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- by Igor Dombrovsky and +2
  Konstantin Popadin
  Tanya Leibman
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- Biology

Human Mice Mitochondrial DNA Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) deletions have been reported to accumulate to high levels in substantia nigra of older humans, and these mutations are suspected of causing age-related degeneration in this area. We... more

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- by Nahir I . Otaño Gracia and +1
  Daniel Armenti
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  Medieval Women, Medieval Mysticism

This study emphasizes the peripheries of Europe, investigating the similarities and differences between the Medieval Arthurian Tristan tales written in Spain and Scandinavia; demonstrating how each culture deals with the material... more

A panel discussion for the 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 11–14, 2017, Kalamazoo, MI Organizers: Nahir I. Otaño Gracia, University of Pennsylvania; Daniel Armenti, University of Massachusetts; Samantha Pious,... more

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- by Nahir I . Otaño Gracia and +1
  Daniel Armenti
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  Translation Studies, Medieval Literature, Medieval Studies, Atlantic World

Pg. 1 of "Constructing Prejudice in the Middle Ages and the Repercussions of Racism Today." Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality 53, no. 1 (2017) : 176-201.

Available at: http://ir.uiowa.edu/mff/vol53/iss1/11

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- by Nahir I . Otaño Gracia and +1
  Daniel Armenti
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  Medieval Literature, Medieval Studies, Race and Racism

The article "Representing Kin(g)ship in Medieval Irish Literature" is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License and can be downloaded for free from this site:... more

Looking Ahead: Global Encounters in the North Atlantic, ca. 350–1300 A special dossier in Viator Co-edited by Nahir Otaño Gracia, Nicole Lopez-Jantzen, and Erica Weaver In the last few years, several urgent interventions have begun to... more

Looking Ahead: Global Encounters in the North Atlantic, ca. 350–1300

A special dossier in Viator

Co-edited by Nahir Otaño Gracia, Nicole Lopez-Jantzen, and Erica Weaver

In the last few years, several urgent interventions have begun to reshape medieval studies as a more capacious and inclusive field. Scholars such as Geraldine Heng, Monica Green, and Michael Gomez have expanded our understanding of the multifaceted interactions between and among Africa, Asia, Europe, and elsewhere, while Adam Miyashiro and Mary Rambaran-Olm have urged us to reassess the North Atlantic in particular. Traditionally, scholars have tended to work within national borders or to focus on how North Atlantic cultures changed the rest of the globe rather than how they were themselves changed by global interactions, with drastic consequences for our field––especially for our earliest periods.

In order to continue these important conversations and to expand what our scholarship can look like going forward, this special essay cluster seeks to provide a platform for early-career scholars to propose new critical directions for the study of the early medieval North Atlantic, broadly encompassing ca. 350–1300. We thus invite short, rigorous interventions (2000–3500 words each), in the model of the popular conference genre of “lightning talks.” In particular, we seek imaginative new work that expands the contours of early medieval studies and challenges, or transgresses, its standard disciplinary, temporal, and linguistic boundaries. Following the example set by the IONA: Islands of the North Atlantic conferences, we reject the unproductive disciplinary divides that have separated the study of England, Wales, Ireland, Francia, Scandinavia, the Iberian Peninsula, Africa, and even the Mediterranean both from each other and from points further afield along the Atlantic rim and beyond. We also aim to break down the divisions that have artificially separated Late Antiquity and the early and high Middle Ages. We are intentionally leaving this call for papers very broad, because we come from the perspective that the global does not exclude the local, and vice-versa. Moreover, the insular can be archipelagic. We welcome essays that bring together North Atlantic and Mediterranean Studies, or that read what has been seen as national literature from a transnational perspective.

In the spirit of emerging from our own linguistic silos and in Viator’s usual practice, we thus welcome work from scholars writing in English, Spanish, and French. Additionally, we particularly invite work from graduate students, postdocs, independent scholars, and members of the precariat as well as contributions that are explicitly feminist, queer, anti-racist, and decolonial. We would like to be as inclusive as possible, so please contact us if you have any questions.

Short abstracts of around 200 words are due by December 2 to ViatorIssue@gmail.com, with essays to be submitted by January 15.

