Queering the Medieval Mediterranean

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Society for the Study of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages (SSHMA)

Organizer Name

Graham N. Drake, Gregory S. Hutcheson, Felipe Esteban Rojas

Organizer Affiliation

SUNY-Geneseo, Univ. of Louisville, Univ. of Chicago

Presider Name

Graham N. Drake

Paper Title 1

Captive Family Values: Fraternal Kisses and Legal Obligations in Alfonso X's Iberian Borderlands

Presenter 1 Name

Israel Burshatin

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Haverford College

Paper Title 2

Pederastic Peril: The Ghost of Euryalus in Dante's Convivio

Presenter 2 Name

Gary Cestaro

Presenter 2 Affiliation

DePaul Univ.

Paper Title 3

Just How Queer Was the Mediterranean?

Presenter 3 Name

Robert Clark

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Kansas State Univ.

Paper Title 4

Sodom by the Sea: (Dis)locations of the Sodomitic Subject

Presenter 4 Name

Gregory S. Hutcheson

Start Date

8-5-2014 1:30 PM

Session Location

Valley II LeFevre Lounge

Description

The Society for the Study of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages (SSHMA) invites all papers that explore any queer topic within works that discuss (1) either the Medieval Mediterranean world or (2) were written by Mediterranean authors. While European Mediterranean medieval and early modern studies has benefited from numerous edited essays like Queer Iberia (eds. Josiah Blackmore and Gregory Hutcheson) and more recently The Poetics of Masculinity in Early Modern Italy and Spain (eds. Geryy Milligan and Jane Tylus), SSHMA encourages abstracts from all disciplines that discuss all of Western and Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Northern Africa and the Ottoman Empire. Some of the disciplines that we hope to involve in this discussion include but are not limited to vernacular and Medieval Latin literatures, medieval political theory, philosophy, theology, and art history.

Graham N. Drake