Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Friday, April 12, 2019
Outlaw Bodies at the University of Montevallo
The 12th biennial conference of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies will be held at the University of Montevallo on 14 and 15 May.
The conference is fully funded by a flat-rate registration fee of $100. To register, please click the following link: http://commerce.cashnet.com/montevalloadv?itemcode=ADV-OB
The form will ask you to provide the following information:
- Standard billing information (names, addresses, etc.)
- Information for registration (names for name tags, university affiliations, pronouns, contact email addresses, mobile phones if applicable)
- Dietary requirements (please select one of three options, and then also list food allergies or sensitivities - if you have none, enter "none" or "N/A".
- Housing needs per night (Ramsey Hall is $12.50 per night but includes NO BEDDING; if you do not wish to bring your own bedding, you will be asked to pay a flat fee of $20 and we will purchase bedding for you - and donate it to a local emergency shelter after the conference)
If you have any difficulties, please email Dr. Valerie Johnson at vjohnso6@montevallo.edu.
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
IARHS at Kalamazoo 2019 (9-12 May 2019)
The International Association for Robin Hood
Studies is sponsoring three sessions at the 2019 International Congress
on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo (ICMS 2019), 9-12 May 2019. The session themes
are: "Rhetoric of Resistance," "Social Bandits," and
"Animal Crime." See below for details about each session.
CFP: ICMS 2019
"Rhetoric of Resistance"
Though banished from society for real or alleged
crimes, the deeds of outlaws are celebrated in popular narratives and ballads.
Marginalized figures, they exist on the fringes of civilization in an
adversarial relationship with the representatives of the law. In this session,
we will address the political status of the Green Wood as a rhetorical concept
of "safe harbor," a refuge for the displaced, the ostracized, and the
dispossessed. We welcome papers on medieval narratives and ballads of such
celebrated outlaws as Robin Hood, Hereward, Eustace the Monk, and Fouke Fitz
Waryn, among others, and aim to address the ethical, political, and ecological
issues raised by the rhetoric of this body of medieval literature. Collectively,
the session and its participants will consider how outlaw rhetoric comments
upon the justice system and its representatives, thereby formulating a medieval
rhetoric of resistance.
This is a paper session (15-20 minute papers)
for the 2019 International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. Please
send abstracts (150-250 words) and a completed PIF form (see links below) to
Lydia Kertz at lydia[dot]kertz@gmail.com with a subject line "Rhetoric of
Resistance" by September 15th, 2018.
CFP: ICMS 2019 “Social
Bandits”
The idea of the social bandit, aka the good
thief or the noble robber, reaches back millennia and is found around the
globe. The social bandit, whether an individual or a group, historical or
fictional, is seen by a segment of a society as protecting and assisting them.
Even an historical social bandit may develop into myth or legend, and the
legend lives and changes long after the originator is dead. The legend of a fictional social bandit
likewise shifts over time; as Brian Alderson states that while many years ago
he wrote that “’Every generation gets the Robin Hood that it deserves,’” he now
believes that, “Every generation surely creates for itself the Robin Hood that
it needs” (Forward to Kevin Carpenter’s 1995 Robin Hood: The Many Faces of that
Celebrated English Outlaw, p. 9). This could be said not only of Robin
Hood but of all fictional and even historical social bandits who are perceived
as robbing the rich to help the poor in some way or other.
This session seeks 15- to 20-minute papers on
any aspect of the social bandit, with special consideration given to papers
focusing on the medieval and early modern periods. It is also worth
remembering that one person’s social bandit is another’s common criminal; consider
the viewpoint of the Sheriff of Nottingham, for example, or other antagonists,
as well as that of people kindly disposed towards the outlaw.
Please send a short proposal and completed PIF
form (see links below) to Sherron Lux at sherron_lux@yahoo.com BY noon (Central
Time) on Wednesday 12 September 2018.
CFP: ICMS 2019 “Animal
Crime”
Outlaws and outlawry are commonly associated
with the human; yet, throughout the medieval period, animals were both the
subject of crime, as when they were stolen, maimed, or killed, and its
perpetrator; for example, the sow and piglets put on trial for murder for
killing a 5-year old boy in Savigny, France in 1457. Documented legal trials
from a variety of cultures featuring pigs, goats, horses, dogs and cows suggest
that medieval understandings of the moral agency, ethics, and politics of
outlaws and outlawry was decidedly not simply a human affair, but extended to
our animal counterparts. Papers might consider the historically-documented or
literary or textual (re)imagining of a trial or set of trials featuring an
animal or animals; how animals interact with outlaw humans; the moral agency of
animals on trial; the ethics of putting animals on trial; the ethics of
outlawing animals; how animals can be constructed as outlaws philosophically,
legally, or by other means, how and where animals appear in laws, the treatment
of animal outlaws, animal exiles, and similar.
Send abstracts and a completed PIF form (see
links below) to Dr. Melissa Ridley Elmes at MElmes@lindenwood.edu by 15
September, 2018.
2019 Medieval Congress
Participant Information Form (PIF):
or see https://www.wmich.edu/medievalcongress/submissions
for a form in Microsoft Word
Thursday, July 26, 2018
CFP: Outlaw Bodies, 12th Biennial Conference
The International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS)
invites abstract submissions for its Twelfth Biennial Conference, to be held at
the University of Montevallo (Montevallo, AL) from 14-17 May 2019. The theme of
the conference is “Outlaw Bodies.”
The term “outlaw” is applied to a broad range of entities,
in ever expanding contexts. Functionally, an outlaw has become anything that is
outside a norm, whether real, perceived, or desired – but the designation of
outlaw can have lasting and tangible consequences. The Outlaw Bodies conference,
on behalf of the IARHS, invites papers, panel proposals, round table topics,
and seminars that discuss those consequences. The IARHS also welcomes and
invites papers treating topics and presenting research on outlawry, the Robin
Hood tradition, and social banditry.
The conference seeks to center a discussion of the Robin
Hood tradition and outlawry through a focus on bodies and tangibility: human,
ecological, legal, and social. Human bodies can be branded, marked, and punished
for outlawry. Ecological bodies such as swamps, forests, and wastelands are
often figured as outlaws and have traditionally been seen as both sheltering and
generating outlaws. Legal bodies, whether codes of law or institutions of law, generate
punitive force against outlaw bodies. Social bodies defined, celebrated, or
suppressed by social constructs including gender and sexuality. Robin Hood
Studies and medievalism have begun to move toward the center of academic
conventions, giving up their outlaw status. The November 2018 release of Robin Hood (dir. Otto Bathurst), with an
additional half dozen treatments of the tradition apparently in development,
demonstrates the truism that Robin Hood is an outsider hero, a figure of
apparent rebellion and counter culture that is a reliable blockbuster film
subject, as well as offering consumers a rich collection of television, novels,
poetry, political iconography, and other ephemera. The new film’s outlaw bodies
(whether human, ecological, legal, or social) offer new opportunities to
explore the consequences of embodiment within the movie and for the Robin Hood
tradition more broadly. We therefore explicitly invite papers that explore
issues of race, gender, sexuality, power structures, and ableism.
Please send proposals of no more than 300 words to Dr.
Valerie Johnson (vjohnso6@montevallo.edu)
by 2 November 2018.
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