Understanding and Conceptualising Race in the Medieval Mediterranean

Dear All,

We are pleased to invite you to join the first event that opens our 4th research webinar series of The Medieval Mediterranean: Local and Global Perspectives, co-organised by the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, the Woolf Institute (Cambridge), the IMF-CSIC (Barcelona), the The Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Ghent, and the Medieval Studies groups at the Universities of Exeter, Edinburgh, Liege and Lincoln:

The Medieval Mediterranean:

Understanding and Conceptualising Race in the Medieval Mediterranean.

Tuesday 5 November, 5pm-6pm (UK time)

Speakers:
Dr Alexandra Montero Peters (Texas State University)
Dr Stacey E. Murrell (Amherst College)
Dr Rachel Shine (University of Maryland)

Abstract:
This panel investigates the malleability of race and racializing concepts in the medieval Mediterranean, focusing on an intersectional framework. Key case studies encompass Christian and Islamic contexts and discuss Muslim community construction in Arabic popular genres, enslaved concubines and mother-child relations, and the depiction of Black characters in Castilian royal manuscripts. Exploring how categories of human difference were racialized, transgressed, and reified, this interdisciplinary panel on race uncovers the interconnected histories of exclusion and belonging across the medieval Mediterranean through novel research and methodologies.

To register for free, please use this LINK – https://theofed-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KZ2tfLybSD6lJvldYlsRxA#/registration

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Thank you very much in advance.

Best wishes,

Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo

Story submitted by Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo
aliuzzoscorpo@lincoln.ac.uk