CFP: IARHS-Sponsored Session “The Material Relevance of Robin Hood, ca. 1500-1900” Leeds IMC 2022

 

“The Material Relevance of Robin Hood, ca. 1500-1900”, Leeds IMC, 4-7 July 2022.

This session examines (re)presentations of Robin Hood in the past, from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century.  It centres on the way in which creators of Robin Hood in image, performance, and story sought to make their subject relevant to their own contemporary audiences, and the nature of the relevance they presented.  It also asks why these authors/creators used the Robin Hood persona/image rather than any other legendary, mythological, literary, or cultural icons from amongst a wide variety of other options that were available to available to them. Did he ever move from the marginal to the mainstream?

Papers are sought, of no longer than 20 minutes’ duration, on the above theme in relation to any period from the Middle Ages to the end of the nineteenth century, inclusive. 

Please send a working title and an abstract of 100 words to Dr Lesley Coote by email at l.a.coote@associate.hull.ac.uk or coote081@gmail.com  by  20^th September 2020.

CFP: IARHS-Sponsored Session, “Boundary-Breaking in the Theatrical Robin Hood Tradition,” IMC Leeds, July 4-7, 2022

 

CFP: IARHS-Sponsored Session, “Boundary-Breaking in the Theatrical Robin Hood Tradition,” IMC Leeds, July 4-7, 2022

The Robin Hood tradition has a history of performance and theatricality. In addition to the medieval ballads, Robin Hood stories were conveyed using elements of theatricality, including early plays performed at May games, Whitsun ales, and revels; Early Modern stage drama; 18^th- and 19^th-century sung broadside ballads, Christmas plays, and operas; modern dramatic pieces; staged depictions of the outlaw in 19^th and 20^th-century operas, pantomimes, burlesques; and film. Theatricality, broadly construed, employs elements of music, stagecraft, or scripting.  This session seeks papers that explore any aspect(s) of how theatricality has broken boundaries to deliver the Robin Hood tradition to audiences. Send electronic abstracts of 250 words to Lorraine Kochanske Stock, lstock@uh.edu, by September 1, 2021.

CFP: IARHS Sponsored Roundtable Session, SEMA, Spartanburg, SC, Nov. 11-13, 2021

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Robin Hood Games – Past and Present:  A Roundtable"

Sponsored by the International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS)

Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA) 2021:  In-Person Conference, No Remote Presentations

Spartanburg, South Carolina

November 11-13

Hosted by Wofford College

 

Games have long featured in the Robin Hood tradition: some early plays appear to end in dancing and interactive fight-games; shooting competitions feature in early ballads like The Lytell Gest of Robyn Hode; the outlaws consistently play “truth or consequences” with their victims. The archery tournament, drawn from the Gest and popularized by Walter Scott in Ivanhoe (1818), is key to numerous novels, plays, comics, and films. The outlaw appears in board and card games, video games, and slot machines. The thrill of “playing” Robin Hood also spans time, place, and social status: from troubadours to King Henry VIII to re-enactments to modern cosplay and theme parks, audiences have long enjoyed immersive storytelling and the experience of “being” Robin Hood, as well.

The International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS) seeks proposals for short papers or presentations, suitable for a round table discussion, on any aspect of Robin Hood games and/or gaming. The session will be held during the 2021 Southeastern Medieval Association conference (in-person; no remote presentations) at Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC (Nov. 11-13). Please send a 150- to 250-word abstract or proposal, with any technology requests, to Sherron Lux at sherron_lux@yahoo.com by 12 noon (Central US Time) June 20, 2021.

CFP: IARHS Sponsored Sessions for Leeds IMC 2021

CFP: IARHS Sponsored Sessions for Leeds IMC 2021

5-8th July, University of Leeds, UK

Session deadline 30 September 2020 (please send to Lesley Coote by September 20th to be considered for a session). Email address for submissions is: L.A.Coote@associate.hull.ac.uk, or coote081@gmail.com

Conference Theme: CLIMATES

The following topics have been selected from a list supplied by the IMC Leeds organising committee, and the full list is available on the Conference website. The two strands provide different emphases to cover the interests of IARHS members, and could form the basis for a series of session proposals. Each year the Leeds IMC board sanctions anything up to 5 sessions from research groups, and so it should be possible to present more than one ‘strand’ with success.

The suggestions in the brackets below each topic in Strand I represent a clarification of how these topics might be applied; they are inspirational guides only. Strand II needs very little additional clarification.

Any period may be covered, and any form of outlawry or rebellion.
(The full CFP can be viewed on the Leeds IMC website: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk)
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Outlaws, Rebels and Climates
Strand I: Climates of Rebellion and Revolt

Natural and other landscapes/settings as dynamic spaces (relationship of subject matter to natural and unnatural settings, their use and manipulation in literature, history and culture)

Agriculture, pastoralism, modification of landscapes, exploitation of resources, inequality, colonialism (‘issues’ and social/political considerations, relationship of subject matter/histories to social and natural change and transformation)

Environmental determinism, medieval histories of modern inequalities (‘isms’, post/colonial issues, ‘read back’ into the past, past origins of, or comparisons between then and now)

Societal organisation, hierarchy, law-making, governance (law, social organisation, class issues, legal and societal manifestations thereof)

Applying paradigms of adaption, resilience, and collapse (relation of subject matter to social and other transformations, its own transformations)

‘Climates’ of opinion, thought, feeling (medieval and later, and how they impact the subject matter)

‘Climates’ and interregional connectivities, interdependencies and disconnections (transmission of material, ideas, images and forms)

Fluctuations in migration, mobility, trade, exchange, and transmission (transmission and mobility, geographical or temporal, relation of the subject matter to economic issues)

Preservation of material remains amid growing climate and societal instability (issues surrounding material remains, their preservation and re/presentation, or not)

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Strand II: Medievalist Outlaw Fantasies and the Elements

Medieval concepts of ‘climes’ and ‘climate’

Cosmologies, world views, natural or supernatural causation

Medieval enquiry into weather, seasons, monsoon patterns

Astronomical and astrological observations and predictions

Agriculture, pastoralism, modification of landscapes, exploitation of resources, inequality, colonialism (includes prognostications, witchcraft/elemental magic, medicinal implications and use of elements)

Environmental determinism, medieval histories of modern inequalities

Seas, oceans, rivers, monsoon, floods as dynamic spaces