Category Archives: Call for Papers

When 6 – 7 June 2014 Where School of English, University College Cork, Ireland Description In recent years, the shelves of commercial bookshops have been graced with accessible translations of medieval poetry from the Old English, Old Irish and Old … Continue reading →

Second Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies June 16-18, 2014 Saint Louis University Saint Louis, Missouri This Year’s Plenary Speakers: John W. Baldwin, Johns Hopkins University Robert Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh CALL FOR PAPERS The Second Annual Symposium on Medieval … Continue reading →

Leeds International Medieval Congress, 7-10 July 2014 This session will reassess our knowledge of the N-Town Manuscript, British Library MS Cotton Vespasian D.8, in its literary, historical, and political contexts.  The manuscript and its plays have experienced a resurgence of … Continue reading →

International Conference The Ten Commandments in medieval and early modern culture Ghent University, Belgium April 10-11, 2014 Key note speakers: Robert J. Bast (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) Lesley Smith (University of Oxford) Call for Papers The Department of Literature at … Continue reading →

Ex Arabico in Latinum: Studies in Mediterranean Translation Movements 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 8-11, 2014 Organizer: Anthony Minnema Chair: Thomas Burman Arabic-to-Latin translation movements are underrepresented at conferences of medieval studies since researchers often stride … Continue reading →

In the wake of crisis in Europe, bits and pieces of the past are being resurrected as a means of understanding the present and imagining the future.   Historical figures are re-evaluated and held out as models, once-dismissed ideologies reappear … Continue reading →

Call for Papers 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI May 8-11, 2014 A Casa de Avis: Legacies from Portugal (session of papers) Portuguese studies are under-represented in the Medieval studies community as a whole. Its literature … Continue reading →

The Seventeenth Annual International Congress of the Mediterranean Studies Association will be held on May 28-31, 2014, at the University of Málaga, Spain. Proposals are now being solicited for individual paper presentations, panel discussions, and complete sessions on all subjects … Continue reading →

Ever since Alexander the Great built his empire in the 330s BCE, his personality and exploits captured the  interest and imagination of the people of many lands — both lands that he had conquered, in southeastern Europe, Asia, and Africa, … Continue reading →

New Approaches to Performance Practice:  Process, Theory, Technique, Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society sponsored session at ICMS, Kalamazoo May 8-11, 2014 Medieval drama scholars are not new to the idea that reconstructive performance experiments yield valuable information about early dramatic … Continue reading →