Dear Members of the ICLS,

We wish you all a wonderful start to the academic year! This is an excellent opportunity to remind you that Encomia, the journal of our Society, would be delighted to receive your submissions.

Encomia is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. We accept articles of varying lengths, and the journal aims to represent all aspects of courtly culture, history and literature.

In particular, we welcome proposals addressing traditionally understudied topics: marginal or marginalized texts and authors, geographical and cultural areas beyond Western Europe, post-medieval representations of courtly aesthetics…Please feel free to mention Encomia to colleagues working in fields related to ours.

And, of course, we continue to encourage and welcome with the same level of interest contributions on canonical works, fields and aspects of courtly literature.

We look forward to receiving your article proposals: https://iclsweb.org/encomia/

Best wishes,

Patrick Moran

Leah Tether

Editors of Encomia

Our ICLS-NAB business meeting will be on Thursday, May 14, 8:00-9:30 p.m., Student Center 3205. I will set up a Zoom for us and will ask speakers to move near the laptop so people attending via Zoom will be able to hear as much of the meeting as possible. Zoom link: https://uky.zoom.us/my/julie.human. 

Please send any good news you would like to share so I can add it to the slides in advance of the meeting.

We are also sponsoring the following two sessions: 

Thursday, 1:30-3:00 p.m., Session 91, Sangren Hall 4725 

Exceptional Exceptions: Nonconformity in Courtly Literature 

Presider and Organizer: Tamara Bentley Caudill, Jacksonville Univ.

• Nonconforming Amazon Queens in Courtly Literature, Suzanne C. Hagedorn, College of William & Mary 
• Illusory Power: Chivalry and Gender Expectations in Partonopeus de Blois, Nicole J. McGee, West Texas A&M Univ. 
• Imagining Otherworlds: The Art of Queer Failure in Marie de France’s Lanval, Charlie Serigne, Univ. of Notre Dame 
• Out of Bounds: Nonconformity in Raoul de Houdenc, Kristin Burr, St. Joseph’s Univ.

Thursday, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Session 129, Sangren Hall 4725 

Honoring Christopher Callahan (A Roundtable)

Presider and Organizer:  Susanne Hafner, Fordham Univ. 

• A roundtable discussion with F. Regina Psaki, Univ. of Oregon; Caroline A. Jewers, Univ. of Kansas; Daniel O’Sullivan, Univ. of Mississippi; Kathy M. Krause, Univ. of Missouri–Kansas City; Julien R. Stout, Princeton Univ.; Tamara Bentley Caudill, Jacksonville Univ. Respondent:  Christopher J. Callahan, Illinois Wesleyan Univ.
• Some presenters will be joining via Zoom (https://uky.zoom.us/my/julie.human), so if you are unable to attend in person but would like to try to listen in, you’re welcome to use the link as well.

I sent this message to the listserv as well as to members’ email addresses from both my Gmail and my institutional address; please check your spam folder and mark me as a safe sender if you find any of the messages there. Apologies for duplicate messages if you receive more than one. 

Please take a moment to explore the five ICLS-NAB sessions accepted for next year’s ICMS Kalamazoo. The Call for Papers is now open, and abstracts are due September 15. I’ve listed each session below, and the title is a hyperlink to a panel description where you can submit an abstract.

Dancing Queens, Kings, and Courtiers: Celebrations, Feasts, and Fun; Dr. Shawn Phillip Cooper, Ph.D., FRSA

Exceptional Exceptions: Nonconformity in Courtly Literature; Tamara Bentley Caudill, Jacksonville Univ.

Honoring Christopher Callahan (A Roundtable); Susanne Hafner, Fordham Univ. 

Problematic Love and Religiosity in Courtly Literature; Davide Pafumi, Univ. of Lethbridge 

The Next Generation; Susanne Hafner, Fordham Univ.