Seeking papers for
TEAMS-sponsored/co-sponsored sessions
at the 2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies
(May 8 - 10, 2025)
Deadline
Friday, Sept. 15
https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/cfp.cgi
1. The TEAMS Bonnie Wheeler Session: The Seductions of Chivalry
(A Roundtable)
Gale Sigal, Organizer (sigal@wfu.edu)
Bonnie Wheeler in The Seductions of Chivalry, made the case that including “‘chivalry’ or ‘King Arthur’ in a course title” attracts students with a rich diversity of interests. How advantageous is this variety for teaching the Arthurian Legend course? How much foundational knowledge do students have when they enter your class? How important is it to undergird your approach with basic historical and/or literary contexts? Which theoretical approaches are relevant to your teaching Arthurian literature? How large a role does medievalism play? How much recent literature do you include, if any, or is it important to remain squarely in the Middle Ages? Is your approach to the course interdisciplinary?
1“King Arthur and the Seductions of Chivalry,” (Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching [SMART], 12, 1, 2005, 7-22)
2. Podcasting the Past: Innovations in Medieval Scholarship and Pedagogy
Organizer(s): Lindsay Pereira and Ella Jando-Saul, Concordia University.
Presider(s): Lindsay Pereira and Ella Jando-Saul, Concordia University.
In a world of reduced funding for and interest in the humanities, podcasting allows scholars to collaborate in new ways, expose research in progress, and publish findings in a publicly accessible way. Our session brings together scholars interested in thinking about and experimenting with this innovative medium as a form of scholarly publication. We invite papers to consider: Why bring podcasting into the field of Medieval Studies and scholarship? What new forms of assessment does it present? How can we produce rigorous scholarship in an audio format and use it in our teaching? We encourage submissions of various experimental formats.
3. Expanding the "Canon": Exploring New Editions from the Middle English Text Series (METS)
Co-Sponsor: With the Rossell Hope Robbins Library
The Middle English Text Series (METS) continues to expand the "canon" of medieval literature through its ongoing publications of overlooked and inaccessible medieval texts. In recent years, METS has published increasingly linguistically and generically diverse editions, pushing the boundaries of what is considered "literature" and which texts are associated with the medieval British Isles and Ireland.In this paper panel, editors of recent METS editions (published in the last two years) will discuss their editions, their editorial choices and processes, and how they might be used in the classroom and research.
The organizers will reach out to editors of METS editions that have been published in the last two years and invite them to present on their editions. They envision this panel as a celebration of their work, as well as the work of METS, MIP, and TEAMS.
Organizers: Anna Siebach-Larsen, (annasiebachlarsen@rochester.edu)
Gale Sigal, (sigal@wfu.edu)
