Medieval Association of the Midwest

07/24/2026

The Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM) is sponsoring the following nine sessions for the 62nd ICMS, Kalamazoo, May 13-15, 2027.

All proposals must be submitted through the ICMS’s Confex system.

To read the descriptions of each session and to submit a proposal, please click on the link to each session below. If you have specific questions for session organizers, including the delivery mode of individual sessions (in-person, virtual, hybrid), their names are listed in the link to their sessions.

Apocryphilia: Apocalypse Now
https://icms.confex.com/icms/2027/prelim.cgi/Session/8479

Experimental and Experiential Pedagogy: Crafting and Performance in the Classroom (A Roundtable)
https://icms.confex.com/icms/2027/prelim.cgi/Session/8518

Finding the Medieval in Medievalism: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Green Knight, and Connecting Past and Present in the Classroom (A Roundtable)
https://icms.confex.com/icms/2027/prelim.cgi/Session/8762

Heroes and Villains
https://icms.confex.com/icms/2027/prelim.cgi/Session/8711

Modern Medievalisms: Pilgrimage, Journey, and Space(s) in Contemporary Culture
https://icms.confex.com/icms/2027/prelim.cgi/Session/8609

Mysticism, Transcendence, and Embodiment: Medieval Cosmologies and Their Pathways to the Twenty-First Century (A Roundtable)
https://icms.confex.com/icms/2027/prelim.cgi/Session/8445

The Natural World in Medieval Thought: Animals, Real and Imagined
https://icms.confex.com/icms/2027/prelim.cgi/Session/8498

Theorizing Medievalism: Imagining the Medieval in Contemporary Media
https://icms.confex.com/icms/2027/prelim.cgi/Session/8719

Viking Beauty
https://icms.confex.com/icms/2027/prelim.cgi/Session/8832

06/11/2026

Please see below and share widely this CFP for the upcoming MAM/MAMA/IMA/Newberry Library workshop for graduate students, lecturers, and others:

NEXT STEPS: The MAM and IMA boards will then select workshop participants from the proposal pool no later than July 30, 2026,

12/15/2025

Dear MAM Members,

The Editors of Enarratio are pleased to announce that Volume 25 (2025) is now published and live at The Ohio State University's Knowledge Bank:

https://kb.osu.edu/collections/92117c61-9682-4f47-863e-f9d0b347720d

For future submissions to the journal, please visit the MAM's website: https://mmaotm.wildapricot.org/Enarratio

We hope that you enjoy this most recent issue and that you all have a very good holiday season and New Year!

Very best wishes,

Emilee Howland and Alexander L. Kaufman, Editors of Enarratio

08/19/2025

Registration is now open for the MAM/MAMA/IMA/Newberry Library sponsored conference Medieval + Monsters at Dominican University, October 17-18, 2025.

https://www.dom.edu/medieval-monsters-conference

05/18/2025

From MAM member Kristin Bovaird-Abbo:

A good friend of mine, Joseph Michael Sommers, is editing a peer-reviewed collection of essays, on J.R.R. Tolkien, and I’m trying to help him recruit authors.

The book is under contract with Salem Press, and its intended audience will be college students and early career academics. Each essay should be approximately 5,000 words, and he is looking for a first draft at the end of August/ September 2025.

He has ideas as to topics, but he tells me that all topics are in the table so long as they can be read and understood by the audience. Here’s a list of some possible topics:

· Bio essay

· Criticism essay

· The Inklings

· Mythopoeia

· Tolkien fan culture/ online

· Adaptations of his work

· Poetry and lesser-known work

· Posthumous JRRT through Christopher Tolkien

· Love? Music? Lore?

· The dangers of power

· The cultural inheritors of JRRT

IN PARTICULAR: The editor needs people to write on the following topics:

· Tolkien and religion

· Tolkien and Lewis

· The effects of WWI on JRRT

If you are a graduate student who wants to make $200 writing a 2K biography of JRRT, Joe would also love to hear from you!

Joe can be reached at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).

01/17/2025

CFP: Medieval + Monsters:
MAM, MAMA, and IMA Joint Conference with The Newberry Library
October 17 & 18, 2025

https://www.dom.edu/medieval-monsters-conference

11/05/2024

Volume 24 of Enarratio is now published! If you would like to contribute to the journal, either with an essay or a book review, please contact Alex Kaufman: [email protected]

Remembering Ebroin, Mayor of the Palace, in the Carolingian Period and Beyond Sheehan, Ryan J. pp. 1-20 Description | Full Text PDF

09/22/2024

Great conference - thanks MAMA; MAM members had a great time. So good to see so many graduate students, always good to appreciate the work of our colleagues.

09/22/2024

Great plenary- thanks MAMA!

Dr William J Purkis, Professor of History at the University of Birmingham, gave plenary entitled: “‘The First Time People were Signed with the Cross’: Towards a History of Crusading as Practice” at the University of Missouri-Kansas City

09/21/2024

Great MAMA/MAM/MMHC conference - thank you! And, wow Kansas City!