RSN Podcast
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages with Geraldine Heng
Geraldine Heng discusses the obstacles in conceptualizing race in premodernity and the evidence for racialized thinking in the European medieval period.
RSN Podcast
“The Fetish Revisited” with J. Lorand Matory
In this conversation, Matory explains how social theorists based in Enlightenment principles deployed simplistic interpretations of Afro-Atlantic religious traditions as a way to prove to their European audiences the similar “foolishness” of European political, economic, and religious policies.
RSN Podcast
Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz on the Nepalese Hindu Goddess Svasthani
Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz talks about the textual and limited iconographic history of the mysterious Nepalese Hindu goddess Svasthani.