Sponsored, Co-Sponsored & Collaborative Events & Programs
11—13 July 2024: "Arcipelaghi" The 2024 "Leggere Mediterranea" Summer School of the Festival Letterario "Mediterranea" directed by Dr. Simonetta Castia (AES, Associazione Editori Sardi), held at Parco di Porto Conte, Alghero, with the support of the Università L'Orientale di Napoli. Program here.
18 & 19 March 2024: “Space of Familiarity / Difference in the Mediterranean” The annual meeting of Asian Federation of Mediterranean Studies Institutes hosted by Academica Sinica (Taipei) and featuring a keynote by Teo Ruiz (History, UCLA). Program/poster here.
3 November 2023: “Muslim Maritime Violence in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean (650-1650)” A panel to be held at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, to be held 2-5 November in Montréal. Featuring “Questioning Normative Views of Early Medieval Muslim Maritime Raids: Crete and Sicily” (Travis Bruce), “Moral Economy of Maritime Violence in Ottoman Tunisia” (Eda Ozel), and “Peace and Violence on the Tyrrhenian Sea” (Sarah-Davis Secord)
15-17 July 2023: "Leggere il Mediterraneo. Carte, isole e confini" The Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale presents the summer school, "Leggere il Mediterraneo. Carte, isole e confini" (“Maps, Islands and Borders), curated by Roberta Morosini and Simonetta Castia, Director of the Literary Festival Mediterranea, to be held in Alghero, Sardinia 13-15 July. Program here.
13 May 2023: “Death in the Mediterranean I” & “Death in the Mediterranean II”. Panels organized and chaired by Núria Silleras-Fernandez for the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, to be held in person at Western Michigan University, at Kalamzoo MI. Featuring: Veronica Menaldi, Univ. of Mississippi; David Bennett, Institute of Ismaili Studies; Filip Radovic, Göteborgs University; Blanca Berjano, University of Colorado–Boulder; Jessalynn L. Bird, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame ; Kelly Thor, Washburn University; and Luis Miguel Dos Santos Vicente, Hamilton College. Full program here.
6 January 2023: “Intersecting Identities in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean” panel at for the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (Philadelphia) co-sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America, featuring: Emma Snowden, Hollins University (“The Collapse of Muslim and North African Identities in Christian Chronicles from Medieval Iberia”), Marina Schneider, University of Texas at Austin (“Staging Brotherhood: Confraternities and Processions in Early Modern Iberian Cities”), Gail Hook, George Mason University (“Cypriot Identity Under the Lusignans after the Fall of Acre, 1291”), and Constantine Theodoridis, Princeton University (“European Archives by Other Means: The Ottoman Registers of the "Foreign Nations" in the 17th Century.”)
3 December 2022: “Integrating Islam in the History of Pre-Modern Europe and the West” panel at annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, to be held at Denver CO, featuring Sarah Davis-Secord, Emma Snowden, and Constantine Theodoridis. See the session and program abstracts here.
22 October 2022: “Teaching the Pre-Modern as Mediterranean: The Sea in the Middle & Texts from the Middle” – a conversation featuring: Sharon Kinoshita (Literature: UCSC), Sergio La Porta (Armenian Studies: Fresno State), Thomas E. Burman (Medieval Studies: Notre Dame), and Brian A. Catlos (Religious Studies: University of Colorado Boulder), on the occasion of the publication of a new textbook and source reader for the history of the pre-Modern West: Thomas E. Burman, Brian A. Catlos, and Mark D. Meyerson, The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650–1650 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022), and Thomas E. Burman, Brian A. Catlos, and Mark D. Meyerson, eds. Texts from the Middle: Documents from the Mediterranean World, 650–1650 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022)
4—7 July 2022: Leggere Il Mediterraneo. Narrazioni, Rotte, Immaginari. A summer school featuring Roberta Morosini, Antonio Saccone, Angela Fabris, Blerina Suta, Gianni Maffei, Brian. A. Catlos, Valeria Varriano, Gianni Turchetta, Claudio Fogu and Simonetta Castia. Organized by the Università di Napoli “L’Orientale,” Conservatorio delle Orfane Terra Murata di Procida, Scuola di Alta Formazione dell’ Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”; co-sponsored by the Mediterranean Seminar.
