Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender RFG Archives

RFG Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender

19 Sep

Research Focus Group Discussion: Reading David Sterling Brown’s “‘Hood feminism’: Whiteness and segregated (premodern) scholarly discourse in the post-postracial era”

Please join us on Monday, October 17th, at 1 PM for a reading group discussion of David Sterling Brown's recent article, "'Hood feminism': Whiteness and segregated (premodern) scholarly discourse in the post-postracial era," and "Teaching guide for: 'Hood feminism’: Whiteness and segregated (premodern) scholarly discourse...

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Mayte Green-Mercado - Mediterranean Displacements: Morisco Migration in the Sixteenth Century

30 Mar

Research Focus Group Talk: Mediterranean Displacements: Morisco Migration in the Sixteenth Century

Please join us for a talk with Dr. Mayte Green-Mercado (Professor of History at Rutgers University--Newark) on the displacement of Moriscos —Iberian Muslims forcibly converted to Catholicism in the first two decades of the sixteenth century. In this discussion of an ethno-religious minority group, we...

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Racing Time: Chronologies of Black Muslim Belonging in Arabic Epics - Rachel Schine

16 Mar

Research Focus Group Talk: Racing Time: Chronologies of Black Muslim Belonging in Arabic Epics

How do racialized icons of popular culture index Muslim ideas of history and belonging? Several Arabic epics (siyar sha‘biyya) contain Black protagonists who are assigned unique origin stories and legacies of involvement in Islam’s expansion. This talk will analyze their roles in the racial imaginaries...

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Leah DeVun Event Discussing The Shape of Sex

20 Dec

Research Focus Group Talk: Discussing The Shape of Sex with Leah DeVun

Join the Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender Research Focus Group for a guest talk and conversation with Professor Leah DeVun on DeVun's new book, The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance. We will discuss the rich history DeVun traces...

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Reading group discussion: Leah DeVun's "The Monstrous Races: Mapping the Borders of Sex"

20 Dec

RFG Reading Group Discussion: Leah DeVun’s “The Hyena’s Unclean Sex: Beasts, Bestiaries, and Jewish Communities”

Zoom meeting link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84025262121?pwd=SGVQRFpnbkhlcUlZcTBZRTRRa0VvUT09 Join the Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender Research Focus Group as we continue reading from Leah DeVun's pathbreaking history of nonbinary sex, The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021), in...

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09 Jun

Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender Research Focus Group

“Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender” is an IHC Research Focus Group bringing together graduate students and faculty from various disciplines to investigate the critical intersections of race and gender in premodern studies. We engage the ‘premodern’ as a way of addressing the resonances...

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