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CFP: 2023 International Conference for the Study of Medievalism

October 26-28, 2023  The UNICORN Castle Submission Deadline: August 15, 2023 The 2023 conference will be hosted by The UNICORN Castle, a haunted museum, currently in the process of evolving into an online virtual environment. Most scholarly presentations will be … Continue reading

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CFP: International Conference for the Study of Medievalism

Submission Deadline Extended to July 15, 2022 October 20-22, 2022 Appalachian State University, Boone, NC* The Lost Provinces, or Lost and Found Medievalisms Southern Appalachia has long been perceived as a region in the American margins, both materially and metaphorically. … Continue reading

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CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED: Studies in Medievalism XXXII: Medievalism in Play

Deadline Extended to August 1, 2022 From Renaissance satires of courtly love, through Victorian jousts, to Arthurian video games, medievalism has often been central to play, and play has often been central to medievalism. Sometimes the Middle Ages serve as … Continue reading

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Statement for Critical Race Theory and Medieval(ism) Studies

We, the Executive Board of the International Society for the Study of Medievalism (ISSM), stand against those medievalists who see “critical race theory as a kind of religious set of beliefs” and would never consider critical race theory to be … Continue reading

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CFP: “The Middle Ages as a Digital Experience”

Call for papers! “The Middle Ages as a Digital Experience” is our second conference following last year’s “Medievalisms on the Screen”. We invite 200-word abstracts on how the prevalence and weight of digital media conditions our approach to the medieval … Continue reading

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