"Al-Andalus: Cultural Diffusion and Hybridity in Iberia (1000-1600)", 18 - 20 octubre (Wisconsin)

Al-Andalus: Cultural Diffusion and Hybridity in Iberia 1000-1600), 18 - 20 octubre, University of Wisconsin / Madison

Pyle Center

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Al-Andalus:
Cultural Diffusion and Hybridity in Iberia
(1000-1600)

An interdisciplinary conference on the culture, literature, language and history of the Iberian Peninsula

Medieval Iberia represents a unique perspective on cultural/social change given the coexistence of courtly, municipal, frontier and crusade societies within the Peninsula, as put in contact by the three major cultures-- Christian, Jewish and Arabic-- that coexisted in Iberia from the 8th through the 16th centuries. The cultures blended: sometimes peacefully, sometimes with resistance. The conference will explore the contact, conflation and conflict that represent the unique amalgam of the Iberian Peninsula in art, history, literature, culture, science and religion, as Christians, Jews and Muslims interact and produce hybrid cultures of Mozárabe, Mudéjar, Sephardic, and Morisco traditions.
Organized by Medieval Studies Program (UW-Madison)
To be held at the Pyle Center on the UW-Madison campus
18-20 October 2007

Organizing Committee: Professors Ivy Corfis (UW-Madison, Spanish & Portuguese), Thomas Dale (UW-Madison, Art History), Ray Harris (UW-Madison, Spanish & Portuguese), Michael Shank (UW-Madison, History of Science)

Advisory Committee: Professors Pablo Ancos (UW-Madison, Spanish & Portuguese); Steven Hutchinson (UW-Madison, Spanish & Portuguese); Charles Cohen (UW-Madison, History/Religious Studies); Paul Rowe (UW-Madison, Music); Jacques Lezra (UW-Madison, English); David Morgan (UW-Madison, History/Religious Studies); Dustin Cowell (UW-Madison, African Languages and Literatures); Uli Schamiloglu (UW-Madison, Languages & Cultures of Asia); Christopher Kleinhenz (UW-Madison, French and Italian); Esperanza Alfonso (Universidad Complutense, Madrid: Hebrew Studies)

Co-Sponsored and funded by the following UW-Madison Departments, Centers and Institutes:

Center for the Humanities
Center for European Studies
Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions
Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program
Department of African Languages and Literatures
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Department of Hebrew & Semitic Studies
Department of History of Science
Department of Art History

And with the generous support of the following foundations and organizations:

Anonymous Fund, College of Letters and Science
Nave Fund, Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program
Ettinger Family Foundation
Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture
and United States Universities

Tentative Invited Lectures and Titles


- Jerrilynn D. Dodds: “Rodrigo, Reconquest and the Church of San Roman”

- Michael A. Sells: “The Cultural Other and Erotic Love in Ibn al-`Arabi's Translation of Desires (Turjuman al-`Ashwaq)”

- Francisco Javier Hernández: “The Jews and the Origins of Written Romance”

- Ross Brann: “Andalusi Moorings: Al-Andalus and Sefarad as Tropes of Muslim and Jewish Culture”

- Bernard R. Goldstein: “Astronomy as a 'Neutral Zone': Interreligious Cooperation in Medieval Spain”

Call for papers

There will be 18 papers given in sessions organized around the invited lectures. Under the general theme of the conference “Cultural Diffusion and Hybridity,” the session topics will focus on:



Iberia: Cultures in Contact
Systems of Thought in Iberia
Religious Representations in Iberia
Al-Andalus, Sefarad, and Beyond
Language and Social Interactions in Iberia
Hybridity and Appropriation in Visual and Literary Representations



Proposals for session papers related to the above topics should be submitted by October 30, 2006, to the Organizing Committee, in the form of a detailed abstract (500 words or more) or full paper. Papers must be read in English. Send proposals to the committee care of: Professor Ivy Corfis, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 1018 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706; or by e-mail at al-andalus@mailplus.wisc.edu

Program

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 Art 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

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, Universidad Complutense, Madrid

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 Welcome: 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)

More information: http://spanport.lss.wisc.edu/al-andalus/