Call For Proposals:

AARHMS-inspired panels on Western-Mediterranean Communities of Knowledge and Bodies in Motion at the MAA Meeting at Notre Dame (March 14-16, 2024).

DUE DATE: 22 May 2023.

AARHMS is interested in promoting two Western-Mediterranean sessions of three 20-minute papers each co-organized by Mohamad Ballan and Tom Barton for the upcoming Medieval Academy of America Meeting, which will be held at the University of Notre Dame’s Medieval Institute on March 14-16, 2024. 

• The first session plans to engage with the theme of Communities of Knowledge by exploring how interfaith interaction both shaped and was conditioned by evolving, co-produced conceptions of sovereignty within the contexts of the later medieval Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. 

• The second aims to investigate the theme of Bodies in Motion through the lens of the intersecting quotidian lives and rhythms of Christians, Jews, and Muslims cohabiting cities, towns, and their associated suburban districts within the later medieval Iberian Peninsula. 

Proposals should include a title, 150-250-word abstract, and one-page CV and need to be received no later than 22 May 2023. Please send to Mohamad Ballan (mohamad.ballan@stonybrook.edu) and Tom Barton (barton@sandiego.edu).

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