A talk by Kimberly J. Lau
Tuesday, 4 March 2025, 6 – 7 p.m. GMT, online (Teams)
In stories retold for generations, wondrous worlds and magnificent characters have defined the genre of European fairy tales with little recognition of a defining aspect – racism and racialised thinking. Within the classic tales of Giambattista Basile, Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, the Grimms, and Andrew and Nora Lang, Kimberly J. Lau teases apart and historicises the racialised themes and ideologies embedded within fairy tales spanning the early 17th to early 20th centuries. Lau provides a new framework for understanding European fairy tales in the milieux in which they were created, bringing distant and ethereal worlds back to earth. Free and open to all.
E-mail h.robbins@chi.ac.uk for Teams link.