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Category: Calls for Papers

  • CFP: Tales After Tolkien: Medievalism and Genre in the Twenty-First Century

    The following call for papers came through the Studies in Medievalism email list. You can find some information about the Tales After Tolkien Society on their website, which outlines their formation at the 2013 International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo. CFP:  Contributions are sought for an edited collection titled Tales After Tolkien: Medievalism and…

  • Tolkien Conference Season in the US: Spring & Summer 2014

    This coming spring and summer will see a number of Tolkien conference sessions in the US: you might have to pace yourself carefully! I’m focusing on American conferences, since those are the ones I know best — let me know if there are others I’ve missed.  I would also love to hear about upcoming Tolkien…

  • Popular Culture Association: Tolkien Studies — deadline Nov. 1st

    The Popular Culture Association has designated a new special topic of Tolkien Studies, which may become a permanent area in the conference if enough interest is shown.  Currently, I know of roundtables being proposed on the state of Tolkien Studies and on the Marquette Tolkien Archive, and I’ve also heard of individual papers likely to…

  • Atlantic Universities: Teaching Showcase 2013

    The Association of Atlantic Universities holds a Teaching Showcase every fall. This year the conference will be held at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. As the CFP states, “The Teaching Showcase provides a forum for people to reflect on teaching practice, discuss issues related to university teaching and learning, and share teaching strategies.”…

  • Atlantic Mediaeval Association CFP

    Call for Papers:   Sixth Annual Conference of the Atlantic Mediaeval Association 27-28 September 2013 Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada Plenary Paper by Fiona Tolhurst on Female Spirituality in the Late Middle Ages 16:00 Friday 27 Sept (Room TBA) The society and its conference are multi-disciplinary and we accordingly welcome proposals on all aspects of…

  • Calls for papers on Tolkien

    It’s never too early to start thinking about next year’s conferences! Here are two calls for papers for those who are engaged in the scholarly study of Tolkien’s works. Proposals are due this fall. Tolkien at Kalamazoo 2014 The Tolkien at Kalamazoo group is sponsoring four sessions for the 2014 International Congress on Medieval Studies.…

  • CFP: Medieval Translation: Theory and Practice

    Florilegium is the international journal of the Canadian Society of Medievalists /  Société canadienne des médiévistes and accepts papers in English or French. The recent call for papers is for a special issue on medieval translation. CfP Florilegium – Translation issue [pdf]

  • Calls For Papers: Tolkien

    One proposal deadline is a few days away; one a few months away; and one just passed by without my realizing it, but I’m going to post all three CFPs anyway. (Maybe late proposals will be accepted?). With a proposal deadline of June 15, a call has gone out from Dr. Brad Eden for essays…

  • Addition of another conference to my list

    Adaptations of The Lord of the Rings: the 10th DTG Tolkien Seminar to be held in April 2013, with a submissions deadline of November 30, 2012. See the list of Tolkien conferences I’m compiling in my previous post on Upcoming Tolkien Conferences 2012-13.

  • Upcoming Tolkien conferences 2012-13

    Having missed the Mythopoeic Society’s conference that just wrapped up in California last week – one of these days I’ll get there! – and thinking about the Return of the Ring conference that will begin in Loughborough UK in a few days – where  I had been hoping to go but had to cancel in the…