For our initial meeting, we’ll be reading articles by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Sara Ahmed along with an excerpt from Isidore’s Etymologies. We also encourage participants to read the following short blogs and newspaper articles, which provide context for the current conversations in the field and the particular urgency of these issues for medievalists:

• “On Race and Medieval Studies” https://medievalistsofcolor.com/statements/on-race-and-medieval-studies/
• “Teaching Medieval Studies in a Time of White Supremacy” http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2017/08/teaching-medieval-studies-in-time-of.html
• “Medievalists, Recoiling from White Supremacy, Try to Diversify the Field” https://www.chronicle.com/article/Medievalists-Recoiling-From/240666
• “Racism, Medievalism, and the White Supremacists of Charlottesville” https://newrepublic.com/article/144320/racism-medievalism-white-supremacists-charlottesville
• “Race and Identity in Medieval Europe” https://www.aaihs.org/race-and-identity-in-medieval-europe/