CFP Out With the Old, In With the New: Changing Trajectories in David Lowery’s The Green Knight (7/30/2022; SAMLA Jacksonville, FL 11/11-13/2022)

This seemed worth cross-posting.

Out With the Old, In With the New: Changing Trajectories in David Lowery’s The Green Knight

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/06/06/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new-changing-trajectories-in-david-lowery%E2%80%99s-the-green

deadline for submissions: July 30, 2022

full name / name of organization:
SAMLA: South Atlantic Modern Language Association

contact email:
mcrofton@fit.edu



For close to seven hundred years, Gawain has been a favorite hero in Arthurian myth, especially when it comes to his legendary accomplishments—and faults—in Gawain and the Green Knight. No matter how much readers may root for him in his quest with the Green Knight, many of us can’t help but wonder…what if? All of that changed with David Lowery’s 2021 film, The Green Knight, which presents viewers with an abundance of scenarios that many of us haven’t even anticipated. In doing so, Lowery has forever altered the way scholars approach the medieval poem. This panel seeks to explore some of the most powerful changes Lowery makes to the base text of Gawain and the Green Knight, and what we can learn about the importance—or dangers—of retelling popular stories in new and inventive ways. Please submit a 250 word abstract, a brief bio, and A/V requirements by July 30th to Melissa Crofton at mcrofton@fit.edu.



Last updated June 7, 2022

CFP The Green Knight (2021): Key Critical Perspectives (A Roundtable) (9/15/21; ICoMS Kalamazoo 5/9-14/2022)

From the ISSM listserv; posted on behalf of the organizers:

Dear All,

Please see below a CFP for K’zoo 2022 on David Lowery’s new film (which I understand is now out in the US but sadly is not opening in the UK for another fortnight!).

Cheers,

Renée & Valerie

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Green Knight (2021): Key Critical Perspectives (A Roundtable)

The International Society for the Study of Medievalism (ISSM) invites submissions for a sponsored roundtable on David Lowery’s film The Green Knight (2021) for the 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies, which will take place online from Monday 9 May to Saturday 14 May 2022.

This roundtable seeks participants to identify and discuss an element of Lowery’s long-anticipated film, starring Dev Patel. In short presentations (10 minutes), panelists are invited to consider an element of the film in light of a focal keyword inspired by Medievalism: Key Critical Terms (2014), including: archive, authenticity, authority, Christianity, co-disciplinarity, continuity, feast, gender, genealogy, gesture, gothic, heresy, humor, lingua, love, memory, middle, modernity, monument, myth, play, power, presentism, primitive, purity, race, reenactment, resonance, simulacrum, spectacle, transfer, trauma, and troubadour. 

Submissions of 250-300 WORDS should be made via the Confex Online System no later than Wednesday 15 September 2021. This session is listed under “Session Selection: Roundtables.”

Queries about the session can be sent to Valerie Johnson (vjohnso6@montevallo.edu) and/or Renée Ward (rward@lincoln.ac.uk).

 

CFP: ICMS 2019 - Arthurian Games Roundtable "All Manner of Knightly Games"

"All Manner of Knightly Games": Games In and Inspired by the Arthurian Tradition. Kalamazoo 2019 session:

Throughout Arthurian literature, there is an abundance of games and entertainments. Perhaps most famously, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is structured on two sets of games: the exchange of blows game and the exchange of winnings game. In Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur, the hallmark of a happy court is “revels and games” or “all manner of games and plays.” And of course the tourneying so central to the Arthurian tradition is in essence a game. Often, these games and entertainments contribute to the main themes of the text, as when Queen Guinevere goes a-Maying (a type of “game),” protected by a handful of woefully unprepared “Queen’s Knights.” The devious Sir Meligrance kidnaps Guinevere, taking her back to his castle. While Lancelot eventually slays the evil knight, and rescues the Queen, the gaming and abduction highlight the decadence of Arthur’s court, which leaves Camelot vulnerable, unready to defend itself from the gathering shadows.

Perhaps because of the games and gaming inherent in the Arthurian tradition, these texts have recently inspired elements of modern games: video games, board games, card games, and more. Some games feature themes from the original medieval texts, such as Shadows Over Camelot, a board game that assigns players roles as loyal knights or as a traitor. As the players go on quests, safeguarding Arthur’s kingdom, tensions rise as each knight suspects the other of foul play. Other games simply appropriate Arthurian names and objects, such as the video game Persona 5 which features the Holy Grail as a boss for players to defeat near the end of the game.

