Call for Papers

 Edited Volume on Disney and the Middle Ages

 

We invite proposals for an edited collection of essays on medievalism in Disney media for Brepols’ new series Reinterpreting the Middle Ages: From Medieval to Neo. The Walt Disney Company's films, theme parks, and merchandise are full of people, places, and things coded as “medieval,” and because Disney's medievalism is often coded as white and Christian, it is especially relevant to medieval studies' ongoing struggle with white supremacy within and outside the field.

We encourage authors to consider the role of the Walt Disney Company in shaping popular perceptions of the Middle Ages, as well as the function of medievalism in Disney’s ideological projects. How does Disney’s medievalist media represent gender, race, religion, disability, and other features of medieval life? What do those representations reveal about modern life as seen and shaped by Disney?

We welcome submissions from a wide variety of disciplines including literary studies, history, religious studies, gender studies, musicology, art history, and film studies. Critical perspectives such as ecocriticism, animal studies, queer theory, critical race studies, disability studies, material culture, and postcolonial theory are also encouraged. In addition, we welcome submissions from non-medievalist scholars with expertise in twentieth- and twenty-first-century media and culture. 

Proposals of 300 to 500 words should be submitted by email to disneymedievalvolume@gmail.com by Friday July 15, 2022. We aim to notify authors about accepted submissions by September 1, 2022. We have been invited to submit this collection for publication in Brepols’ new series Reinterpreting the Middle Ages: From Medieval to Neo.

Please write to the above email address with any questions, or contact Christina M. Carlson (cmcarlson@iona.edu), Mariah Cooper (mlcooper@mun.ca), and/or Joshua Parks (joshua.t.parks@gmail.com).

We look forward to hearing from you.

Preaching and Gender: 15–19 July 2022

23rd Symposium of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society

University of St. Thomas, St. Paul Minnesota, USA and via Zoom

We have a wonderful Symposium coming up in July! I'm very excited about our program, "Preaching and Gender" including keynote presentations by Bernard McGinn and Carolyn Muessig (University of Calgary). We have a very interesting lineup of papers planned, as well as a workshop on the implications of contemporary gender theory for our work, a trip to the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, and a dinner cruise on lovely Lake Minnetonka. You'll find the draft program on the website: http://imsss.net/

Registration is open! Just click here. 

(Register using a computer rather than a smartphone.) 

Do you have a project underway that you'd like to discuss with colleagues? Present a poster! This option to be on the program is still open. Please send your abstract to Steven McMichael (sjmcmichael@stthomas.edu).

We are very grateful to our sponsors for their financial support: IMSSS, University of St. Thomas, University of Antwerp, University of Freiburg. 

 I hope to see many of you in St. Paul,

Anne

Anne T. Thayer

President, International Medieval Sermon Studies Society

 Call for Papers: 

Canadian Society for the Study of Names (CSSN) 

56th Annual Meeting, held virtually in conjunction with the 

Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Canada 

https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress/congress-2022 

May 14th and 15th, 2022 

The theme of the 2022 Congress is: “Transitions,” but papers on any onomastic topic are welcome. 

Presentations are allotted 20 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes for questions and discussion. 

Please submit an abstract of 150-250 words, including the title of your paper and indicate whether you would like your paper to be considered for this year’s special panel. 

Along with your abstract, please provide the full name and affiliation of each author, along with a current email address for each. 

You need not be a current member of the society to submit an abstract, but at the time of acceptance of your paper, you must become a member in order to be included in the programme. In addition, all presenters are required to pay registration dues for Congress and for CSSN. Further details will be provided when you are notified of acceptance of your paper. 

Please email your abstract to: jonathan.lofft@mail.utoronto.ca ; all abstracts should arrive by February 1st, 2022. 

Jonathan S. Lofft, ThD 

Faculty of Divinity 

Trinity College 

University of Toronto 

Larkin Academic Building 324 

6 Hoskin Ave., 

Toronto, ON 

M5S 1H8 

Appel à communications: 

Société canadienne d'onomastique (SCO) 

56e Réunion annuelle virtuellement conjointement avec le 

Congrès des sciences humaines du Canada 

https://www.federationhss.ca/fr/congres/congres-2022 

14 et 15 mai 2022 

Le thème retenu en 2022 est : « Transitions », toutefois, les communications sur tout autre sujet portant sur l’onomastique sont les bienvenues. 

Les communications sont d’une durée de 20 minutes et sont suivies d’une période de 10 accordées aux questions et à la discussion. 

Veuillez soumettre un résumé ne dépassant pas 200 mots, titre inclus. 

Indiquez les noms et affiliations des auteurs de la communication sans omettre d’inclure l’adresse courriel de chacun. 

