15th Biennial Conference Schedule

 

International Association for Robin Hood Studies

15th Biennial Conference

Jagiellonian University

 

Hosts and organizers: 

Anna Czarnowus (University of Silesia) 

Michal Czerenkiewicz (Jagiellonian University) 

Dates: 

26 -27 June 2025

Venue: 

Jagiellonian University, Polish Department, Golebia 18, Cracow 

UTC/GMT +2

 

Robin Hood and Other Social Bandits in Folk and Popular Culture

26.06.2025

 

10:00 Conference opening:

Professor Tomasz Bilczewski, Deputy Dean of the Polish Department, Jagiellonian University

Professor Władysław Witalisz, Dean of the English Department, Jagiellonian University

Professor Adam Dziadek, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Silesia

 

11:15 Coffee break

 

11:30-13:00 LIVE

Chair: Dominika Ruszkiewicz

 

Joanna Szwed (University of Warsaw), The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game: Hunting Games and Death in Robin Hood Narratives

Andrzej Wicher (University of Lodz), Avatars of Robin Hood in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien

Łukasz Neubauer (University of Szczecin), The Hooded Man as a Figure of Christ: A Close Look at the Final Episode of the Second Season of the HTV Robin Of Sherwood Series (1985)

 

13:00-14:30 Lunch break

 

14:30- 16:00 LIVE+ONLINE

Chair: Joanna Szwed

 

Berry Wilson (Independent scholar), The English Resistance Leader, Eadric Silvaticus: From Local Hero to Folk Hero LIVE

Iris Freitas Rodriguez (Federal University of Pelotas), The Grimms’ Revisions in Fairy Tales and Their Meritocratic Discourse ONLINE

Rachel Byrd (University of Houston), Becoming Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne: Adaption in the Robin Hood Ballad Tradition ONLINE

Michael Torregrossa (Bristol Community College), A Connecticut Yankee in Sherwood Forest? Exploring Time-Travel Adventures to/from the Age of Robin Hood

 

16:00 Coffee break

 

16:15-17:45 ONLINE+LIVE

Chair: Gayle Fallon

 

Sherron Lux (Independent scholar), Malleable Maid Marian ONLINE

Alex Kaufman (Ball State University), “Winterwood Bandit Neomedievalisms in Peter Tinniswood’s The Stirk Of Stirk (1974)” ONLINE

Kristin Noone (Irvine Valley College), “When Has A Dead Person Ever Lied To You?”: The Dark Comic Medievalism of Peter David’s Robyne of Sherwood LIVE

 

17:45 Break

 

18:00-19:30 LIVE+ONLINE

Chair: Łukasz Neubauer

 

Lorraine Stock (University of Houston), Free State Of Jones (2016) as Robin Hood Cinema: Medievalism and The American Civil War LIVE

Gayle Fallon (Rocky Mountain College),  “Gamelyn Spreyeth Holy Watere”: The Tale of Gamelyn and Medieval Sanctuary Law ONLINE

Jason Hogue (Texas A&M University-Kingsville), Greenwood Opening Variants in Robin Hood Ballads (Medieval To Early Modern) ONLINE

 

19:30 Dinner

27.06.2025

 

8:00-9:30 ONLINE

Chair: Anna Czarnowus

 

Stephen Basdeo (Elizabeth School of London), Joseph Frank (1773–1838): Editor of Joseph Ritson’s Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads (1795)

William Hoff (University of Melbourne), Robin Meets His Match: A New Reading of Sporting Challenge in Medieval and Early Modern Performance

Gillian Polack (Deakin University), Eustace the Monk Aka Mr Busket – The Life and Legend of a Scoundrel

 

9:30 Coffee break

 

9:45-11:15 LIVE+ONLINE

Chair: Joanna Szwed

 

Ewa Drab (University of Silesia), The Contemporary Reconfiguration of the Legend in Lavie Tidhar's Fantasy Reading of Robin Hood LIVE

Andrzej F. Hojarski (Jagiellonian University), Mimesis, Friendship, and Steinbeck’s Paisanos LIVE

Anna Czarnowus (University of Silesia)  and Joanna Mleczko (University of Silesia), Haiduks as Social Bandits LIVE

 

11:15 visit at the Early Printed Books Section of the Jagiellonian Library (ONLINE+LIVE)

 

14:00-15:30 lunch break

 

15:30-17:00 ONLINE

Chair: Dominika Ruszkiewicz

 

Whitney Snow (Midwestern State University), America’s Moll: How Virginia Hill Attracted Support from the Public While Being Pursued by The U.S. Government

Ann M. Martinez (Kent State University at Stark), Outlawed: When the Once Privileged Fight the System

Kunnan Muhammed Swalih (Institut Mohammed 6 Pour La Formation Des Imames des Mourchidines Et Mourchidates), Kayamkulam Kochunni: Myth, Legend, and Social Justice in South Indian Folklore

 

17:00 Coffee break

 

17:15- 18:45 ONLINE

Chair: Lorraine K. Stock

Arvind Thomas (University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles), Money Talks: Bonds of Narrative in A Gest Of Robyn Hode

Valerie Johnson (University of Montevallo), Neurodivergent Representation in Kelly Ann Jacobson’s Robin and Her Misfits (2023)  

Ananda Majumdar (University of Alberta), The Robin Hood Principle: Redistributive Justice and Its Modern Relevance

18:45-19:45 IARHS business meeting ONLINE

19:45 Closing of the conference