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Intersectional Histories (HEC-AS-TERHIS-25)

HEC-AS-TERHIS-25

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Histories of gender, race, sexuality and disability are crucial, fascinating, and multifaceted – and they often went unacknowledged in overall accounts of the past. Exploring the potentials of an intersectional approach, the seminar asks what dynamics come into view when one looks at various forms of discrimination like racism, sexism, classism, ableism, ageism, cis- and heteronormativity not in isolation from one another, but rather pinpoints the ways in which they are interlocked. From the vantage point of different powerful hierarchies we will engage with these intersectional dynamics, also in terms of the identity formations, the normalizations, tokenizations and the emancipatory struggles that are and were connected with them. Our conversations will highlight transdisciplinary perspectives that allow us to trace complex trajectories, to diversify early modern as well as modern histories by focusing on experiences and subjectivities that have long been marginalized, and to ask what different histories such endeavours may generate. Along the way we will discuss secondary readings as well as primary sources and encounter some expert guest speakers. Each participant will be asked at one point to present a brief summary of the discussion in the previous session. There will also be an open session the contents of which will emerge from discussions within the seminar group. We will conclude our seminar with a field trip to explore the potential of anti-racist, anti-sexist and anti-ableist criticism in situ, as it were, in present-day Florence.
 

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