Space, "Race," and Ethnicity

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Medieval Association of Place and Space (MAPS)

Organizer Name

Kathy Lavezzo

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Iowa

Presider Name

Kathy Lavezzo

Paper Title 1

"The Proude Court of Paradis": Explorations of Otherness in Middle English Romance

Presenter 1 Name

John A. Geck

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland

Paper Title 2

India in the Fifteenth Century

Presenter 2 Name

Galia Halpern

Presenter 2 Affiliation

DePauw Univ.

Paper Title 3

The Location of Desire: Refractions of Objecthood in Aucassin and Nicolette

Presenter 3 Name

Stefanie Goyette

Presenter 3 Affiliation

New York Univ.

Paper Title 4

"Rare" and Wondrous: Cannibalism and the Monstrous Races on Late Medieval and Early Modern Maps

Presenter 4 Name

Sarah L. Reeser

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Toronto

Start Date

13-5-2016 10:00 AM

Session Location

Schneider 1135

Description

This session considers how visual and literary depictions of space intersect with the construction of racial and/or ethnic alterities during the middle ages. It asks how space alternately authorizes and/or undermines fantasies of difference.

Kathy Lavezzo