We in the Material Collective have been watching the recent events on medieval social media with careful attention. The 10 of us in the Core Committee have been trying to find a way to contribute constructively to the situation. Some of this has been done in private correspondence, in part because this is where we […]
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Kalamazoo 2018: Material Collective
How do we and can we, as scholars of the Middle Ages and of medieval art, engage with the general public in the current political climate? A Call for Papers for the 2018 International Congress on Medieval Studies
Teaching Medieval Art History in a Time of White Supremacy
I find Washington’s armchair to be a fitting example for thinking about how to weaponize the medieval art history syllabus in 2017.
“Celtic” Crosses and White Supremacism
I want to clarify the difference between an Irish cross and a “Celtic” cross, and I want to propose that we approach visual symbols with a special kind of caution.