Earlier this year we got to interview Carol Mejia LaPerle about Shakespeare, affect, and pedagogy. Find more of her insights on Throughlines. throughlines-asu.webflow.io/scholars/car...

What books are the #RaceB4Race Mentorship Network reading this semester? Check out the reading list from Folger Shakespeare Library. www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

If you couldn't make it to #RaceB4Race Love last month the recordings are now available online! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Friends the Playlist for LOVE: A #RaceB4Race Symposium is up on YouTube!!! Check out the 🔥🔥!! #ShakeRace #earlymodern #BlackSky #historysky youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Did you see Ian McKellen on The Late Show?? "But chartered unto them, what would you think To be thus used? this is the strangers case; And this your mountanish inhumanity." youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag?... Throw back this piece from Ruben Espinosa from 2019. tinyurl.com/s8nb6mww

Join our ASU colleague Michael Ostling and contributors today at 9 am MST for a webinar on Revitalizing the Feminist Historiography of Witchcraft with UPenn Press 🧙‍♀️ www.pennpress.org/events/revit...

And the great Abdulhamit Arvas on Milton for our last talk of Love: A #RaceB4Race Symposium before our keynote this evening! Tune in here: news.asu.edu/asulive

Zhang mobilizes similarities between her ESL confusion of closet/cabinet with early modern overlap of the two. shows in the escritorio a tension between devotional display and cabinetted violence.

We're starting back up after lunch with Yunning Zhang, asking the question, "how do you queer an early modern cabinet?" Tune in now: news.asu.edu/asulive #RaceB4Race

Giving us a peek into her fabulous book, *The Other Faces of Arthur* Talk is combining rigorous close readings, pcrs, & terrific storytelling and clear LOVE for the work. Making me want to read the Yvain texts. (or maybe take a class from her 😂 ) www.pennpress.org/978151282488...

“The Freedom to do research gives me a place to plant my feet” 🥹🥹 I would go to any Happy Hate Party she throws! #ShakeRace

Tune in now for Nahir Otaño Gracia on Chivalric whiteness—it's day 2 of #RaceB4Race Love! news.asu.edu/asulive

Sanchez uses Xandra Ibarra to think outline the ways Queer Feminist of Color/Queer of Color critique is read (or not) "We relegate them to the ashes of history rather than learn from them." #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace www.xandraibarra.com/ashes-femini...

Getting started now with Melissa Sanchez on race and queer studies. Tune into Love: A #RaceB4Race Symposium now! news.asu.edu/asulive

If you missed yesterday online, it's available now at news.asu.edu/asulive be sure to tune in at 10 for the first talk of the second day of Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium!

Denva Gallant talked to KJZZ 91.5 FM The Show about #RaceB4Race Love and about representations of Blackness in the Middle Ages. "How does race inform the way we conceive of love? And how do we love in times of turmoil?" www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...

“The labia vibes might not be as present” Love watching the medievalists at work. 😂 #RaceB4Race

So wonderful!

Amazing talk, elegantly delivered. You can feel the love and fierceness through the screen. Powerful reading blackness as fundamental and necessary in the book’s cosmology. I’ve been waiting years for someone knowledgeable enough to wade the thicket of alchemy and race. 🥹🖤🖤🖤

And now the incredible Denva Gallant on race in medieval alchemy! Tune in here: news.asu.edu/asulive #RaceB4Race

We're back with our next speaker, Thelma Trujillo, who is reminding us how bonkers medieval saint narratives are. You can tune in here: news.asu.edu/asulive #RaceB4Race

"I believe *Othello* should be a Black play." That is the only way we can perform it without subjecting Black actors to the violence of the play.

We need more "only answer if it's fun" questions at conferences!!!! #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace

De'Aris Rhymes asking how the Black arts movement influences and reshapes our understanding of contemporary Shakespeare productions. Tune in here: news.asu.edu/asulive #RaceB4Race

A complete reframing of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales by the incredible Thai-Catherine Matthews 🤯. We’re just getting started, too. Tune in here: news.asu.edu/asulive #RaceB4Race

I'm already 😭!! Ayanna drawing on bell hooks, being truthful about how faculty are encouraged to mock students who talk about their love in applications and noting that the #RaceB4Race community has long loved a field that often did not love us back. #ShakeRace

Things are getting started with the great Ayanna Thompson! Tune in now: news.asu.edu/asulive #RaceB4Race

Are you ready for Love? Starting tomorrow—whether you're here in person or tuning in on the livestream, we're so excited to spend the next two days thinking, learning, and loving with everyone! There's still time to sign up, so get on it! acmrs.asu.edu/RaceB4Race/s...

