medieval

New Approaches to Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Spanish-language Texts

Borderlands: Reimagining the Medieval Periphery

MEST Symposium, Indiana University Bloomington

April 11-12

Keynote: Dr. Dorsey Armstrong (Purdue University)

The Middle Ages and our study of it are defined by borderlands. To better understand and enrich our knowledge of the medieval world, this conference asks us to consider what lies at its peripheries and what happens when we attend carefully to these “borderlands.” 

Potential panels might consider:

In an ideal situation, learning leads to knowledge and knowledge raises awareness. Set within the context of the past, this simple statement leads us to consider a range of different questions. How did medieval and early modern people learn and what did they learn? How did they teach and what did they teach? Who was taught and who was not? Who decided what was to be taught? Such questions, among others, help us understand the process of how learning and knowledge was acquired in the premodern world. But it also helps us better appreciate what we know about the premodern world and what people were trying to achieve when they set out to gain knowledge about their world and the society they lived in.

Special session hosted by the Society for Queer and Trans Meival Studies at the International Congress for Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI in May 2025 seeks submissions for the panel "Medieval Performances of Chastity and Gender."

Call for papers: New York University’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for ten-minute papers for its annual conference to be held May 1-2 2025.

 Divergence and Interconnectivity: Global Premodernity in Five Objects

 Keynote speaker: Lia Markey, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library

More than The Green Knight: Exploring the Ongoing Tradition of Adapting and Appropriating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (hybrid)

Call for Papers Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture; International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB); International Pearl-Poet Society

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Joseph M. Sullivan, and Amber Dunai

60th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

Hybrid event: Thursday, 8 May, through Saturday, 10 May, 2025

60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigian, May 8-10, 2025.

This in-person special session is reserved for undergraduate students to present the findings of their scholarly research in the various disciplines of medieval studies.

To submit proposals directly for this in-person special session, please use this link:

https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=6180

ICMS, May 8-10, 2025 - Global Petrarch(s) and Petrarchism(s) – *in person session*

We invite papers for "The Other(ed) Kings: A Roundtable on Arthurian Kings (not Arthur) & Otherness” focusing on lesser-known kings, such as Mark or Pellinore. This session aims to broaden our understanding of Arthurian literature by examining these overlooked figures and their relationship to otherness. We seek contributions that explore their narratives, political dynamics, and roles within the mythos and cycle of Arthuriana. This discussion addresses a scholarly gap and aligns with important questions of inclusivity. We are hoping for new perspectives that are intersectional and even interdisciplinary in nature. 

Apocalyptic Arthuriana (A Roundtable) (virtual)

Sponsored by Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain and International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa and Joseph M. Sullivan

60th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

Hybrid event: Thursday, 8 May, through Saturday, 10 May, 2025

Please Submit Proposals by 15 September 2024

Session Information

The Arthurian story is one of rise, fall, and promised return. 

2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 8 - 10, 2025)

More than 25 years ago, Robert LA Clark and Claire Sponsler argued in "Queer Play: the Cultural Work of Crossdressing in Medieval Drama" that "transgender and transstatus representations cannot be reduced to one simple meaning but rather perform a variety of...cultural work." We seek contributions to explore, expand and complicate the idea of transgender identities, trans bodies, transgressive practices, or other kinds of transformations or translations in medieval drama and performance. In 2025, how do we understand the shapeshifting nature of "trans"? What are the emerging questions and where do they lead us?

Saving the Day for Medieval Studies: Using Comics for Teaching the Middle Ages (Roundtable)

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

Sponsored by Medieval Comics Project, an outreach effort of the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 30 September 2024

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

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown (Philadelphia, PA)

On-site event: 6-9 March 2025

Rationale

Deadline for Proposals: October 1
Session: 2:00 pm (Central) November 22, online via Zoom

Medieval topics tend to intrigue elementary, middle-school, and high-school students. In a teaching environment where time is precious, how do teachers approach the Middle Ages? This session seeks papers addressing issues, opportunities, and innovations in the K-12 classroom to inform the larger community of K-12 teachers and post-secondary educators about how the topic is approached at the K-12 level.

Submit full session proposals or paper proposals (no more than 300 words) to mwgeorge.51@gmail.com no later than October 1, 2024.

Welcoming submissions to 'Reconceptions of European Literary History' at ICMS Kalamazoo, 8-10 May 2025. This 2-part series will comprise of the following sessions:

I. How Do We Study Historical Text Traditions? (Paper Session)