Medieval History
Building off of Larry Swain's initial post, the comments engendered by my little response, and (more generally) by BABEL's recent session at Kazoo and 2 sessions I'm hoping will get accepted for next year's Kazoo, I want to run something by you, oh internets.
How about a blog forum about what medieval studies and/ or medievalism has to offer a wider public? But not pitched to other academics? How would you talk about a topic of your choosing to a group of community members in a public library, for example? How do you talk about "relevance" (or the lack thereof) to undergraduates? etc.
So, let's try this. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
Details:
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Medieval History
Call for Submissions (?)
Building off of Larry Swain's initial post, the comments engendered by my little response, and (more generally) by BABEL's recent session at Kazoo and 2 sessions I'm hoping will get accepted for next year's Kazoo, I want to run something by you, oh internets.
How about a blog forum about what medieval studies and/ or medievalism has to offer a wider public? But not pitched to other academics? How would you talk about a topic of your choosing to a group of community members in a public library, for example? How do you talk about "relevance" (or the lack thereof) to undergraduates? etc.
So, let's try this. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
Details:
- Use the questions above as general guidelines. Feel free to do something else related, if you so choose though.
- You can either email me a link to something you've already written somewhere else or you can email me "new" text and (with your permission) I'll post it here.
- Anonymity will absolutely, positively, be respected.
- I welcome anything thoughtful, be it short (~ 1 PP) or long.
- This can also be an ongoing conversation, so as this goes on, longer responses to earlier posts (responses too long for comments) are welcome.
- Please spread the word far and wide, to blogs, listservs, etc. We welcome, of course, people who don't normally blog and people outside of academia.
- Initial deadline for submissions will be next Friday, 6/13.
- Is There A Comment For This Blog?
Recently, Jeffrey Cohen wrote a thoughtful blog post (prompted by Christopher Schaberg's post) on why blogging seems like such hard work. Somehow, blogging has come to feel less dynamic and more permanent. The elevation of the blog as...
- Blogging, Tweeting, And Publishing
I've been asked by JJ Cohen of In the Middle to compose something on the creation of my blog and my adventures in tweeting for an article he's working on. The article will appear in a book centered around Geoffrey Chaucer hath a Blog, in...
- Jeff Sypeck's Applied Medievalism, Cont.
Our last blog forum entry has generated a great, stimulating discussion. I hope it continues. But, I also wanted to point people to some responses elsewhere. Dr. Nokes, of Unlocked Wordhoard, now has a response up. Highly Eccentric, of The Naked Philologist,...
- Reminder: Call For Submissions
Just a reminder that the initial, tentative deadline for submissions to our attempt at a blog forum, is this coming Friday (June 14). I've received 1 already and I'm cooking 1 up right now, so that should start us off. If you're wondering...
- Call For Contributors
As the little blurb up above says, this blog is a form of outreach (I think) intended to discuss both manifestations of medievalism in contemporary culture but also, and perhaps more importantly, the continuing relevance of the study of the Middle Ages...