What was interesting about #ISECS2019 — a quadrennial international conference — is how, among nearly 2K folks from across the globe, I often found myself in the company of people I already knew. I’m thinking about that a lot this (early for me) morning.
As the last revelers for #isecs2019 stagger cheerily to the dorms and the Fringe rolls in, I hop a very early flight. Bye for now, Edinburgh — you are a gem always. Now, some much-needed off-grid time, with only one nerdy day of notebook-making planned for three weeks!
#ISECS2019 souvenirs for newly-untweeded Emilies: Friedman et @Emnk (thanks to my @WalkerSlaterUK nerding)
Last session of #ISECS2019 - Researching, Writing, and Teaching Black and Minority Ethnic Identities: Where Are They Now?
#ISECS2019 Panel 380 what we lack in AV has been more than made up for by the quality of the papers. This is the most thought provoking panel I've attended at this conference.#QueerSwift
Panel 380 #ISECS2019 #QueerSwift Coykendall draws on an object studies piece (she promises share the link) that reads Gulliver as a possible dildo for the nurse in Book 2.
Panel 380 #ISECS2019 Abby Coykendall's Crusing Dystopia in #GulliverTravel, a nod to Muñoz's #CruisingUtopia, situates Swift's novel as both queer & crip, critiquing the heteronormative
#ISECS2019 Panel 380 @KleinUla Lady's Dressing Table reincorporates the abject into the object of desire. That shit also fertilizes: it is necessary. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50579/the-ladys-dr...
#ISECS2019 Panel 380 @KleinUla A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50580/a-beautiful-...
#ISECS2019 Panel 380 @KleinUla A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed: The campy narrator points to prosthetic nature of her body as opening to a ambiguously gendered reading. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50580/a-beautiful-...
#ISECS2019 Panel 380 @KleinUla A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed: Corinna's body decomposes as she undress, contrasting the idealized body with its porous & seeping reality. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50580/a-beautiful-...
#ISECS2019 Panel 380 @KleinUla on the queer mixture of desire, art, disgust & death in Swift's Progress of Beauty. The whimsy, the campiness of the poem queer's it representation of the abject. www.online-literature.com/swift/poems-of-swift/40/ (this was the first online...
#ISECS2019 Panel 380 @KleinUla opens with how her work on Swift's Decomosing Women & the Queer Art of Disgust has been inform d since #asecs19 by our special issue @ABOwomeninarts https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/abo/
Chair @DrDeclanK opens with points about accessibility, reading Jeremy Chow & @JuliaFtacek's abstracts (unable to join us person or Skype), along with reminders to pause with your neighbor at the start of the Q&A: is your question clear? Is it even a question #ISECS2019 Panel 380
After being moved from our assigned space, join us for Queer Swift in McEwan Hall. If you go to the room in then program, you will only find botanicals. #ISECS2019 Panel 380
#ISECS2019 Vidhya has a great response despite the ways the British were racially, culturally categorizing Africa & India as markedly different (still within a racist imperial framework), Sancho stands out in his epistolary positioning of South Asian as part of his community.
Panel 323 #ISECS2019 Swaminathan: Sancho represents how concepts of whiteness & blackness navigate empire
Panel 323 #ISECS2019 Swaminathan: to Wingrave he earns against oppressing people & corrupting wealth, but for Soubise, India is framed as offering salvation, both financial & spiritual
Panel 323 #ISECS2019 Swaminathan: & "the Fugitive" Julius Soubise, whom he earns to beware external dangers, mention ok ng the treatment of their race, mentioning slavery
Panel 323 #ISECS2019 Swaminathan How does he code switch in advice given to a white vs black correspondents in India: "the Nabob" Jack Wingrave with the #EIC who needs to avoid being corrupted internally by vulgar wealth &
Panel 323 #ISECS2019 Now Swaminathan turns to Sancho's letters. There he contextualized his experience of racism within the wider context of empire, including India. Image @Wikimedia
Panel 323 #ISECS2019 @pearl_nunn concludes with the valid point that we always knew women like this existed, such as the daughters of Ignatius Sancho & Oladauh Equiano.
Panel 323 #ISECS2019 Duck & Threscher's race isn't overtly mentioned. @pearl_nunn asks us to include free, educated, socially accepted women in #c18 #c19 Black Britain. Class seems to have determined more at this time. She doesn't reject the role of race/racism
Panel 323 #ISECS2019 @pearl_nunn Jane Harry Thresher born to a free, black slave owner. She gave up much of her inheritance when she converted to Quakerism, something Samuel Johnson complained of. Her conversion may have been related to her abolitionist leanings.
As Frances Singh pointed out earlier today, #c18 Britain was full of mixed race people from a variety of backgrounds. Ann Duck's letter & autobiography in the @OldBaileyOnline Ordinary shows that she was free & literate. #ISECS2019
#ISECS2019 Panel 323 @pearl_nunn the first recorded person of color was a woman around the 2nd Century CE. Shout-out for @MirandaKaufmann's #BlackTudors (& she's here!)
#ISECS2019 Panel 323 @pearl_nunn the writing (including published works) by women of African & Afro-Carribbean has been widely neglected by scholars.
Panel 323 #ISECS2019 Black British Writers. Sören Hammerschmidt presiding (once he arrived). @pearl_nunn & Srividhya Swaminathan presenting. Vidhya takes initiative & we begin.
Panel 295 #ISECS2019 forbidden to discuss politics, we do not see much abolitionist efforts by lodges. Individual members included abolitionist, ameliorist, & pro slavery. Albion Lodge in Barbados 1840 petitioned for membership to change from "freeborn" to "freeman"
Panel 295 #ISECS2019 James Walker, John Richardson Primrose Boby, Frederick Geasbert Zeeglaar; Williqm Fiefield; James Fraser, Joseph Rapier (who voted): despite the Moderns seeming more open racially to new members, black members appear in records for Ancients, too
