“Exile, Diaspora, and Sovereignty: Rethinking the Medieval Canon on Indigenous Lands”
Workshop with Suzanne Conklin Akbari (IAS)
Tuesday, February 28th
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Friday, December 2, 10:30am – 12pm CST
Primary Reading
Suzanne Conklin Akbari, “Race, Environment, Culture: Medieval Indigeneity, Race and Racialization.” In A Cultural History of Race. Volume Two: A Cultural History of Race in the Medieval Age, edited by Thomas Hahn. 2021. 47-66.
Jodi A. Byrd, “Introduction.” In The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism. 2011. xv-xxxix.
Ann McGrath and Lynette Russell, “History’s Outsiders?: Global Indigenous Histories” In The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History, edited by Ann McGrath and Lynette Russell. 2021. 1-30.
Vanessa Watts. “Indigenous Place-Thought and Agency Amongst Humans and Non-Humans (First Woman and Sky Woman Go On a European World Tour!)” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 2.1 (2013): 20-34.
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Friday, November 11, 10:30am – 12pm CST
Primary Reading
Arvin, Maile. “Analytics of Indigeneity.” In Native Studies Keywords, edited by Stephanie Nohelani Teves, Andrea Smith, and Michelle H. Raheja. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 2015. 119-129.
Duperron, Brenna. “Ghostly Consciousness in The Book of Margery Kempe.” ELN 58.2 (2020): 121-135.
Hurley, Mary Kate. “Choosing a Past: Fictions of Indigeneity in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.” In American/Medieval Goes North: Earth and Water in Transit, edited by Gillian R. Overing and Ulrike Wiethaus. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2019. 137–66.
Recommended Reading
Andrews, Tarren and Wallace Cleaves. “Indigenous Futures and Medieval Pasts: A Conversation.” ELN 58.2 (2020): 167-179.
Cleaves, Wallace. “From Monmouth to Madoc to Māori: The Myth of Medieval Colonization and an Indigenous Alternative.” ELN 58.2 (2020): 21-34.
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Friday, October 7, 9:30 – 11am CST
Primary Reading
Altschul, Nadia. Politics of Temporalization: Medievalism and Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century South America. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2020. 1-20.
Andrews, Tarren. “Indigenous Futures and Medieval Pasts:An Introduction.” ELN 58.2 (2020): 1-17.
Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society 1.1 (2012): 1– 40.
Recommended Reading
Dodds Pennock, Caroline and Amanda Power. “Globalizing Cosmologies.” Past & Present 238.13 (2018): 88-115. [READ PREVIOUSLY BY LEXICON]
Miyashiro, Adam. “Our Deeper Past: Race, Settler Colonialism, and Medieval Heritage Politics.” In “Critical Race and the Middle Ages,” edited by Dorothy Kim. Special issue, Literature Compass 16.9–10 (2019). [READ PREVIOUSLY BY LEXICON]
Andrews, Tarren and Wallace Cleaves. “Indigenous Futures and Medieval Pasts: A Conversation.” ELN 58.2 (2020): 167-179.