Mediterranean Studies MRP Spring 2014 Workshop: Mediterranean Connectivites
Saturday, 3 May • Loyola Marymount University
10:00–10:15 AM Introductions: Brian Catlos and Sharon Kinoshita
Co-directors, UC Mediterranean Studies Multicampus Research Project
10:15–11:30 AM Travis Bruce (Assistant Professor of History, Wichita State University)
“Commercial Conflict Resolution Across the Religious Divide in the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean”
11:30–11:45 AM Break
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM Sergio La Porta (Haig and Isabel Berberian Professor of Armenian Studies, California State University, Fresno)
“Conceptualizing Cultural Interaction in Twelfth-Century Eastern Anatolia”
1:00–2:00 PM Lunch (provided for pre-registered participants only)
2:00–3:10 PM Jessica Marglin (Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan)
“The Extraterritorial Mediterranean”
3:10–3:30 PM Break and Refreshments
3:30–4:45 PM Keynote Lecture: Adam Sabra (Professor of History and King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara)
“Mediterranean Connections of a Sixteenth-Century Egyptian àlim”
4:45–5:15 PM Concluding Remarks
5:15–6:00 PM Reception
Spain-North Africa Project (SNAP) Conference:
“Power Relations and Religious Communities in the Western Mediterranean”
Friday, 2 May • Loyola Marymount University
Conference Program (PDF)
9:00–9:30 AM Registration
Registration on site: $15 for public, $10 for students, free for members of LMU community.
9:30–9:50 AM Opening Remarks
Welcome: Andrew Devereux (Loyola Marymount University)
Dean Michael O’Sullivan (BCLA, Loyola Marymount University)
Sharon Kinoshita and Brian Catlos, co-directors
UC Mediterranean Studies Multicampus Research Project (MRP)
Yuen-Gen Liang (Wheaton College, Massachusetts)
9:50–11:50 AM Workshop: The Consolidation of Identity on the Margins in North Africa
Moderator: Paul Sidelko (Metropolitan State University of Denver)
Mohamad Ballan (University of Chicago),
“‘They shall come to you from the West with God’s religion’: Ibāḍī Doctrine and Berber Identity in Ibn Sallām’s Kitāb (ca. 875)”
Commentator: Paul Love (University of Michigan)
Manuela Ceballos (Emory University),
“Power and Vulnerability in the Biography of a Sixteenth-Century Moroccan Saint”
Commentator: Emily Gottreich (University of California, Berkeley)
11:50 AM – 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00–3:15 PM Panel: Expressions of Power
Chair: Najwa al-Qattan (Loyola Marymount University)
Discussant: Abigail Krasner Balbale (Bard Graduate Center)
Camilo Gómez-Rivas (The American University in Cairo)
Yoshihiko Ito (Tokyo University of Science),
“New Power, Old Territory, and Renewed Architecture in the 10th-Century Kingdom of León”
Thomas Devaney (University of Rochester),
“From Tension to Violence: Inciting a Riot in Fifteenth-Century Castile”
Marya T. Green-Mercado (University of Michigan),
“Prophecy as Diplomacy: Morisco Prophecies of Henry IV of France”
Sasha Pack (University of Buffalo),
“Francisco Merry y Colom and the Ambivalent Spanish Encounter with Moroccan Jewery, 1860-1864”
3:15–3:30 PM Coffee
3:30–5:00 PM Panel: Expressions of Power
Chair: Yuen-Gen Liang (Wheaton College, Massachusetts)
Discussant: Audience
Josie Hendrickson (University of Alberta),
“Power and Pilgrimage: al-Burzulī (d. 1438) on Sailing with Christians”
Karen Pinto (Gettysburg College),
“Islamic Maps as Maghrib/Mediterranean Artifacts”
Gil Klein (Loyola Marymount University),
“Subverting Cities: Roman Land and Rabbinic Assumption of Imperial Power in the Eastern Mediterranean”
5:00–6:30 PM Reception
Visit SNAP’s website www.aucegypt.edu/huss/snap for more information.
For further questions contact Andrew Devereux awdevereux@gmail.com
The SNAP conference is made possible by the generous support of Loyola Marymount University’s Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, the Department of History, and the Peace Studies Program