Netflix’s The Decameron - TSW Special Issue
updated:
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:30am
The So What (Arthuriana's Public Humanities Project)
deadline for submissions:
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
The So What welcomes proposals for short, public-facing pieces engaging with Netflix’s The Decameron for a special issue of TSW planned for web publication in late 2025.
We are interested in critical, pedagogical, and creative pieces that explore the Netflix series from a wide variety of angles and approaches, including: plague studies, the history of medicine and science, premodern critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, disability studies, adaptation theory, and so on. We particularly welcome pieces that consider how the series helps us think more about our own time, including but not limited to:
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How pandemics (re)shape art and the world;