24, 2024



Adaptation scholars constantly swap anecdotes about what it’s like teaching adaptations of Jane Austen or the Marvel Universe, but surprisingly few of their conference presentations focus on the pedagogy of adaptation. So the organizers of this year’s online joint conference of the Literature/Film Association and the Association of Adaptation Studies—Julie Grossman, Peter Kunze, Thomas Leitch, Seda Öz, John Sanders, and Allen Redmon—invite anyone who’s ever taught adaptations, or adaptation, to share their experiences with audiences who may be far distant geographically but are likely to be highly sympathetic professionally. The conference, scheduled for 22–24 February 2024, aims to foster more global conversations among adaptation teachers and scholars, promote closer interaction between the Literature/Film Association and the Association of Adaptation Studies, and invite participation from active members of either organization who would not normally consider traveling far away for an in-person conference. Although all presentations will be in English, we hope the event’s online format will attract colleagues from around the globe, interested peers in related fields, and anyone else who wants to learn more about contemporary adaptation studies.

The success of the first two joint conferences of the LFA and the AAS has made us aware that virtual conferences, though they cannot serve all the same social and networking functions as face-to-faces conferences, are themselves indispensable adaptive mutations that serve certain important tasks—especially bringing people together who would be unable or unwilling to travel to a live conference—better than the conferences they rapidly replaced in the Covid era. We hope that online events assembling an ever more diverse network of adaptation scholars, a supplement rather than a replacement for our in-person conferences, might take their place as part of a new normal that exploits new possibilities for discussions of ideas that could blossom in and out of the classroom.

We invite abstracts for ten-minute presentations that deal with any aspect of adaptation. We are especially interested in the opportunities and problems that arise when participants teach adaptations. But we do not wish to exclude adaptation scholars with other matters on their minds. So presentations for the conference may focus on teaching particular adaptations or adaptation as a more general practice, or they may highlight archives, performances, and networks, borders and contact zones, divisions and bridges, epistemological and phenomenological experiences, new media and transmedia, linearity, spatiality, and seriality, and challenges, defenses, and alternatives to the humanities. We particularly encourage submissions on the following topics:

• introducing students to adaptations
• teaching adaptations in literature courses
• teaching adaptations as supplements or substitutes
• teaching adaptations in different national settings
• teaching adaptations vs. teaching adaptation
• nurturing budding adaptation scholars
• adaptation and the post-human world
• remaking and readapting
• adaptation and seriality
• building and maintaining adaptation networks

Please send all inquiries, abstracts of 250 words, and biographies of 100 words to teachingadaptations2024@gmail.com by 1 December 2023. We plan to notify all participants whose proposals are accepted for presentation by 15 December.

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

Medievalisms Area at SWPACA

deadline for submissions:
November 14, 2023

full name / name of organization:
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)

contact email:
adunai@tamuct.edu


source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/08/30/medievalisms-area-at-swpaca

Call for Papers

Medievalisms Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)



45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on September 1, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2023



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



The Medievalisms area invites paper and session proposals on any and all topics relevant to medievalism, which is described by Tison Pugh and Angela Jane Weisl in Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present (2013) as “the art, literature, scholarship, avocational pastimes, and sundry forms of entertainment and culture that turn to the Middle Ages for their subject matter or inspiration, and in doing so…comment on the artist’s contemporary sociocultural milieu” (1). Medievalism can be approached in many ways, including in terms of media (e.g., literature, architecture, cinema, music, games), chronology (e.g., Early Modern, Romantic, Victorian), geography, and from any number of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives (e.g., cultural studies, media studies, race and ethnic studies, gender and queer studies). Presentations that engage with current conversations in the field are particularly welcome.



Examples of topics relevant to the Medievalisms area include (but are not limited to): 

• Literary Medievalisms
• Cinematic Medievalisms
• Medievalisms in Art, Architecture, Music, and Performance
• Medievalisms in Gaming, LARPing, and Role-Playing
• Medievalisms of Place and Space
• Gender, Sexuality, Race, Ethnicity, Class, etc. in Medievalisms
• Global Medievalisms
• Queer Medievalisms
• Political Medievalisms
• Medievalisms in the Classroom

All proposals must be submitted through the conference’s database at http://register.southwestpca.org/southwestpca



For details on using the submission database and on the application process in general, please see the Proposal Submission FAQs and Tips page at http://southwestpca.org/conference/faqs-and-tips/



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



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



The deadline for submissions is November 14, 2023.



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



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

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



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



If you have any questions about the Medievalisms area, please contact its Area Chair, Amber Dunai, at adunai@tamuct.edu. If you have general questions about the conference, please contact us at support@southwestpca.org, and a member of the executive team will get back to you.



