Atmospheric Medievalisms/Medieval Atmospheres (A Roundtable)
Sponsoring Organization(s)
postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies
Organizer Name
Myra Seaman
Organizer Affiliation
College of Charleston
Presider Name
Myra Seaman
Paper Title 1
Anglo-Saxon Atmospheres
Presenter 1 Name
Edward J. Christie
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Georgia State Univ.
Paper Title 2
The Water Subtext of The Book of the Duchess
Presenter 2 Name
Brantley L. Bryant
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Sonoma State Univ.
Paper Title 3
An Atmosphere of Anxiety in Late Medieval English Drama
Presenter 3 Name
Christina M. Fitzgerald
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Toledo
Paper Title 4
The Air of Fiction
Presenter 4 Name
Julie Orlemanski
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of Chicago
Paper Title 5
Racialized Sound
Presenter 5 Name
Molly Lewis
Presenter 5 Affiliation
George Washington Univ.
Paper Title 6
Airing Out the Senses
Presenter 6 Name
Richard Newhauser
Presenter 6 Affiliation
Arizona State Univ.
Start Date
13-5-2017 10:00 AM
Session Location
Bernhard 210
Description
The session theme, "Atmospheric Medievalisms/Medieval Atmospheres," dissolves the boundary often present, however inadvertently, between medieval studies and medievalism studies. A wide range of methodologies are also appropriate to the session, with eco-critical and/or climatological approaches addressing "atmosphere" one way, studies of affect and/or “public feelings” and cultural “moods” in medieval culture or in appropriations of medieval culture in later periods addressing "atmospheric" another way; participants could even work through ideas of an “ambient Middle Ages” or an “ambient medievalism”; or see “climate," “environment,” and “weather” as metaphors for tracing particular intellectual histories of studies in medievalism; or they might discuss the “spherical,” “aerial,” and/or transmigratory climates of globally-inflected medieval studies. In the spirit of Michael Camille’s own lively style of cultural criticism, the session encourages participants to play with “atmosphere” as mood, medium, ambience, flavor, climate, condition, cloud, aura, vibe, firmament, aerospace, element, current, ephemera, tenor, milieu, environment, and weather. Whatever the approach or subject, participants are encouraged to bring the medieval and the modern into productive critical relation.
Myra Seaman
Atmospheric Medievalisms/Medieval Atmospheres (A Roundtable)
Bernhard 210
The session theme, "Atmospheric Medievalisms/Medieval Atmospheres," dissolves the boundary often present, however inadvertently, between medieval studies and medievalism studies. A wide range of methodologies are also appropriate to the session, with eco-critical and/or climatological approaches addressing "atmosphere" one way, studies of affect and/or “public feelings” and cultural “moods” in medieval culture or in appropriations of medieval culture in later periods addressing "atmospheric" another way; participants could even work through ideas of an “ambient Middle Ages” or an “ambient medievalism”; or see “climate," “environment,” and “weather” as metaphors for tracing particular intellectual histories of studies in medievalism; or they might discuss the “spherical,” “aerial,” and/or transmigratory climates of globally-inflected medieval studies. In the spirit of Michael Camille’s own lively style of cultural criticism, the session encourages participants to play with “atmosphere” as mood, medium, ambience, flavor, climate, condition, cloud, aura, vibe, firmament, aerospace, element, current, ephemera, tenor, milieu, environment, and weather. Whatever the approach or subject, participants are encouraged to bring the medieval and the modern into productive critical relation.
Myra Seaman