Mediterranean Connectivities – Spring 2014

Mediterranean Studies MRP Spring 2014 Workshop: Mediterranean Connectivites

Saturday, 3 May • Loyola Marymount University

 

9:30–10:00 AM Registration and Coffee

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