Monday & Tuesday 16 & 17 May 2022: “Coexistence in Practice: Politics, Trade and Culture in the Late Medieval Anatolia and Iberia,” the 2021 MedWorlds conference to be held at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University (Valide-i Atik Mh., Eski Toptaşı Cd. No: 91, Uskudar, Istanbul) on 1 & 2 July 2021, with keynote speeches will be delivered by Brian A. Catlos ( University of Colorado, Boulder, Andrew C.S Peacock (University of St. Andrews), and Emrah Safa Gürkan (Istanbul 29 Mayis University). Further information here. Program here. Co-sponsored by the Mediterranean Seminar.
Thursday 12 & Friday 13 May 2022: “Performing Death I: Grief and Emotion in the Medieval Mediterranean,” and “Performing Death II: Ritual and Remembrance in the Medieval Mediterranean,” proposed for the 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo Online: May 9–14).
Thursday 21 April: “The Spanish Empire and the Mediterranean: New Directions,” a Kayden Book Prize Symposium to be held in-person on 12:30-6:00pm at the Flatirons Room at the University of Colorado Boulder’s C4C and streamed live. With Luis Corteguera (History, University of Kansas) “Sacred Monarchs and the Science of Myth: Spain in European Context, ”and Andrew Devereux (History, University of California San Diego) “Empire in the Oikumene: Situating Spain’s Mediterranean Interests in its Early Modern Global Empire,” and two round-tables featuring Brian A. Catlos • James Córdova • Bob Ferry • Gerardo Gutierrez • Chad Leahy • Roger Martínez Dávila • Diane Sieber • Núria Silleras-Fernández • Rebecca Wartell. Register by 5pm April 18 here to attend in-person or live stream. Click here for a detailed program (symposium speakers, click here).
9 —13 March 2022: “Religious Boundaries and the Boundaries of the Middle Ages” and “Religious Texts and Confessional Integration in a Plural Mediterranean”: The Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (Charlottesville VA). Featuring: Claire Gilbert, Islamic Legal Legacies in Castilian Courts: A Latter-Day Iberian Arabic Translation Movement; Daniel Hershenzon, Wax and candles between Christianity and Islam in the pre-modern Hispano Maghrebi Mediterranean; Mayte Green-Mercado, Visions of Loss and Restoration in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia; Sergio La Porta, Jesus knows himself best: Scripture and authority in the ‘Umar-Leo Correspondence; David Wacks, Talking at Cross Purposes: Polemical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia; and Fariba Zarinebaf, Forum Shopping among the Jewish Community of Istanbul in the 18th century; with Alison Vacca, responding.
8 January 2022: “Northern Europe and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages: Networks and Comparisons”: 136thAnnual Meeting of the American Historical Association (New Orleans). Organized by Hugh Thomas (University of Miami), featuring: Jesse Izzo, The Montfort Family and the Transregional Character of Aristocratic Francophone Northern European–Mediterranean Networks in the 13th and 14th Centuries; Elizabeth A. Terry-Roisin, The Alliance of Valois Burgundy and the Crown of Castile: Northern and Mediterranean Culture in the 15th Century; Michelle Armstrong-Partida and Susan Alice McDonough, All the Single Ladies: Single Women in the Late Medieval Mediterranean.
30 November 2021: “Confessional Frontiers in the Islamicate Mediterranean,” a panel at the (virtual) annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (Montreal).Co-organized with Travis Bruce (McGill University), featuring Zeynep Aydogan, “For the Love of Idols, Church Clapper and the Baptismal Font”: Furnishings of Being Infidel; David Gyllenhaal, Plague Martyrs in the Early Sunni Tradition: A Case Study in the "Hard Problem" of Interconfessional History Writing; Joel Pattison. Christian Ambassadors for Muslim Rulers in the Medieval Maghrib, and Fadi Ragheb, Writing in the “Other” in an Islamic Chronicle of Medieval Jerusalem: Mujīr al-Dīn al-ʿUlaymī and the Paradoxical Boundaries of Inter-Confessional Knowledge in al-Uns al-jalīl bi-taʾrīkh al-Quds wa-al-Khalīl
15 November 2021: “Counterfeit Beauty: Portraiture, Ekphrasis and the Early Modern Ideal” a works-in-progress workshop featuring Cristina Guardiola-Griffiths (Foreign Languages and Literatures: University of Delaware), with respondents: Céline Dauverd (History, CU Boulder), Adriano Duque (Romance Languages & Literatures: Villanova University), Suzanne Magnanini (French & Italian: CU Boulder), and Núria Silleras-Fernández (Religious Studies, CU Boulder), moderated by: Brian A. Catlos (Spanish & Portuguese, CU Boulder) at noon MST [Zoom]. Register here on or before 13 November.
