Advance registration for this Zoom webinar is required:
https://myumi.ch/BoYbQ

Part of the Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy webinar series:
https://myumi.ch/88W5V

Teaching about race and ethnicity through premodern Japanese literature poses a formidable challenge. This is not only because we lack a robust body of scholarship trained on this lens to assign on syllabi, but also because we have lacked academic gatherings such as RaceB4Race, where medievalists working on Europe have begun to think about the possibilities of race as an analytical category in relation to medieval texts. This presentation is therefore a call to getting started, to think creatively about how we can incorporate existing scholarship on social marginality, precarity, and otherness (on outcastes and pollution, on Hansen’s disease, on slavery and indentured servitude, on illness, on animals) to help students make broader connections.

Vyjayanthi Selinger is an Associate Professor of Asian Studies at Bowdoin College. Her research examines literary representations of conflict in medieval Japan, war memory, legal and ritual constraints of war, Buddhist mythmaking, and women in war.

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