As the first official collaborative project of SNAP, the founding members organized a series of panels at the 2011 Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies annual meeting in Lisbon. The three panels are “Almohad Religion and Political Ideology,” “North Africa in the Early Modern Spanish Imperial World,” and “African Genres: Imagining Africa in Early Modern Spanish Texts.”
Panel 1: Almohad Religion and Political Ideology
Camilo Gómez-Rivas (The American University in Cairo), Chair and Discussant
Linda Jones (University of Barcelona), “The Preaching of the Almohads: Ideology, Legitimacy, and Contestation”
Jessica Streit (Cornell University), “(De)panning for Legitimacy: the Mosques of Tinmal and Kutubiyya in Context”
Abigail Krasner Balbale (Harvard University), “Theology and Political Ideology in the Almohad Period”
Panel 2: North Africa in the Early Modern Spanish Imperial World
Barbara Fuchs (University of California, Los Angeles), Chair and Discussant
Andrew Devereux (Johns Hopkins University), “King of Justice or Crusading King? The Role of North African Crusade in Competing Visions of Monarchy in Sixteenth-Century Spain”
Adam Beaver (Princeton University), “From Pharoahs to Moros: Egypt in Renaissance Spain, ca. 1250-1517”
Yuen-Gen Liang (Wheaton College, MA), “Spanish North Africa: An Arena of Aristocratic Action”
Panel 3: African Genres: Imagining Africa in Early Modern Spanish Texts
Barbara Fuchs (University of California, Los Angeles), Chair
Yuen-Gen Liang (Wheaton College, MA), Discussant
Miguel Martínez (Williams College), “‘The Spell of National Identity’: War and Soldiering on the North African Frontier (1550-1554)
Javier Irigoyen-García (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Deflecting Moorishness: Spanish Fictions of Africa”
Barbara Fuchs (University of California, Los Angeles), “Intimate Strangers: Cervantes’s Graciosos and the Representation of Difference in North African Captivity Plays”