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



We look forward to receiving your submissions!



Last updated November 1, 2023

CFP Medievalism in Popular Culture Area (11/30/2023; PCA Chicago 3/27-30/2024)

Medievalism in Popular Culture

deadline for submissions:
November 30, 2023

full name / name of organization:
Christina Francis/Popular Culture Association (PCA)

contact email:
cfrancis@commonwealthu.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/10/04/medievalism-in-popular-culture

CFP: Medievalism in Popular Culture

PCA/ACA 2024 National Conference

March 27-30, Chicago, IL (In-Person)

The Medievalism in Popular Culture Area (including Early to Later Middle Ages, Robin Hood, Arthurian Legend, 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
• Queer and/or BIPOC medievalism
• 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 Norse 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@commonwealthu.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 after reviewing the submission guidelines at https://pcaaca.org/page/submissionguidelines. All submissions must be directed to the online database.



Deadline for submission: November 30, 2023.



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


Last updated October 4, 2023

CFP Tribal Medievalisms (6/1/2024)

Posted on behalf of the organizer:

CALL FOR PAPERS

STUDIES IN MEDIEVALISM XXXIV:

TRIBAL MEDIEVALISMS

Traditional applications of the word “tribal” in medievalism studies and elsewhere in academia have recently come under intense criticism and sometimes been censored. Yet, in broader cultural contexts, the term seems to be gaining ever greater currency as a synonym for group identity, particularly of a partisan nature. In that regard, what relevance does it have for medievalism? For medievalism studies? Does it accurately capture the way one or more communities within those fields are perceived by their own members and/or others? How, if at all, do these newer applications apply to the traditional uses of the term? How does the word relate to practices among medievalists, by medievalists with regard to their medieval sources, by scholars of medievalism with regard to their subjects, and among scholars of medievalism? 

Studies in Medievalism, a peer-reviewed print and on-line publication, is seeking not only feature articles of 6,000-12,000 words (including notes) on any postmedieval responses to the Middle Ages, but also 3,000-word essays that respond to one or more of these questions. Applicants are encouraged to give particular examples, but submissions, which should be sent to Karl Fugelso at kfugelso@towson.edu in English and Word by 1 June 2024, should also address the implications of those examples for the discipline as a whole. 

(Note that priority will be given to papers in the order they are received and submissions that have not been translated into fluent English will not be considered.)

Kalamazoo 2024 Deadline Reminder

 Just a reminder that proposals for papers and roundtable presentations for the 2024 International Congress on Medieval Studies are due by the end of this week. Materials must be posted to the Confex system by 15 September 2023.

CFP How Interdisciplinary Can We Be? (Re)Conceiving the Scope of Medieval Studies Today (A Roundtable) (virtual) (9/15/2023; ICMS 5/9-11/2024)

How Interdisciplinary Can We Be? (Re)Conceiving the Scope of Medieval Studies Today (A Roundtable) (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa




Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 15 September 2023

59th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

Hybrid event: Thursday, 9 May, through Saturday, 11 May, 2024

Session Rationale

How Interdisciplinary Can We Be? (Re)Conceiving the Scope of Medieval Studies Today (A Roundtable) (virtual)




Through recent contact with medieval scholars, we've been hearing from individuals (many outside literature or history departments) who are excluded from current conversations in Medieval Studies. Their work is as valid as anyone else’s, but, because of the approach, they are unsupported by the larger community of medievalists. In organizing this session, we wish to expand the focus of Medieval Studies beyond the currently expected fields and to highlight the ways that other disciplines (including those outside the humanities) can contribute to discussion and debate about the medieval past as well as the post-medieval reception of the era.




Explorations might come from anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, comparative studies, engineering, folklore, genetics, linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, technology, etc. Other perspectives might highlight concerns from humanities scholars outside Medieval Studies who also feel left out.

Submission Information

All proposals must be submitted into the Confex system at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/call by 15 September 2023. You will be prompted to complete sections on Title and Presentation Information, People, Abstract, and Short Description.




Be advised of the following policies of the Congress: “You are invited to make one paper proposal to one session of papers. This may be to one of the Sponsored or Special Sessions of Papers, which are organized by colleagues around the world, OR to the General Sessions of Papers, which are organized by the Program Committee in Kalamazoo. You may propose an unlimited number of roundtable contributions. However, you will not be scheduled as an active participant (as a paper presenter, roundtable discussant, presider, respondent, workshop leader, or performer) in more than three sessions.”.




Thank you for your interest in our session. Please address questions and/or concerns to the organizers at MedievalinPopularCulture@gmail.com.

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For more information on the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, please visit our website at https://medievalinpopularculture.blogspot.com/.

