BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hollins University - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hollins University X-ORIGINAL-URL: X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hollins University REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T203000 DTSTAMP:20260417T214714 CREATED:20240124T131536Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240124T131536Z UID:68159-1708025400-1708029000@www.ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½.edu SUMMARY:Author of "The Black Middle Ages\," Matthew X. Vernon DESCRIPTION:Vernon is the author of The Black Middle Ages: Race and the Construction of the Middle Ages\, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018\, which examines the influence of medieval studies on African American thought. Vernon focuses on nineteenth century uses of medieval texts to structure racial identity\, but also considers the flexibility of medieval narratives more broadly in the medieval period\, twentieth\, and twenty-first centuries. This book engages disparate discourses to reassess African American positionalities in time and space. Utilizing a transhistorical framework\, Vernon reflects on medieval studies as a discipline built upon a contended set of ideologies and acts of imaginative appropriation visible within source texts and their later mobilizations. An associate professor of English at the University of California\, Davis\, his academic interests include medieval literature\, travel narratives\, migration\, film\, and comic books. He earned his B.A. from Cornell University and completed his M.A.\, M.Phil.\, and Ph.D. at Yale University.\n\n \n\nSponsored by the Department of English and Creative Writing and the Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speaker Fund. URL:/event/author-of-the-black-middle-ages-matthew-x-vernon/ LOCATION:Hollins Room\, Wyndham Robertson Library\, 7916 Williamson Road\, Roanoke\, VA\, 24020\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event,Open to the Public,Readings END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR