The following provides the schedule of texts that participants at the Lexicon Project seminars gathered to discuss inSpring quarter in the academic year 2020-21.
Friday April 9, 2021
Marshall GS Hodgson, “The Interrelations of Societies in History,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 5.2 (1963): 227-250.
Geraldine Heng, “A Global Middle Ages,” in A Handbook of Middle English Studies, ed. by Marion Turner (Chichester, 2013), 413-429.
Kathleen Davis and Michael Puett, “Periodization and the ‘Medieval Globe’: A Conversation,” The Medieval Globe 2 (2015): 1-14.
Sierra Lomuto, “Becoming Postmedieval: The Stakes of the Global Middle Ages,” postmedieval 11 (2020): 503–512.
Sharon Kinoshita, “Deprovincializing the Middle Ages,” in The Worlding Project: Doing Cultural Studies in the Era of Globalization, ed. by Rob Wilson and Christopher Leigh Connery (Berkeley, 2007), 61-75. [optional]
Geraldine Heng, “The Global Middle Ages: an Experiment in Collaborative Humanities, or Imagining the World, 500-1500 C.E” English Language Notes 47 (2009): 205-216. [optional]
Jessica Berman, “Is the Trans in Transnational the Trans in Transgender?” Modernism / Modernity 2 (2017) https://modernismmodernity.
Patrick Boucheron, “Overture,” in France in the World, 2019 (2017), xxxi-xxxix. [optional]
Friday April 23, 2021
Shahab Ahmed, What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic (Princeton, 2016), selections from chapter 1 “Six Questions About Islam”.
François-Xavier Fauvelle-Aymar, The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages, translated by Troy Trice (Princeton, 2018), introduction.
Monica Green, “The Four Black Deaths,” American Historical Review 125:5 (2020): 1601-31.
Cecily J. Hilsdale, “Worldliness in Byzantium and Beyond: Reassessing the Visual Networks of Barlaam and Ioasaph,” Medieval Globe 3.2 (2017): 57-96.
Marina Rustow, “Paper: The Search for a Sustainable Support,” in The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue (Princeton, 2020), 113-137.
Friday May 7, 2021
Catherine Holmes and Naomi Standen, “Introduction: Towards a Global Middle Ages,” Past & Present 238, Suppl. 13 (November 2018): 1–44.
Caroline Dodds Pennock and Amanda Power, “Globalizing Cosmologies,” Past & Present 238, Suppl. 13 (November 2018): 88–115.
Alan Strathern, “Global Early Modernity and the Problem of What Came Before,” Past & Present 238, Suppl. 13 (November 2018): 317–344.
Glen Dudbridge, “Reworking the World System Paradigm,” Past & Present 238, Suppl. 13 (November 2018): 297–316. [optional]
Roy Flechner, “Review Essay: How Far is Global?” Medieval Worlds 12 (2020): 255–266. [optional]
Alex West, “The Hemispheric Middle Ages,” Medieval Indonesia, 28 October 2019, https://indomedieval.medium.com/the-hemispheric-middle-ages-part-i-173779f237f6
Friday May 28, 2021
James Cuno. “Epilogue: Global History and the Art Museum,” in Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World through Illuminated Manuscripts, edited by Bryan C. Keene (Los Angeles, 2019), 249–254.
Mamadi Dembélé, Ahmed Ettahiri, Youssef Khiara, and Yousuf Abdallah Usman. “Fragments at Risk: The Protection of Cultural Heritage in Mali, Morocco, and Nigeria,” in Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa, edited by Kathleen Bickford Berzock (Evanston, 2019), 75–87.
Dan Hicks. The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution (London, 2020), 1-36.
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes. “Holding Living Bodies in Graveyards.” Africa Is a Country, January 21, 2021. https://africasacountry.com/2021/01/holding-living-bodies-in-graveyards
Andrea Myers Achi and Seeta Chaganti. “‘Semper novi quid ex Africa’: Redrawing the Borders of Medieval African Art and Considering Its Implications for Medieval Studies,” in Disturbing Times Medieval Pasts, Reimagined Futures, edited by Catherine Karkov, Anna Kłosowska, and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei (Santa Barbara, 2020), 73–106. [optional]
Flaminia Gennari-Santori, “An Art Collector and His Friends: John Pierpont Morgan and the Globalization of Medieval Art.” Journal of the History of Collections 27. 3 (2015): 401–411. [optional]
Questionnaire: “Decolonization.” October 174 (2020). Selections: Andrea Carlson (Ojibwe) (pp. 17-19), Elise Y. Chagas, Isabela Muci Barradas, and Paulina Pineda (pp. 20-26), Hannah Feldman (pp. 44-48). [optional]
NB: Participants unfamiliar with museum practices may also wish to consult John Zarobell, Art and the Global Economy (Oakland, California, 2017) for insight into how globalization is transforming collecting and exhibition practices, particularly the chapters “Museum Funding: Who Shapes Institutions?,” “Expansion and Diversification of Auction Houses,” and “The Art Market in the Margins.”