A Long-Delayed Irregular Post

ℑt's been too long, of course, but there're several pieces of (maybe not new) news to pass along.

First is that the schedule for the International Congress on Medieval Studies is out. The Society has events, listed below in US Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4):

• Thursday, 14 May 2026, 10:30am, "Off the Printed Prose Page: Multimodal Medievalisms," featuring Kristin Noone of Irvine Valley College and Society President Rachel Sikorski
• Thursday, 14 May 2026, 8:00pm, the AGM.
• Friday, 15 May 2026, 1:30pm, "Adaptations of Tolkien: Medieval Traces in Movies, Games and Other Transmedial Texts (A Roundtable),"featuring Sreyasi Dey of St. Xavier's University, Society Social Media Officer Geoffrey B. Elliott, independent scholar Marguerite Lamy, independent scholar Robin Anne Reid, President Sikorski, and Kris Swank of Pima Community College
• Friday, 15 May 2026, 3:30pm, " Bad Medieval/ism: Mis/Uses of the Medieval in Contemporary Fiction," featuring Rebecca R. Davis-Lock of the University of Central Oklahoma, Geoffrey B. Elliott, and Julie Loveland Swanstrom of Augustana University

All are available to online attendees; we hope to see you there!

Noted also are a couple of CFPs of interest. One comes via Society members Carols Robinson and Jamison and can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14K65E64VKF_T8DzY6lwCOD5FmNzcNBTL/view?usp=sharing. Proposals are due via linked form on 1 March 2026.

Society member Michael Torregrossa reports another one here, https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/scandia/announcement/view/1076, on post-medieval reception of Vikings and Norse myths. Proposals are due on 15 September 2026 (a common date for these kinds of things) via https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/scandia.

We look forward to seeing what comes!