Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

RaceB4Race Love - YouTube Recordings from the January 2026 Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium.This symposium explored the concept of love in the broadest sense. How does race inform the way...

If you couldn't make it to #RaceB4Race Love last month the recordings are now available online!
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RaceB4Race Love - YouTube Recordings from the January 2026 Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium.This symposium explored the concept of love in the broadest sense. How does race inform the way...

Friends the Playlist for LOVE: A #RaceB4Race Symposium is up on YouTube!!! Check out the 🔥🔥!! #ShakeRace #earlymodern #BlackSky #historysky
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Shakespeare and Your Mountainish Inhumanity by Ruben Espinosa | The privately funded border wall erected along a half-mile of mountainous terrain on the U.S. Mexico border…

Did you see Ian McKellen on The Late Show?? "But chartered unto them, what would you think
To be thus used? this is the strangers case;
And this your mountanish inhumanity."
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Throw back this piece from Ruben Espinosa from 2019.
tinyurl.com/s8nb6mww

Revitalizing the Feminist Historiography of Witchcraft - University of Pennsylvania Press Please join us on Wednesday, January 28 at 12 p.m. ET for the webinar “Revitalizing the Feminist Historiography of Witchcraft” hosted by the journal Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft and the... READ MORE

Join our ASU colleague Michael Ostling and contributors today at 9 am MST for a webinar on Revitalizing the Feminist Historiography of Witchcraft with UPenn Press 🧙‍♀️
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And the great Abdulhamit Arvas on Milton for our last talk of Love: A #RaceB4Race Symposium before our keynote this evening! Tune in here: news.asu.edu/asulive

It will! You should be able to view it on news.asu.edu/asulive for the next day or two, and we'll have it up sometime next week on our YouTube channel.

Zhang mobilizes similarities between her ESL confusion of closet/cabinet with early modern overlap of the two. shows in the escritorio a tension between devotional display and cabinetted violence.

We're starting back up after lunch with Yunning Zhang, asking the question, "how do you queer an early modern cabinet?" Tune in now: news.asu.edu/asulive #RaceB4Race

Giving us a peek into her fabulous book, *The Other Faces of Arthur* Talk is combining rigorous close readings, pcrs, & terrific storytelling and clear LOVE for the work. Making me want to read the Yvain texts. (or maybe take a class from her 😂 )

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“The Freedom to do research gives me a place to plant my feet” 🥹🥹

I would go to any Happy Hate Party she throws!
#ShakeRace

Tune in now for Nahir Otaño Gracia on Chivalric whiteness—it's day 2 of #RaceB4Race Love! news.asu.edu/asulive

Sanchez uses Xandra Ibarra to think outline the ways Queer Feminist of Color/Queer of Color critique is read (or not) "We relegate them to the ashes of history rather than learn from them." #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace

www.xandraibarra.com/ashes-femini...

Getting started now with Melissa Sanchez on race and queer studies. Tune into Love: A #RaceB4Race Symposium now! news.asu.edu/asulive

If you missed yesterday online, it's available now at news.asu.edu/asulive be sure to tune in at 10 for the first talk of the second day of Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium!

This art historian says Blackness in the Middle Ages wasn't viewed the same way as it is today Denva Gallant is an assistant professor of art history at Rice University and she’ll be speaking at the ASU symposium. She’s a medievalist and an art historian, and she studies ideas of Blackness in t...

Denva Gallant talked to KJZZ 91.5 FM The Show about #RaceB4Race Love and about representations of Blackness in the Middle Ages. "How does race inform the way we conceive of love? And how do we love in times of turmoil?"

www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...

“The labia vibes might not be as present” Love watching the medievalists at work. 😂 #RaceB4Race

So wonderful!

Amazing talk, elegantly delivered. You can feel
the love and fierceness through the screen. Powerful reading blackness as fundamental and necessary in the book’s cosmology. I’ve been waiting years for someone knowledgeable enough to wade the thicket of alchemy and race. 🥹🖤🖤🖤

And now the incredible Denva Gallant on race in medieval alchemy! Tune in here: news.asu.edu/asulive #RaceB4Race

We're back with our next speaker, Thelma Trujillo, who is reminding us how bonkers medieval saint narratives are. You can tune in here: news.asu.edu/asulive #RaceB4Race

"I believe *Othello* should be a Black play." That is the only way we can perform it without subjecting Black actors to the violence of the play.

We need more "only answer if it's fun" questions at conferences!!!! #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace

De'Aris Rhymes asking how the Black arts movement influences and reshapes our understanding of contemporary Shakespeare productions. Tune in here: news.asu.edu/asulive #RaceB4Race

A complete reframing of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales by the incredible Thai-Catherine Matthews 🤯. We’re just getting started, too. Tune in here: news.asu.edu/asulive #RaceB4Race

We got you!!

I'm already 😭!! Ayanna drawing on bell hooks, being truthful about how faculty are encouraged to mock students who talk about their love in applications and noting that the #RaceB4Race community has long loved a field that often did not love us back. #ShakeRace

Things are getting started with the great Ayanna Thompson! Tune in now: news.asu.edu/asulive #RaceB4Race

Are you ready for Love? Starting tomorrow—whether you're here in person or tuning in on the livestream, we're so excited to spend the next two days thinking, learning, and loving with everyone! There's still time to sign up, so get on it! acmrs.asu.edu/RaceB4Race/s...

THIS WEEK! Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium is in-person in Tempe and online. Check out the program for schedule and more information on our speakers: asuevents.asu.edu/event/love-r...

Register today: na.eventscloud.com/raceb4race-l...

In early modern Europe theatre was the mass media. From street performances to court theaters, early modern plays laid the groundwork of racializaiton and what Noémie Ndiaye calls "the racial matrix." Find her full talk on Throughlines.
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