The purpose of this Round Table will be two-fold: first, to discuss “courtly play” and “gaming” as they appear in medieval Arthurian texts, and second, to consider the ways contemporary games have utilized the Arthurian tradition as a world building function. The dual nature of this session seeks to gain a better understanding of Arthurian game and play in both medieval and contemporary Arthuriana.

Session presenters will be asked to give short papers or prepared remarks, followed by time for discussion. We are very interested in trans-temporal proposals, linking the themes, narratives, characters or concepts between medieval and medievalism. To emphasize this point, audience members will be given character cards from Camelot Legends, to encourage reflection of these moments. This tactile scholarship and specific use of cards produced lively discussion in BABEL’s 2017 Reno Meeting session “The Hand You’re Dealt: A Presentation of Exhibits and Roundtable on Creative Process.”

The session will serve as an excellent opportunity to introduce attendees to contemporary gaming culture and its pedagogical potential. The narratives of decadence and treachery serve as only a few examples for the approaches to this subject. The wealth of Arthurian “gaming” narratives found in medieval Arthurian texts along with the profusion of contemporary games creates fertile ground for a nuanced discussion of Camelot and its legacy.

Finally the session welcomes papers which discuss race (and whiteness), gender, LGBTQ, disability, poverty and education.

Please submit 200 word abstract to:
tnarayanan@mail.csuchico.edu by 9/15.

CFP Magic and Witchcraft on Stage and Screen Panel (6/27/2018; PAMLA 11/9-11/2018)

Extended deadline: Magic and Witchcraft on Stage and Screen
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/06/01/extended-deadline-magic-and-witchcraft-on-stage-and-screen

deadline for submissions: June 27, 2018

full name / name of organization: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)

contact email: lgreene@ewu.edu



Deadline extended to June 27, 2018


Proposals are invited for a Special Session of PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) 2018, which will meet November 9-11, 2018, in Bellingham, Washington. The conference theme is “Acting, Roles, Stages,” and we will be contributing papers on ways in which magic and witchcraft have been represented dramatically over the centuries.


In the 400 years between Macbeth and Harry Potter, the image of the witch has become more appealing and less frightening, more popular culture and less cultural nightmare. Magic has lost its association with conjuring demons and is portrayed as an innate or acquired skill, more mysterious than playing the piano but maybe not essentially different. Witches are not wicked, and magic is not a tool of the devil. This is a huge cultural shift.


This panel invites speakers in the fields of history, anthropology, drama, film, literature, and religious studies, as well as practitioners of magic and witchcraft, to contribute to our understanding of these phenomena and their changing roles in contemporary culture. Topics from film, drama, and literature might include but are not limited to the following:

• Macbeth
• Bell, Book, and Candle
• Bewitched
• Harry Potter
• The Craft
• Practical Magic

Panel participants must join PAMLA BY July 1, 2018, and must register and pay for the conference by October 1, 2018. Please submit proposals through the PAMLA website at www.pamla.org.

MAPACA Roundtable Update

I am pleased to announce the panelists for our roundtable on recent Arthuriana on screen. Registration information for the conference can be found at https://mapaca.net/conference. Hope to see you there.

New Visits to Camelot: Reflecting on the Contemporary Matter of Britain on Screen (Roundtable)

Session sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture for the Medieval & Renaissance Area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association

Organizer/Presider: Michael A. Torregrossa (Independent Scholar)

Guy Ritchie and Michael Bay (Oh My): The Challenges of Contemporary Visions of Camelot on Screen

Michael A. Torregrossa (Independent Scholar) 

Michael A. Torregrossa is a medievalist whose research interests include adaptation, Arthuriana, comics and comic art, medievalism, monsters, and wizards. His founder of both The Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain and The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and serves as Fantastic Area Chair for the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association.

Othering Pagan Archetypes: Reimaginings of Merlin and Morgan le Fay

Rachael Warmington (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

Rachael Warmington is a doctoral candidate at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She earned her B.A. in English from Montclair State University, M.A. in English from Seton Hall University, and her MFA at City College of New York, City University of New York. Rachael is also the editor-in-chief of the open source academic journal, Wachung Review. She is currently focusing on the ways in which early regional and generational variations of Arthurian legend influence contemporary literary, film and television adaptations and appropriations of Arthurian works.

Round Table Revival: The Order: 1886

Carl Sell (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

Carl Sell is PhD student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is interested in all things medieval and Early Modern, and his studies focus on the Arthurian Legend and modern adaptations of the legend as well as adaptations of Robin Hood.