More Calls for Papers!

ℑn addition to the call for papers for #kzoo2027 (to which we encourage submissions, of course), the Society has been made aware of another pair of CFPs that might be of interest to members. The first of them comes via ISSM from Laura Moncion and Dr Alicia Smith, who write

Workshop Series: Call for Participants - Saints Outside Hagiography 2026-2027
We invite expressions of interest to participate in the Saints Outside Hagiography workshop series 2026–2027. Our group examines how saints and holy people are represented outside the classic form of the single-text hagiography.

Sessions so far have examined texts including: visual art, poetry, mortuary rolls, chronicles, liturgical texts, didactic literature, and objects. We offer an informal, work-in-progress format focused on discussion of primary sources and key methodological questions in the study of saints.

Meetings consist of 1-2 brief presentations, discussing a text or object precirculated along with a short description and the speaker’s guiding questions. If you have a source related to sanctity that you would like to discuss, please get in touch with Laura Moncion (laura.moncion@philosophie.uni-tuebingen.de) and Alicia Smith (alicia.smith@uib.no) by 25 September 2026 with a brief description of the source, career stage, and institutional affiliation if any.

Guidelines

• Chronological and geographical scope are open.
• Participants are free to contest whether a text is ‘outside hagiography’ – we aim to study saints and the construction of saint/sanctity beyond canonical textual forms, including troubling our understanding of those forms.
• If your source is not in English, we will need an English translation.

CFP PDF link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O_qFp6IrxwK30pO0ohyfny7rjYdPNiC8/view?usp=drive_link

The second comes from Rachel Warmington, also via ISSM, who writes of a 2027 MAMO session

(Post)national medievalisms

In her discussion of white supremacism in New Zealand context Louise D’Arcens argues against seeing this medievalism, and medievalism in general, in its national context. Following this line of thinking, what could then be argued is that medievalisms have already transcended their nationalistic limitations. On the other hand, there remain medievalist phenomena, such as the United Empire Loyalists origins of English Canadian medievalism postulated by M.J. Toswell, that are firmly situated within their national background. This session of papers is intended to put together these two perspectives: that medievalisms can be very much postnational, since they increasingly transcend the limits of one country and one culture, and that discussion of further national medievalisms is still very much relevant to medievalism studies.

Please send your 250-word abstract at: annaczarnowus@op.pl

The deadline is 30 August 2026.

Members of the Society interested in submitting are encouraged to do so. Those wishing to discuss session-formation with other Society members are encouraged to use the Society Discord to do so; those not already having access to the Society Discord may request it by emailing the Society at talesaftertolkien@gmail.com. And those having CFPs they'd like to see distributed are similarly encouraged. We'd love to hear from you!