announcements

ANNOUNCEMENTS

UPDATED: January 11, 2014

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Contributors must be prepared for their works to be edited (at least initially), in terms of coherence, focus, and development.  Please see the announcement below, “New Year, New Blog.”  If you are interested in becoming a Contributor, please contact Carol Robinson (clrobins@kent.edu).  Faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, and non-academic professionals (such as medievalist artists, video game programers, filmmakers, . . .) are encouraged to apply—be prepared to be (peer)-edited.   Submit a letter of inquiry by March 1, 2015. 

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New Year, New Blog

This year, The Medieval in Motion will be taking on a more rigorous role for Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization, as we work to build The UNICORN Virtual Museum of Medieval Studies and Medievalism.  Long articles, short articles, and brief declarations on the following topics will be posted every other day, with periodic weeks of daily posts:

SUNDAYS: Announcements Updated

The same page will be updated and re-posted every Sunday.

MONDAYS: Medieval Electronic Multimedia (MEM) Bodies

Pieces of scholarly discoveries or ideas rooted in scholarship that focus upon (dis)ability studies, LGBTQA studies, feminist studies . . . anything to do with the body in medievalist electronic multimedia.

TUESDAYS: Other Scholarship

Pieces of scholarly discoveries or ideas rooted in scholarship that focus upon topics not specifically relevant to the topics chosen for Mondays, Fridays, or Saturdays.

WEDNESDAYS: News & Reviews

Reviews and news of medievalist/neomedievalist items created for film, television, electronic games, or other electronic formats (ranging in focus from reproductions of medieval artifacts to electronic items that recall the medieval, such as a spaceship named Dragon).

THURSDAYS: Random Items, Random Thoughts

Craziness, man, just craziness (mostly humor).

FRIDAYS: Pedagogy

Pieces of scholarly discoveries or ideas rooted in scholarship that focus upon the teaching of the medieval or of  medievalism(s) in the classroom (K-Ph.D.), particularly with use of electronic media.

SATURDAYS: Genre/Medium Studies

Pieces of scholarly discoveries or ideas rooted in scholarship that focus upon either genre studies or studies of a particular medium, or both.