25 February
Morning session
from 9am coffee
9.15 Welcome: Nora Berend (University of Cambridge/KHK Bochum)
Chair: Alex Cuffel (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
9.30-10.15 Ulisse Cecini (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), When Christian polemic "borrows" from Islamic ḥadīths. The use of the word "alkaufeit" in Albarus of Cordoba's Indiculus luminosus (9th c.)
10.15-11 Judith Bronstein (University of Haifa and Oranim College), Social and cultural identity on the menu in the kingdom of Jerusalem
11-11.30 coffee break
11.30-12.15 Alexandru Simon (Romanian Academy’s Center for Transylvanian Studies, Cluj-Napoca) Misfits and Saviours in the East: Holy and Unholy Means and Men of War after the Fall of Constantinople
12.15-13 Antonín Kalous (Palacký University, Olomouc) Borrowing Djem, King Matthias explains his strategy to papal legates
13-14.30 lunch
Afternoon session
Chair: Nora Berend (University of Cambridge/KHK Bochum)
14.30-15.15 Reinhold Glei (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Preparing the Crusade: Juan de Torquemada's polemics against Islam
15.15-16 Adam Knobler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) The Medici and the Druze: a curious anti-Ottoman alliance
16-16.30 coffee break
16.30-17.15 József Laszlovszky (Central European University Budapest) Social interactions and material culture during the Ottoman period in Early Modern Hungary (16-17th centuries)
17.15-18 Markus Koller (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Current developments in the historiography of Ottoman-"European" relations, followed by debate
26 February
Chair: Alex Cuffel (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
9.30-10.15 Stéphane Boissellier (Université de Poitiers), L’absorption silencieuse des indigènes andalous et de leur culture dans le Portugal de la Reconquête
10.15-11 Ana Echevarría (UNED, Madrid), New mosques in borrowed Christian houses: negotiation of space in the context of Muslim subject populations
11-11.30 coffee break
11.30-12.15 Simon Barton (University of Exeter), Iberia Entwined: Christians, Muslims and the Politics of Sex in the Middle Ages
12.15-13 Amy Remensnyder (Brown University), Creating Islands of Interfaith Trust in a Sea at War
13-14.30 lunch