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ANNOUNCING THE MIDDLE AGES IN CONTEMPORARY POPULAR CULTURE An Interdisciplinary Conference McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada March 29-31, 1996 Keynote Speaker: Derrick de Kerckhove Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology University of Toronto This conference will explore the general theme of "The Middle Ages in Contemporary Popular Culture." This theme is intended to be as open-ended as possible and will be approached from many directions. Topics include, but are not limited to: *Marketing the Middle Ages in music (Gregorian chant, Hildegard of Bingen), novels, movies,TV series, video games and CD-ROM *New Millenarianisms, Satanic cults and witchcraft *The Middle Ages in nationalist ideologies *The Middle Ages as an attraction for tourists: visits to archeological sites, medieval fairs, feasts and pageants. A number of special cultural events are also planned, including musical performances, films, a display of books, videos and interactive multimedia products. To receive further information or a registration form, please contact: Madeleine Jeay Susan Fast Department of French School of Art, Drama and Music McMaster University McMaster University Hamilton, On. Canada L8S 4M2 Hamilton, On. Canada L8S 4M2 Tel: (905) 525-9140 ext. 2375Tel: (905) 525-9140 ext. 23670 e-mail: [log in to unmask] e-mail:[log in to unmask] FAX: (905) 577-6930 http:\\www.mcmaster.ca Presented by the McMaster Working Group on the Middle Ages and Renaissance ***************************************************************************= LIST OF PARTICIPANTS AND PAPERS: AVRUTIN Lily, University of Alberta The Artist as God's Fool; The Case of Andrei Roublev by Andrei Tarkovsky BEDARD Marie-Christine, Universite Laval, Quebec Les Medievales de Quebec comme terrain d'experimentation de la communication de l'histoire. BLAIN Jenny, Dalhousie University Witchcraft, Magic and Religion: Some Discursive Reconstructions of Belief and Practice. BRAY Dorothy, McGill University, Montreal The Beowulf Conceit in Terminators 1 and 2. BRENT Robert, University of Western Ontario I'm So Hot for Her and She Is So Cold: Petrarch and the Rolling Stones. CAPPS Sandra E., University of Tennessee, Knoxville Glastonbury: Medieval, Modern and New Age. CASH John, Indiana University Structure and Authenticity in the Current Middle Ages. CHAREST R., Universite Laval, Quebec Perceptions et critiques historiques des "Medievales" dans les medias. DARRUP Cathy C., City University of New York Did God Paint You? The Past as African Identity in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves. de KERCKHOVE Derrick, University of Toronto The Electronic Middle Ages DUFRESNE Lucy, Universite d'Ottawa Which Witch is Which? Recasting Historical Nightmares as Utopian Visions. ERISMAN Wendy, University of Texas at Austin For My Lady's Honour: Gender, Performance and the Reproduction of Social Power in a Medieval Re-Creation Society. EVERETT William A., Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas Images of Arthurian Britain in the American Musical Theatre: A Connecticut Yankee and Camelot. FLINT Catrena, McGill University, Montreal Romancing Hildegard: Postmodern Appropriations of a Medieval Composer GOLINI Vera, St. Jerome's College, Waterloo Petrarch to Elvis, Lyrics Then and Now. GREGORY Christine, Florida Intenational University, Miami "So You Thought WE Have it Bad!" Dysfunctional, Corrupt and Brutal: Medieval Life in the Lion in Winter and Braveheart. HARLEY Maria Anna, McGill University, Montreal Romancing Hildegard: Postmodern Appropriations of a Medieval Composer. JEAY Gregoire, Orchestre Baroque de Montreal Concert with Carolyn Sinclair and the McMaster Dancers. KENDRIS Theodore, Universite Laval, Quebec Merlin, Sherlock Holmes and Mr. Spock: The Three Wise Men of Western Culture. KERSLAKE Geoffrey P., University of Guelph Popular Culture's Ignored Genre: The Middle Ages in Role-Playing Games KNIGHT Graham, McMaster University, Hamilton High-Tech Feudalism: Warrior Culture and Science Fiction Televison. KOLOZE Jeff, Cleveland State University Male "Bondage" or "Bonding": Malory's Depictions of Men and their Relationship to Men of Today. KREUZIGER-HERR Annette, University of Hamburg, Germany The Presence of the Past in the Present; Medieval Music in the Twentieth Century. LEWIS David Charles, University of Toronto The Return of Charlemagne;The Middle Ages, the European Idea and the European Right. LIFSCHITZ Felice, Columbia University Welcome to Medieval Life:Crafts, Dungeons and Instruments of Torture in Sunny Florida. MARKEWITZ Darrell, The Wareham Forge Historical Interpretationand Experimental Archeology in the Society for Creative Anachronism. MULHBERGER Steven, Nipissing University The Middle Ages As They Were or As They Should Have Been? NEWMAN Sharan, University of California, Santa Barbara Beyond Camelot and Chretien de Troyes: A Social Historian's Use of the Novel to Teach the Middle Ages. NOBLE James, University of New Brunswick The Realm of King Arthur in the Silly Season. PEDERSON Kristen, University of Toronto Magic, Power and Women's Sexuality in Medieval Scandinavia. RABINOVITCH Shelley, Universite d'Ottawa Which Witch is Which? Recasting Historical Nightmares as Utopian Visions. RIBORDY Genevieve Universite Laval, Quebec Le guide: un trait d'union entre la culture savante et la culture populaire. ROCHER Marie-Claude Universite Laval, Quebec Fetes populaires et histoire. SAMPLASKI Artie, University of Indiana The Middle Ages, Our Current Age and the Current Middle Ages. SCHUBERT Linda, University of Michigan Plainchant for the Pictures: The Use of the "Dies Irae" in Film Scores. SHARP Michael D., University of Michigan Adventures in the Hypermasculine: Medieval Scotland Goes to the Movies. VALOIS Jeanne, Universite Laval, Quebec La communication de l'histoire par le biais de la fete medievale. WILLARD Tom, University of Arizona Alchemical Gold: Worth More Than Ever. WILSON Robert, City University of New York English Storytelling --Beowulf and Rap.