IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Cameron Cross (University of Michigan) Abstract In her seminal monograph Medieval Boundaries, Sharon Kinoshita devotes a chapter to the Old French romance of Florie & Blancheflor, exploring how the story blurs, subverts, and (re)constructs multiple kinds of categories, including religion, language, class, and gender. Drawing from her method and analysis, this paper […]

IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Ben Raffield (Uppsala University) Abstract In this presentation, Dr Ben Raffield will present the work of an ongoing initiative that seeks to interrogate dimensions of social, political, and military organisation among decentralised polities in the historic and ancient past. These groups, many of which have traditionally been labelled–somewhat pejoratively–as ‘barbarians,’ loom large in […]

IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Varna Venugopal Abstract In recent years, the concept of climate apartheid has entered India’s environmental discourse, sparking debates on climate inequality and injustice, as deeply entrenched social hierarchies exacerbate the challenges of living through extreme weather events. This seminar traces the cultural imaginary of climate (in)justice in contemporary India. It […]