Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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Welcome to ASU @platanoclassics.bsky.social!
“Dan-el Padilla Peralta is in the vanguard of scholars working to ensure that the complexities of the past are not flattened in service to the monochrome myths of our day,” said Jeffrey Cohen, dean of humanities at ASU.
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“Dan-el Padilla Peralta is in the vanguard of scholars working to ensure that the complexities of the past are not flattened in service to the monochrome myths of our day,” said Jeffrey Cohen, dean of humanities at ASU.
news.asu.edu/b/20251112-d...
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Welcome to ASU @platanoclassics.bsky.social!
“Dan-el Padilla Peralta is in the vanguard of scholars working to ensure that the complexities of the past are not flattened in service to the monochrome myths of our day,” said Jeffrey Cohen, dean of humanities at ASU.
news.asu.edu/b/20251112-d...
“Dan-el Padilla Peralta is in the vanguard of scholars working to ensure that the complexities of the past are not flattened in service to the monochrome myths of our day,” said Jeffrey Cohen, dean of humanities at ASU.
news.asu.edu/b/20251112-d...
Got a PCRS book project? Looking for community and guidance in the process? The RaceB4Race First and Second Book Institutes are here for you! Run by @folger.edu the institutes connect scholars with readers and experts.
First book: forms.gle/ht75W13xphDj...
Second book: forms.gle/gMSuCSjUj9dH...
First book: forms.gle/ht75W13xphDj...
Second book: forms.gle/gMSuCSjUj9dH...
November 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Got a PCRS book project? Looking for community and guidance in the process? The RaceB4Race First and Second Book Institutes are here for you! Run by @folger.edu the institutes connect scholars with readers and experts.
First book: forms.gle/ht75W13xphDj...
Second book: forms.gle/gMSuCSjUj9dH...
First book: forms.gle/ht75W13xphDj...
Second book: forms.gle/gMSuCSjUj9dH...
Thank you to Andrea Myers Achi for your contributions to Throughlines!
Learn about the pedagogy of careful curation and how exhibitions can confront power structures, reshape public understandings of history, and highlight racial and cultural complexity.
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Learn about the pedagogy of careful curation and how exhibitions can confront power structures, reshape public understandings of history, and highlight racial and cultural complexity.
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Thank you to Andrea Myers Achi for your contributions to Throughlines!
Learn about the pedagogy of careful curation and how exhibitions can confront power structures, reshape public understandings of history, and highlight racial and cultural complexity.
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
Learn about the pedagogy of careful curation and how exhibitions can confront power structures, reshape public understandings of history, and highlight racial and cultural complexity.
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
Thank you to everyone who attended "Shakespeare now but not Hamlet again" last night with the brilliant Emma Smith! Thoughtful, compelling, funny, and revelatory. And thank you Emma Smith for the lecture and filming with Throughlines! More to come soon!
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Thank you to everyone who attended "Shakespeare now but not Hamlet again" last night with the brilliant Emma Smith! Thoughtful, compelling, funny, and revelatory. And thank you Emma Smith for the lecture and filming with Throughlines! More to come soon!
Hope to see you tomorrow for 'Shakespeare now — but not Hamlet again' an evening lecture with renowned scholar Emma Smith. Where she will offer an answer to the question, what is the Shakespeare play that best speaks to this historical moment?
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November 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Hope to see you tomorrow for 'Shakespeare now — but not Hamlet again' an evening lecture with renowned scholar Emma Smith. Where she will offer an answer to the question, what is the Shakespeare play that best speaks to this historical moment?
na.eventscloud.com/emma-smith
na.eventscloud.com/emma-smith
Last week BTS with Cassie L. Smith for Throughlines. Her scholarship explores the long history of Black literature from Olaudah Equiano to Phillis Wheatley to Black-ish. Be on the lookout for more!
October 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Last week BTS with Cassie L. Smith for Throughlines. Her scholarship explores the long history of Black literature from Olaudah Equiano to Phillis Wheatley to Black-ish. Be on the lookout for more!
What is the Shakespeare play that speaks to our current moment? Oxford professor Emma Smith has ideas: definitely not Hamlet. Join us for her talk on November 6 to hear her thoughts on the play that reflects some of our concerns, and use its fictions for good.
