March 2, 2022 - Acclaimed scholar and author Roland Betancourt, Ph.D., Professor of Art History at University of California Irvine, will be on campus on Monday, March 7, for a guest lecture at 6 p.m. in Broome Library 2325. He will speak about his current work on how gender, sexuality, and race were depicted and intertwined during the Middle Ages in the Greek-speaking Eastern Mediterranean world.
Focusing on the depiction of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos and his wife Maria of Antioch in a manuscript, now at the Vatican Library, Betancourt considers Byzantine approaches to gender, sexuality, and race in the twelfth century. Using the figure of Manuel as a case study, he considers how an intersectional approach allows us to better comprehend the dynamics of racialization in the premodern world, using our contemporary categories and vocabularies around racial justice as a lens for parsing out the nuances of the past and its archives.
Those who wish to attend should RSVP online.
For more information contact Amanda Sanchez at 805-437-3517 or amanda.sanchez@csuci.edu.
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