Monday 10 May 2021 • “Individuals’ Emotions and Emotional Communities in the Mediterranean” - ” a panel at the virtual 56th International Congress on Medieval Studies, organized by Núria Silleras-Fernández (CU Boulder), featuring papers: “Emotional Debates on the Title “Emperor of the Romans” (Ninth and Tenth Centuries)” by Laury Sarti (University of Freiburg), “Fazer reir et dar plazer”: Pleasurable Laughter in Don Juan Manuel’s Libro de la caza” by Sol Miguel-Prendes (Wake Forest University) and “Audiences Attending Passion Plays as Ad Hoc Emotional Communities,” by Ivan Missoni (Independent Scholar).
Wednesday 5 May 2021 • Book Launch for Language Contact, Colonial Administration, and the Construction of Identity in Ancient Israel by Samuel L. Boyd (Religious Studies: CU Boulder) featuring presentations by: Andy Cowell (Linguistics, CU Boulder), Dimitri Nakassis (Classics, CU Boulder), Liane Feldman (Hebrew & Judaic Studies: NYU), and Ron Simkins (Theology: Creighton University), hosted by Brian A. Catlos (Religious Studies: CU Boulder) on Wednesday, 5 May 2021, 2:00–3:30pm MST [Zoom].
Tuesday 20 April 2021 • “Black Italian Lives across Centuries and Disciplines” - a symposium featuring “Hidden in Plain Sight. Black Africans in Medieval Sicily and the Mediterranean,”opening remarks by Brian A. Catlos (Religious Studies: CU Boulder), and the presentations: “Imag(in)ing Blackness in Italy: Redactions, Presence, and Media in Antonio Dikele Distefano’s Work” by Michela Ardizzoni (French and Italian & Media Studies: CU Boulder), and “Bianca e Nera: Representing African Women in Giambattista Basile’s Fairy Tales and Epic Poetry” by Suzanne Magnanini (French and Italian: CU Boulder), with responses by Shelleen Greene (Film, Television and Digital Media: UCLA), and Vetri Nathan (Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures: University of Massachusetts Boston) on Tuesday, 20 April 2021, 10:00am–11:30MST [via Zoom] Open to all.
Friday 9 April 2021 • “Umayyads, Early ʿAbbāsids, and Historical Periodization,” a colloquium featuring: Fred Astren (Professor of Jewish Studies, San Francisco State University), Antoine Borrut (Associate Professor of History,University of Maryland), Muriel Debié (Professor of Eastern Christianities, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Université PSL) and Alison Vacca (Associate Professor of History,The University of Tennessee, Knoxville), hosted by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Berkeley and co-sponsored by the Mediterranean Seminar, the Middle East Medievalists, the Department of Jewish Studies and Program in Middle East and Islamic Studies at San Francisco State University at 11am PST.
Friday 26 March: “Governance and Religion in Early Modern Europe” - the Kayden Prize Symposium marking the publication of Church and State in Spanish Italy: Rituals and Political Legitimacy a monograph by Celine Dauverd (History: CU Boulder), featuring an introduction by Paul Hammer (History: CU Boulder), and presentations by: “Popular Reception of Good Governance,” Thomas Devaney (History: Rochester); “Florence, Venice, and the Spanish Renaissance,” Thomas Dandelet (History: UC Berkeley); and “Spanish Italy: The View from Rome,” Margaret Meserve (History: Notre Dame); moderated by Brian A. Catlos (Religious Studies: CU Boulder) on Friday, 26 March 2021, 10:00am–noon MST [Zoom].
23 March 2021 • “Teaching the Medieval as Mediterranean: Re-orienting the Meta-Narrative” - a round-table at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, chaired by Kenneth Baxter Wolf (History, Pomona College), and featuring panelists: Fred Astren (Jewish Studies; San Francisco State), Brian A. Catlos (Religious Studies, University of Colorado Boulder),Thomas Burman (Medieval Studies, Notre Dame University), Mark Meyerson (History, University of Toronto), Claire Gilbert (History, Saint Louis University), and Mayte Green-Mercado (History, Rutgers University) . This session was held remotely - click here to view the session on YouTube. See here for full panel information.
Friday 26 February 2021 • “Translation in the Libro de buen amor and the Libro de buen amor in Translation,” a research presentation by Emily Francomano (Spanish and Portuguese: Georgetown University) at 11:30am–1pm MST [Zoom] with respondents: Suzanne Magnanini (French and Italian, CU Boulder), Charles Samuelson (French and Italian, CU Boulder), and Michelle Hamilton (Spanish and Portuguese, University of Minnesota Twin Cities), moderated by: Brian A. Catlos (Religious Studies, CU Boulder, with an introduction by: Núria Silleras-Fernández (Spanish and Portuguese, CU Boulder). All are welcome.
