Relational Approaches to the Indigenous Turn

deadline for submissions: 
September 15, 2024
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ICMS 2025
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CALL FOR PAPERSPanel: “Relational Approaches to the Indigenous Turn” (in-person)
60th International Congress on Medieval StudiesKalamazoo, MichiganMay 9-10, 2025 In 2020, Bitterroot Salish scholar Tarren Andrews coined the term “Indigenous turn” when describing the recent medievalist engagement with Indigenous studies. Recent scholarship (e.g., Akbari 2023; Price 2024) demonstrates the potentials for an Indigenous turn that is relational when combined with other critical approaches such as trans theory, gender and sexuality studies, premodern critical race studies, the Global Middle Ages, and others. This panel asks for critical contributions that take up relational approaches to the Indigenous turn that ultimately challenge and depart from white, heteronormative subjectivities by accounting for complexity, nuance, liminality, and/or queerness in their analyses. Abstracts due September 15th, 2024 to the ICMS Confex site: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/cfp.cgiOrganized by Sarah LaVoy-Brunette & Jordan ChauncyContact: sfl39@cornell.edu