Tuesday, September 10, 2019

2019-2020 Schedule

Medieval Club of New York
Schedule 2019-2020


Welcome back to yet another academic year. We have a great line-up of talks this year and we have doubled down on coordinating talks with Friends of the Saints to bring a bigger audience together. Please mark your calendars now. I will circulate further details as we get them.

Oct 4: David Perry, Rossell Hope Robbins Speaker, 7:30 pm, 4406 CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th Ave.).

“8Chan Medievalism and Global White Supremacy”

Abstract: Over the last few years, white supremacists bearing medieval symbols have both marched and committed mass murder around the Anglophone world and throughout Europe. These manifestations of hate, though, are just the tip of a very ugly iceberg. David Perry, journalist and medieval historian, has spent the last few years tracking the connections between medievalism and hate on sites like 8chan, 4chan, and the Neo-Nazi website Stormfront. He argues that we need to understand even the most seemingly innocuous medieval chatter in these spaces as part of a new, dangerous, phenomenon to which everyone studying the medieval past must be ready to respond.


Nov 1: Susannah Crowder, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, John Jay College, CUNY (jointly sponsored by Medieval Club and Friends of the Saints). TBA. 7:30 pm, 4406 CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th Ave.)

Feb 7: Jen Brown, Department of English, Marymount Manhattan College (jointly sponsored by Medieval Club and Friends of the Saints). TBA. 7:30 pm, Location TBA

March 13: Chelsea Shields-Mas, Department of History, SUNY Old Westbury College (jointly sponsored by Medieval Club and Friends of the Saints), TBA. 7:30 pm, Location TBA

April 3: Tom O'Donnell, Department of English, Fordham University, TBA. (jointly sponsored by Medieval Club and Friends of the Saints). 7:30 pm, Location TBA

Finally, dues. We hope that members of the Medieval Club of New York will contribute their annual dues, which defray our expenses for post-talk receptions and the annual honorarium for our Rossell Hope Robbins Speaker.    Become, or continue as a member at our Paypal website, http://medievalclubofnewyork.blogspot.com/p/joining-medieval-club.html, ($27 regular; $12 graduate students) or address a check to the Medieval Club of New York ($25/$10) and send it to Emily S.Tai, Treasurer, 33-47  14th Street, 5A, Long Island City, New York, 11106.