MAM: The Medieval Association of the Midwest

Calls for Papers, &tc . . .

Organizers of Sponsored and Special Sessions for the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 10-13, 2007 have until May 15 to propose sessions; and if their sessions are accepted, until October 1 to submit final session schedules. 

All MAM session proposals and schedules should be submitted to Cynthia Valk.  All forms are available as interactive PDF files at www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/41cfp/forms.html.  You can fill them out and forward them to Cynthia (email is best).  Alternatively, her fax number in Saginaw is 989-964-2796.  When you fax, be sure to include a cover sheet so the secretary knows the fax is for Cynthia.  It is the responsibility of the organizer to fill out the forms.  For more information, contact Cynthia at (734) 671-0111, valac@sbcglobal.net.

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Midwest Modern Languages Association.  The Medieval Association of the Midwest is sponsoring two sessions at next fall’s MMLA Conference at the Palmer House (one of Chicago’s grand hotels), Chicago, IL, Nov. 9-12. www.uiowa.edu/~mmla is the conference link.

The MAM sessions are titled "Crusading Ideologies, 1095-2006."  The Crusades are perhaps the most crucial and the dominant analogy in today's media.  Regardless of the relevance of this analogy to contemporary foreign policy debates and cultural constructions, its prevalence makes it a force with which we all must reckon. We invite scholars to contribute to a trajectory of crusading ideologies from Pope Urban II and Saladin to George Bush and Osama bin Laden, as these ideologies figure and forget history across a millennium of expression in words and pictures. Please send paper titles and 250-word abstracts to Cynthia Z. Valk, (734) 671-0111, valac@sbcglobal.net.

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The Medieval Association of the Midwest 22st Annual Conference is scheduled to go Caribbean -- at the University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez!  The dates are January 12-13, 2007.  It will feature plenary lectures by Richard Burt, University of Florida, "Le Ditour de Martin Guerre and the Touch of the Reel: Archives, Anecdotes, Academic Films Consultants" and Thomas Shippey, Saint Louis University (paper title TBA). 

Abstract deadline: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2006.  Please send panel and paper proposals in the form of a title and 250-word abstract to Nicholas Haydock, English Department CH-408, Box 9265, University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez, PR 00681-9265, (787) 832-4040, x5455, fax (787) 265-3847, nickhaydoc@prtc.net or NickHaydock@excite.com.

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PMAM (Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest) is currently requesting submissions from the members of the Medieval Association of the Midwest for Volume 12, with a deadline of July 1.  PMAM is a refereed annual journal using MLA documentation styles and dedicated to well-researched scholarship on the Middle Ages.

Articles may (but do not have to) be based on conference papers given in MAM-sponsored conference sessions, and should be 3,000-10,000 words.  Book reviews are also welcome.  For further information and to make submissions (in three copies) for Volume 12, you are invited to contact Dr. Kristen Figg, Department of English, Kent State University-Salem, 2491 SR 45 South, Salem, OH 44460; telephone (317) 788-3241/3455; fax (317) 332-9256; email: figg@salem.kent.edu.  To submit for Volume 13 (after July 1), contact Dr. Melvin Storm, Jr., Department of English, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS 66801; telephone: (620) 341-5563; fax: (620) 341-5547; email: stormmel@emporia.edu.

Back issues are available for $10.00 each.  If requesting airmail or large quantities, the Executive Secretary should be contacted to discuss postage fees.  Orders must be pre-paid with check or money order payable to the Medieval Association of the Midwest.  (Libraries need this illustrious journal!)  For more information and to order, contact Kristie A. Bixby, Executive Secretary, MAM, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 67260, (316) 978-3735, fax (316) 978-3739, kristie.bixby@wichita.edu.

MAM Professional News

Have you recently finished a dissertation, book, or other major project?  Are you looking for contributors or help on a project?  To announce your latest publications and projects in Nuntia, please supply the following information:

·         Member name, Institution

·         Title of publication OR focus of project

·         Short summary or description (optional)

by e-mail to figg@salem.kent.edu, or in hard copy to Prof. Kristin Figg, Department of English, Kent State University – Salem Campus, 2491 SR 45 South Salem, OH 44460.  This issue’s news:

Edward Risden’s edited volume Sir Gawain and the Classical Tradition (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006).  It includes an introduction by Stefan Hall and essays by Ed and MAM compatriots Bill Hodapp, Russ Rutter, Randi Eldevik, Peter Goodrich, Nick Haydock, Rosanne Gasse, Zach Thundy, and Mickey Sweeney.  His novel Sir Severus and the Two Kings, the sequel to Sir Severus le Brewse, is due out from Silver Lake Publishing in May, to be followed by Beowulf for Business in the fall from Whitston Publishing, which is also issuing a revised edition of Ed’s Beowulf translation as Beowulf in Faithful Verse.

A collection of essays edited by Tom Shippey came out at the end of 2005 from Arizona State UP, with the title The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm's Mythology of the Monstrous.  Prof. Shippey contributed an Introduction, Afterword, and the essay on elves.  Eight other essays dealt with trolls, Grendel, dragons, wise women, werewolves and other animal-transformations, and included Randi Eldevik on giants and Paul Battles on dwarves.

William R. Levin, Professor of Art History at Centre College, has published "'Tanto goffe e mal fatte...dette figure si facessino...belle':  The Trecento Overdoor Sculptures for the Baptistry in Florence and Their Cinquecento Replacements" in Studies in Iconography 26 (2005): 205-242, with 21 illustrations.  In addition, he has been named H. W. Stodghill and Adele Stodghill Research Professor at Centre College for the fall semester 2006, releasing him from classroom obligations in order to continue work on two further articles addressing different aspects of the Piazza del Duomo in Florence.

THE MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION OF THE MIDWEST is an interdisciplinary association of medievalists in the Midwest founded to promote the study, criticism, research, and exchange of ideas related to all aspects of the medieval period and to articulate the specific needs of medievalists in the Midwest.  Membership benefits include a biannual newsletter, a Conference in the fall and sections at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo and at the Midwest Modern Language Association and an annual Publications volume.  Its website is <http://www-instruct.nmu.edu/English/pgoodric/mamindex.html>.  Membership is open to anyone with an interest in medieval studies.  Dues for the calendar year are $25 (and just $10 for graduate students and emeriti).  To join the Association, please complete the form below and mail it with dues payment to Kristie Bixby, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 67260-0013.

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NUNTIA: The Newsletter of the Medieval

     Association of the Midwest

Department of English

Northern Michigan University

Marquette, MI 49855-5310

Published biannually in spring and fall

Volume XXX Number 1

Spring 2006