Image: folio from the “Golden Haggadah” c. 1320, Catalonia, Spain. Collection of the British Library, Add MS 27210.
Friday, October 14, 2022
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9:30 AM Pacific Time
Introduction and Welcome
ZRINKA STAHULJAK, Director, UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies; Professor of French and Comparative Literature.
THOMAS W. BARTON, Professor of History, University of San Diego; CMRS Center for Early Global Studies Associate; Conference Organizer.
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10:00
Session 1: Fashioning and Manipulating Ethno-Religious Identities
Chair: LUKE YARBROUGH (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Between Blasphemers and Whisperers: Managing Christian Identity in Ninth-Century Córdoba”
KEN WOLF (Pomona College)“The Alexandrians of Aragon: Confessions and Confessionalism in the Crown of Aragon”
HUSSEIN FANCY (Yale University) – via Zoom“Rebels and Renegades: Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khatīb (d. 1374) and the Christians of Medieval Granada”
MOHAMAD BALLAN (Stony Brook University) -
11:30
Lunch Break
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1:00 PM Pacific Time
Session 2: (Mis-)Managing Pluralism within Iberian Cities
Chair: PATRICK MORGAN (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Big Trouble in Lower Aragon: Mudéjar Confidence and the Limits of Royal Authority”
BRIAN CATLOS (University of Colorado, Boulder)“‘Bring[ing] the disease into the house’: Contact, Contagion, and Enslavement in late Medieval Valencia”
ABIGAIL AGRESTA (George Washington University)“Ávila for the Queen: War, Taxation, and Religious Minorities in Late Medieval Ávila”
TEOFILO F. RUIZ (University of California, Los Angeles) -
2:30
Break
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2:45
Session 3: Processes of Categorization along New Frontiers
Chair: BARBARA FUCHS (University of California, Los Angeles)
Uncontaminated Gentiles: Contesting the Enslavement of Canary Islanders in Late Medieval Valencia
DEBRA BLUMENTHAL (University of California, Santa Barbara)“Cities of the Sun: West African Urban Spaces, Commerce, and Ibero-African Interaction”
ANDREW DEVEREUX (University of California, San Diego)“Enslaved Black and North Africans: A New View of Early Modern Slaving Systems”
ERIN ROWE (Johns Hopkins University) -
4:15
Break
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4:30
Plenary Lecture
“The Contours of Contact: Reconsidering the Metaphor of Borders in Religious History”
RYAN SZPIECH (University of Michigan) -
5:45
Reception
Saturday, October 15, 2022
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10:00 AM Pacific Time
Session 4: Maintaining and Crossing Ethno-Religious Communal Boundaries
Chair: MARIE KELLEHER (California State University, Long Beach)
“From Generation to Generation: Jewish Inheritance Practices and Christian Notarial Culture in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391”
SARAH IFFT DECKER (Rhodes College)“Birth, Blackness, and Baptism: A Story’s Journey across the Pyrenees”
PAOLA TARTAKOFF (Rutgers University)“The Kidnapping of Baby Bonafilla: Jewish guardianship, conversion, and mixed families in the aftermath of 1391 in Girona”
ALEXANDRA GUERSON(University of Toronto) and DANA WESSEL-LIGHTFOOT (University of North British Columbia) – via Zoom -
11:30
Break
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11:45
Session 5: Probing the Theological and Societal Origins of Cataclysmic Violence
Chair: MAYA MASKARINEC (USC)
“The Politicization of Perfidia Iudeorum in Fourteenth-century Castile”
MAYA SOIFER IRISH (Rice University)“Inter-communal Violence and Human Contagion: 1391 and Its Precedents”
MICHAEL SCHRAER (Independent Scholar) – via ZoomCataclysmic Comorbidities: Muslims and the Contagious Violence of 1391
THOMAS W. BARTON (University of San Diego) -
1:15 PM Pacific Time
Lunch Break
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2:45
Session 6: Contact, Assimilation, and Exclusion in the Middle Ages and Beyond
Chair: JAVIER PATIÑO LOIRA (University of California, Los Angeles)
“From Legal Commensurability to Exclusion in Late Medieval Spain”
CLAIRE GILBERT (Saint Louis University)“Reimagined Cityscapes: Sites of Exchange, Urban Expansion, and Expunged Diversity in Iberian Chapbooks”
ROXANNA COLÓN-COSME (University of California, Los Angeles) -
4:00
Break
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4:15
Concluding Discussion/Conference Wrap-up
Chair and Moderator: ROWAN DORIN (Stanford University)
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5:30
Conclusion