IMC 2026: Sessions
Session 334: Out of Sync: Intersectional Approaches, III - Indigeneity, 'Ethnicity', and Temporal Dissonance across Medieval and Modern Frameworks
Monday 6 July 2026, 16:30-18:00
| Sponsor: | Collaborative for Intersectional Medieval Studies (CIMS) |
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| Organisers: | Anja S. Rathmann-Lutz, Historisches Seminar, Universität Erfurt Rike Szill, Seminar für mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Saskia C. Quené, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen |
| Respondent: | Basil Arnould Price, Department of English, State University of New York, Oneonta |
| Paper 334-a | Violence and Categories of Difference in the Medieval North (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Social History |
| Paper 334-b | Medieval Indigeneity and Temporal Dissonance: From A to B? (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Social History |
| Paper 334-c | Heimat (Homeland): Medieval Temporalities of Right-Wing Extremists (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Social History |
| Abstract | What happens when lives, experiences, or histories do not align with dominant timelines—when they appear too early, too late, or entirely out of time? And how do categories of difference such as gender, race, social status, religion, dis/ability, or age shape how time is experienced, structured, remembered, or erased? This first of three sessions invites us to think about time not only as measurable, but as a socio-political experience shaped by perception, practice, and power. These sessions ask how people in the Middle Ages structured their realities through belief systems, daily rhythms, and social orders—and how our own scholarship continues to organise “medieval time.” How did time interact with structures of difference, and what new perspectives might an intersectional lens offer? This last of three sessions examines how categories of ethnicity and indigeneity were entangled with notions of time, and how temporal dissonance continues to shape both medieval sources and modern interpretations. |