Description
This virtual symposium will highlight the research of emerging scholars working on race and race-making before 1800. Speakers will include graduate students and early career scholars from a variety of disciplines who will share their work on the development and influence of race from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, and explore how their research can inform our experience of race in the present.
Call for Abstracts
We welcome abstracts from all fields and disciplines. Possible themes to examine include but are not limited to:
• Creation and reification of racial identities
• Community and diversity in the premodern world
• Exploration, colonization, and enslavement
• Mapping race through boundaries and borders
• Visual and material culture and exchange
• Performing race on the stage and/or in daily life
• Cultural and linguistic translation
• Popular representations of premodern race-making in new
media
• Pedagogical approaches to teaching premodern race and/or the
global premodern
• Comparative, intersectional, and transhistorical approaches
Submission Instructions
Please submit a brief abstract (200-word maximum) and CV that includes your PhD or other terminal degree completion date (past or expected) to renaissance@newberry.org with “Call for Papers” in the subject line by June 15, 2024.
We aim to inform selected participants by July 15, 2024.