ira Assaf Kafantaris and Jennifer Higginbotham on royalty, race and gender

https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts125/v4/f3/76/2e/f3762e70-a7a6-a11f-07ad-0e0e0317c7ac/mza_14422016463602961559.jpg/600x600bb.jpg

A Bit Lit

53 episodes

9 months ago

As much of the world went into lockdown in spring 2020, we wanted to provide a platform for research and creativity, championing the brilliant arts and knowledge-making going on in the world right now across different sectors, time periods and disciplines in an informal, fun fashion. A Bit Lit is the result.Our website www.abitlit.co hosts conversations, talks, Q&As, readings and creative work from cool, groovy and interesting people. At a time when it can be easy to be caught between the two options of panicking or trying to switch our brains off, we hope this will be a fun and silly and good place to put your brain for a few minutes.Explore our library of conversation between researchers, performers, creatives, and makers of all sorts, where we discuss what it means to think about history, culture, and creativity. We also make videos driven by the passion of research and creative practice that are directed at all learners interested in exploring these questions at home.www.abitlit.co and follow us on twitter at @a_bit_lit

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

All content for A Bit Lit is the property of A Bit Lit and is served directly from their servers with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ira Assaf Kafantaris and Jennifer Higginbotham on royalty, race and gender

A Bit Lit

57 minutes 46 seconds

4 years ago

ira Assaf Kafantaris and Jennifer Higginbotham on royalty, race and gender

Mira Assaf Kafantaris (Butler University) talks to her mentor, friend, and collaborator Jennifer Higginbotham (The Ohio State University) about the politics of racialization and the embodied threat of foreign ruling women in the early modern period. They discuss how early moderns grappled with the racialized presence of foreign queens and how they became loci of competing ideologies. Finally, Assaf Kafantaris and Higginbotham reflect on the conversation surrounding Meghan Markle’s marriage into the British royal family, which sparked transatlantic, even global, conversations about race, nation, belonging, and reproduction. For more details on our films and further resources, go to our website at https://abitlit.co

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.