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Sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the University of Virginia’s College at Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference promotes scholarly discussion in all disciplines of Medieval and Renaissance studies.

The decolonial, digital project Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) is delighted to announce its first hybrid conference to be held from the 11th - 14th of December 2025, in person in Cape Town, South Africa, and online. 

Confirmed keynote speakers include:

Su Fang Ng (Virginia Tech University)
Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd College)

The general call for this year, inviting “papers that explore the value of the Humanities in relation to a more hopeful future” in areas including but not limited to “languages, literature, pedagogy, writing studies, linguistics, folklore, film studies, the digital humanities, and library studies”, has broad possibilities within the languages, literatures, histories, and cultures related to Old and Middle English.

Medieval + Monsters in Comics

Online Sponsored Session Proposed for Medieval + Monsters: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM), Mid-America Medieval Association (MAMA), Illinois Medieval Association (IMA) Joint Conference with The Newberry Library

Hosted at Dominican University & the Newberry Library

17-18 October 2025

The Medieval Comics Project and the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association seek proposals of 250 words for a proposed online panel devoted to the theme of the medieval and the monstrous in sequential art, comics, manga, and related media.

Topics might include:

Call for Essays

Studies in Memory of Donald C. Baker (1928-2019)

Call for essays for a book on the late medievalist Donald C. Baker who left us in 2019.

Donald C. Baker taught English Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder, for twenty years then pursued teaching opportunities in Finland, England, Tunisia, Jordan, and Macau. 

Donald C. Baker published or co-published a variety of books and articles (in PMLA, Studia Neophilologica, Speculum, Studies in Philology, Philological Quarterly, The Literary)  on Geoffrey Chaucer and Beowulf in particular.

All forms of liteary studies (around 6,000 words using APA style) are welcome.

ODIOUS COMPARISONS

... ACROSS & BEYOND THE EARLY GLOBAL WORLD

April 17-April 18 2026 [In Person]

CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, UCLA

Organized by Basil Arnould Price (John W. Baldwin Postdoctoral Fellow, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, UCLA)

and Nancy Alicia Martínez (Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, UCLA)

Dear colleagues,

Thanks to the generous support of Wallace Johnson and the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, I am delighted to announce the Call for Proposals for the sixth year of the Wallace Johnson First Book Mentoring Program. The program provides support and mentorship to early career scholars working towards the publication of their first book on the law and legal culture of the early Middle Ages. In conversation with peers and with the advice of senior scholars, participants will develop and revise book proposals and sample chapters, and they will meet with guest editors to learn about approaching and working with publishers.

The fully online Open Access Medieval Studies (OAMS) conference aims to facilitate the critical and explicit intersection of Palestinian liberation and medieval studies. As such, this virtual conference will run directly counter to the Centennial Meeting of the MAA, happening March 20-22, 2025.

We invite scholars at all stages in their academic careers to submit papers centering on the theme of 'liberation,' broadly conceived. Proposals due February 14. Questions can be directed to mfpconference2025[at]gmail[dot]com.

Link to the CFP: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11HodsTXn5t6NMbL1kNK1JGAOCyD-fgY6qRVS...

We are pleased to announce that the theme for our second annual online Conference next year as well as for Volume 12 of the journal is Dreams, Visions, and Utopias, and we invite submissions to both CFPs that contemplate what is the arguably most ubiquitous and diverse literary genre of the medieval and early modern centuries.

Dreams and visions could be personal or communal. They could be of the past, present, or future. Some touched on real events or people, while others were entirely imaginary, and most were somewhere in between. They can encompass the horrors of nightmares to the bliss of salvation, or calls for political freedom and mobilisation as much as an afternoon daydreaming in the sunshine.

The Brain and the Body: the Love Affair of the Cognitive and the Corporeal
in Literature
GWU English Graduate Student Association Symposium
March 2025

Keynote Address by Dr. Evelyn Tribble

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism seeks original, well-researched, and intellectually rigorous papers about texts from any time period and literary tradition. We are now accepting submissions for the Fall 2024 issue. Submissions are due by September 22, 2024.

Messengers from the Stars is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, offering academic articles, reviews, and providing an outlet for a wide range of creative work inspired by Science fiction and Fantasy. The 2025 issue will be dedicated to the following theme:

‘Getting Medieval’: Fantasy and the Middle Ages

For close to nine hundred years, Gawain has been a favorite hero in Arthurian myth, especially when it comes to his appearance in the late fourteenth-century chivalric romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. While scholarship on the poem continues to expand in many fascinating ways, David Lowery’s 2021 adaptation, The Green Knight, has changed the way scholars can approach and teach the medieval poem. The editors of this book proposal seek essays that explore some of the compelling changes Lowery makes to the base text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and what we can learn about the importance—or dangers—of retelling popular stories in new and inventive ways.

45th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum:

Spanning the Globe: Thinking across Geographies in Medieval and Medievalism Studies

Keene State College

Keene, NH, USA

Friday and Saturday March 28-29, 2025

Call for Papers and Sessions