MEDIEVAL FOLKLORE SECTION
The Medieval Folklore section of the American Folklore invites all interested scholars to propose papers for two panels for the AFS 2009 Annual Meeting in Boise, Idaho (Oct. 21-25, 2009). The theme of the meeting is "Examining the Ethics of Place".
1) There‘s No Place Like Camelot: Conceptualizations of places and borders rapidly expanded and changed in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. What is the appeal of interpreting places (real or imagined) and borrowing from other places? Since this year's meeting theme is "Examining the Ethics of Place," we are particularly interested in papers considering any negotiations of place, displacement, imagined places, utopias and dystopias. Papers that deal with online or media representations are welcome.
2) Open Topics: What interests you about the Middle Ages or subsequent uses of medieval topics? Papers that deal with online or other media representations are welcome.
Please send both the short abstract (75-100 words) and the long abstract (300-500 words) for your 15-20-minute presentation to section convener Katie Peebles by Friday, March 27, 2009. Please include your institutional affiliation (or status as an independent scholar) and presentation title, and an e-mail address or a phone number where you can be reached before March 31. If your proposal is accepted, you will need to complete and submit the AFS online registration form for a presenter in an organized panel by March 31, 2009.
Panels Sponsored
by the Medieval Folklore Section
The
Medieval Folklore Section of AFS has been sponsoring panels at the AFS annual meeting for many years. Below are links to some papers presented in Medieval
Folklore section panels.
Two Misunderstood Medieval "Cousins": Magic and Humor in the Middle Ages
Medieval Arthurian Literature
Medieval Folklore and Performance
Medieval Folklore and Gender
Defining and Identifying Medieval Folklore
Contact Information for the Section Convener
Two Misunderstood
Medieval "Cousins": Magic and Humor in the Middle Ages
Josepha Sherman
Vol'ka: Magician-Prince
and Shaman of Medieval Russia: A Look at a Hero of the Kiev Cycle
Stephanie L. Volf
Medieval Magic Lamaze: Birthing
Girdles, Mothers, and the Church Judith Mara Kish
Humourous Magic in Le
Miracle de Theophile
Thomas A. Bredehoft
Laughing at Margery Kempe
Medieval Arthurian
Literature
Josepha Sherman
The Matter of Kiev: The Cycle of Prince Vladimir and His Bogatyri as
a Contemporary Equal to the Arthurian Cycle
Katie Lyn Peebles
"Lions, Giants, and Knights:
the Attractions of Wilderness"
Dan Terkla
The Sounds of Medieval Silence: Erec
Et Enide, Le Roman De Silenceand
Ontological Uncertainties
Deborah Crawford
Court and Monastery: The
Discovery of Arthur's Grave
Medieval Folklore
and Performance
Lori Ann Garner
Old English Charms in Performance
Michael Preston
Mountebank Performances
in England: Influences on Literary Drama, Influences on Mummers' Plays
Judith Mara Kish
He Said/She Said: The Problem of "Female" Performance of the "Male" Voice
of God in The Book of Margey Kempe
Medieval Folklore
and Gender
C.W. Sullivan III
Gender Roles in the Mabinogi
Elena Ivanova
The Transformations of a
Tale About Violence Against Men
Dara Hellman
Repositioning Welsh Romance
or Griselda's Revenge
Defining and Identifying
Medieval Folklore
Judith Lanzendorfer
Margery of Kempe: Spirituality
Through Oral History
Daniel F. Melia
The Oldest Joke in the World
Deborah Crawford
Medieval Legend: A Working
Definition
MEDIEVAL MATERIAL
CULTURE
This panel welcomes
all papers that deal with the idea of the material culture in the Middle
Ages. Papers may focus, among other topics, on manuscript studies, maps,
and evidences of daily rituals that derive from medieval textual sources
or artifacts.
CELTIC LITERATURE
AND THE MIDDLE AGES
This panel welcomes
all papers that deal with medieval Celtic literature or texts based on
medieval Celtic sources. Papers may focus, among other topics, on Celtic
medieval textual sources; British, French, etc. texts based on or related
to Celtic texts; and also modern "texts" derived or inspired by medieval
sources.
For more information about this panel, please contact Judith Mara Kish at kish@findlay.edu or at jmskish@hotmail.com. Proposals for the panel should be sent electronically to either address by April 10.
This AFS section does not charge dues to its members. To join the section, please contact the convener(s) named above.