Medieval History
Won't you see what I can do? I can't make my spots disappear though...
Anyway, since it's coming to that time of year again, and others are promoting themselves, why not do the same?
We see these developments not only as challenges, but also as opportunities to engage with our colleagues, our students, and the wider community in new and interesting ways. Thus, a roundtable, recognizing the vast number of topics that could be discussed, is not constrained by the panel?s expertise. Instead, the format allows the discussants to start new dialogues with the audience.
- Modern Medieval At Kalamazoo 2012
It's that time of year again, for the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. Just this week, thousands will descend on the university for full days of medieval talks, meetings, revelry, and all that...
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Finally back from Oxford, where I attended this NEH Summer Institute. Overall, a tremendous experience. More regular blogging will resume shortly... I will, however, now point you to a great lecture series that's I'm organizing for Fall 2008 at...
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This year's International Conference of the Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Association of Korea (MEMESAK) took place on October 23, 2010, at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. The topic of the conference was "The Once and Future...
- Cfp: The Court And The Courts In The Carolingian World
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- Via Isas Net:: Congratulations To Martin Foys! Mla Price For A First Book
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Medieval History
Put Me in the Zoo
Won't you see what I can do? I can't make my spots disappear though...Anyway, since it's coming to that time of year again, and others are promoting themselves, why not do the same?
This panel will address intersections between medieval scholarship and popular understandings of the Middle Ages. The boundaries of the Middle Ages have always been rather fuzzy and they are progressively becoming more so. In addition to traditional challenges from classicists and early modernists, many colleges and universities have recently been changing their curricula to include World History and non-western fields. This gives medievalists of all stripes the opportunity to see the Middle Ages in ways that challenge a purely Eurocentric definition of what "medieval" is. At the same time, those outside of the academy are privy to myriad interpretations and re-interpretations of the medieval in media including (but not limited to) video games, blogs, architecture, popular literature, and film. And especially since 9/11, we must include journalism as well. Medievalists are called upon to comment and correct these interpretations at a time when their own understandings of what makes the Middle Ages are themselves being challenged.Sat. 5/9
1:30pm
Session 456
Fetzer 2020
Medieval across Time and Space (A Roundtable)
Organizers: Matthew Gabriele, Virginia Tech and Julie Hofmann, Shenandoah Univ.
- Julie Hofmann
- Matthew Gabriele
- Manan Ahmed, Univ. of Chicago
- Kofi Campbell, Wilfrid Laurier Univ.
- David Spafford, Univ. of Washington?Seattle
- Janice Liedl, Laurentian Univ.
We see these developments not only as challenges, but also as opportunities to engage with our colleagues, our students, and the wider community in new and interesting ways. Thus, a roundtable, recognizing the vast number of topics that could be discussed, is not constrained by the panel?s expertise. Instead, the format allows the discussants to start new dialogues with the audience.
- Modern Medieval At Kalamazoo 2012
It's that time of year again, for the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. Just this week, thousands will descend on the university for full days of medieval talks, meetings, revelry, and all that...
- Back In The New World
Finally back from Oxford, where I attended this NEH Summer Institute. Overall, a tremendous experience. More regular blogging will resume shortly... I will, however, now point you to a great lecture series that's I'm organizing for Fall 2008 at...
- Memesak Conference On Once And Future Romance
This year's International Conference of the Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Association of Korea (MEMESAK) took place on October 23, 2010, at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. The topic of the conference was "The Once and Future...
- Cfp: The Court And The Courts In The Carolingian World
The Court and the Courts in the Carolingian World This session is intended to provide a forum for presenting research on fundamental issues of Carolingian culture and politics. In particular, we invite papers on the relationship between central courts...
- Via Isas Net:: Congratulations To Martin Foys! Mla Price For A First Book
In Virtually Anglo-Saxon: Old Media, New Media, and Early Medieval Studies in the Late Age of Print, Martin K. Foys offers a path-breaking exploration of the relations between contemporary advances in information technology and Anglo-Saxon studies. What...