Thursday 28 January 2021• “Ibn Rushd’s al-Kashf ʿan Manāhij al-Adilla: The Text, Its Importance and a New Edition,” a research presentation featuring Fouad Ben Ahmed (Philosophy and Methodology of Research: Dar el-Hadith el-Hassania Institute for Higher Islamic Studies) with respondents: Matteo di Giovanni (Philosophy: University of Turin), Jon Hoover (Islamic Studies: University of Nottingham), and Robert Pasnau (Philosophy: University of Colorado Boulder), moderated by: Brian A. Catlos (Religious Studies, CU Boulder) • 28 January 2021, 9:00am MST [Zoom] This event is open to everyone.
Wednesday 2 December 2020 • “Black Saints, Turkish Enemies: Slavery, Captivity, and Salvation in the Atlantic Mediterranean”: a research presentation featuring Erin Rowe (History: Johns Hopkins University), introduced by Céline Dauverd (History, CU Boulder), with respondents: Suzanne Magnanini (French & Italian, CU Boulder), Núria Silleras-Fernández (Spanish & Portuguese, CU Boulder), Simon Ditchfield (History: University of York), and Teofilo Ruiz (History, UCLA) and moderated by: Brian A. Catlos (Religious Studies, CU Boulder) on 2 December 2020, 11:30am MST [Zoom].
Thursday 22 October 2020 • “Medieval Iberian Retellings of Adam and Eve’s Fall”: a webinar featuring Prof. David Wacks (Romance Languages: University of Oregon), with respondents, Samuel Boyd (Religious Studies, CU Boulder), Aun Hasan Ali (Religious Studies, CU Boulder), and Fred Astren (Jewish Studies, San Francisco State), moderated by Brian A. Catlos (Religious Studies, CU Boulder) on Thursday, 22 October 2020 • 4pm MST.
9 & 10 March 2020 • “Mapping Tunisia in Mediterranean Studies: Approaches to Research and Professional Development in the Humanities and Social Sciences” a seminar and workshop for emerging scholars sponsored by the Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University
5 January 2020 •”Multiculturalism, Polyglossia, and Ethnic Diversity: Conflict, Accommodation, and Synthesis in the Premodern Mediterranean” a session at the 134th annual meeting of the American Historical Association, held in New York City.
8-11 July 2019 • “Movement, Mobility and Mediterranean Culture” a panel at the conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean (SMM) in Barcelona.
10-13 July 2019 • “Catalonia, The Crown Of Aragon And The Pre-Modern Mediterranean: Politics, Language, Culture” a panel at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, to be held in Barcelona.
28 May 2019 • Cristianos y musulmanes: Paz y Conflicto en el Mediterráneo Medieval, Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma (Rome, Italy)
17 April 2019: Muslims and Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe – New Directions, an international symposium [with the CU Mediterranean Studies Group]
5 January 2019: Iberian Babel: Multilingualism and Translation in the Medieval and the Early Modern Mediterranean
Session at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association (Chicago) [with the CU Mediterranean Studies Group]
4 January 2019: Renegades, Turncoats, and Converts in the Pre- and Early Modern Mediterranean
Session at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association (Chicago) [with the CU Mediterranean Studies Group]
12 May 2018 • "Mediterranean Materiality and Consumption": a panel organized by Núria Silleras-Fernandez at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo Michigan [with the CU Mediterranean Studies Group]
6 January 2018 •" Race and Nation (or Not?) in the Premodern Mediterranean" at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington DC [with the CU Mediterranean Studies Group]
13 May 2016• "Power and the Court in the Medieval Mediterranean” at the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies [with the CU Mediterranean Studies Group]
16 May 16 2016• Europe's Problem with Islam... 500 Years Ago: Morisco Identity & Aljamiado Literature in Early Modern Spain [with the CU Mediterranean Studies Group]
26-29 March 2015• "Italy in the Mediterranean I: Conflict," "Italy in the Mediterranean II: Images," and "Italy in the Mediterranean III: Identities": American Association of Italian Studies (Boulder, CO) [with t UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project]
22-25 November 2014• "Muslim Clients and Subjects in the Pre-Modern Christian Mediterranean": (with Abigail Krasner Balbale, Bard Graduate Center), Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting (Washington DC) [with the UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project]
26 June 2014• “Medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean”, Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Annual Conference, Modena, Italy [with the CU Mediterranean Studies Group / UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project]
15 June 2014• “History, Literature and Culture in a Mediterranean Frame” (w/ Roberta Morosini, Romance Languages, Wake Forest University) a one-day symposium at Instituto Sant’Anna (Sorrento, Italy) [with the CU Mediterranean Studies Group / UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project]
