CRRS Working Group Spring Colloquium: Whiteness in the Early-Modern World Roundtables
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Part I of the 2020-21 CRRS Working Group: Whiteness in the Early-Modern World takes place on Friday, April 23, and features a series of roundtables in which workshop participants will each spend 5-7 minutes sharing their work in progress and drawing connections to readings from our 2020-2021 workshop series. Our schedule of workshop meetings and readings is available here.
While the study of blackness and indigeneity in the early modern world has been well established within diverse disciplines, the study of whiteness is a comparatively recent phenomenon. The 2020-2021 CRRS Working Group addresses the following questions (among others): How was whiteness defined, constructed, and depicted in the early modern world? What did it mean in terms of ideas about labor, class, nation, gender, and beauty? How were its boundaries delineated, and against whom was it held in opposition?
In attending to whiteness as a category of analysis, we seek to complicate our understanding of race in the early modern context by moving beyond those framings that primarily racialize black and indigenous subjects without considering the ways in which whiteness was constructed and necessarily operated as a racial category across time and space. We also explore the disciplinary and methodological frameworks we apply to our enquiry into the early modern world.
10:00-11:30 am: Labor and Embodiment
Dijana O. Apostolski
Chris Baldwin
Lucia Dacome
Elizabeth Mattison
Angela Zhang
11:30 am-1:00 pm: Lunch
1:00-2:30 pm: Gender, Sexuality, and Performance
Urvashi Chakravarty
Zainab Cheema
Alexandra Logue
VK Preston
Julia Rombough
Tamara J. Walker
10:00-11:30 am: Labor and Embodiment
Dijana O. Apostolski
Chris Baldwin
Lucia Dacome
Elizabeth Mattison
Angela Zhang
11:30 am-1:00 pm: Lunch
1:00-2:30 pm: Gender, Sexuality, and Performance
Urvashi Chakravarty
Zainab Cheema
Alexandra Logue
VK Preston
Julia Rombough
Tamara J. Walker
3:00-4:30 pm: Discourses of Belonging and Exclusion
Adriana Grimaldi
Elizabeth Pentland
Joel Rodgers
Lindsay Sidders
Elisa Tersigni