CROSSPOSTED with apologies! I am pleased to invite anyone interested in discourse on modern medieval media to join MEMO (Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization). Our web site is located at http//faculty.trumbull.kent.edu/english/memo/memo.htm. TO JOIN THE OPEN FORUM DISCUSSION GROUP, GO TO: http//groups.yahoo.com/group/Medieval_Electronic_Multimedia_Organization/. I would also like to enthusiastically invite you to our sessions at this year's International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University). NEO'S MEDIEVALISM I: THEORY AND MODERN MEDIEVAL MEDIA Thursday (May 6) 10:00am (Bernhard 204) NEO'S MEDIEVALISM II: Medieval Video Gaming (A Workshop) Thursday (May 6) 1:30pm (Sangren 2202) While the idea of analyzing modern medieval media is far from new, our organization recognizes a difference from works existing prior to the Postmodern Era and works now bursting forth and away from the ideals of Postmodernism altogether. Such concepts as knights in medieval armor with six-guns instead of swords, or medieval music played with non-medieval instruments suggest to us that medieval works are moving past the angst of modernist medievalism and beyond the multi-tasking of postmodernist medievalism to something that is less cynical and more playful. MEMO was officially named during a dinner meeting at the Medieval Institute's 2003 International Congress on Medieval Studies, but several of us have been banding together for quite a few years. We are a friendly group, interested in the pursuit of understanding medieval electronic multimedia. Whether you are a student, a scholar, a filmmaker, a musician, a computer technician, a gamer, or Neo himself -- we hope you join us! =================================== Carol L. Robinson, Ph.D. Kent State University - Trumbull 4314 Mahoning Ave., NW Warren, OH 44483 PHONE: (330)-675-8949 FAX: (330)-675-6610 WEB: http://faculty.trumbull.kent.edu/robinsoc/ "...time has always put the notion of truth into crisis." -- Gilles Deleuze ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]