{"621403":{"#nid":"621403","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Medieval Scholars Joust With White Nationalists. And One Another.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech School of Literature, Media, and Communications (LMC) Chair \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/utz\u0022\u003ERichard Utz\u003C\/a\u003E was quoted in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/05\/arts\/the-battle-for-medieval-studies-white-supremacy.html\u0022\u003E\u0026ldquo;Medieval Scholars Joust with White Nationalists. And Each Other\u0026quot;\u003C\/a\u003E, a front page article in \u003Cem\u003EThe New York Times\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;May 3.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Each May, some 3,000 people descend on Kalamazoo, Mich., for the International Congress on Medieval Studies, which brings together academics and enthusiasts for four days of scholarly panels, performances and after-hours mead drinking.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut in recent years, the gathering affectionately known as \u0026ldquo;K\u0026rsquo;zoo\u0026rdquo; \u0026mdash; and the field of medieval studies itself \u0026mdash; has been shadowed by conflicts right out of the 21st century.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELMC\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a unit of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/05\/arts\/the-battle-for-medieval-studies-white-supremacy.html\u0022\u003ERead the full article.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-05-06 18:15:34","changed_gmt":"2019-05-06 18:15:34","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Extension of Self","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/05\/arts\/the-battle-for-medieval-studies-white-supremacy.html","dateline":{"date":"2019-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"404111":{"id":"404111","type":"image","title":"Richard Utz","body":null,"created":"1449252000","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:00:00","changed":"1539181964","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:32:44","alt":"Portrait photo of School of Literature, Media, and Communication Chair Richard Utz","file":{"fid":"75989","name":"s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":29255,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg?itok=DUqiN_VU"}}},"media_ids":["404111"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"33431","name":"Richard Utz"},{"id":"16151","name":"The New York Times"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}