Bien qu’il ne soit pas indispensable d’être membre de la Société pour soumettre une communication, il est toutefois indispensable d’en devenir membre pour être inscrit au programme. Tous les participants sont tenus de débourser les coûts de leur inscription au Congrès, ainsi qu’à la SCO. Des informations additionnelles vous seront acheminées lors de l’envoi des avis d’acceptation ou de refus de communications. 

Veuillez faire parvenir votre résumé par courriel à : jonathan.lofft@mail.utoronto.ca. Tous les résumés devront être soumis au plus tard le 1er février 2022. 

Jonathan S. Lofft, ThD 

Faculty of Divinity 

Trinity College 

University of Toronto 

Larkin Academic Building 324 

6 Hoskin Ave., 

Toronto, ON 

M5S 1H8 

On behalf of Lidia Zanetti Domingues:

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to share with you the programme of the bilingual (English & French) seminar The 'Public' in the Middle Ages: In Search of Experiences/ La "chose publique " au Moyen Âge: à la recherche d'expériences, co-organised by myself and Professor Piroska Nagy (Université du Québec à Montréal). You are most welcome to circulate the programme among your networks.The seminar will be held on Zoom, bi-monthly, on Fridays from 3pm to 5pm (UK time), starting on 17 December.

The seminar will be held online on Fridays at 4-6pm (GMT +1)/ 10am-12pm (ET/GMT-4), with possible exceptions. (including double sessions, of 3 hours).

PROGRAMME:

17/12 Piroska Nagy, Lidia Zanetti Domingues: Introduction. Thinking the medieval public sphere in 2021

14/01 Piroska Nagy, Lidia Zanetti Domingues: Archaeology of the medieval vocabulary of publicity

 4/02 Alain Rauwel, Univ. de Bourgogne: L'Église comme espace public

 18/02 (double session: 9h30-12h30/15h30-18h30)

Aglae Pizzone, Univ. of Southern Denmark: An Economy of Fear: Public Opinion in the Studite Environment During the Iconoclastic Era

Warren Pezé, Univ. Paris-Est-Créteil: L'économie des noms propres en contexte polémique (dénonciation, antonomase, anonymat) et "l'espace public" carolingien

 25/03 (double session: 9h30-12h30/15h30-18h30)

Fabrice Mouthon, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc: La place du village, espace de discussion politique à la fin du Moyen Âge

Michele Lodone, Univ. Ca'Foscari/Chicago: Prophecy and the Public Sphere in Late Medieval Florence

 8/04 Michel Hébert, UQAM: Les villes et le prince en Provence à la fin du Moyen Âge. Espace public, contrat politique ou servitude volontaire ?

 22/04 Andrea Gamberini, Univ. Milan: title TBC

 13/05 Julien Théry, Univ. Lyon: "La voix et commune renommée" comme institution de la publicité médiévale (XIIe-XVe s.)

To join our sessions, please use this Zoom link: 

https://uqam.zoom.us/j/84144967802?pwd=MUdHYStpTkRObzlJOTlSNXY2QlBFUT09

Meeting ID : 841 4496 7802
Secret code : 074603

Click here for the CFP in English! Proposals due January 15, 2022

Cliquez ici pour l'appel à comunications en français! Les propositions de communication doivent être reçues le 15 janvier, 2022.

Call For Papers / Appel à communications ici (English / français)

Proposals / Propositions: Nov. 15 / le 15 novembre

Conference / Évènement: March 11 and 12 2022 / le 11 et 12 mars 2022

Florilegium is currently seeking proposals for a special issue devoted to Food to be guest edited by Allison Fizzard. Proposals (c. 250 words) and enquiries regarding this issue should be sent to Allison.Fizzard@uregina.ca by 31 October 2021.  For accepted proposals, full essays will be expected by 30 May 2022.

Scholarship from all related disciplines and conceptual/theoretical frameworks is welcome; interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged.  The journal is particularly interested in research that addresses non-western traditions and perspectives, as well as work that focuses on marginalized communities and/or issues.

Submissions are refereed double-blind by international and Canadian specialists. Manuscripts submitted for consideration must not contain any indication of authorship. Contributors need not be members of the Canadian Society of Medievalists / Société canadienne des médiévistes. 

Manuscripts, written in English or French, should be submitted electronically as Microsoft Word documents to the journal management system: https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/flor.

Florilegium’s website at the University of Toronto Press can be found at http://www.utpjournals.press/loi/flor 

Florilegium’s Open Access website (for vols. 1-29) can be found here: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/flor

General enquiries about the journal are always welcome: those interested should contact David Watt directly at florilegium@utpress.utoronto.ca.

Florilegium recherche actuellement les soumissions pour un volume spécial consacré à la nourriture qui sera édité par Allison Fizzard. Les propositions (environs 250 mots) et les demandes de renseignements concernant ce volume doivent être envoyées à Allison.Fizzard@uregina.ca avant le 31 octobre 2021. Pour les propositions acceptées, les essais complets sont attendus d’ici le 30 mai 2022.

