Schedule

Day 1 | Thursday, January 23, 2020 | Concepts of Law and Community
  • 1:30 PM
    Welcoming Remarks
  • 2:00 PM
    SESSION I | Chair: Jessica Goldberg (UCLA)
  • 2:00 PM
    "Legal Alchemy: How and Why Canonists Turned Muslims into Jews"

    Presenters: David Freidenreich (Colby College) and Victoria Paquette (Colby College)
    Discussant: Brendan Goldman (Princeton University)

  • 2:45 PM
    "The Culmination of Religious Identity for Defining a Legal Community: The Papacy, Law, and the Communal Identity of Christendom in the Early Thirteenth Century"

    Presenter: Atria Larson (Saint Louis University)
    Discussant: Abigail Firey (University of Kentucky)

  • 3:30 PM
    Coffee Break
  • 4:00 PM
    SESSION II | Chair: Michael Cooperson (UCLA)
  • 4:00 PM
    "The Legal Significance of 'Saḥabiyyāt' Biographies for Regulating Muslim Non-Muslim Kinship Ties"

    Presenter: Uriel Simonsohn (University of Haifa)
    Discussant: Evan Metzger (UCLA)

  • 4:45 PM
    "Non-Muslim Religious Communities and the Shaping of Ḥanbalī Law"

    Presenter: Chris PreJean (UCLA)
    Discussant: Lev Weitz (Catholic University of America)

  • 5:15 PM
    Conclusion of Day 1
Day 2 | Friday, January 24, 2020 | Society and Its Institutions
  • 9:00 AM
    Coffee, fruit, pastries
  • 9:30 AM
    SESSION III | Chair: Arvind Thomas (UCLA)
  • 9:30 AM
    “'My law does not instruct me to say anything but what I have already said': Monastic Communities and the Law in Late 10th to Early 11th-Century Central Italy"

    Presenter: Maya Maskarinec (University of Southern California)
    Discussant: Atria Larson (Saint Louis University)

  • 10:15 AM
    "Overturned Order, Neglected Law? The Production of Legal Knowledge in Normandy, ca. 880–1080"

    Presenter: Abigail Firey (University of Kentucky)
    Discussant: David Freidenreich (Colby College)

  • 11:00 AM
    Coffee Break
  • 11:15 AM
    SESSION IV | Chair: Michael Morony (UCLA)
  • 11:15 AM
    "Heterodox Judges and Witnesses: Boundaries Between Muslim Communities Inside the Courtroom"

    Presenter: Mathieu Tillier (Sorbonne University)
    Discussant: Oded Zinger (Hebrew University)

  • 12:00 PM
    "East Syrian Confessional Law in the Early Medieval Caliphate"

    Presenter: Lev Weitz (Catholic University of America)
    Discussant: Faisal Abdullah (UCLA)

  • 12:45 PM
    Lunch Break
  • 2:30 PM
    SESSION V | Chair: Cecilia Palombo (Princeton University)
  • 2:30 PM
    "Violence and Community: Two Brawls from the Cairo Geniza"

    Presenter: Oded Zinger (Hebrew University)
    Discussant: Marina Rustow (Princeton University)

  • 3:15 PM
    "Legal Pluralism in Action: Individual Strategies and Overlapping Communities in Some Early Medieval Papyri"

    Presenter: Arietta Papaconstantinou (University of Reading)
    Discussant: Maya Maskarinec (University of Southern California)

  • 4:00 PM
    Coffee Break
  • 4:30 PM
    SESSION VI | Chair: Asma Sayeed (UCLA)
  • 4:30 PM
    "Al-Tạrasūsī’s Fatwā on Preventing the Compulsory Payment of Zakāt by Minors"

    Presenter: Evan Metzger (UCLA)
    Discussant: Uriel Simonsohn (University of Haifa)

  • 5:00 PM
    "'Shar ʿ Man Qablanā' ('The Laws of Those Who Preceded Us'): Muslim Views on Pre-Muḥammadan Religious Law and Its Utility in the Sharīʿah"

    Presenter: Faisal Abdullah (UCLA)
    Discussant: Mathieu Tillier (Sorbonne University)

  • 5:30 PM
    Reception
Day 3 | Saturday, January 25, 2020 | State Power, Law, and Community
  • 9:00 AM
    Coffee, fruit, pastries
  • 9:30 AM
    SESSION VII | Chair: Sharon Gerstel (UCLA)
  • 9:30 AM
    "Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Communities in Normative Documents of Islamo-Christian Iberia"

    Presenter: Adam Kosto (Columbia University)
    Discussant: Alexandre Roberts (University of Southern California)

  • 10:15 AM
    "Reviving Romanitas: Rediscovering the Roman Past in Byzantine Legal Texts (8th–11th c.)"

    Presenter: Zachary Chitwood (Universität Mainz)
    Discussant: Patrick Morgan (UCLA)

  • 11:00 AM
    Coffee Break
  • 11:30 AM
    SESSION VIII | Chair: Warren Brown (Caltech)
  • 11:30 AM
    "Legislating Religious Boundaries in the Twelfth-Century Mediterranean"

    Presenter: Patrick Morgan (UCLA)
    Discussant: Adam Kosto (Columbia University)

  • 12:00 PM
    "Al-Awzāʿi’s Letters to ʿAbbāsid Authorities: Law and Community on the Frontier"

    Presenter: Holly Robins (UCLA)
    Discussant: Arietta Papaconstantinou (University of Reading)

  • 12:30 PM
    Lunch Break
  • 2:00 PM
    SESSION IX | Chair: Carol Bakhos (UCLA)
  • 2:00 PM
    "Imprisonment, Torture and the Limits of Dhimmī Legal Autonomy in Medieval Egypt: The Specter of State Violence in Cairo Genizah Documents"

    Presenter: Brendan Goldman (Princeton University)
    Discussant: Holly Robins (UCLA)

  • 2:45 PM
    "Narrating the Trial of John bar ʿAbdūn"

    Presenter: Alexandre Roberts (University of Southern California)
    Discussant: Zachary Chitwood (Universität Mainz)

  • 3:30 PM
    Coffee Break
  • 3:45 PM
    SESSION X | Chair: Luke Yarbrough (UCLA)
  • 3:45 PM
    "The Fatimid State and the Jewish Community: Six Geniza Documents"

    Presenter: Marina Rustow (Princeton University)
    Discussant: Chris PreJean (UCLA)

  • 4:30 PM
    Concluding Discussion