Roundtable: “Slowly Engaging with the Indigenous Turn” (in person)
60th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, Michigan
May 9-10, 2025
Roundtable: “Slowly Engaging with the Indigenous Turn”
In 2020, Bitterroot Salish scholar Tarren Andrews, in discussing the recent Indigenous turn in medieval studies, asks medievalists to “slow down” their engagement with Indigenous studies, “to be more deliberate, to be thoughtful, and to consider first the ethics of kinship and reciprocity that we owe Indigenous peoples, places, and communities who have labored to craft Indigenous studies as an academic field” (2). This roundtable asks medievalists to discuss their own internal work and process of slowing down–the self-reflection, self-examination, reassessment, and reorientation needed to ethically and critically engage with Indigenous studies.
Abstracts due September 15th, 2024 to the ICMS Confex site: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/cfp.cgi
Organized by Sarah LaVoy-Brunette & Tarren Andrews
Contact: sfl39@cornell.edu
