DAY 1: POWER RELATIONS &RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN
William Hannon library, 3rd Floor
Von der Ahe Family suite
9:00-09:30 REGISTRATION
Registration on site: $15 for public, $10 for students, free for members of LMU community
We encourage pre-registration at the following link: http://bit.ly/1isAGME
Parking available in University Hall Garage, off Lincoln Blvd.
9:30-09:50 OPENING REMARKS
Andrew Devereux (Loyola Marymount University)
Michael O’Sullivan (Dean BCLA, Loyola Marymount University)
Sharon Kinoshita and Brian Catlos (Co-Directors the Mediterranean Seminar/UC MRP)
Yuen-Gen Liang (President, Spain-North Africa Project)
9:50-11:50 WORKSHOP: Consolidation of Identity on the Margins in North Africa
Moderator: Paul Sidelko (Metropolitan State University of Denver)
Mohamad Ballan (University of Chicago), “‘They shall come to you from the West with
God’s religion’: Ibāḍī Doctrine and Berber Identity in Ibn Sallām’s Kitāb (ca. 875)”
Commentator: Paul Love (University of Michigan)
Manuela Ceballos (Emory University), “Power and Vulnerability in the Biography of
a Sixteenth Century Moroccan Saint”
Commentator: Emily Gottreich (University of California, Berkeley)
11:50-13:00 LUNCH
13:00-15:15 PANEL: Expressions of Power
Chair: Najwa al-Qattan (Loyola Marymount University)
Discussants: Abigail Krasner Balbale (Bard Graduate Center)
Camilo Gómez-Rivas (The American University in Cairo)
Yoshihiko Ito (Tokai University), “New Power, Old Territory, and
Renewed Architecture in the 10th-Century Kingdom of León”
Thomas Devaney (University of Rochester), “From Tension to Violence:
Inciting a Riot in Fifteenth-Century Castile”
Marya T. Green-Mercado (University of Michigan), “Prophecy as Diplomacy:
Morisco Prophecies of Henry IV of France”
Sasha Pack (University at Buffalo), “Francisco Merry y Colom and
the Ambivalent Spanish Encounter with Moroccan Jewry, 1860-1864”
15:15-15:30 COFFEE BREAK
15:30-18:00 TALKING ARTIFACTS: Geographies of Power
Chair: Yuen-Gen Liang (Wheaton College MA and National Taiwan University)
Discussant: Audience
Josie Hendrickson (University of Alberta), “Power and Pilgrimage:
al-Burzulī (d. 1438) on Sailing with Christians”
Karen Pinto (Gettysburg College), “Islamic Maps as Maghrib/Mediterranean Artifacts”
Gil Klein (Loyola Marymount University), “Subverting Cities: Roman Land
and Rabbinic Assumption of Imperial Power in the Eastern Mediterranean”
18:00-19:30 RECEPTION: The Marymount Institute, University Hall, Room 3002
The SNAP conference is made possible by the generous support of Loyola Marymount University’s Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, the Office of the Provost, the Department of History, the Peace Studies Program, Dr. Lawrence A. Tritle (Dept. of History), the Marymount Institute for Faith, Culture, and the Arts, and the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
DAY 2: MEDITERRANEAN CONNECTIVITES
This workshop will consist of discussion of three pre-circulated papers and a presentation by featured scholar, Adam Sabra (History, University of California-Santa Barbara)
Location: Marymount Institute, University Hall, Room 3002
More information and call for papers at
http://humweb.ucsc.edu/mediterraneanseminar/