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October 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
What is the Shakespeare play that speaks to our current moment? Oxford professor Emma Smith has ideas: definitely not Hamlet. Join us for her talk on November 6 to hear her thoughts on the play that reflects some of our concerns, and use its fictions for good.
na.eventscloud.com/ereg/index.p...
na.eventscloud.com/ereg/index.p...
Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium is now open for registration!
What does it mean to love in a time of turmoil, and what can the premodern world teach us about this? How do we negotiate loving a being, a nation, a profession that fails to love us back?
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What does it mean to love in a time of turmoil, and what can the premodern world teach us about this? How do we negotiate loving a being, a nation, a profession that fails to love us back?
na.eventscloud.com/raceb4race-l...
October 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium is now open for registration!
What does it mean to love in a time of turmoil, and what can the premodern world teach us about this? How do we negotiate loving a being, a nation, a profession that fails to love us back?
na.eventscloud.com/raceb4race-l...
What does it mean to love in a time of turmoil, and what can the premodern world teach us about this? How do we negotiate loving a being, a nation, a profession that fails to love us back?
na.eventscloud.com/raceb4race-l...
Yale professor Tarren Andrews understands the importance of language. She teaches her students that law is a linguistic technology shaped by culture. Find more of her thoughts and pedagogy including videos and reading lists on Throughlines.
www.throughlines.org/scholars/tar...
www.throughlines.org/scholars/tar...
October 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Yale professor Tarren Andrews understands the importance of language. She teaches her students that law is a linguistic technology shaped by culture. Find more of her thoughts and pedagogy including videos and reading lists on Throughlines.
www.throughlines.org/scholars/tar...
www.throughlines.org/scholars/tar...
Abdulhamit Arvas creates classrooms spaces where discomfort sparks growth, where students wrestle with hard questions, and where they learn to read beyond their own assumptions and beliefs. You can read his teaching materials on Throughlines now. www.throughlines.org/scholars/abd...
September 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Abdulhamit Arvas creates classrooms spaces where discomfort sparks growth, where students wrestle with hard questions, and where they learn to read beyond their own assumptions and beliefs. You can read his teaching materials on Throughlines now. www.throughlines.org/scholars/abd...
Who's the grumpy uncle in your head 👴🏻? Patrica Akhimie joins Throughlines to talk about the importance of editing in Shakespeare.
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August 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Who's the grumpy uncle in your head 👴🏻? Patrica Akhimie joins Throughlines to talk about the importance of editing in Shakespeare.
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
"I work hard at not creating a narrative of totalizing war and despair." Geraldine Heng on teaching global premodern literature.
Be on the look out for more pedagogical resources from Heng coming soon from Throughlines.
Be on the look out for more pedagogical resources from Heng coming soon from Throughlines.
July 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"I work hard at not creating a narrative of totalizing war and despair." Geraldine Heng on teaching global premodern literature.
Be on the look out for more pedagogical resources from Heng coming soon from Throughlines.
Be on the look out for more pedagogical resources from Heng coming soon from Throughlines.
Did you hear? Ayanna Thompson was elected as a fellow to the British Academy! Please join us in congratulating her on this accomplishment. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...
July 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Did you hear? Ayanna Thompson was elected as a fellow to the British Academy! Please join us in congratulating her on this accomplishment. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...
👀 Is that our executive director Ayanna Thompson hanging out with the absolutely STACKED cast of The Public Theater's 12th Night??
July 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
👀 Is that our executive director Ayanna Thompson hanging out with the absolutely STACKED cast of The Public Theater's 12th Night??
Birthright citizenship isn’t only a legal construct, but it’s also a reproductive issue. Any attempt to narrow who qualifies as a citizen necessarily burdens the women whose bodies become the contested sites of national identity. More from Dan-el Padilla Peralta on citizenship and biopolitics:
July 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Birthright citizenship isn’t only a legal construct, but it’s also a reproductive issue. Any attempt to narrow who qualifies as a citizen necessarily burdens the women whose bodies become the contested sites of national identity. More from Dan-el Padilla Peralta on citizenship and biopolitics:
June 6 is National Higher Education Day! With that in mind enjoy our dean Jeffrey J. Cohen on the importance of the humanities on a panel hosted by ACMRS and Higher Ed Dive titled, "Now More Than Ever: The Humanities of the Future"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXHt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXHt...
