Le congrès annuel de l’International Society for the Study of Medievalism (ISSM), organisé au Brésil sur le sujet “Times of (Mis)Information”, aura lieu entièrement en visio les 9 et 10 octobre 2026.
Les heures affichées sont celles du Brésil (GMT – 3).
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9
Friday 9:00 WELCOME AND KEYNOTE. Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri (Italy), “Medievalism and Publish History as Democratic Antidotes to Disinformation and The Misuse of History”
Friday 10:30 Young Adult Literature. Chair: Carol Robinson (USA)
Medievalism and Girlhood in Tamora Pierce’s Squire: Protector of the Small. Beck Presnall (USA)
Between Tradition and Transformation: Fairy Tales and the Feminine in Contemporary Medievalism. Barbara Mattarelli Carli Santos (Italy/Brazil)
Die faule Spinnerin: the spinning and women’s work in the Children’s and Household Tales. Iris Freitas Rodrigues (Brazil)
Friday 10:30 Political Medievalisms: Medievalisms and Nationalisms. Chair: Luiz Guerra (Brazil)
American Medieval: Two Founding Fathers’ Belief in the Myth of Anglo-Saxon Governance. Chandler Veal (USA)
Reclaiming the Medieval North: Hávamál, Public Medievalism, and the Fight Against Misinformation. Willian Eckley (USA)
Rethinking Interconnectedness through the Idea of Imperial Court in Medieval South Asia. Ghulam Ahmad Raza (India)
Friday 12:00 Medievalism and Imagery. Chair: Anna Czarnowus (Poland)
ImaginAsian: False Narratives of Chinese History in Shang-Chi, American Born Chinese, and Shen Yun. Angela Weisl (USA)
Medievalisms in Visual Rhetoric – Mascots and Memes. Elizabeth Woock (Czechia)
Colliding Serpents from Two Realms: Dragons in Early New Spain. Grasiela Olmedo (Mexico)
Friday 12:00 Round Table: Global Medievalisms a New Series
During this roundtable, we will present a new academic series published with De Gruyter, which might be of direct interest for the participants of the “Medievalism in Times of (Mis)Information” conference. Justine Breton (France), Jonathan Fruoco (France) and Kavita Mudan Finn (USA).
Friday 1:30 Political Medievalisms Across the Globe I. Chair: Anna Czarnowus (Poland)
The TFP and the Transnational Right: Brazil as an exporter of Political Medievalisms. Luiz Guerra (Brazil)
Political Neomedievalism in Putin’s Russia. Dina Khapaeva (USA)
Open Letter to the Portuguese People of 2040? Some Reflections on the Upcoming Commemorations of the Founding of Portugal. Pedro Martins; Alicia Miguelez (Portugal)
Pierre Poilevre and Robin Hood: Medievalism in Canadian Politics. Jane Toswell (CA)
Friday 1:30 Moving Pictures. Chair: Robert Squillace (USA)
Heroes, Fair Maidens and Nationalism: Analyzing the Construction of the German identity in Fritz Lang’s Die Nibelungen. Isadora Cavada da Silva (Brazil)
Cinema, Chivalry and Bushido: Filipino Medievalism as Resistance and Orientalism During the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines. Stefanie Matabang (USA)
History, Cinema, Meme: Baldwin IV and the Making of an Online Crusader Icon. Nikolai Belov (RUS)
Lord of Misrule: The Cyclical Nature of Robin Hood in Sláine: Lord of Misrule and Robin of Sherwood (1984-1986). Carl Sell (USA)
Friday 3:00 Medievalisms a State and Story of the Field. Chair: Anita Obermeir (USA)
“Medieval” as a bad word (again). Jose Luis Camacho (Mexico)
In Search of Marion Facinger: The Misidentification of an Historian of Medieval Queenship. Michael Evans (USA)
Populism, and the Practitioners of Medievalism Studies. Richard Utz (USA)
Friday 3:00 ROUNDTABLE: Representations of the Grail Legends in Comics: A Conversation with Colleen Doran (USA)
Friday 4:30 ROUNDTABLE: Publishing on Medievalism in Popular Culture
Panelists will discuss their research in Medievalism Studies, which includes comics, fiction, film, games, television programming, and their various attempts to publish their work as public scholars and/or academic writers. Ryan Gorcey (USA); Scott Manning (USA); Carl B. Sell, (USA)
Friday 4:30 Teaching with Medievalisms. Chair: Angela Weisl (USA)
Aproximando-se da fábula: Gamificação como ferramenta de propagação do conhecimento medieval. Lucas da Rocha (Brazil)
Beauty and the Beast as Medieval Metaphor for Deaf Education (Mis)information. Carol Robinson (USA)
Mitificações na Era Digital: “Impérios AD” e a invenção do Islã em al-ʼAndalus (سلدنلأا). Gabriel Ribeiro (Brasil)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10
Saturday, 9:00 Political Medievalisms Across the Globe II. Chair: Luiz Guerra (Brazil)
Neo-Feudalism and the New Enchantment. Kyle Allan (South Africa)
Revolutionary Medievalism and the Dispute over History: 1383 and Arraia-Miúda. Paulo Pereira (Portugal)
Muscular Medievalism and the Rhetoric of War. Carol Jamison (USA)
“Templários da Pátria”: os usos do passado medieval pela extrema-direita brasileira contemporânea. Maria Eduarda Lopes (Brazil)
Saturday, 9:00 ROUNDTABLE: Nibelung Medievalisms
Guest session about German Medievalisms with Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand (USA), Daniele Gallindo (Brazil), and Detlef Goller (Germany).
