ℑn an attempt to get back to posting often enough that it makes sense for people to look at what's going on here, the Society is pleased to make note of the following:
The Society's call for papers for the upcoming 2026 International Congress on Medieval Studies remains live. Details remain here: https://talesaftertolkien.blogspot.com/2025/07/getting-going-for-kzoo2026.html. We'd love to have your submission for any of what we have going, and we look forward to seeing you at the 'zoo!
Other calls for papers have come in, as well, in which Society members might be interested. Society Member Michael Torregrossa has Medieval Classics (Re)Illustrated: A Medieval Comics Project Teamup (hybrid): https://icms.confex.com/icms/2026/prelim.cgi/Session/7242, which he describes as
Medieval literature has long been popular with comics creators as the source for stories and characters, which have been adapted, appropriated, and/or transformed within a variety of comics. In this co-sponsored session we seek, primarily, to unite the disciplines of Comics Studies and Medieval(ism) Studies at large to explore the history of comics adaptations, appropriations, and transformations of medieval literature for their value to our teaching and research. In addition, we hope panelists will also address how these comics can shed insight into a creator’s personal connections to the medieval past and/or their readers’ reception of the content.
Michael also has The Medieval Comics Project Bibliographies: Resources for Finding and Accessing Comics and Critiques (A Workshop) (virtual): https://icms.confex.com/icms/2026/prelim.cgi/Session/7246. For this one, he writes
This workshop session will highlight the recently launched Medieval Comics Project Bibliographies (https://tinyurl.com/MedievalComicsProjectBiblios), an open-access resource devoted to spreading knowledge of comics based on medieval subjects and furthering discussion and debate of this material.
And one more from Michael:
Magics, Marvels, Metamorphoses, and Monsters: Horrors of the Medieval Past, Present, and Future (Virtual)
Co-sponsored by Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association, Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, International Society for the Study of Medievalism
Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College, and June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University
Medieval art, culture, and literature contain many elements we view as fantastical today. Images and stories are filled with displays of magic, appearances of marvels, occurrences of metamorphoses, and threats of monsters. All of these are now considered features of the horror genre, but did readers in the Middle Ages perceive them as such? Has our view of the preternatural changed so radically from the medieval era to now? In what ways have these aspects been transformed over time and in new places? We seek to answer these and similar questions in this session designed to unite medieval(ism)ists with colleagues across Monster Studies.
Possible topics
Demons, dragons, Faerie, gargoyles, giants, the Green Knight, Grendelkin, magic, Melusine, Merlin (his origins/abilities), Morgan le Fay, the Questing Beast, revenants, sea monsters, transformations, vampires, werewolves, wild folk, witches, wonders of the East.
Please post paper submissions into the Confex site using the direct link https://icms.confex.com/icms/2026/prelim.cgi/Session/7279.
Do send any questions to the organizers at popular.preternaturaliana@gmail.com. Submissions are due no later than 15 September 2025.
Please be aware that those accepted to the panel must register for the conference in order to present. Past registration costs can be viewed at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/registration. The International Congress on Medieval Studies does offer limited funding as travel awards and subsidized registration costs; details are available at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/awards.
For more information about the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association, do check out our website Popular Preternaturaliana: Studying the Monstrous in Popular Culture: https://popularpreternaturaliana.blogspot.com/.
For more information about the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, do check out our website Mass Mediævalisms: The Middle Ages of Popular Culture: https://medievalinpopularculture.blogspot.com/.
For more information about the International Society for the Study of Medievalism, do check out our website at https://medievalisms.org/ and consider signing up for our listserv (details at https://medievalisms.org/issm-listserv/). [Note that the Society itself is on the listserv.]
Leah Haught brought to attention the following:
Medievalists Design Games is a collaborative and interdisciplinary event that will bring together specialists in medieval studies and experts in modern board game design on UChicago campus in December. Participants will explore the possibilities for design in the classroom and in the public sphere and will work together to prototype new games that reflect their expertise.
For more information, please visit https://medievalistsdesign.games. Be sure to enter your email for very occasional updates about the event. If you'd like to attend, please register here: https://forms.gle/v7ZouidpTZ5tQMrDA.
There's clearly a lot of the kind of thing the Society likes to do going on, and we encourage you--and people you know--to be part of it.
One other thing: the Society is always looking for guest contributors; some good stuff has come from our guest authors and their work! Email talesaftertolkien@gmail.com with a pitch or a full piece, ranging from short-form scholarship to rewatches and rereads to reviews to longer-form commentaries. What you've got, we want to see!
Addendum: This was also pointed out and may be of interest:
Inspired by the Medieval Academy Fellows Speaker Series, the Lone Medievalist is attempting to build a Database of individuals willing to give virtual and/or in-person presentations on a variety of topics. We hope to provide this information to our Lone Medievalists (and the rest of the community) so that they have a wider range of willing experts to call on for their teaching and community outreach needs. This list will be made available on our website and on our listserv.
Note: You do not need to be a Lone Medievalist to add yourself to the Database! SO in addition to signing up yourself, please share this widely with your networks to help us build the Database!
To add yourself to the Database, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/RadcQHfjMGUsLTHe
As the Database develops, it can be accessed on our website here (be patient as it populates - come back frequently!): https://lonemedievalist.hcommons.org/speaker-database/
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