As I mentioned in my opening post, I will occasionally use my blog to share CFPs, and I can think of no worthier conference to promote than the next meeting of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies. You can find a link to the association’s website under this site’s “links” tab, and I would encourage anyone to give it a look.
The Eleventh Biennial Conference of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies will take place on 16-17 June 2017 at Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, USA.
The theme for this two-day international conference is “Southern Outlaws,” and proposals are welcome on any aspect of “southern” outlawry, banditry, piracy, and other transgressive activities and movements. Such topics spanning the fields of outlaws of the Southern United States, Australia, and South America are particularly welcome. Papers are also invited that explore the metaphorical and spatial conceptions of a “southern” outlaw, especially bad outlaws and trickster figures, and the ways in which geographical and topographical features create and foster outlawry. Papers on the Robin Hood tradition are also welcome. Conference participants will enjoy a variety of peer-reviewed papers from a number of academic fields: literature, history, folklore, theatre, music, anthropology, sociology, geography, art history, and media studies.
For more information on the conference and to submit abstracts, please see the conference’s webpage:
Perry Neil Harrison 