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The history of emotions has emerged as one of the most prolific research topics in recent years. Building on our understanding of the cultural production of emotional expressions, we seek to explore how people in the Middle Ages learned about emotions, how they managed and manifested them. We aim to place special emphasis on the textual aspects of socialization towards specific emotions and their expressions across different contexts and communities of the medieval world.

We invite submissions on a wide range of topics related to learning about emotions and their expression in medieval society, including but not limited to: 

• Learning How to Feel in Medieval Society: recognizing, expressing, naming, and controlling emotions
• Variation of Practices Across Social Groups:
  • woman v. man
  • laypeople v. clergy
  • young v. old
  • rich v. poor
• Emotional Communities
• moving between different communities
• modes of socialization to feeling
• Loca Discendi: places and institutions: court, monastery, school and university.
• Emotions in Religious Experience
  • feelings about/towards God
  • emotions of sainthood
  • emotions as sins
• Medieval Science on Emotions
  • medical and philosophical discourse
  • moral and political science
  • theology
• How to Feel About Feeling
  • avoiding feelings
  • repentance and regret
  • learning about oneself
• Feeling (of) the Other: cultural encounters with queer, monstrous, unknown
• Expressing Emotions through Language: genres, modes, styles
• Universal, Cultural, and Individual in Medieval Emotions
  • communities of feeling
  • emotions in Latin v. emotions in vernacular
  • emotional dialects

Submission guidelines

Abstracts (200-400 words, excluding references) should be sent to the organizers Kalina Słaboszowska (k.slaboszowska@iaepan.edu.pl), Krzysztof Nowak (krzysztof.nowak@ijp.pan.pl)

before September 1, 2024

Important Dates

• Submission Deadline: September 1, 2024
• Notification of Acceptance: September 8, 2024
• Conference Dates: July 7-10, 2025

Organizers

• Kalina Słaboszowska (k.slaboszowska@iaepan.edu.pl), Institute of Archeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences 
• Krzysztof Nowak (krzysztof.nowak@ijp.pan.pl), Institute of Polish Language, Polish Academy of Sciences

Source : Calenda

Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa, Karen Casey Casebier, and Carl B. Sell

Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Call for Papers – Please Submit Proposals by 30 September 2024
56th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown (Philadelphia, PA)
On-site event: 6-9 March 2025

Our conception of the Middle Ages is usually formed by the versions of the medieval past we experienced as children, and, because they are considered suitable for young viewers, animated depictions of this world often represent our earliest exposure to the events, personages, and stories of this era. Consequently, the animated creations of the Walt Disney Company have played a huge part in shaping our collective image of the Middle Ages, but the corpus of medieval-themed animation is truly vast. It has been expanded greatly by the output of many other content producers across the globe through anime, cartoons, films, games, streaming videos, and theatrical shorts. (See our list of representative texts–at https://tinyurl.com/ReAnimatingtheMiddleAgesCFP–for examples.)

Despite animation’s important role in shaping how we perceive and receive the medieval past, the field of Medieval Animation Studies remains limited, especially compared to the fluorescence of Medieval Film Studies and Medieval Television Studies over the past four decades. In this panel, we seek in particular to build upon the pioneering work of medieval-animation scholar Michael N. Salda and provide additional insights into the ways medieval-themed animation has impacted our contemporary world. Presenters might explore anime, cartoons, films, games, shorts, and videos produced through traditional ink-and-paint, stop-motion, claymation, or computer-generated imagery. Selections should represent and/or engage with some aspect of the medieval, such as artifacts, characters, settings, themes, etc. These might be central to the narrative, tangential, or appearing solely as cameos. (For ideas and support, we have created a list of representative texts and a resource guide devoted to studies of medieval-themed animation. It can be accessed at https://tinyurl.com/ReAnimatingtheMiddleAgesCFP.)