CFP Ecomedieval Robin Hood (virtual) (9/15/2023; ICMS 5/9-11/2024)

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

Ecomedieval Robin Hood (virtual)

Sponsoring Organization: International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS)

Organizer: Anna Czarnowus




ECOMEDIEVAL ROBIN HOOD at ICMS in Kalamazoo (May 9–11, 2024)- AN ONLINE SESSION


Even though the Robin Hood tradition is identified as medieval, most of the texts are post-medieval, hence medievalist. These are often situated against the background of natural environment, and thus Valerie Johnson coined the term “ecomedievalism” for “the application of ecocriticism to neomedieval texts.” Therefore, discussion of neomedievalist texts of popular culture, such as films and TV series about Robin Hood that relate more to the times when they were made than to the Middle Ages, is particularly welcome. The Robin Hood tradition contains different interpretations of the environment, such as the myth of unspoiled nature, but also nature as dangerous, with apocalypse as something imminent. This session invites such ecocritical readings of various neomedievalist outlaw texts that represent nature or the relationship of nature to culture. You can focus, for example, on:

• RH and greenwood in various cultural periods
• the culture/nature divide
• apocalyptic visions of RH narrative

Please send your abstract to: annaczarnowus@tlen.pl by September 15, 2023, but an official proposal can only be made and accepted through the (https://icms.confex.com/icms/2024/cfp.cgi).

CFP Tolkien’s Medievalism in Ruins II: Relics and Ruins in Re/Visions of Tolkien’s Larger Legendarium at NeMLA 2024 (9/30/2023; NeMLA 3/7-10/2024)

Posted on behalf of our advisory board members who have organized this session. Please support their work if you can.

Tolkien’s Medievalism in Ruins II: Relics and Ruins in Re/Visions of Tolkien’s Larger Legendarium at NeMLA 2024

deadline for submissions:
September 30, 2023

full name / name of organization:
Carl Sell and Nick Katsiadas / Slippery Rock University and University of Pittsburgh

contact email:
nicholas.katsiadas@sru.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/06/14/tolkien%E2%80%99s-medievalism-in-ruins-ii-relics-and-ruins-in-revisions-of-tolkien%E2%80%99s-larger

With the success of two panel sessions at the 2023 NeMLA Convention, we are happy to propose a “sequel” session on the theme of “Tolkien’s Medievalism in Ruins” in 2024. For all that may be said about the 2023 panels, one thing is certain: The panelists highlighted the important roles of relics and ruins within Tolkien’s essay “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics,” The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings. While we certainly covered much ground, there is a great deal left to explore, especially within The History of Middle-earth series, The Silmarillion, and the texts that Christopher Tolkien edited and published after his father’s death (The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, The Fall of Gondolin, The Fall of Númenor). We are concerned with including presentations about the larger legendarium, and we are equally concerned with opening this sequel session to the surplus of adaptations from Tolkien’s works, including: Peter Jackson’s adaptations, Rankin & Bass adaptations, Ralph Bakshi's adaptation, Amazon's The Rings of Power, video game adaptations, graphic representations, and revisions.

We are pleased once again to welcome proposals from a variety of theoretical approaches for the 2024 NeMLA Convention in Boston. Topics and texts about Tolkien’s legendarium may include, but are certainly not limited to, the following:

• Ruins or relics and trauma
• Ruins or relics and war
• Ruins or relics and nostalgia
• Ruins or relics and melancholy
• Ruins or relics and loss
• Ruins or relics and memory
• Ruins or relics and travel
• Ruins or relics and Medievalism
• Ruins or relics and Arthuriana
• Ruins or relics and Classicism
• Ruins or relics and Romanticism
• Ruins or relics in the First, Second, or Third ages of Middle-earth
• Ruins or relics in The History of Middle-earth series
• Relics and the Silmarils
• Relics and the Arkenstone
• Relics and the Dragon-helm of Dor-lómin
• Relics and Bard’s Black Arrow
• Ruins or relics in adaptations of Tolkien
• Ruins and Tolkien's critical works
• Ruins of Golden Ages
• Ruins or relics in Middle-earth and their Literary History
• Ruins or relics of Abandoned cities, locations, and peoples

We seek 250 – 300 word abstracts for presentations across periods and nations that address topics related to relics or ruins in Tolkien’s Middle-earth. Panelists should use the NeMLA conference website to submit abstracts, and abstracts should clearly delineate the presentation’s argument in relation to this theme. Once abstracts have been collected and accepted, the organizers will then confer and send acceptance letters. We ask that abstract submissions follow MLA format.

Those with inquiries may email Nick Katsiadas at Nicholas.katsiadas@sru.edu and Carl Sell at cscarlsell@gmail.com.



Last updated June 20, 2023