23-25 November 2020
Organised By:
International Centre on Racism, Edge Hill University, UK.
MONITOR Global Intelligence on Racism magazine, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Italy (EUI).
Department of History & Civilization, EUI.
What should be the place of race in historiography and historical practice? The last few decades have witnessed a flowering of the historical study of race. Yet most of this scholarship has been confined to late modern colonial, global, and postcolonial histories, with little interest from other fields. In medieval and early modern studies, the bulk of writing on race has been produced by those working in literature rather than history. And if we look to the big treatments of history that have been growing in popularity in the profession and the book trade in recent years, race barely features.
The aim of our conference is to confront this marginalization of race in history, and to consider how we can centre race in our discipline: theoretically, methodologically, and empirically. We are interested in submissions concerning every period of human history, and all fields in our discipline.
Claire Weeda will present her paper “Ethnic Stereotypes: Religion, Environmental Thought and Power in Western Europe 950-1250” on 24 November.
You can find the programme and register here.
The conference will begin at 15.00 CET each day to facilitate participation from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. ‘Allegedly Race: Rethinking the Political History of Early Mesopotamia’: Professor Xianhua Wang, Shanghai International Studies University, China.