Program Overview
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8:30-9:00 am
Welcome / Opening Remarks.
9:00-10:15 am
Political Medievalism in the Age of the Internet: a Global Phenomena, Part One.
10:30-11:45 am
Massively-Multiplayer Medievalisms.
11:45-1:00 pm
Lunch.
1:00-2:15 pm
Musical Medievalisms.
2:30-3:45 pm
Gendered Medievalisms.
4:00-5:15 pm
Medievalism in Mass and Popular Culture.
5:15-6:00 pm
Break.
6:00-7:15 pm
Keynote: Power Play: The Politics of the Real Middle Ages. Helen Young, Deakin University, Australia.
8:30-9:45 am
Literary Medievalisms.
10:00-11:15 am
Medievalism Saves the Day: Studies in Medievalism and Comics.
11:30-12:45 pm
Race, Ethnicity, and Medievalism.
1:00-2:15 pm
Storyboarding Against MedEVILish Oppression—A Video Game Workshop.
2:30-3:45 pm
Medievalist Pastimes.
4:00-5:15 pm
Queered Medievalisms.
5:15-5:30 pm
Break.
5:30-5:40 pm
ISSM President’s Address: Medievalism 2020
Richard Utz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
5:45-6:00 pm
Break.
6:00-7:15 pm
Keynote: Rethinking Periodization and Neomedievalism: History, Technology, Media.
Dan Kline, University of Alaska, Anchorage, United States.
7:30-8:45 pm
ISSM Business Meeting.
9:00-10:15 am
Teaching and Pedagogy During Crisis: A Roundtable Discussion for the 35th International Conference on Medievalism.
10:30-11:45 am
Theatrical Medievalisms.
11:45-1:00 pm
Lunch Break.
1:00-2:15 pm
Political Medievalism in the Age of the Internet: a Global Phenomena, Part Two.
2:30-3:45 pm
Video Games, Myth, and Medievalism.
4:00-5:15 pm
Medievalism, Activism, and Pedagogy.
5:15-6:00 pm
Break.
6:00-7:15 pm
Keynote: Medievalism, Rules of the Game: From Geneviève de Brabant to “Princess Steel.”
Elizabeth Emery, Montclair State University, United States.
7:30-9:00 pm
First Annual ISSM Sock Puppet Costume Party.
Impossible Pastimes 