Mysticism & Devotion

Location:
“Skybox” (top floor)
Duane Physics Building
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Friday, 04/21/2017 @ 9:15am

Workshopsessions will present threeworkshop papers and a presentation by our first featured scholar, Prof. Amy Remensnyder.

Workshop papers:
•Marla Segol (Jewish Studies, SUNY Buffalo): “Mystical Embryologies: Knowledge, Practice, and Devotion”
Respondent: Nan Goodman (English and Jewish Studies, 񱦵)
•Marianne Kupin-Lisbin (History, U of Rochester): “New Approaches in Understanding the Lived Religious Culture of the Ottoman Balkans”
Respondent: Sabahat Adil (Asian Languages and Civilizations, 񱦵)
•Anna Akasoy (Islamic Intellectual History, Hunter College): “Imaginary Spaces of Devotion in Andalusi Mystical Poetry”
Respondent: Cyrus Zargar (Religion, Augustana College)

Featured Scholar:
• Amy Remensnyder (History: Brown University): “Does the Sea Matter to the History of Mediterranean Devotion?”

Saturday, 04/22/2017 @ 9:15

Round-table sessions will feature three round tables, followed by a presentation by our second featured scholar, Dr. Maribel Fierro.

Mysticism and Doctrine - Are they Compatible or do they Conflict? Do Mystical Traditions have a Politics? “Mediterranean Religion”: Does it Function as a Category?
Moderator: Sharon Kinoshita (Literature, UC Santa Cruz)
• Michelle Hamilton (Spanish & Portuguese, Minnesota)
• Janine Peterson (History, Marist College)
• Nathan Fisher (Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara)
• Aun Hasan Ali (Religious Studies, 񱦵)
• Robert Pasnau (Philosophy, 񱦵)
Moderator: Claire Farago (Art History, 񱦵)
• Hartley Lachter (Religion, Lehigh University)
• Núria Silleras (Spanish and Portuguese, 񱦵)
• John Curry (History, University of Nevada Las Vegas)
• Matt Lynch (Religious Studies, UNC Chapel Hill)
• Edward Holt (History, Saint Louis University)
• Benjamin de Lee (History, CUNY Cortland)
Moderator: Brian A. Catlos (Religious Studies, 񱦵)
• Sabahat Adil (Asian Language & Civilizations, 񱦵)
• David Williams (History, University of Saint Katherine & Royal Holloway)
• Kevin Blankinship (Arabic Literature: University of Chicago)
• Karen Pinto (History: Boise State)
• Allen Fromherz (History: Georgia State)

AND

“Mediterranean Studies in Asia”
Yuen-Gen Liang (National Taiwan University) & Eun-Jee Park (Busan University of Foreign Studies)

Featured Scholar
• Maribel Fierro (CSIC, Madrid): “The Political Mystics of al-Andalus”

The event is free, admittance is by registration only. Space is limited. Registered participants should attend the whole event.
For general information contact:mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org. To register and to receive the workshop papers, and for logistical and site-specific information, please contact Jeffrey Baron (jeffrey.baron@colorado.edu).


Sponsored By:

񱦵 College of Arts and Sciences Innovative Seed Grant, the Program in Jewish Studies, Religious Studies, the Center for Western Civilization, History, Philosophy, Asian Languages and Civilizations, Humanities, Spanish & Portuguese, Philosophy and the College of Arts and Sciences. Administrative support provided by Religious Studies (񱦵).


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