A provisional programme has been published and will be regularly updated in the run-up to the conference. Below is sample of the range of exciting papers and panels chosen from over 150 proposals by academics, writers, curators and musicians from 17 countries.

Panels

Claire Boudreau, Manon Labelle, Forrest Pass (all Canadian Heraldic Authority) on the Canadian Heraldic Authority and 21st-century medievalism

Nan Cohen (Poet, Southern California) on alliteration and medieval prosody in contemporary poetry

Matt Gabriele (Virginia Tech), Benjamin Sax (Virginia Tech), Theo Riches (Muenster), Dominik Hoeink (Muenster), Julie Hofmann (SU), Nicholas Paul (Fordham), Courtney Booker (British Columbia) on how the 19th century still haunts the Middle Ages

Mike Rodman Jones (Nottingham), Stuart Mottram (Hull), Will Rossiter (Hope) on early modern medievalisms

Clare Lees (Kings) on Colm Cille's Spiral

Janet Marquardt (Eastern Illinois), Nicolas Reveyron (Lyon), Philip Bovey (Royal Photographic Society), Janice Mann (Bucknell), Maggie Williams (William Paterson) on modern perspectives on medieval architecture

Elizabeth Carson Pastan (Emory), Alyce A. Jordan (Northern Arizona), Daniel Russo (Bourgogne), Dorothy Verkerk (Chapel Hill), William J Diebold (Reed), Colleen M. Thomas (Dublin) on modern interpretations of medieval art

Elizabeth Sklar (Wayne State), Corey Rushton (St Francis Xavier), Andrew Elliott (Lincoln), Susan Aronstein (Wyoming), Laurie Finke (Kenyon), Amy Kaufman (Middle Tennessee State, Kathleen Kelly (Northeastern) on dirt, dirty doings, doing the dirty in film and TV medievalisms

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Papers

James Aitcheson (author) on representing the Middle Ages in fiction

Anke Bernau (Manchester) on the medievalism of Edna St Vincent Millay

Roland Betancourt (Yale) on a Byzantine methodology for pop-culture

Helen Brookman (Exeter) on gender, translation, and the 'publication' of Anna Gurney's Literal Translation of the Saxon Chronicle

Eamon Byers (Belfast) on Irish folk music and the Middle Ages on screen

Melanie Caiazza (Kent) on finding redemption in the Middle Ages in David Fincher's Fight Club

Graham Caie (Glasgow) on the politicisation of the Anglo-Saxon world in 19th-century Denmark

Elizabeth Churchill (Pennsylvania) on medieval sacramental theology and marriage today

Joanna Clements (Glasgow) on medieval Scottish music history in 18th and 19th centuries

Angelina Costain (Ottawa) on Old English studies and religious division in 17th century England

Louise D'Arcens (Wollongong) on comic medievalism that doesn't make us laugh

Alex Davis (St Andrews) on uninventing the Middle Ages

Leah DeVun (Rutgers) on hermaphrodites, history, and the politics of intersex

Martha Driver, Eugene Richie (Pace) on translating Gower for modern readers

Kelly Ann Fitzpatrick (Albany) on (neo)medievalism and the naturalisation of gender

Sally Foster (Aberdeen) on 19th-century replicas and the generation of visions of early medieval peoples

Maria Jesus Fuente (Madrid) on the 800th anniversary of the Studium generale of Palencia

Leandro Garcia (Rio de Janeiro) on the medieval imaginary in popular Brazilian literature

Rae Grabowski (Cornell) on dragon sickness in Beowulf and The Hobbit

Carrie Griffin (Queen Mary) on medievalism in Any Old Iron

Fernando Arias Guillen (St Andrews) on uses and abuses of the term 'Spain' related to the Middle Ages

Mark Hall (Perth Museum) on medieval material culture in the movie

Elina Hamilton (Bangor) on medieval avant-garde in the 20th century

Rob Houghton (St Andrews) on representing the Middle Ages in historical grand strategy computer games

Marie Ito (Catholic University of America) on 14th-century origins of a commodities exchange in Orsanmichele

Sarah Lambert (Goldsmiths, London) on Christianity, Islam, and the persistence of mythmaking

Tom Lawrence (Kent) on experiencing the Middle Ages in the modern world

David Lawton (St Louis) on the Norman conquest of modernity

Dongill Lee (Seoul) on the Korean translation of Beowulf

Catherine Leglu (Reading) on translating Troubadour poetry of the Albigensian Crusade in the 21st century

Peter Lindfield-Ott (St Andrews) on antiquarian furniture and the 'Modern Gothic' in 18th century Britain

Joanna Ludwikowska-Leniec (Poznan) on early-modern Medievalism in Puritan (New) England

Bernhard Maier (Tuebingen) on presenting medieval oriental manuscripts to the Victorian public

Kate Mathis (Glasgow) on the Ulster Cycle in fin-de-siècle London

David Matthews (Manchester) on Medievalism and Touristic Capital

Conor McCarthy (Dublin) on Ciaran Carson's The Inferno and The Táin

Julie Mell (North Carolina State) on the origins of medieval commercial relations in 20th-century war, exile, and genocide

Melinda Menzer (Furman) on fan fiction adaptations of Norse mythology

Katherine Miller (Leeds) on translating slaves in Hervarar Saga ok Heiðreks

Kirstin Mills (Maquarie) on spirit realms, virtual worlds, and the spatial imagination

Geraldine Parsons (Glasgow) on medieval sources and modern satire in Ireland

Sarah Powrie (Saskatchewan) on allegories of mutability in the 12th and 16th centuries

Helen Price (Leeds) on ecomaterialism for the past, present, and future

Margaret Clunies Ross (Sydney) on Pre-Christian religions of the north from the Middle Ages until the present time

James L. Smith (Perth) on exploring comic medievalism of the internet meme

Carl Still (Saskatchewan) on searching for Thomas amid Thomisms past and present

Carol Symes (Illinois) on the Middle Ages of World War I

David Talbot (Glasgow) on the state and place of medieval studies in the university

Simon Trafford (IHR, London) on medievalism in pop and rock music

Oliver Traxel (Münster) on translations of modern texts into Old and Middle English

Craig Wallace (Belfast) on weird medievalism in the ghost stories of M.R. James

Nancy Bradley Warren (Texas A&M) on Chaucer in the Middle Ages and Dryden's Fables Ancient and Modern

Christopher Wilson (The Brilliant Club) on early Methodist and Anti-Methodist medievalism

Daniel Wollenberg (Binghampton) on terrorism and the medieval

Lila Yawn (Rome) on Assisi's May festival and its Fascist founder