4 January 2014• "Religious Diversity in the Medieval Mediterranean, Part 1: Inter-Communal Disputation and Discussion" & "Religious Diversity in the Medieval Mediterranean, Part 2: Intra-communal Disputation and Discussion" (128th American Historical Association Annual Meeting) (Washington, DC) [with the CU Mediterranean Studies Group / UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project]
9-11 September 2013• Light Colour Line - Percieving the Mediterranean/ Conflicting Narratives and Ritual Dynamics. (5th International Conference of Mediterranean Worlds, Bern University)
20-22 June 2013• Boccaccio and the Venetian World: 700 Years of Cultural Crossing in Mediterranean Venice (Wake Forest University) (Venice)
31 January - 1 February 2013• Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean(Ahmanson Conference) (UCLA)
4 January 2013• "Stories of the Mediterranean in the Long Middle Ages I: Lives" & "Stories of the Mediterranean in the Long Middle Ages II: Places" (127th American Historical Association Annual Meeting) (New Orleans) [with the CU Mediterranean Studies Group/ UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project]
5-7 September 2012• Domino Effects and Hybridization of the Mediterranean (4th International Conference of Mediterranean Worlds, Mayis Universitesi) (Istanbul)
19–21 April 2012• Early Modern Migrations: Exiles, Expulsion, & Religious Refugees, 1400–1700(Victoria University , Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies) (Toronto)
4 May 2012• Legacies of the Mediterranean (Center for Ideas & Society, UC Riverside)
3 February 2012• "(Re)constructing the Mediterranean Past (with a focus on the city)" (Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UC San Diego) (San Diego)
21 November 2011• Religion and Law in the Medieval Mediterranean World (American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting) (San Francisco CA)
28 October 2011• Rivalry and Rhetoric in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Envisioning Empire in the Old World (Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies) (Los Angeles)
6-9 September 2011• Convergence of the Mediterranean: Commerce, Capital and Trade Routes in the History of a Sea (3rd International Conference of Mediterranean Worlds, Università degli Studi di Salerno) (Salerno, Italy)
18 April 2011• Colloquium on the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean: New Approaches(Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto)
30 March 2011• Ethnic Identity in the Medieval Mediterranean (Workshop, University of California at Davis) (Davis)
19 February 2011• Mediterranean Princely Courts and the Transmission of Culture (Conference, w/ University of California Santa Barbara) (Santa Barbara)
5-8 January 2012• The Medieval Francophone Mediterranean (Division on French Medieval Language and Literature, Modern Language Association Annual Convention) (Seattle) [with the UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies/ UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project]
6 January 2012• Pirates, State Actors, and Hegemonic Systems in the Pre-modern Mediterranean, I: Hegemony and Legitimacy and II: Transgressors and Opportunists (126th American Historical Association Annual Meeting) (Chicago) [with the UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies/ UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project]
1 July 2011• Was Medieval Portugal Mediterranean? (42nd Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Meeting) (Lisbon) [with the UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies/ UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project]
8 January 2011• Pre- and Early Modern Literature in a Mediterranean Context (Modern Language Association Annual Meeting) (Los Angeles) [with the UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies/ UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project] 10 January 2010• Rethinking the Medieval Mediterranean (124th American Historical Association Annual Meeting) (San Diego) [with the UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies/ UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project]
15-16 April 2010• Mediterranean Encounters in the City, (Boulder)
Fall 2007- Spring 2009• Inter-Confessional Relations and Trade in the Medieval Mediterranean, (Collaborative Research Program) (Santa Cruz, Paris, Strasbourg, Los Angeles) [with the UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies]
15 February 2009• Commerce and Religious Identity in the Late Medieval Mediterranean (UC France-Berkeley Fund) (Santa Cruz) [with the UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies]
16 &17 January 2009• Alternative Teleologies: The Mediterranean and the Modern World(s) Workshop & Conference (UC Santa Cruz) [with the UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies]
20 February 2009• Moving Commodities and Identities in the Mediterranean (USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute) (Los Angeles)
19–21 June 2003• Mediterranean Studies: Identities and Tensions (American University of Beirut) (Beirut)