Saturday, 10:30 Comics and Manga. Chair: Anna Czarnowus (Poland)
Vikings in Rhode Island? Norse Artifacts and the Making of New Legends for the Ocean State. Michael Torregrossa (USA)
We Seek the Grail: Representations of the Holy Grail in Comics. Carl Sell (USA)
Medievalism in Japanese Manga: From Vikings to Samurai. Minjie Su (Norway)
Construindo uma Idade Média nos quadrinhos DC: Dark Knigths Of Steel (2021) e o neomedievalismo na cultura pop. Juliana Pereira (Brazil)
Originality Be Damned: The Literary Roots of “Swamp Thing Annual #2: Down Amongst the Dead Men”. Karl Fugelso (USA)
Saturday, 10:30 Medievalism and Literature I. Chair: Angela Weisl (USA)
“With Birch and Brazil Pieced”: Fabricating the Medieval Material Culture of Robin Hood in an Era of Global Transition. Stephen Basdeo (UK)
Angelo Branduardi’s “Sotto il tiglio” and the Tradition of Minnesang: Artistic Homage, Rewriting, and Interpolations. Dario Capelli (Italy)
T.H. White’s The Once and Future King: A Wartime Medievalist’s Quest for “An Antidote to War”. Clark Bailey (USA)
Saturday, 10:30 El Neomedievalismo desde España: logros, hitos y retos I. Chair: Ewa Śmiłek (Poland)
La historiografía del Neomedievalismo en España. Israel Sanmartín Barros (Spain).
El medievalismo español del siglo XIX o la creación de la Edad Media decimonónica. Azucena Donkervoork (Spain)
Lo que los cómics españoles pueden decirnos sobre la Edad Media y su recuerdo en la actualidad. Enfoques de un género histórico a caballo entre la narrativa y la historia. Jacobo Hernando Morejón (Spain)
Saturday, 12:00 Techno Medievalisms. Chair: Rachael Warmington (USA)
The Environmentalist Medievalism of Gorillaz’ “The Cloud of Unknowing”. Zoë Jacks (USA)
A.I. Medievalism and Encouraging Student Voice: Class Collaborations and The UNICORN Castle Student Conference. Carol Robinson and Carol Jamison (USA)
Synthetic Vikings: Generative AI, Digital Medievalism and the Circulation of Historical Plausibility. Martine Mussies (Netherlands)
Big Tech’s Occlusive Medievalism. Robert Squillace (USA)
Saturday, 12:00 El Neomedievalismo desde España: logros, hitos y retos II. Chair: Ewa Śmiłek (Poland)
El apocalipsismo medieval en la era de la revolución: la historia moderna del Mirabilis Liber (siglos XVIII-XIX). Pablo Fernández Pérez (Spain)
Neomedievalismo audiovisual: panorama y casos. Alberto Robles Delgado (Spain)
Qué Medievo se lee desde España: pasado, presente y futuro de la literatura (y de la literatura infantojuvenil). Antonio Huertas Morales (Spain) y María del Carmen Tomás Jiménez (Spain)
Saturday, 1:00. Gender I.
Between Silence and Memory. Representations, Reception, and Historiography of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages. Jesús Solórzano Telechea (Spain)
Performance under the veil of enchantment: gender/sex discourses and the heterosexual matrix in the neo-medieval fantasy A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas. Francine Sedrez Bunde (Brazil)
Disney Princesses as Contemporary Medievalism: Transformations in Representations of Femininity. Barbara Mattarelli Carli Santos (Italy/Brazil)
A Gender Analysis of the Celtic Character Appropriations in the Animes Fate/stay night and Fate/Zero. Beatriz Galrão Abrantes (Brazil)
Saturday, 1:00. Medievalism and Literature II. Chair: Mallory Warner (USA)
Arthurian Medievalism as Origin Story: The ‘Sir Lancelot Fights Tarquin’ Episode as Foundational Narrative for Staffordshire’s Tamworth Castle. Lorraine Stock (USA)
“The Fae had Proved Their Moral Rot”: The Connection Between Medievalism and Morality in Sarah J. Maas’ Crescent City. Mallory Warner (USA)
Medievalism and Orientalism in David Hair’s “Moontide Quartet”. Anna Czarnowus (Poland)
Saturday, 3:00. Medievalism and Literature III. Chair: Mallory Warner (USA)
Sweeney Todd and the Medieval Blood Libel, 1170-2026. Rebecca Nesvet (USA)
Was Mark Twain a Feminist?: Twain’s “An Awful––Terrible Medieval Romance” and the French Medieval Le Roman de Silence. Anita Obermeier (USA)
The Knight Who Never Was: Chivalric Revival in Doyle’s Detective Fiction. Amina Kotenko (USA)
Saturday, 7:00 CLOSING KEYNOTE. Dave Farina (“Professor Dave Explains”), “Combatting Science Denial in the Post-Truch Era”
Détails sur le site de l’ISSM.