Activity Canceled due to COVID 19
Workshop: Craftsmen, Merchants, and Slaves – Islamic Legacies in Spain (Madrid, 2020-2021, 2nd Grant Period, in collaboration with the ERC-project Global Horizons in Pre-Modern Art, Bern)
Event Date: 22 March 2021
Scientific Coordinator: Beate Fricke
Recent Studies have shed light on the role of Muslim slaves on the Iberian Peninsula already long before the expansion into the New World (e.g. Blumenthal 2009, Campbell/Gwyn 2007, Philipps 2014, Trivellato/Halevi 2014). Their contribution to the economic success of cities like Barcelona, Sevilla, and Valencia, and their role in the production of silk, textiles, astronomical instruments, and other luxury goods though needs further research. The history of material culture with regard to the crafting of commodities has been primarily written from the perspectives of white producers and consumers.
This workshop would like to raise the following questions: what were the functions, roles, and contributions of Muslim slaves in the production and trade of luxury commodities, textiles, astronomical instruments, maps, and treasured objects? Which impact did they have upon the production and mobility of heritage objects between Islam and Christian Europe, including types of goods transported by immigrants, diplomatic gift exchanges, war booty, repercussions for their host countries, acquisition of other goods and cultural hybridism?
Workshop “Dialogues in the Late Medieval Mediterranean: Methodological Encounters and (Dis)Encounters”
Deadline: 22nd of October 2019
Dates: 27th January 2020
Place: Casa Árabe, Madrid (Spain)
Scientific Coordinator: María MARCOS COBALEDA (mmcobaleda@uma.es), Borja FRANCO LLOPIS (bfranco@geo.uned.es)
Scope: The aim of this workshop is to launch a methodological exchange forum to analyze the panorama of the late medieval Mediterranean from different and complementary perspectives. During the last years, an increased number of projects focused on the relations between East and West, Christianity and Islam or North Africa and Al-Andalus had emerged in the international scenario. In the framework of these current research projects, this workshop has been proposed to achieve two main objectives: to create a dialogue space to share the recent research results of these projects, as well as to establish new research networks integrated by senior and young researchers which allow the development of multidisciplinary research lines about the late Middle Ages.
Deadline and details: This call for papers is now open for those researchers who are interested to participate in the workshop. They are invited to submit their proposals with a title, an abstract (no more than 300 words) and a brief bio (maximum of 10 lines) to Dr María MARCOS COBALEDA (mmcobaleda@uma.es) and Dr Borja FRANCO LLOPIS (bfranco@geo.uned.es) before the next October 22, 2019.
Once the proposals are accepted, the participants must send a position paper of 5 pages within a month before the event at the latest (December 27 2019). The position paper should discuss the most relevant aspects of the participants’ research methodology in relation to the topic. The position papers will be discussed in the workshop from 10-minutes presentations in English.
Workshop “Historiography of the Perception of Islam through Manuscripts, Korans and their Displacement”
Deadline: November 30, 2019
Dates: 11 February 2020
Place: Naples (Italy)
Scientific Coordinators: Roberto TOTTOLI (rtottoli@unior.it) and Fernando RODRÍGUEZ MEDIANO (fernando.rmediano@cchs.csic.es)
Scope: The aim of this workshop is to approach the question of the relationship between Christianity and Islam through the study of the production, circulation and uses of Arabic manuscripts, and mainly Korans, in the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean Europe. Our assumption is that the Balkans, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula form an axis of circulation which is especially significant for our understanding of the Mediterranean Sea as a comprehensive space of cultural, political and religious contact. The Workshop is jointly coordinated with the MINECO Project “Orientalismo y verdad: la influencia de la erudición oriental en el desarrollo del pensamiento crítico en la España Moderna”, (FFI2017-86538-P), IP’s: Fernando Rodríguez Mediano y Mercedes García-Arenal.
Deadline and details: Researchers interested to participate in the workshop are invited to submit their proposals with a title, an abstract (no more than 300 words) and a brief bio (maximum of 10 lines) to Dr Roberto TOTTOLI (rtottoli@unior.it) and Dr Fernando RODRÍGUEZ MEDIANO (fernando.rmediano@cchs.csic.es) before November 30, 2019.
