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On March 10\, 2023\, join the UB C History Global Premodern Research Cluster for "Meetings in the margins: R eligious and Cultural Contact in Greenland and Sápmi Before 1550"\, a prese ntation by Dr. Cordelia Heß (Nordic History\, University of Greifswald).
The Global Premodern Research Cluster was est ablished to bring together a multidisciplinary community with shared and va ried interests in global premodern studies. It serves as a forum for facult y\, sessional and limited-term instructors\, postdoctoral fellows\, graduat e students\, and interested undergraduate students affiliated across depart ment at UBC as well as interested participants beyond UBC. The Global PreMo dern Research Cluster conceives of ‘premodern’ as global in its geographic breadth and flexibly ranging in its temporal scope from ancient times up to 1800 CE. The group embraces a plurality of perspectives to the past and th e evidence used to study the past\, including textual\, material\, oral\, a nd visual sources.
The Cluster is convened by Drs. Sara Ann Knutson\, John Christopoulos\, and Shoufu Yin. To be added to the mailing list or fo r other queries\, please contact Sara Ann Knutson at sa.kn utson@ubc.ca.
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Contact between Arctic and Fennoscandic peop les and Christian settlers and traders had occurred several centuries befor e missionaries became agents of European expansionism. Early contact betwee n the different groups is nevertheless primarily and inevitably interpreted as the beginnings of colonial domination\, and rarely as part of a politic al and religious strategy consciously adopted by Indigenous peoples and ana logous to\, for example\, the Christianisation of Scandinavian kings or the Scandinavian elite. As a consequence of this\, a form of preordained Europ ean dominance and superiority is often assumed – both in works informed by critical race theory and in traditional Scandinavian scholarship. In this p roject\, the scarce written sources will be re-examined with a focus on pre -modern constructions of race in Northern Europe.
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Cordelia Heß is p rofessor of Nordic History at the University of Greifswald. She holds a doc torate in Medieval and Modern History from the University of Hamburg (2007) and a “docentur” from the University of Stockholm (2013). Her research int erests cover the cultural and religious history of the Baltic Sea region\, medieval hagiography\, and antisemitism in a long-term historical perspecti ve. Her latest publications are The Medieval Archive of Antisemitism in Scandinavia (2021) and Antisemitism in the North (with Jonat han Adams\, 2020).
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