CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Deadline: June 1, 2012
for the
MEMO SESSIONS at the
27th International Conference on Medievalism
Hosted by Kent State University Regional Campuses
(October 18-20, 2012)
Conference Theme: Medievalism(s) & Diversity
MEMO invites both established scholars and undergraduate students to submit for participation in a medievalist video game poster session workshop (co-sponsored with Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization). This workshop will be held in two ways. One way will be during an afternoon of the conference (in a room filled with the appropriate technology), where conference participants may wander from station-to-station of presented medievalist games. Each participant will have a station (a table) at which both the poster and the game will be made available to conference participants. The poster may be constructed of either paper poster board or be electronic (such as a PowerPoint presentation on a laptop). NOTE regarding the video game demonstrations at the conference: the game and the necessary equipment might have to be supplied by the presenter, but there will be some pieces available for general use. The other way that one might present would be fully online, in a password protected area, where electronic posters will be accessible to all conference participants for several weeks. Participants may be considered to present in both the physical and virtual environments. There are a limited number of stations available for the at-conference (physical) presentations.
Proposals must address this conference theme. Please encourage your students to submit completed posters and the Video Game Poster Session Student Application & Checklist for consideration by June 1, 2012. In addition, please also consider submitting a paper proposal yourself (for the conference in general).
Please submit proposals (and form if you are a student) via email or fax:
Carol L. Robinson
EMAIL: clrobins@kent.edu
FAX: 330-437-0490
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ROUNDTABLE:
Neomedievalism and the Corporate
Co-sponsored with
Studies in Medievalism
and
Medievally Speaking
How have corporate structures contributed to the development of neomedievalism? How has neomedievalism affected the development of corporate structures? What is medieval in corporate structures? What is corporate in the medieval? For the past several years, MEMO has been working with Studies in Medievalism to generate several volumes of work that explore neomedievalism; in fact, “Neomedievalism and the Corporate” is a title borrowed from the editor of Studies in Medievalism, Karl Fugelso. One recent out-growth of these publications, that also appeared in MEMO's 2011 paper session, was a beginning exploration of the influence(s) of corporate sponsorship upon medievalist products (particularly video games).
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PAPER SESSION:
Realms of Play, Regimes of Truth
Explorations of medieval electronic media in terms of neomedievalism, free will epistemology, ethics and agency, becoming the Other, questing theory, human rights, freedom of expression, and/or freedom of choice. This session is inspired by some of the ideas and arguments presented at the 2011 Congress in MEMO's sessions, in volumes of Studies in Medievalism, and in MEMO's forthcoming anthology of essays. At the 2011 Congress MEMO paper session and round table discussion session (which were back-to-back), a deeper discussion of how power (corporate, discursive, pedagogical,...) influences and/or is controlled by play and “truth” in (neo)medievalist electronic media. In what ways is that power contemporary in structure? In what ways is it medieval? Why do we look to the Middle Ages for inspiration? Is this a form of power-play with contemporary chaos? This includes analysis of portrayals of reality under the power of discourse, be it “authentic” or not.
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WORKSHOP & POSTER SESSION:
Festive Electronic Games
Each year, we work to improve upon our annual video game workshop. This year, in addition to providing video game demonstrations, complemented by posters (either on laptops or on poster-board), we would like to divide the room between game developers and game users. Submit proposals for posters and demonstrations of games under analysis and/or construction: MMORPGs, 2nd Life, Open Source/Free Software Games, priority software games, text-based games, gaming communities and their forums and blogs,...
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to the
10th Anniversary Celebration!
(More information is forthcoming.)
Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization was founded at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in 2002. (See the Definitions Page for more history.) Please watch for announcement of a party to celebrate ten years of MEMO!
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MEMO has previously organized sessions
for the following conferences:
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