Friday, March 16 –
Saturday, March 17, 2018
Friday March 16, 2018 5:00 – 6:30 p.m., Saturday March 17, 10:30 a.m.– 5:30 p.m
Smith-Buonanno Hall 106
Illuminating Hidden Figures: Diversity and Difference in the Middle Ages
The diversity of medieval Europe has come under close scrutiny from all sides. As medievalists have, with increasing vigor, insisted on complex and nuanced understandings of the constitution of both normative European societies and their interactions with those surrounding them, popular ideological movements have sought to claim the medieval past as a homogeneous, ‘white’ male space. Whether it is studied through art, literature, theology, history, gender and sexuality studies, or any of the other manifold disciplines that comprise medieval studies, the question of diversity and difference in the middle ages thus represents not only an increasingly fruitful avenue of scholarly inquiry, but also a vital interface between academia and the public at large.
The keynote address, "Rhetoric, Race, and the End of the White Middle Ages,” will be delivered by Cord Whitaker (Wellesley College) on the evening of Friday, March 16.
New England Medieval Studies Consortium (NEMSC) event
Cosponsored by:
Department of Religious Studies
Program in Medieval Studies
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Program
Department of Classics
French Studies
Department of History
Department of English
Middle East Studies
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA)
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World