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CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS

THE MIDDLE AGES IN THE MODERN WORLD

22-24 JUNE 2027, OXFORD

The 6th international MAMO conference will explore the ways in which the Middle Ages have been imagined, invoked, forged, refashioned, used and abused in modernity. The conference will take place at Lincoln College, Oxford (UK). 

We invite proposals for papers, panels, workshops and other events, on aspects of the entire Middle Ages (c. 500-1500, with questions of periodisation welcome). Proposals might consider, but are not limited to the topics of: 

• Modern media: literature, films, theatre, visual art, games, podcasts, etc;
• Translations, creative adaptations, retellings, creative criticism;
• Editions, printing, and the material text; the history of scholarship;
• Pedagogy and teaching with/as medievalism;
• Performance and re-enactment of the medieval;
• Local, national, and global medievalisms; the built environment; Oxford and medievalism;
• Inclusive medievalisms;
• Questions of ethics, morals, and responsibilities; medievalist activism.

The deadline for proposals is 30 September 2026.

Please send abstracts of c. 250 words, with a brief author bio, to themamoconference@gmail.com

CONFIRMED PLENARIES INCLUDE

SPECIAL EVENT: A film screening and conversation with Robert Eggers, director of The Witch (2015), The Northman (2022), Nosferatu (2024), and Werwulf (2026)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Professors Carolyne Larrington (Oxford) and Elaine Treharne (Stanford)

KEYNOTE ROUNDTABLE: Translation and adaptation with Matthew Francis, Bernard O’Donoghue, and Professor Eva von Contzen (Freiburg)