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 |
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Moderator/Chair: | Jessica Varsallona, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham |
Paper 1118-a | Byzantine Identity and the Eugenic Legacy (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
Paper 1118-b | Finding One's Voice: Byzantine Disability in Translation (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Greek |
Paper 1118-c | Voicing Transgressive Women: Gendering Marginal Identities in Byzantium (Language: English) 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. |