CFP: IARHS-Sponsored Session, Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, November 6-8, 2025, University of Cincinnati

 

CFP: IARHS-Sponsored Session, Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, November 6-8, 2025, University of Cincinnati

Proposed Sponsored Session Title: “Confluences in the Robin Hood Tradition”

The theme of SEMA’s 50th annual conference is “Confluences”:

https://southeasternmedieval.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/sema-2025-cfp/

With that theme in mind, the IARHS welcomes abstracts for formal paper sessions to be considered for 1-2 possible sessions at SEMA’s in-person conference. 

• How does the Robin Hood tradition explore political, environmental, geographical, natural confluences in its body of literature?
•  In what ways does the Robin Hood tradition merge disparate or similar cultures, ideologies, texts to form something new?  
• In what ways is the Robin Hood tradition fixated upon or enamored with concepts of hybridity of physical, ideological, or textual bodies/forms?  
• "Confluences" suggests movement, which results in an overlapping, a layering, and/or a merging of objects or forms. As such, in what ways is the Robin Hood tradition (its body of literature, its various media texts) reliant upon existing or nascent textual conjunctions, accretions, convergences, and meetings not only to sustain itself but also to create new works?  

Please send to Alex Kaufman (alkaufman@bsu.edu) by June 25, 2025 the following items in a Word Document or a PDF for consideration for an IARHS-sponsored session at the SEMA Conference:

1. Your name

2. Your email

3. Your affiliation

4. A 250-word abstract

5. 3-5 keywords

6. If you will need technology to present at the conference