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IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1118: Marginal Communities in Globalised Mediterranean Networks, II: Voicing Marginalisation

Wednesday 5 July 2023, 11.15-12.45

Organiser:Anna C. Kelley, Department of Classics, Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Birmingham
Moderator/Chair:Jessica Varsallona, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
Paper 1118-aByzantine Identity and the Eugenic Legacy
(Language: English)
Daniel K. Reynolds, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
Index terms: Archaeology - General, Historiography - Modern Scholarship
Paper 1118-bFinding One's Voice: Byzantine Disability in Translation
(Language: English)
Maroula Perisanidi, Classics, Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Nottingham
Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Greek
Paper 1118-cVoicing Transgressive Women: Gendering Marginal Identities in Byzantium
(Language: English)
Stephanie Novasio, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Abstract

As a bustling epicenter of connectivity, the Eastern Mediterranean of the medieval world was a hub in the development of global communication networks. The papers in these linked sessions examine networks from the perspective of the people on the peripheries and how their local contexts situated them in wider systems. They consider how marginalised communities intersected and interacted with, shaped, and ultimately built networks. The speakers in the second session discuss how various marginalised groups have been constructed in the sources, and how this has shaped ideas of social networks in modern scholarship.