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Call for Papers: Afterlives: Reinvention, Reproduction, and Reception

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Posted by: California State University, Long Beach
Deadline: Sun, June 1st, 2025

 

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at CSU, Long Beach, in collaboration with Forest Lawn Museum, invites submissions for the biennial conference, Afterlives: Reinvention, Reproduction, and Reception to be held November 15, 2015 at Forest Lawn Museum.

We invite scholars from any discipline to approach the ways in which texts, objects, and images of the ancient, medieval, and Renaissance past have been reimagined, repurposed, reconstructed, and reproduced in later periods. Papers that address popular culture, such as contemporary fantasy literature, film, and television, gaming, popular and folk music, theme parks and other immersive amusement sites, AI-generated reconstructions, historical reenactments, costume design, and cultural or folkloric festivals, are welcome. Studies on medievalisms and scholarship on reproductions of antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance are also encouraged, including investigations of architectural reconstructions, medieval and Renaissance narratives of antiquity, the role of medievalism in museums, and non-European perspectives on reinventions of the past. 

We welcome proposals for twenty-minute papers as well as planned panels of three papers pertinent to the conference themes and their manifestations anywhere in the world. We also welcome proposals for roundtable discussions. 

The deadline for all abstracts, roundtables, and panel submissions is June 1, 2025. 

Individual paper submissions should include:

- abstract of approximately 150 words contact information and one-page CV 

Panel Submissions should include:

- contact information and one-page CV for organizer / chair  names and abstracts (c. 150 words) for all presenters; one-page CVs of all presenters; short (c. 150 word) description of the panel itself 

Roundtable Submissions should include:

- abstract of approximately 150 words; contact information and one-page CV for each participant

Please send all application materials to: afterlives@csulb.edu

 

 

Posted on Wed, March 19th, 2025
Expires on Sun, June 1st, 2025

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