The International Association for Robin Hood Studies is sponsoring the following sessions at the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies, at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA, May 14-16, 2026.
Session 168 Virtual
"Affect and Feeling in the Robin Hood and Outlaw Tradition"
Sponsor: International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS)
Presider: Lorraine Kochanske Stock, Univ. of Houston
Organizer: Anna Czarnowus, Uniw. Śląski w Katowicach
- Merey Ynow: The Role of Affect in Robin Hood and the Potter; Jason C. Hogue, Texas A&M Univ.–Kingsville
- Strong Feelings in the Gest of Robyn Hode and Malory’s Morte Darthur; Jennifer Goodman Wollock, Independent Scholar
- Religious Feeling in A Lyttel Geste of Robyn Hode; Anna Czarnowus, Uniw. Śląski w Katowicach
- Revelatory Laughter in Medieval Outlaw Tales; Laura Gayle Fallon, Rocky Mountain College
- Bummer Robin Hood; Emily Youree, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette
Session 174 Hybrid
"Political Outlaws and Politics of Outlawry"
Sponsor: International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS)
Presider: Valerie B. Johnson, Univ. of Montevallo
Organizer: Valerie B. Johnson, Univ. of Montevallo
- Rival Kings, Rival Laws: Reading A Gest of Robyn Hode; Yi Yu, Cornell Univ.
- Blood and Thunder? Reframing Medieval Social Politics in the Robin Hood Tradition; William J. F. Hoff, Univ. of Melbourne
- What Wouldn’t Robin Do? The Outlaw as Intellectual Property in Conquests of The Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood; Kevin Moberly, Old Dominion Univ.; Brent Moberly, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington
Session 302 Hybrid
"Remembering the Middle Ages: Memories of the Medieval Across Time and Space (A Roundtable)"
Sponsors: Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture; International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB); International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS)
Presider: Kristin Noone, Irvine Valley College
Organizer: Alexander L. Kaufman, Ball State Univ.
Siân Echard, Univ. of British Columbia
Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College
- A roundtable discussion with Jennifer Goodman Wollock, Independent Scholar; Lorraine Kochanske Stock, Univ. of Houston; Anna Czarnowus, Uniw. Śląski w Katowicach; Averie Mercedes Basch, Univ. of New Mexico; Carl B. Sell, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Amanda Bohne, Univ. of Illinois–Chicago
