IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 852: Racism and Medievalism beyond the Contemporary US
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | IMC Programming Committee |
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Organiser: | Bettina Bildhauer, School of Modern Languages - German, University of St Andrews |
Moderator/Chair: | Bettina Bildhauer, School of Modern Languages - German, University of St Andrews |
Paper 852-a | Confederate Gothic: Medievalism, Memory, and the American Civil War (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Secular, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Paper 852-b | Eurocentricity, Racism, and Intangible Cultural Heritage (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Comparative, Literacy and Orality, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Paper 852-c | Race and Medievalism in Gilberto Freyre's Mozarabic Brazil (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Social History |
Paper 852-d | Fragile Masculinity and Beleaguered Womanhood: The Construction of White Gender in Some Swedish Asatru Groups (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Pagan Religions, Religious Life |
Abstract | This session discusses some of the links between medievalism and racism that have become all too evident in the US in 2017, but looks both beyond the US and beyond the present: to medievalist architecture in the American Civil War as bolstering ideas about race (Davies), to linking the Eurocentrism of medieval studies to their privileging of text over orality and non-verbal communication, and proposing an alternative model (Maring), and a Brazilian medievalist derivation of race (Altschul). It will also include Hildebrand's paper on intersectionality of sexism and racism in contemporary Sweden. |