Submission Instructions

In this panel, we seek in particular to build upon the pioneering work of medieval-animation scholar Michael N. Salda and provide additional insights into the ways medieval-themed animation has impacted our contemporary world. Presenters might explore anime, cartoons, films, games, shorts, and videos produced through traditional ink-and-paint, stop-motion, claymation, or computer-generated imagery. Selections should represent and/or engage with some aspect of the medieval, such as artifacts, characters, settings, themes, etc., presented as central to the narrative, tangential, or appearing solely as cameos.

For ideas and support, please see our list of representative texts and resource guide devoted to studies of medieval-themed animation at https://tinyurl.com/ReAnimatingtheMiddleAgesCFP.

All proposals must be submitted into the CFPList system at https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21105 by 30 September 2024. You will be prompted to create an account with NeMLA (if you do not already have one) and, then, to complete sections on Title, Abstract, and Media Needs.

Notification on the status of your submission will be made by 16 October 2024. If accepted, NeMLA asks you to confirm your participation with the session chairs by accepting their invitations and by registering for the event. The deadline for Registration/Membership is 9 December 2024.

Be advised of the following policies of the Convention: All participants must be members of NeMLA for the year of the conference. Participants may present on up to two sessions of different types (panels/seminars are considered of the same type). Submitters to the CFP site cannot upload the same abstract twice.(See the NeMLA Presenter Policies page, at https://www.nemla.org/convention/policies.html, for further details,)

NeMLA offers limited funding for travel to graduate students and to contingent faculty, adjunct instructors, independent scholars, and two-year college faculty. Details can be found at the NeMLA Travel Awards page at https://www.nemla.org/awards/travel.html.

Thank you for your interest in our session. Please address questions and/or concerns to the organizers at MedievalinPopularCulture@gmail.com.

For more information on the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, please visit our website at https://MedievalinPopularCulture.blogspot.com/.

Source : The Medieval Academy Blog

‘Looting’ or ‘plunder’ – the appropriation of material goods as the outcome of warfare – has received renewed attention in recent years. Interest has focused on both the immediate act of looting in contemporary warzones from Syria to the Ukraine, as well as its legacy in respect of the way in which Western museums acquired their collections. However, the urge not just to defeat an opponent but to strip them of their possessions has been consistent throughout history. The fact of being looted has often enhanced the status of particular objects, from the Roman practice of displaying spolia to the Native American practice of ‘counting coup’ through the acquisition of an opponent’s horse or weapons. Yet plunder also has a significant material component: the ashigaru soldiers, whose use of firearms revolutionised Japanese warfare, originated in groups of impoverished farmers following an army in order to systematically despoil the enemy. Whatever the motive, spoils of war of all kinds flowed from battlefields to the centres of civil and religious authority, traversing national boundaries and diverse geographies, communicating unexplored histories of cross-cultural contact.

This conference seeks to bring to bear on the topic the widest range possible of thematic, disciplinary, geographical, and chronological perspectives. Its goal is to disentangle specific manifestations of looting from their fundamental, underlying, anthropological motivations, allowing us to understand all aspects of plunder more effectively. It will explore how different societies have prohibited, regulated, and encouraged the phenomenon of loot, and the historical, social, legal, cultural, and political motivations which such practices reveal.

The conference will take place 28–29 of April at The Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, UK. We welcome proposals by scholars at all stages, including PhD and early career. A number of bursaries will be available to assist with attendance expenses and we would especially like to be able to support traditionally underrepresented scholarship.

We welcome any of the four following types of proposal:

• Individual papers (20 minutes plus Q&A) (https://forms.office.com/e/UzQePkeJLg)

• Chaired panel proposals of three papers (20 minutes plus Q&A) including chair (https://forms.office.com/e/jfvuZwxkLD)

• ‘Lightning presentations’ (5 minutes plus Q&A) focused on a particular artefact. (https://forms.office.com/e/8jXXp8stYc)

• Poster presentation (https://forms.office.com/e/689yb2iKRC)

Follow the appropriate link to submit your proposal by 5pm GMT on Friday 11 October. 

For any queries please contact Connor Wilson (Connor.Wilson@mmu.ac.uk) and Mark Bennett (Mark.Bennett@armouries.org.uk)