thanks to everyone who came to our conference last week! It was a great success, with papers about everything from the green knight to medieval musicals and @meganlcook.bsky.social ‘s keynote about medieval dirtbags. See you next year! 📚
A blackboard on which is written “welcome to pkms”
Our first round of panels were so thought provoking! More uncanny topics in the afternoon and at our keynote
I wrote this statement with my co-chair Chris to condemn the brutalization of student protestors at City College last night. Please share widely, and sign on if you are a CUNY medieval faculty or a PKMS member: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
We are members of the Pearl Kibre medieval study, a student group at the CUNY Graduate Center. Our conference on May 3, “The Medieval Uncanny”, explores how medieval texts present opportunities for resistance, textual or otherwise, that help us imagine different futures. That same kind of thinking has been seen in protests across the United States for the past two weeks, where students have been demanding that their schools divest from Israel, rather than be complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. So too at CUNY, where last week students, faculty and staff erected a solidarity encampment at City College, which included teach-ins, children’s programming, and a community assembly. Despite the encampment’s commitment to the principles of nonviolent resistance, on the night of April 30th, the NYPD was given permission by CUNY administration to enter campus, beating, pepper spraying, and arresting demonstrators. These are our students, faculty mentors, colleagues, and friends.
We condemn this assault on academic freedom and freedom of expression in the strongest possible terms. Our event brings together some of the brightest minds in our field from around the world. We refuse to let the Graduate Center benefit from the prestige and creativity of our event without condemning CUNY’s brutalization of students and faculty, including those from the Graduate Center. CUNY administration must apologize for violating the human rights of demonstrators, and engage with their demands for disclosure, divestment, and a free CUNY for all. As medievalists, we understand how history is viewed quite differently in the moment of its arrival than it is in retrospect. Any medieval organization that wishes to remain relevant must have the moral clarity to stand on the right side of history now: with student protestors, with academic freedom, and with the people of Gaza enduring an ongoing genocide. The members of PKMS and affiliates listed below are proud to take this stance.
Statement from individual members of the Pearl Kibre medieval study at the CUNY GC, written by co-chairs Emily and Chris, condemning CUNY's repression of students and violation of academic freedom last night April 30: docs.google.com/document/d/1... please share
If members and CUNY medieval faculty would like to sign on, do so here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
We are members of the Pearl Kibre medieval study, a student group at the CUNY Graduate Center. Our conference on May 3, “The Medieval Uncanny”, explores how medieval texts present opportunities for resistance, textual or otherwise, that help us imagine different futures. That same kind of thinking has been seen in protests across the United States for the past two weeks, where students have been demanding that their schools divest from Israel, rather than be complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. So too at CUNY, where last week students, faculty and staff erected a solidarity encampment at City College, which included teach-ins, children’s programming, and a community assembly. Despite the encampment’s commitment to the principles of nonviolent resistance, on the night of April 30th, the NYPD was given permission by CUNY administration to enter campus, beating, pepper spraying, and arresting demonstrators. These are our students, faculty mentors, colleagues, and friends.
We condemn this assault on academic freedom and freedom of expression in the strongest possible terms. Our event brings together some of the brightest minds in our field from around the world. We refuse to let the Graduate Center benefit from the prestige and creativity of our event without condemning CUNY’s brutalization of students and faculty, including those from the Graduate Center. CUNY administration must apologize for violating the human rights of demonstrators, and engage with their demands for disclosure, divestment, and a free CUNY for all. As medievalists, we understand how history is viewed quite differently in the moment of its arrival than it is in retrospect. Any medieval organization that wishes to remain relevant must have the moral clarity to stand on the right side of history now: with student protestors, with academic freedom, and with the people of Gaza enduring an ongoing genocide. The members of PKMS and affiliates listed below are proud to take this stance.
Statement from individual members of the Pearl Kibre medieval study at the CUNY GC, written by co-chairs Emily and Chris, condemning CUNY's repression of students and violation of academic freedom last night April 30: docs.google.com/document/d/1... please share
yes, that will come the day before the conference for security reasons
“The Medieval Uncanny”, a hybrid conference at the CUNY GC and on zoom May 3, 2024.
poster for our conference with @meganlcook.bsky.social which is coming up soon! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/pearl-kibr...
One more month! Register now for the hit conference of May ‘23, including papers on mystic weeping, homecoming in TGK, Arthurian dogs and more
Super excited for pretty much everything on the program, including (very selfishly) my own keynote in which I will attempt to make dirtbag medievalism talk to aesthetic theory!
Registration is now open for PKMS’s 2024 conference, “The Medieval Uncanny!” To be held in hybrid format on zoom and at the CUNY Grad Center on May 3. Our keynote speaker is Dr. Megan Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social on “Minor Medievalisms”. Please register now!
www.eventbrite.com/e/pearl-kibr...
Registration is now open for PKMS’s 2024 conference, “The Medieval Uncanny!” To be held in hybrid format on zoom and at the CUNY Grad Center on May 3. Our keynote speaker is Dr. Megan Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social on “Minor Medievalisms”. Please register now!
www.eventbrite.com/e/pearl-kibr...
MS for Catherine of Cleves at the Morgan, ft a Hellmouth
A bible stained with plant fiber to look purple with gold writing, the Morgan
Manuscript Friday! We visited the Morgan library and got to see their special exhibit on money and morality 😎
Mmmm, weird and messy, my favorite kind of medieval!
to answer some common questions: yes non medievalists can apply, yes you should apply if you’re an independent scholar or non academic, yes you can email us with questions at medieval.study@gmail.com
The cfp for PKMS’s annual conference is live, and we hope you’ll submit. The theme is “The Medieval Uncanny” and we hope to see papers that discuss the weird and messy aspects of the medieval period and our scholarship. Apply here by Jan 31!
An image of the arches from the Cloisters, NYC.
Hello!
This is the official account for the Pearl Kibre Medieval Study, the official graduate student group at the CUNY Graduate Center. We’ll be talking about our plans for the year soon, so stay tuned!