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Love: A RaceB4Race SymposiumCarson Ballroom, Old Main | Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona) | January 24-24, 2026In person and livestreamedThis symposium explores the concept of love in the broadest sense. How does race inform the way we conceive of love? How does it influence our capacity to love? 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? In a time where hateful rhetoric floods our media and culture, how do we imagine, build, and sustain communities of love? About RaceB4RaceRaceB4Race is an ongoing conference series and professional network community by and for scholars of color working on issues of race in premodern literature, history, and culture. RaceB4Race centers the expertise, perspectives, and sociopolitical interests of BIPOC scholars, whose work seeks to expand critical race theory. Bridging many traditional disciplinary divides, RaceB4Race not only creates innovative scholarly dialogues, but also fosters social change within premodern studies as a whole. RaceB4Race is brought to life by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in partnership with The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Division of Humanities and the Hitz Foundation. SpeakersAbdulhamit Arvas University of Pennsylvania Denva Gallant Rice University Nahir Otaño Gracia University of New Mexico Joshua Mangle Converse University Thai-Catherine Matthews Skidmore College Melissa Sanchez University of Pennsylvania Iman Sheeha Brunel University Thelma Trujillo University of Iowa Yunning Zhang The New School
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