Call for Papers

(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media

Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Virtual Symposium

Sunday, 20 July 2025

The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture invites proposals for another panel on the theme of "(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media" for the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Virtual Symposium, which will run on Sunday, 20 July 2025. 

Proposals might cover any aspects of the medieval in animated films, animated shorts, anime, computer-generated images, games, or television cartoons. 

We are especially looking for presentations on medieval-themed anime and adaptations of Beowulf, the Robin Hood tradition, and the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. 

A resource guide for the project is accessible at https://tinyurl.com/ReAnimatingTheMiddleAgesRG.

Please send a short biography and paper proposal (300 words or less) to the organizers at medievalinpopularculture@gmail.com by 5/25/2025. 

(Be advised that MAPACA will require accepted presenters to create an account in their conference system. There will also be a registration fee to participate in the event.) 

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

For more information on MAPACA please visit https://mapaca.net/.