Call For Papers
POSTMODERN MEDIEVALISMS
The Seventeenth Annual International Meeting of the Conference on
Medievalism
(Associated Conference of Studies in Medievalism)
18-19 October 2002 - University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa
Distinguished plenary speakers:
Verlyn Flieger, U of Maryland-College Park
John Ganim,U of California-Riverside
William Paden,Northwestern U
Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist U
Proposals for individual papers, entire sessions (three twenty-minute
papers), or other forms of address are currently being solicited for the
2002 Conference on Medievalism. Medievalism concerns documenting and
exploring all instances of the evocation of what is taken to be medireview.
Typical questions of a scholar of medievalism might include "why does a
certain pattern of sound in a modern symphony evoke a sense of the
medireview" or "how does a film represent the medireview and to what
purposes?" From its inception, the medireview has been an
historiographical, aesthetic, political concept, and studies in medievalism
endeavors self-consciously to understand these and other dimensions of this
powerfully defining concept. This year, we are particularly concerned to
see how the postmodern -- broadly defined -- conceptualizes the
medireview.
The Conference on Medievalism has proven to be an annual event of collegial
exchange among scholars from fields usually kept separate by the structure
of American as well as international academia. It has also proven to be
fertile ground for both Studies in Medievalism and The Year's Work in
Medievalism, two highly interdisciplinary journals devoted to the
advancement of studying the ways and purposes people invoke the medireview.
The 2002 conference is being hosted at the University of Northern Iowa by
Richard Utz and Jesse Swan. Information may be obtained by writing,
telephoning, or e mailing the conference hosts at the Department of English
Language and Literature, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA,
50614-0502. Richard Utz, 319/273-3879, Jesse Swan, 319/273-2089.
Information about the conference can also be obtained from Gwendolyn
Morgan, Director of Conferences: Studies in Medievalism, Department of
English, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, 406/994-5190, and on
our website: http://www.uni.edu/~utz/medievalism/
Please send proposals to the hosts, who will acknowledge all
correspondence. Deadline for proposals: 02 August 2002
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