Comings to Term with Forced Conversion»

07 Nov Comings to Term with Forced Conversion»

Los días 17 y 18 de noviembre tendrá lugar en la Residencia de Estudiantes de Madrid el congreso internacional «Coming to Terms with Forced Conversion. Coercion and Faith in Pre-Modern Iberia and Beyond», organizado por Mercedes García-Arenal y Yonatan Glazer-Eytan dentro del marco del proyecto CORPI (Conversion, Overlapping, Religiosities, Polemics and Interaction. Early Modern Iberia and Beyond).

Programa:

Thursday, November 17, 2016

INTRODUCTION

9:30 – 10:00    Mercedes García-Arenal and Yonatan Glazer-Eytan

 

PANEL 1: THE ALMOHADS AND THE WIDER ISLAMIC CONTEXT

CHAIR:  Eduardo Manzano (IH-CCHS, CSIC)

10:00 – 10:30  Uriel Simonsohn (University of Haifa): «Women and Conversion to Islam: A Sample Analysis of Medieval Narratives and Legal Problems.»

10:30 – 11:00  Maribel Fierro (ILC-CCHS, CSIC): «Rethinking Forced Conversion in Almohad Times.»

11:00 – 11:30  coffee break 

11:30 – 12:00  Alan Verskin (The University of Rhode Island): «Consolation Literature as a Response to the Forced Conversions of the Almohad Period: Maimonides’ Epistle on Martyrdom in the Light of Maimon b. Joseph’s Epistle of Consolation and Ibn ʿAqnīn’s Healing of Souls.»

12:00 – 12:30  Tamer el-Leithy (Johns Hopkins University): «The Limits of Constituted Conversion in Late Medieval Egypt.»

12:30 –13:00   Discussion

13:00 – 14:30 lunch

 

PANEL 2: GRAPPLING WITH THE RESHAPING OF COMMUNITY

CHAIR: David Nirenberg (University of Chicago)

14:30 – 15:00  David S. Powers (Cornell University): «Mālikī Jurists on the Status of a Synagogue in Touat, ca.1480.»

15:00 – 15:30  Paul Fenton (Paris Sorbonne): «Problems of Integration and Exclusion: The Case of Neo-Muslims of Jewish Origin in Morocco.»

15:30 – 16:00  coffee break

16:00 – 16:30  Ryan Szpiech (University of Michigan): «Enforcing Rabbinical Tradition: The Forced ‘Conversion’ of Castilian Qaraites.»

16:30 – 17:00  Ram Ben-Shalom (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): «Jews and Conversos in Aragon in the Aftermath of the 1391 Riots: the Development of a New Grammar of Conversion.»

17:00 – 17:30  Discussion

 

Friday, November 18, 2016

PANEL 3:  THE VISIGOTHIC MODEL AND ITS USES

CHAIR: Julio Escalona (IH, CCHS-CSIC)

09:30 – 10:00  Elsa Marmursztejn (Université de Reims): «Uses and Echoes of the Visigothic Conciliar Legislation in the Scholastic Controversy on Forced Baptism (13th–14th Centuries).»

10:00 – 10:30  Rosa Vidal Doval (Queen Mary, University of London): «Visigothic Legislation and the Converso Problem in Late Medieval Spain.»

10:30 – 11:00  Isabelle Poutrin (Paris-Est, Créteil): «Proving the Extortion of Consent in Conversion, Apostasy and Other Circumstances of Life. Some Theorizations in Canon Law (16th–17th Centuries).»

11:00 – 11:30  Discussion

11:30 – 12:00  coffee break

 

PANEL 4: BETWEEN DISSIMULATION AND MARTYRDOM     

CHAIR: Luis Bernabé-Pons (Universidad de Alicante)

12:00– 12:30   Yonatan Glazer-Eytan (CORPI, Johns Hopkins University): «Idolatry, Inquisition, Intention.»

12:30 – 13:00  Miriam Bodian (University of Texas-Austin): «Crypto-Jewish Dissimulation and Martyrdom: Ambivalent Values.»

13:00 – 13:30  Gerard A. Wiegers (University of Amsterdam): «Martyrdom and Eschatological Reward: Crypto-Islam and the Salvation History of the Parchment of the Turpiana Tower and the Granadan Lead Books.»

13:30 – 14:00  Discussion

14:00 – 15:30 lunch

 

PANEL 5:   THE LIMITS OF FORCED CONVERSION

CHAIR: Fernando Rodríguez Mediano (CORPI, ILC-CCHS, CSIC)

15:30 – 16:00  Marisa Bueno (POCRAM, Paris-Est, Créteil): «Are You Still My Wife? Conversion to Christianity and Its Legal Effects on the Pre-Existing Marriage and Their Offspring in Late Medieval Castile.»

16:00 – 16:30  Tamar Herzig (Tel Aviv University): «The Forced Conversion of Convicted Jewish Criminals in 15th-Century Italy.»

16:30 – 16:45  coffee break 

16:45 – 17:15  Mercedes García-Arenal (CORPI, ILC-CCHS, CSIC): «Was Forced Conversion Efficacious?»

17:15 – 17:30  Discussion

17:30 – 18:00 David Nirenberg          Concluding Remarks

 

Decárgate aquí el programa en pdf.

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