IARHS at the 53rd ICMS, Kalamazoo, Western Michigan University, May 10-13, 2018

The International Association for Robin Hood Studies sponsored two sessions at the Fifty-Third International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University on May 10-13, 2018.

Session 68: “Multicultural, Multimedia Outlaws,” Sponsored by the International Association for Robin Hood Studies. Organizer: Lorraine Kochanske Stock (University of Houston). Presider: Alexander L. Kaufman (Ball State University)

1. Leigh Smith (East Stroudsburg University), "The Merry Men of Merry Mount: Robin Hood as Anti-Puritain in the New World"
2. Lorraine Kochanske Stock, "The Medieval Icelandic Saga Outlaw in Film: Útlaginn"
3. Anna Czarnowus (University of Silesia), "Landscape and Ideology in the Robin of Sherwood TV Series and Agnieszka Holland’s Film Janosik: A True Story"
4. Michael Evans (Delta College), "From Hong Gildong to Gaksital: Korean Robin Hoods?"

Session 115: “Oral Tactics of Medieval Outlaw Literature,” Sponsored by the International Association for Robin Hood Studies. Organized: Lesley Coote (University of Hull) and Alexander L. Kaufman (Ball State University). Presider: Alexander L. Kaufman

1. Lesley Coote, "Mobile Cultures, Mobile Texts"
2. Dean A. Hoffman (Deep Education Institute), "'Rash Speech and Hote Contention': Enditement in the Sloan Life of Robin Hood"
3. Valerie B. Johnson (University of Montevallo), "Sounding the Horn: Outlaw Tales in a Digital Soundscape and English Classroom"

Members and friends of the IARHS had a festive feast at Hunan Gardens on Saturday. As always, it was wonderful to catch up with old friends and to meet new hoodies.

Clockwise, from the foreground: Lorraine Kochanske Stock, Michael Evans, Kristin Bovaird-Abbo, Valerie B. Johnson, Leigh Smith, Louise Daileigh, Thomas Hahn, Travis Kane, Sadie Hash, Lesley Coote, Anna Czarnowus, Carrie Griffin, Alexander L. Kaufman, Lydia Kertz, Henry Greek, and Sherron Lux

IARHS CFP: ICMS, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10-13, 2018

The International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS) is sponsoring two sessions at the 53^rd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Please see below for session details and submission information.

  1. Multicultural, Multimedia Outlaws (Session of Papers)

The outlaw figure is a universal cross-cultural phenomenon. This session solicits papers that analyze adaptations of narratives about outlaws, whether literary or historical, male or female, from any period (medieval through contemporary), in any medium (ballad, saga, drama, novel, young adult fiction, films, television, comic books, opera, music, to name a few) from any location (Britain, Europe, America(s), Australia, Asia, ranging from the Merry Men to Icelandic outlaws, Ned Kelly, Pancho Villa, and Moll Flanders.

Please send 300-word abstracts, a brief bios, and completed Participant Information Forms to Lorraine Kochanske Stock (lstock@uh.edu) by September 1, 2017.

  2. Oral Tactics of Medieval Outlaw Literature (Session of Papers)

This formal session of papers explores the modes of writing and of performance (and their interconnectedness) that exist within medieval outlaw tales. From the The Outlaw’s Song of Trailbaston to the late-medieval rhymes, plays, games, and “talkings” of Robin Hood, medieval outlaw tales are, like the medieval lyric, ad hoc, improvisatory, and situational works or literature. This session, inspired by Ingrid Nelson’s recent study Lyric Tactics, explores the ways in which the religious, societal, political, and manuscript contexts inform the genre, form, vernacular language, semantics, and voice of a medieval outlaw tale. 
 

Please send 300-word abstracts, a brief bios, and completed Participant Information Forms to Lesley Coote (L.A.Coote@hull.ac.uk) and Alexander L. Kaufman (akaufman@aum.edu) by September 1, 2017.

Here is a link to the ICMS’s Participant Information Form:

http://www.wmich.edu/medievalcongress/submissions