THIS WEEK! Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium is in-person in Tempe and online. Check out the program for schedule and more information on our speakers: asuevents.asu.edu/event/love-r... Register today: na.eventscloud.com/raceb4race-l...

In early modern Europe theatre was the mass media. From street performances to court theaters, early modern plays laid the groundwork of racializaiton and what Noémie Ndiaye calls "the racial matrix." Find her full talk on Throughlines. www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...

Anyone else buzzing about meeting the legendary Nile Rodgers at Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium? Here's his incredible @npr.org Tiny Desk Concert recording from 2023, which we've got going on repeat here at ASU. youtu.be/pRERgcQe-fQ?...

Check out @acmrs.bsky.social’s Throughlines if you don’t know it already: www.throughlines.org

"He cited ASU’s charter mission and specifically its emphasis on 'fundamental responsibility' for the communities it serves . . . 'ASU seemed to me to be doing something very right in its commitment to inclusion,' Padilla Peralta said." www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

End of semester quiz: what’s the through line between a Renaissance pope and the 21st-century US Supreme Court? See the full video on The Doctrine of Discovery from Scott Manning Stevens on throughlines-asu.webflow.io/suite-conten...

Freak out! Register for the keynote event for Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium is legendary musician and songwriter Nile Rodgers. Nile is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee and a multiple Grammy Award winning artist. Save your spot: na.eventscloud.com/asu-nile-rod...

RaceB4Race First and Second Book Institutes deadline has been extended until Friday! Apply this week to join a cohort of PCRS scholars to work on your book projects. acmrs.asu.edu/RaceB4Race/F...

Such good news for ASU!

Welcome to ASU @platanoclassics.bsky.social! “Dan-el Padilla Peralta is in the vanguard of scholars working to ensure that the complexities of the past are not flattened in service to the monochrome myths of our day,” said Jeffrey Cohen, dean of humanities at ASU. news.asu.edu/b/20251112-d...

Got a PCRS book project? Looking for community and guidance in the process? The RaceB4Race First and Second Book Institutes are here for you! Run by @folger.edu the institutes connect scholars with readers and experts. First book: forms.gle/ht75W13xphDj... Second book: forms.gle/gMSuCSjUj9dH...

Thank you to Andrea Myers Achi for your contributions to Throughlines! Learn about the pedagogy of careful curation and how exhibitions can confront power structures, reshape public understandings of history, and highlight racial and cultural complexity. www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...

Thank you to everyone who attended "Shakespeare now but not Hamlet again" last night with the brilliant Emma Smith! Thoughtful, compelling, funny, and revelatory. And thank you Emma Smith for the lecture and filming with Throughlines! More to come soon!

Hope to see you tomorrow for 'Shakespeare now — but not Hamlet again' an evening lecture with renowned scholar Emma Smith. Where she will offer an answer to the question, what is the Shakespeare play that best speaks to this historical moment? na.eventscloud.com/emma-smith

A book salon for The Sweet Taste of Empire by @profkfh.bsky.social? Tonight? Yes please! Still time to get your tickets. See you there! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-sweet-...

Applications are open for the RaceB4Race First and Second Book Institutes @acmrs.bsky.social. @mhanses.bsky.social and I took part in the 2024 Second Book Institute with our Cicero project, and we learned so much from early modernists. Cannot recommend enough! acmrs.asu.edu/RaceB4Race/F...

Monday, Oct. 20, ASU English professors Larissa FastHorse, Michael John Garcés and Ty Defoe facilitate an evening of Indigenous stories: "Native Nation Project"—a book launch, reading and discussion of the collaborative work. More: ow.ly/jBf050XcKRm #ASUHumanities @acmrs.bsky.social

Join us on Monday October 20 for an incredible book launch event with Larissa FastHorse, Michael John Garcés and Ty Defoe. And check out this interview with them about their work and an upcoming Oronooko adaptation... (!) news.asu.edu/20251016-art...

Last week BTS with Cassie L. Smith for Throughlines. Her scholarship explores the long history of Black literature from Olaudah Equiano to Phillis Wheatley to Black-ish. Be on the lookout for more!

What is the Shakespeare play that speaks to our current moment? Oxford professor Emma Smith has ideas: definitely not Hamlet. Join us for her talk on November 6 to hear her thoughts on the play that reflects some of our concerns, and use its fictions for good. na.eventscloud.com/ereg/index.p...

Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium is now open for registration! What does it mean to love in a time of turmoil, and what can the premodern world teach us about this? How do we negotiate loving a being, a nation, a profession that fails to love us back? na.eventscloud.com/raceb4race-l...

Yale professor Tarren Andrews understands the importance of language. She teaches her students that law is a linguistic technology shaped by culture. Find more of her thoughts and pedagogy including videos and reading lists on Throughlines. www.throughlines.org/scholars/tar...