Les travaux de toutes les disciplines et cadres conceptuels ou théoriques appropriés sont bienvenus et les approches interdisciplinaires sont encouragées. La revue est particulièrement intéressée à promouvoir la recherche concernant les traditions et les perspectives non occidentales de même que les travaux dédiés à des communautés ou des questions marginalisées. 

Les soumissions sont évaluées par des pairs, à double insu, par des spécialistes canadiens ou de l’étranger. Les manuscrits d’articles soumis pour considération ne doivent comprendre aucune indication pouvant permettre d’identifier l’auteur. Les auteurs n’ont pas à être membres de la Société. 

Les manuscrits d’articles, en français ou en anglais, seront soumis, sous format Microsoft Word, de manière électronique par le biais du système d’administration de la revue : https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/flor.  

Le site web de Florilegium à l'University of Toronto Press se trouve à l'adresse suivante : http://www.utpjournals.press/loi/flor 

Le site web en libre accès de Florilegium (pour les volumes 1-29) se trouve ici : https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/flor

Les demandes de renseignements d’ordre général sur la revue sont toujours bienvenues : les personnes intéressées doivent contacter David Watt directement à florilegium@utpress.utoronto.ca. 

Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Journal of the International Arthurian Society on Arthurian Medievalism

The Journal of the International Arthurian Society (JIAS) welcomes submissions for a special issue (2022, volume 10) on Arthurian medievalism, or post-medieval adaptations, re- imaginings and recreations of medieval Arthurian texts, artefacts and spaces (real or imagined). The guest editors seek especially interdisciplinary and co-disciplinary explorations of how Arthurian myth makes meaning in a range of media, including (but not limited to) literary texts, television, film, games, visual arts, architecture, commodity culture, experiential medievalism, the heritage sector, and geographical spaces.

Submissions from all categories of scholars, including postgraduate students, early career researchers and independent scholars are welcome, as are submissions from non-members of the Society.

Submissions must be between 7,000 and 10,000 words (inclusive of footnotes) and must follow the guidelines for submission for JIAS, which follow the MHRA style guide. Submissions (essay, short bio and abstract) should be sent electronically to the guest editors of the special issue, Dr Renée Ward (rward@lincoln.ac.uk) and Dr Andrew Elliott (aelliott@lincoln.ac.uk), no later than 30 November 2021.

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 music to be guest edited by James V. Maiello. Proposals (c. 250 words) and enquiries regarding this issue should be sent to james.maiello@umanitoba.ca by 15 January 2022.  For accepted proposals, full essays will be expected by 30 September 2022.

Scholarship from all related disciplines and conceptual/theoretical frameworks is welcome; interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged.  The journal is particularly interested in research that addresses non-western traditions and perspectives, as well as work that focuses on marginalized communities and/or issues.

Submissions are refereed double-blind by international and Canadian specialists. Manuscripts submitted for consideration must not contain any indication of authorship. Contributors need not be members of the Canadian Society of Medievalists / Société canadienne des médiévistes. 

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. The journal also welcomes short articles on topics of interest to the members (e.g., medieval resources, methods, etc.) Papers may be written in either English or French. A brief abstract (one or two sentences) should be included with the submission.

Florilegium’s website at the University of Toronto Press can be found at http://www.utpjournals.press/loi/flor 

Florilegium’s Open Access website (for vols. 1-29) can be found here: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/flor

General enquiries about the journal are always welcome: those interested should contact David Watt directly at florilegium@utpress.utoronto.ca.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Green Knight (2021): Key Critical Perspectives (A Roundtable)

The International Society for the Study of Medievalism (ISSM) invites submissions for a sponsored roundtable on David Lowery’s film The Green Knight (2021) for the 57^thInternational Congress on Medieval Studies, which will take place online from Monday 9 May to Saturday 14 May 2022.

This roundtable seeks participants to identify and discuss an element of Lowery’s long-anticipated film, staring Dev Patel. In short presentations (10 minutes), panelists are invited to consider an element of the film in light of a focal keyword inspired by Medievalism: Key Critical Terms (2014), including: archive, authenticity, authority, Christianity, co-disciplinarity, continuity, feast, gender, genealogy, gesture, gothic, heresy, humor, lingua, love, memory, middle, modernity, monument, myth, play, power, presentism, primitive, purity, race, reenactment, resonance, simulacrum, spectacle, transfer, trauma, and troubadour. 

 

Submissions of 250-300 WORDS should be made via the Confex Online Systemno later than Wednesday 15 September 2021.This session is listed under “Session Selection: Roundtables.” 

Queries about the session can be sent to Valerie Johnson (vjohnso6@montevallo.edu) and/or Renée Ward (rward@lincoln.ac.uk).