Alice Fulmer (Dept of English) “‘Gode is þe lay, swete is þe note’: The Liminality of Media in the Worlds of Sir Orfeo”
April 5, 2022
RFG Undisciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender Rachel Shine (NYU Abu Dhabi), “Racing Time: Chronologies of Black Muslim Belonging in Arabic Epics
April 12, 2022
Jo Livingstone (independent scholar) “Public Medievalisms”
April 21, 2022
RFG Undisciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender Mayte Green Mercado (Rutgers University), “Mediterranean Displacements: Morisco Migration in the Sixteenth Century”
April 26, 2022
Medieval Studies Program | Annual Colloquium: Global/Premodern/Race
March 21, 20222
This symposium brings together scholars working in Iberian, Middle Eastern, and Medieval Studies to engage in a critical discussion concerning race—reevaluating both its utility as a category of analysis in the premodern world and how it has structured medieval and early modern studies as academic fields.
Participants include:
PAMELA PATTON (Art History, Princeton University)
M. LINDSAY KAPLAN (English, Georgetown University)
HANNAH BARKER (History, Arizona State University)
MOHAMAD BALLAN (History, SUNY Stonybrook)
AMBEREEN DADABHOY (Literature, Harvey Mudd College)
JOSH COHEN (Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University)
ABDULHAMIT ARVAS (English, University of Pennsylvania)
TERENCE KEEL (African American Studies & Institute for Society and Genetics, UCLA)
KATHY LAVEZZO (English, University of Iowa)
Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center; Medieval Studies; Early Modern Center, English Department; Center for Middle Eastern Studies; College of Letters & Science; History Department; and Latin American and Iberian Studies
Jody Enders (Department of French and Italian)
February 1, 2022
Join us for a fun “cold read” of one or two of her farces from her forthcoming Immaculate Deception (vol. 3) or Trial by Farce (vol. 4) Curé
Christene d’Anca (Program in Comparative Literature) “The Medieval Roots of Globalization in Modern English Literature: From a Comparative Literature Perspective”
January 11, 2022
Medieval Studies X RFG Undisciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender
January 18, 2022
Ya Zuo (Department of History) “What Makes Emotions Deep”
January 25, 2022
Lecture, Ed English, Dept of History, UCSB – “What Renaissance? The Fourteenth-Century Siennese Elite”
October 18, 2021
Book Launch! Celebrating S. C. Kappie Kaplan’s Women’s Libraries in Late Medieval Bourbonnais, Burgundy, and France: A Family Affair (Liverpool UP, 2022)
November 1, 2021