AL-ANDALUS: CULTURAL DIFFUSION AND HYBRIDITY IN IBERIA (1000-1600)

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Kings Noyse, one of the most celebrated groups of players in the early music field.will be performing a program that will feature Medieval and Renaissance Jewish, Muslim and Christian music.

8:00 pm, Mills Music Hall, University of Wisconson-Madison

Thursday, October 18, 2007

9:00-9:30 Arrival, coffee

9:30 Welcome: Magdalena Hauner, Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities, College of Letters and Science

10:00-12:00 Session 1: Government and Law in Conflict

Chair: David Morgan, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Maribel Fierro (Instituto de Filología, CSIC), “Alfonso X, The Last Almohad Caliph?”
Devin Stewart (Emory University), “Morisco Dissimulation and the Art of Ambiguity”
Russell Hopley (Princeton University), “The Ransoming of Prisoners in Islamic Spain. An Analysis of the Legal Framework”

12:00-1:30 Lunch break
1:30-4:00 Session 2: Religious Conflict and Representation

Chair: Dustin Cowell, Department of African Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ryan Szpiech (University of Michigan), “’La ley de los moros no es tan mala...’: The Evolution of Islam within Medieval Anti-Jewish Polemic”
Harvey Hames (Ben Gurion University of the Negev), “It Takes Three to Tango: Ramon Llull, Solomon ibn Adret and Alfonso of Valladolid Debate the Trinity”
Hussein Anwar Fancy (Michigan Society of Fellows), “Recruiting Muslim Soldiers in Medieval Catalunya”
Adriano Duque (Rider University), “Visible Invisibility: Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Episode of the Martyrs of Córdoba (852-53 AD)”

4:00-4:15 Break

4:15-5:30 Introduction: Thomas E. A. Dale, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Lecture: Jerrilynn D. Dodds (Distinguished Professor of Architectural History and Theory, City University of New York): “Rodrigo, Reconquest and the Church of San Roman”

5:30-7:00 Reception (AT&T Lounge, Pyle Center)

Friday, October 19, 2007

8:00 Coffee available outside 325-26
8:00-10:00 Session 3: Hybridity and Appropriation in Visual Representations

Chair: Christopher Kleinhenz, Department of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Elizabeth Valdez del Álamo (Montclair State University), “Acrobats at Heaven’s Gate: The Puerta de las Vírgenes of Silos”
Eileen McKiernan González (Berea College), “Mudejar Forms as Reflections of Castilian Courtly Taste in the Monastic Setting”
Danya Crites (University of Iowa), “The Churches of Crusading Kings: Meaning in the Mudejar Religious Architecture of Post-Conquest Seville”

10:00-11:15 Introduction: Esperanza Alfonso, Universidad Complutense-Madrid

Lecture: Ross Brann (Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies, Cornell University): “Andalusi Moorings: Al-Andalus and Sefarad as Tropes of Muslim and Jewish Culture”

11:15-12:30 Lunch break
12:30-2:30 Session 4: Al-Andalus and Sefarad

Chair: Sherry L. Reames, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Esperanza Alfonso (Universidad Complutense, Madrid), “What a Rare Find is a Capable Wife!: Exegesis and Gender in Late Medieval Iberia”
Jonathan P. Decter (Brandeis University), “Hybridity in Three Hebrew Rhymed Prose Narratives”
Arturo Prats (Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard), “The Representation of ‘Conversos’ in Bonafed’s Diwan”

2:30-3:45 Introduction: Ray Harris, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Lecture: Francisco Javier Hernández (Carleton University): “The Jews and the Origins of Written Romance”

3:45-4:00 Break
4:00-6:30 Session 5: Linguistic Interaction in Iberia

Chair: Pablo Ancos, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Yasmine Beale-Rivaya (Texas State University – San Marcos), “Toledo: The Cultural and Linguistic Bridge”
Donald N. Tuten (Emory University), “Linguistic Hybridity in Medieval Castilian: Its Nature and Limits”
John Zemke (University of Missouri), “Medieval Iberian Vernaculars in Hebrew Characters: A Reappraisal”

Saturday, October 20, 2007

8:30-9:15 Coffee (outside 325-6)

9:15-10:15 Introduction: David C. Lindberg, Department of the History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Lecture: Bernard R. Goldstein (University of Pittsburgh): “Astronomy as a 'Neutral Zone': Interreligious Cooperation in Medieval Spain”

10:15-10:30 Coffee (outside 325-6)
10:30-12:30 Session 6: Philosophy and Music

Chair: Paul Y. Rowe, Department of Music, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Richard C. Taylor (Marquette University), “Ibn Rushd / Averroes and ‘Islamic” Rationalism”
Michelle M. Hamilton (University of California at Irvine), “The Playful Reader: Judeo-Andalusi Hermeneutics in the Libro de buen amor”
Dwight F. Reynolds (University of California at Santa Barbara), “The Music of Medieval Iberia: Contact, Influence, and Hybridization”

12:30-2:00 Lunch Break

2:00-3:15 Introduction: Charles L.Cohen, Lubar Institute for the Study of Abrahamic Religions, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Lecture: Michael A. Sells (John Henry Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature in the Divinity School, University of Chicago): “The Cultural Other and Erotic Love in Ibn al-`Arabi's Translation of Desires (Turjuman al-`Ashwaq)”

3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-6:00 Session 7: History and Identity

Chair: Steven Hutchinson, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Madison

María Jesús Fuente (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), “Christian, Muslim and Jewish Women in Medieval Iberia”
Justin Stearns (Middlebury College), “Placing al-Andalus in History: Andalusi Historical Self-Representation”
Denise K. Filios (University of Iowa), “Legends of the Fall: History and Fiction”
Mary B. Quinn (University of New Mexico), “Hybridizing Homogeneity: Morisco Narrative in Post-Expulsion Spain”

6:00-7:00 Cash Bar (Tripp Commons, Memorial Union)
7:00 Banquet (by subscription, Tripp Commons, Memorial Union)

 

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