IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1035: The Theory and Politics of Medieval Studies, I: Theory
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Leeds Studies in English |
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Organiser: | Victoria Cooper, School of English, University of Leeds |
Moderator/Chair: | Kirsty Day, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh |
Paper 1035-a | Changing Paradigms in the Humanities and in Medieval Studies: From Postmodernism to Postculturalism (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Teaching the Middle Ages |
Paper 1035-b | The Historical Is Political: Understanding the Backlash against the Study of Race, Gender, and Representation in Medievalism (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Paper 1035-c | Can Medievalists Save the World with Wikipedia? (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Abstract | Neoliberalism and the new prominence of 'post-truth politics' across the West, along with forces like environmental change, are pressing medievalists to question postmodern theoretical paradigms and to grapple anew with objective, material realities only partly accessible through human experience. This session examines from multiple angles vexed questions about truth, objectivity, and representation in medieval studies, both in terms of historiographical theory and the ways in which professional research is received and manipulated by wider audiences. |