Day 1, Friday 7th January
9.00-9.15: Welcome and Opening
9.15-10.30: Keynote Lecture 1 – Roser Salicrú i Lluch (Institució Milà i Fontanals, CSIC, Barcelona), Deconstructing, Constructing or Reconstructing Identities? Microhistories of Muslim and Christian Captives in the Western Medieval Mediterranean
10.30-11.00: Break
11.00-12.30: Session 1 (Chair: Dr. Rodrigo García-Velasco)
Dr. Carolina Obradors-Suazo (École des hautes études Hispaniques et Ibériques, Madrid), Identities Witnessed and Performed: the Language of Foreigness in 15th-century Barcelona
Helen Flatley (University of Oxford), Christian Otherness on the Iberian frontier: the Making of Mozarabic Identity in Post-Conquest Toledo
Leo Donnarumma (Université Grenoble Alpes/Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II), We Band of Brothers: the Origin of the Arbëreshë Communities in the Kingdom of Naples at the end of the 15th century
12.30-13.30: Lunch Break
13.30-14.30: Session 2 (Chair: Annabel Hancock)
Gabrielle Russo (University of Cambridge), Projecting and (Re)crafting Turkic Identity at the ʿAbbāsid Court: al-Fatḥ ibn Khāqān and The Merits of the Turks
Simona Puca (Université Grenoble Alpes), The Christianitas Cismarina in front of the Others. Investigations on the Letter of the Latins in the State of Jerusalem to Charles of Anjou
14.30-15.00: Break
15.00-16.00: Session 3 (Chair: Laura Bailey)
Blanche Lagrange (CESCM, Université de Poitiers), An English Artist in Flanders: Visual Identity and Artistic Creation in Flemish Scriptoria in the early 11th-century
Gayane Babayan (Independent Scholar), Armenians, ‘Foreigners’ in 14th-century South-Eastern Crimea: Images as Means of Shaping and Sustaining the Identity Abroad
16.00-16.30: Break
16.30-17.30: Keynote Lecture 2 – Teresa Shawcross (Princeton University), Dreaming of Another Byzantium: Refugees from the Eastern Mediterranean in Western Europe, 14th-16th Centuries
Day 2, Saturday 8th January
Welcome
9.15-10.30: Keynote Lecture 3 – Miri Rubin, (QMUL), How strange were the strangers of medieval cities?
10.30-11.00: Break
11.00-12.30: Session 4 (Chair: Helen Flatley)
Dr. Etleva Lala (Eötvös Loránd University), The Albanian Identity of the Albanians in the Ragusan Republic
Ester Zoomer (University of Amsterdam), Those residing in the Steelyard: the Perception and Regulation of a Hanseatic Mercantile Identity in 15th-century London
Richard Ibarra (University of California, Los Angeles), What’s in a Name? Attesting and Contesting Genoese Nobility in 16th-century Seville
12.30-13.30: Lunch Break
13.30-15.00: Session 5 (Chair: Jessica Tearney-Pearce)
Dr. Victòria A. Burguera-Puigserver (University of the Balearic Islands), Where Voluntary and Forced Migrations intersect: Merchants and Slaves between Christian and Islamic lands in 15th-century Crown of Aragon
Ariana Myers (Princeton University), What’s in a Name? Slavery, Conversion, and Patronage in 13th-century Majorca
Sanja Miljan (Central European University), Franciscans Abroad: Case Study from the Province of Dalmatia until the beginning of the 15th century
15.00-15.30: Break
15.30-16.30: Session 6 (Chair: Jan Vandeburie)
Dr. Paulo Catarino-Lopes (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa), Constructing the Self: Self-Identification and Presentation to other ‘Foreigners’ and Locals in Travel Accounts to the East in the late Middle Ages
Eleonora Tioli (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa/Université de Fribourg), Christian Missionaries in the Mongol Empire
16.30-17.00: Concluding Discussion and End of the Conference
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