Transnationalism before the Nation?
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley
Organizer Name
Spencer Strub, Jenny Tan
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of California-Berkeley, Univ. of California-Berkeley
Presider Name
Elizaveta Strakhov
Presider Affiliation
Northwestern Univ.
Paper Title 1
"Of oo blood": Trajan and Transnationalism in Piers Plowman
Presenter 1 Name
Stephanie Pentz
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Northwestern Univ.
Paper Title 2
Transnationalism before, beyond, and even alongside the Nation
Presenter 2 Name
Susan Nakley
Presenter 2 Affiliation
St. Joseph’s College, New York
Paper Title 3
Constance's Sea Voyages: Disorienting Language in the Confessio amantis
Presenter 3 Name
Shyama Rajendran
Presenter 3 Affiliation
George Washington Univ.
Paper Title 4
The Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale
Presenter 4 Name
Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of California-Berkeley
Start Date
14-5-2015 10:00 AM
Session Location
Schneider 1235
Description
This panel looks to pose questions such as: what does it mean to describe transnationalism in a period before the nation-state? How can scholarship on the movement of medieval peoples, languages, and cultures across pre-national borders contribute to conversations and debates about transnationalism? Is it possible to speak of transnationalism before the nation? Given that recent work on contemporary transnationalism, such as Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih’s seminal volume on “minor transnationalism,” has framed itself as a corrective to the oversights and limitations of postcolonial studies, how might a transnational perspective be useful in thinking about “postcolonial medievalism” and postcolonialism’s currency in Medieval Studies throughout the last decade and a half? What does explicit engagement with transnationalism have to offer medievalists – perhaps alongside other approaches and methodologies, or in place of them? --Spencer Strub
Transnationalism before the Nation?
Schneider 1235
This panel looks to pose questions such as: what does it mean to describe transnationalism in a period before the nation-state? How can scholarship on the movement of medieval peoples, languages, and cultures across pre-national borders contribute to conversations and debates about transnationalism? Is it possible to speak of transnationalism before the nation? Given that recent work on contemporary transnationalism, such as Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih’s seminal volume on “minor transnationalism,” has framed itself as a corrective to the oversights and limitations of postcolonial studies, how might a transnational perspective be useful in thinking about “postcolonial medievalism” and postcolonialism’s currency in Medieval Studies throughout the last decade and a half? What does explicit engagement with transnationalism have to offer medievalists – perhaps alongside other approaches and methodologies, or in place of them? --Spencer Strub