by Candace Barrington
We’ve heard from conference organizers–Professor Sarah Salih (KCL), Dr Josh Davies (KCL), Dr Rebecca Menmuir (Oxford)–that the much-missed Middle Ages in the Modern World (MAMO) biennial conference is being revived after a covid hiatus. In its 2025 iteration, this multidisciplinary conference on medievalism in the post-Middle Ages will also incorporate the biennial ‘London Chaucer’ conference as a dedicated thematic strand.
MAMO 2025 will be held at King’s College London, Strand Campus, on 24-26 June.
Here are the details for submitting a proposal.
Proposals for the 5th MAMO conference are invited for papers, panels, linked panels, readings and events about the ways in which the Middle Ages have been received, imagined, invoked, relived, used, abused, and refashioned in the modern and contemporary worlds. Creative and scholarly work from any discipline on any aspect of medievalism is welcome, but we are particularly interested in addressing:
- Inclusivity and exclusivity; the struggle to claim the medieval; medievalist activis
- Relationships between the medievalisms of scholarship, creative work, heritage and cultural industries
- Performance and re-enactment of the medieval
- Continuities: living and working with medieval buildings and institutions
- Local, national and global medievalisms; medievalisms of London
- The history and current state of medievalism studies
- Chaucer reception in all forms from the manuscripts to the present day
Please send any proposals or queries to themamoconference@gmail.com by 13 January 2025. If you are submitting proposals for single or linked panels, please consider diversity when selecting participants.