Creando el futuro: encuentros globales en el Atlántico Norte, ca. 350-1300 Un dossier especial para la revista Viator Coeditado por Nahir Otaño Gracia, Nicole Lopez-Jantzen y Erica Weaver Los escritos puntuales de académicos como... more

Creando el futuro: encuentros globales en el Atlántico Norte, ca. 350-1300

Un dossier especial para la revista Viator Coeditado por Nahir Otaño Gracia, Nicole Lopez-Jantzen y Erica Weaver

Los escritos puntuales de académicos como Geraldine Heng, Mónica Green, Sharon Kinoshita y Michael Gómez han transformado las investigaciones medievales para hacerla más inclusivas y abarcadoras. Sus escritos han expandido nuestro entendimiento de las multifacéticas interacciones entre África, Asia, Europa y otros confines del mundo. Este dossier insta a revalorar al Atlántico norte de forma similar. Tradicionalmente, los académicos han trabajado el tema medieval dentro de las fronteras y límites nacionales. Sus estudios se enfocan en cómo las culturas del Atlántico norte cambiaron el resto del mundo en lugar de entender que estas culturas fueron transformadas a su vez por interacciones globales. Este enfoque tradicional moldeó la manera en que vemos la época medieval antigua, y conlleva consecuencias drásticas para nuestro campo.

Con el fin de contribuir en estas importantes conversaciones y expandir nuestras opciones de estudio e investigación, este volumen especial de ensayos busca crear una plataforma para que los jóvenes académicos propongan nuevas direcciones críticas para el estudio del Atlántico del norte. Los invitamos que propongan ensayos cortos y rigurosos que abarquen épocas desde el 350 hasta el 1300. Se espera, además, que utilicen el modelo de "charlas cortas" (2000-3500 palabras). En particular, buscamos un nuevo modelo imaginativo que permita expandir los contornos de los estudios medievales y que desafíe o busque transcender los límites disciplinarios, temporales y lingüísticos estándares de la academia. Siguiendo el ejemplo establecido por las conferencias de las Islas del Atlántico del Norte (IONA): rechazamos las divisiones disciplinarias improductivas que han separado el estudio de Inglaterra, Gales, Irlanda, Francia, Escandinavia, la Península Ibérica, África e incluso el Mediterráneo. También pretendemos desglosar las divisiones que han separado artificialmente la antigüedad tardía y la edad media. Esta convocatoria es intencionalmente amplia porque partimos desde la perspectiva de que lo global no excluye lo local ni viceversa. Además, lo insular puede ser parte del archipiélago. También deseamos recibir ensayos que trabajen los estudios del Atlántico norte y del Mediterráneo que analicen lo que se ha entendido como literatura nacional desde una perspectiva transnacional y global.

En el espíritu de liberarnos de nuestros propios silos lingüísticos y siguiendo la práctica habitual de Viator, buscamos ensayos académicos escritos en inglés, español y francés. Además, esperamos ensayos escritos particularmente por estudiantes graduados, posdoctorados, académicos independientes, así como contribuciones que sean explícitamente feministas, queer, antirracistas y descolonizantes. Nos gustaría ser lo más inclusivos posible, así que contáctenos si tiene alguna duda.

Abstractos cortos de 200 palabras se pueden enviar antes del 2 de diciembre a ViatorIssue@gmail.com. Deseamos el ensayo final para el 15 de enero.

Convocatoria en ingles: https://cmrs.ucla.edu/news/call-for-abstracts-global-encounters-in-the-north-atlantic-ca-350-1300/

Medieval North Atlantic Studies, which is broadly defined as the study of the British Isles, Iceland, Scandinavia, the English Channel, and the Low Countries, has a tendency to research two types of interactions. First, it focuses on... more

Arthurian literature had an enthusiastic reception in Scandinavia. The Norwegian King Hákon Hákonarson (1217–1263) commissioned translations of Brother Thomas’ Tristan legend and Chrétien de Troyes’s romances as a form of entertainment in... more

Medieval North Atlantic Studies, which is broadly defined as the study of the British Isles, Iceland, Scandinavia, the English Channel, and the Low Countries, has a tendency to research two types of interactions. First, it focuses on... more

Introduction to Viator's special cluster "Global Exchanges in the North Atlantic, CA. 350-1300 With essays by: Marian E. Polhill A. Joseph McMullen Andrew Russo Antonia Carcelén-Estrada Elizabeth Watkins Alison Hudson Gillian L. Gower... more

The Other Faces of Arthur lays bare the role of Arthuriana in creating the racial logics of Medieval Europe through an analysis of the construction of whiteness in the Global North Atlantic—Scandinavia, Britain, Iberia, and North Africa.... more

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