Call for Papers: 2023 Summer Salon Virtual Conference, PROPOSALS Due April 15, 2023

Call for Papers

2023 Summer Salon Virtual Conference

PROPOSALS Due April 15, 2023

Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the SWPACA Summer Salon conference to take place June 8-9, 2023, virtually! One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. New this year is the Medievalisms area (see below)!

Registration information for the conference is available at on the Registration Page.

How to Get Started:

  1. Look through the SWPACA Subject Area List for where your research ideas will fit best. One proposal (to one Area) per year, per person.

  2. Head over to our Conference Management System to create an account and submit your proposal. Choose the Subject Area under the “Topic” drop down menu.

  3. After submitting a proposal, you’ll receive an automated confirmation of the system’s receipt (not the same as a conference acceptance!).

  4. By the end of April, you should receive another email with the status of your proposal.

  5. If accepted, return to the Conference Management System and register for the conference. The official conference schedule will be published by mid-May.

  6. For more information about submitting proposals, visit our FAQ page.

In addition, please check out the organization’s peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, at http://journaldialogue.org.

We look forward to receiving your submissions!


Medievalisms

Amber Dunai, PhD, Texas A&M University – Central Texas, adunai@tamuct.edu

The Medievalisms area invites paper and session proposals on any and all topics relevant to medievalism, which is described by Tison Pugh and Angela Jane Weisl in Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present (2013) as “the art, literature, scholarship, avocational pastimes, and sundry forms of entertainment and culture that turn to the Middle Ages for their subject matter or inspiration, and in doing so…comment on the artist’s contemporary sociocultural milieu” (1). Medievalism can be approached in many ways, including in terms of media (e.g., literature, architecture, cinema, music, games), chronology (e.g., Early Modern, Romantic, Victorian), geography, and from any number of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives (e.g., cultural studies, media studies, race and ethnic studies, gender and queer studies). Presentations that engage with current conversations in the field are particularly welcome.

Examples of topics relevant to the Medievalisms area include (but are not limited to): 

  • Literary Medievalisms

  • Cinematic Medievalisms

  • Medievalisms in Art, Architecture, Music, and Performance

  • Medievalisms in Gaming, LARPing, and Role-Playing

  • Medievalisms of Place and Space

  • Gender, Sexuality, Race, Ethnicity, Class, etc. in Medievalisms

  • Global Medievalisms

  • Queer Medievalisms

  • Political Medievalisms

  • Medievalisms in the Classroom

To Submit, a proposal to the Medievalisms area: https://register.southwestpca.org/southwestpca

For more information, http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/?fbclid=IwAR2k3rDuBnb9bW9Jm5S--S0y2rUdzGf_Vlz2XNXvoR00bvrGRixLoEBUiRk