June 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
June 6 is National Higher Education Day! With that in mind enjoy our dean Jeffrey J. Cohen on the importance of the humanities on a panel hosted by ACMRS and Higher Ed Dive titled, "Now More Than Ever: The Humanities of the Future"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXHt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXHt...
Want to participate in the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network? Get your application in now! Deadline extended to 5/25.
forms.gle/EKwB26DGq7Md...
forms.gle/EKwB26DGq7Md...
May 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Want to participate in the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network? Get your application in now! Deadline extended to 5/25.
forms.gle/EKwB26DGq7Md...
forms.gle/EKwB26DGq7Md...
Don't forget to apply for the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network! Mentees visit with expert scholars in PCRS over two semesters to discuss career development, work-life balance, writing, publishing, and cutting-edge research happening within PCRS.
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May 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Don't forget to apply for the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network! Mentees visit with expert scholars in PCRS over two semesters to discuss career development, work-life balance, writing, publishing, and cutting-edge research happening within PCRS.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
"False narrative framings in our culture have consequences." Watch Reframing the refugee narrative from Mayte Green Mercado on throughlines.org
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www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
May 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"False narrative framings in our culture have consequences." Watch Reframing the refugee narrative from Mayte Green Mercado on throughlines.org
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
False narratives about migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers are nothing new. Teaching premodern migration histories can
contextualize the present anti-immigrant rhetoric. Find Mayte Green-Mercado's full talk and exemplar syllabi on Throughlines.
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
contextualize the present anti-immigrant rhetoric. Find Mayte Green-Mercado's full talk and exemplar syllabi on Throughlines.
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
April 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
False narratives about migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers are nothing new. Teaching premodern migration histories can
contextualize the present anti-immigrant rhetoric. Find Mayte Green-Mercado's full talk and exemplar syllabi on Throughlines.
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
contextualize the present anti-immigrant rhetoric. Find Mayte Green-Mercado's full talk and exemplar syllabi on Throughlines.
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
Are you an early career scholar? Apply for the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network. 2-3 mentees are matched with expert scholars in premodern critical race studies. Discuss career development, collaboration, and publishing in the field of PCRS. Apps close 5/15
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April 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Are you an early career scholar? Apply for the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network. 2-3 mentees are matched with expert scholars in premodern critical race studies. Discuss career development, collaboration, and publishing in the field of PCRS. Apps close 5/15
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Who's going to SAA? Stop by the ACMRS table to chat all things Throughlines and ACMRS Press.
Do you have a project you'd like to pitch directly to the press? Email editor and publisher Jonathan Hope at [email protected] to connect during the conference.
See you
Do you have a project you'd like to pitch directly to the press? Email editor and publisher Jonathan Hope at [email protected] to connect during the conference.
See you
March 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Who's going to SAA? Stop by the ACMRS table to chat all things Throughlines and ACMRS Press.
Do you have a project you'd like to pitch directly to the press? Email editor and publisher Jonathan Hope at [email protected] to connect during the conference.
See you
Do you have a project you'd like to pitch directly to the press? Email editor and publisher Jonathan Hope at [email protected] to connect during the conference.
See you
Ambereen Dadabhoy challenges students to read premodern portrayals of Muslim people and compare how those portrayals speak to contemporary anti-Muslim and anti-Arab racist rhetoric.
View her full video here on Throughlines:
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
View her full video here on Throughlines:
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
February 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Ambereen Dadabhoy challenges students to read premodern portrayals of Muslim people and compare how those portrayals speak to contemporary anti-Muslim and anti-Arab racist rhetoric.
View her full video here on Throughlines:
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
View her full video here on Throughlines:
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
Ambereen Dadabhoy is on Throughlines! Watch the full video for "Islam and the West" to learn more about her methodologies for drawing on premodern travel narratives and the fiction of the conflict narrative between Islam and Arab cultures and the "West."
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
February 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Ambereen Dadabhoy is on Throughlines! Watch the full video for "Islam and the West" to learn more about her methodologies for drawing on premodern travel narratives and the fiction of the conflict narrative between Islam and Arab cultures and the "West."
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
"What have we made of our grief, and what has our grief made of us?" Joseph Mizhakiiyaasige Zordan in the penultimate talk this afternoon at #RaceB4Race Indigeneity
February 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
"What have we made of our grief, and what has our grief made of us?" Joseph Mizhakiiyaasige Zordan in the penultimate talk this afternoon at #RaceB4Race Indigeneity