“Hybridity”: In-Between People, Texts & Objects Across the Early Global World – MEMSA Graduate Student Conference

The 5th Annual Conference of the UCLA Medieval and Early Modern Student Association seeks to highlight the innovative work of graduate students on the manifold ways people, texts, and objects “in-between” shaped the early global world, from the early medieval to the late early modern periods. Presentations will engage with the concept of the so-called “hybrid,” asking: what does it mean to label something as in-between, mixed, syncretic, blended, amalgamated, or composite? To what end might something be constituted as “hybrid”? Does “hybridity” as a term still carry meaning when encompassing so much? Does the contact and exchange of people, things, and ideas inevitably result in “hybridity”? The event seeks to problematize the term and its synonyms, thinking about “hybridity” as a threshold of negotiation, contestation, in(ter)vention, interpretation, translation, and debate.

Register to attend in Royce 306

Organized by the Officers of MEMSA: Chase Caldwell Smith, Sofía Yazpik, Miranda Heaner, and Stanley Wu

Sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies