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Tucker Hall, Room 127A. Reception to Follow
"Our (Gay) Corner of Paradise: Boswell's Aelred of Rievaulx and Queer Worldmaking." In this talk, Dr Staples seeks to recuperate Boswell’s Aelred, returning to Aelred’s engagement with his own sexuality, a melancholic engagement that Aelred refers to as “meditatio,” and which he considers central to his innovative meditations on the life of Christ to speculate about a future paradise. Considering Aelred and working outward, to Boswell, to Boswell’s readers, to myself, I reveal how minoritarian melancholia contributes to an inventive negotiation of past and present to discover a future of more expansive possibilities.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Tucker Hall, 350 James Blair Drive, Williamsburg VA, 23185, 350 James Blair Dr, Williamsburg, VA 23185, United States,Williamsburg, Virginia
