March, 2026: Meeting of the Interim Board of Directors
February, 2026:
- Meeting of both the Interim Board of Directors and the Board of Advisors.
- Announcement and CFP for the International Student Conference and Game Jam on Medieval Studies and Medievalism
November, 2025: The UNICORN Task Force Roundtable: “The UNICORN Projects: Transgressive Medievalism Across Tima dn Space” at the 40th International Conference on Medievalism: Medievalisms in Time and Space. 100% Online, Sponsored by University of New Mexico, November 14-15, 2025:
- “A game being made using RPG Maker that explores self-identity within the contexts of medieval European cultures” (Carol Robinson, Kent State University, Trumbull)
- “A HEL Museum that contains a series of games in which students can (individually or as a group) explore significant cultural, historical, and literary influences on the English language” (Carol P. Jamison, Georgia Southern University)
- “Tutorials and resources on game narrative structures, as well as an archive of images and vieos of medieval structures and icons that still exist in the UK today” (Lesley Coote, University of Hull)
- “A game that explores issues of human rights and DEI in a comparison/contrast between the Middle Ages and modern Medievalisms” (Lauryn S. Mayer, Washington and Jefferson University)
July, 2024: Workshop and Presentation (Hybrid Online/On-land): “Medievalish Learning in a Digital Environment,” Lesley Coote (University of Hull, Retired), Carol Jamison (Georgia Southern University), Lauryn S. Mayer (Washington and Jefferson College), and Carol Robinson (Kent State University at Trumbull). 39th International Conference on Medievalism: The Games of Medievalism. Hybrid Online and On-land, Co-sponsored by Seten Hall University and Montclair State University July 9-11, 2024.
May, 2024: The UNICORN Castle Mozilla Hubs spaces were closed down.
January, 2024: The Interim Board of Directors was voted upon and formed.
November, 2023: The UNICORN Castle Task Force was formed—experimenting teaching with Mozilla Hubs.
October, 2023: The UNICORN Castle hosted the International Conference for the Study of Medievalism.
August, 2023: Experimenting with Mozilla Hubs began.
December, 2022: A Board of Advisors has been formed.
October, 2022: Video Game Workshop held at the International Conference for the Study of Medievalism (Carol Robinson and Lauryn Mayer): a trial game in table-top version was offered, followed by discussions of authenticity (particularly toward the world 500-1500 BCE), environment, pedagogical possibilities, and concerns of diversity, equity, and inclusion—both within the game’s structure and beyond.
September, 2022: The UNICORN Castle has agreed to host the 2023 International Conference for the Study of Medievalism (October 26-28, 2023).
April, 2022: The name is changed to The UNICORN Castle.
October, 2020: Video Game Workshop held at the International Conference for the Study of Medievalism (Carol Robinson and Lauryn Mayer): the focus was on character development, with emphasis upon concerns of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
October, 2019: Video Game Workshop held at the International Conference for the Study of Medievalism (Carol Robinson and Lauryn Mayer): the focus was on environment development, with emphasis upon concerns of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
August, 2018: The UNICORN Virtual Museum of Medieval Studies and Medievalism becomes a subset of the new official name, The UNICORN Virtual Museum.
November, 2015: Due to personal illness, work on the museum is temporarily suspended.
October, 2015: Conference sessions are held via Skype for the Annual International Conference on Medievalism (ISSM), Washington and Jefferson College, Lauryn Mayer (Conference Chair).
June 30, 2015 at 4.30pm British Summer Time: The inaugural live streamed event (via Google) of the UNICORN Virtual Museum Cloud Conference session, in cooperation with The Middle Ages in the Modern World (MAMO) conference being held the University of Lincoln (June 29, 2015 to July 2, 2015), Andrew Elliot (Conference Chair).
June, 2015: Work Begun: Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization (MEMO) hopes to have non-profit status established by September, 2015. Having such a status would mean that MEMO could work freely with other scholarly and amateur organizations, as well as various universities and colleges, to raise funds and to move expediently forward in this project, as well as other medievalist electronic mulimedia projects.
May, 2015: A Board of Directors for The UNICORN Virtual Museum of Medieval Studies and Medievalism is nearly established.
May, 2015: Decision: The First Annual UNICORN Museum Conference will be held in 2016! This first year’s conference will most likely not have avatars and 3D graphic spaces, but it will be purely online, except when certain sessions are jointly held with sessions attached to on-land conferences.
April, 2015: We have a logo!
March, 2015: Plans are in motion to co-teach the course CHIVALRY & ROMANCE by Lesely A. Coote (University of Hull) and Carol L. Robinson (Kent State University-Trumbull), with shared space at The UNICORN Virtual Museum WORKPLACE. This will take place in FALL 2016.
February 20-21, 2015: The first online/on-land conference session experiments were held in cooperation with Ohio State University’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies for their conference Popular Culture and the Deep Past, Tolkien Days.
February, 2015: A Master-bid, to be used as a base for grant applications, has been completed.
December, 2014: The first multi-member Skype meeting was held to further organize plans for the first year of work.
November, 2014: A List of on-land/online participation sessions was established for the 2015 year.
October, 2014: The first multi-member meeting of future Board of Directors was held at the 29th International Conference on Medievalism.
May, 2014: MEMO decides to build a virtual museum of medieval studies and medievalism.