Mediterranean Studies Events for Fall 2019
The CU Mediterranean Studies Group recently hosted Albert Corbet贸 of the Reial Academia de Bones Lletres of Barcelona, a historian of typography and the book, who gave a class on women printers in the eighteenth-century, and on the relationship between book production and the dissemination of the Spanish 鈥淏lack Legend.鈥 The group, with the support of the department, is hosting Prof. Blanca Gar铆 (History, University of Barcelona) for the fall semester, as she continues her research project on female-founded monastic houses in medieval Iberia. Prof Hiroshi Takayama (History, University of Tokyo), and expert on Islamic Sicily, is slated to visit in November. For details see .
罢丑别听聽also based in the department, is holding its fall workshop at the University of Toronto, and with the support of the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (Collegeville MN) on 4 & 5 October on the subject of 鈥淰iolence.鈥
Prof. Catlos was interviewed on Sunday, 9 September on Spanish national radio, on the program聽,听诲颈蝉肠耻蝉蝉颈苍驳听Reinos de fe. Una nueva historia de la Espa帽a musulmana, the Spanish translation of his Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain.
In October, a German translation, Al-Andalus Geschichte des maurischen Spanien, will by published by Beck; Prof. Catlos will be giving talks that month at the universities of Heidelberg, T眉bingen, Konstanz, and W眉rzburg.
On November 17 he is scheduled to give a talk at the Arapahoe branch of the public library for the Boulder Atheists on Islam and the origins of modern Western culture.