Author Archives: Chris

To encourage the integration of Byzantine studies within the scholarly community and medieval studies in particular, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 27th International Medieval Congress, … Continue reading →

CALL FOR PAPERS 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 7-10, 2020 Sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies at Yale University Session 1: Violating Sacred Space Sacred space is, in part, defined by its possible … Continue reading →

Call for Papers “Faith/Fashion/Forward: `Dress’ and the Sacred” A Special Issue of Religion and the Arts Guest Editor: Frederick S. Roden Religion and the Arts solicits essays for a special issue on the intersectionality of fashion and holiness.  In the wake of The … Continue reading →

CALL FOR PAPERS Eighth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies June 15-17, 2020 Saint Louis University Saint Louis, Missouri The Eighth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies (June 15-17, 2020) is a convenient summer venue in North America for scholars … Continue reading →

The 8th Annual Conference on Medieval and Early Modern Studies 6 to 9 April 2020 – Centre for Visual Arts and Research, Nicosia, Cyprus In association with the Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus Held annually since 2012, Othello’s Island … Continue reading →

Organizers: Friederike Richter (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/University of Zurich) and Lukas Rösli (University of Zurich) Sponsor: SNSF Ambizione project “Gedächtniskultur im Paratext – Textränder altnordischer Prosahandschriften”, University of Zurich The aim is to focus attention on features of medieval literature that … Continue reading →

The animal turn has become hugely influential in medieval scholarship over the last decade. However, the contributions of ecofeminism and queer ecology have often been side-lined. Nevertheless, scholars are increasingly finding these modes of analysis to offer useful ways of … Continue reading →

The twenty-second biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place 12–14 March 2020 in Sarasota, Florida. The program committee invites 250-word abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European and Mediterranean history, literature, art, music … Continue reading →

Call for Papers for Does the Matter of Britain (Still) Matter?: Reflections on the State of Arthurian Studies Today (A Roundtable) 51st Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association Boston Marriott Copley Place, in Boston, Massachusetts, from 5-8 March … Continue reading →