IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 813: Lesbian Epistemologies and their Conceptual Borders, II
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Roberta Magnani, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Diane Watt, School of Literature & Languages, University of Surrey |
| Paper 813-a | Lesbian Technologies and the St Albans Psalter (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Sexuality |
| Paper 813-b | Erotohistoriography’s Decolonial Prospects: Lithic Pleasures of Refusal in Marie de France’s 'Yonec' and Beyond (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Sexuality |
| Paper 813-c | 'Did you just assume my patria?': Gender and Inheritance in Medieval Conceptions of Britain (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Sexuality |
| Abstract | This panel wishes to establish the urgency of 'lesbian historiographies', as they offer generative ways of extricating medieval studies from binary paradigms which define the canon as a genealogy between white cis men. As a non-binary epistemology, its conceptual tenets are broadly shared with queer, trans* theories, critical race studies, and crip theory. The panellists are invited to reflect on the epistemological borders between these discrete yet cognate frameworks and embodied experiences. How do we account for the complex identities represented in medieval sources when these identities refuse to be confined to an essentialist binary? How can lesbian historiography assist? |