IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 325: Queer Textures of the Past, II: Cross-Identities
Monday 1 July 2019, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier, Universitetet i Bergen |
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| Organiser: | David Carrillo-Rangel, Institut de Recerca de Cultures Medievals (IRCVM), Universitat de Barcelona |
| Moderator/Chair: | Olivia Robinson, Département des langues et littératures, Université de Fribourg |
| Paper 325-a | 'Ok hugðu ek þat args aðal': A Cult of Queer Óðinn in Pre-Christian Denmark (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Pagan Religions, Religious Life |
| Paper 325-b | (Re-)Reading John/Eleanor Rykener: The Materiality of Queerness in Late Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Sexuality, Social History |
| Paper 325-c | A Community of Her Own: Clare of Assisi, the Privilegium Paupertatis, and Her Regula - The Challenges for Female Spirituality in the 13th-Century Western Church (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Social History, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | Texture is a term than can be defined as 'the quality of something that can be decided by touch; the degree to which something is rough or smooth, or soft or hard'. When talking about queer textures, these panels are intended to address the possibility of finding queer objects, immaterialities in the past, exploring the role these have within the frame in which they are encapsulated: narrative, social, historical, artistic, or cultural. Our intention is to demonstrate that by queering the look towards the past and our interpretation of it, and adapting the historical context to the horizon of expectations in a given time, we can obtain a clearer view of historical characters or alternative ways of bonding and creating communities. This second panel explores ways in which dressing or cross-dressing affect identity as linked to queerness. |