Race & Gender in the Global Middle Ages Working Group

Race & Gender in the Global Middle Ages is a working group open to all medievalists, including graduate students. The aim is to bring together scholars from various disciplines who work on Africa, the Mongols and Asia, the Islamic world, and Europe and the Mediterranean, to discuss works-in-progress that deal with race and gender from 500 CE to 1600 CE. 

Monthly Zoom meetings will discuss pre-circulated drafts of book chapters, articles, position pieces, or a reading that is of interest to the group. Presenters will give a brief 5-minute introduction to their work and a designated responder will begin the discussion with a few questions before opening it up to the rest of the group. 

The group is organized by Michelle Armstrong-Partida, Associate Professor of History at Emory University whose research focuses on gender, sexuality, and women’s history in Iberia and the Mediterranean. This program is sponsored in part by the Medieval Academy of America.

The first meeting will take place on February 17, 2023 from 12:00–1:30pm EST.

SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS & PRESENTERS

Please register to for the group email list to receive a link to meetings or to express your interest in presenting a work in-progress.