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PARTICIPANTS 2018-12-02T09:18:27+00:00

PARTICIPANTS

In alphabetical order.

Marine
Ansquer

(University Lyon 2, France)

“La visión del otro musulmán en Historia del Abencerraje y la hermosa Jarifa: arqueología de un conflicto

Thursday, 8th  November, Senate House, Bedford Room 37

12:00 – 13:30

Elizabeth
Blakemore

(University of Edinburgh, UK)

““Christian constancy vs. the inferior infidel: religious conflict within Calderón’s El príncipe constant”

Thursday, 8th  November, Senate House, Bedford Room 37

14:30 – 16:00

Dr. Roger
Boase

(Queen Mary University, UK)

A Growing (In)tolerant Nation? Late-medieval and Renaissance Challenging Texts

Friday, 9th of November, Instituto Cervantes London, Library

13:30 – 15:00

Bert
Carlstrom

(Queen Mary University, UK)

“Recreating a Heresy: Anonymous Writings from Seville on the Eve of the Inquisition

Friday, 9th of November, Instituto Cervantes London, Library

13:30 – 15:00

Dr. Jaime
Contreras

(Universidad de Alcalá, Spain)

“El espacio del converso: interculturalidad y microhistoria

Thursday, 8th  November, Senate House, Bedford Room 37

10:15 – 11:30

Dr. Georgina
Dopico

(NYU, USA)

“Tolerance? Blood Purity and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain

Thursday, 8th  November, Senate House, Bedford Room 37

10:15 – 11:30

Dr. Imogen
Choi

(Universiy of Oxford, UK)

“Exile and Identity in David: Poema heroico, Jacob Uziel (Venize, 1624)

Thursday, 8th  November, Senate House, Bedford Room 37

12:00 – 13:30

Helen
Flatley

(University of Oxford, UK)

“Hybrid Legacies: Imagining the Mozarabs of Toledo in the ‘False Chronicles’ of Jerónimo Román de la Higuera

Friday, 9th of November, Instituto Cervantes London, Library

15:30 – 17:00

Dr. Borja
Franco

(UNED, Spain)

“Beyond Maurophilia and Maurophobia. New approaches to the Muslim other, Morisco and Islamicate Art in Iberia (14th-17th centuries)

Friday, 9th of November, Instituto Cervantes London, Library

10:00 – 12:30

Dr. Susana
Gala Pellicer

(CSIC-CCHS)

“El espacio del converso: interculturalidad y microhistoria

Thursday, 8th  November, Senate House, Bedford Room 37

10:15 – 11:30

Dr. Fernando
Gómez Herrero

(University of Birmingham, UK)

“Revisiting the Américo Castro – Sánchez Albornoz Dispute; or about the alleged intolerance of the Other and the scholarly horizon of politics

Thursday, 8th  November, Senate House, Bedford Room 37

10:15 – 11:30

Dr. Ewa A.
Lukaszyk

(LE STUDIUM Loire Valley IAS, France)

“A transforming minority. The search for trans-confessional universalism on the margins of religious division in the medieval al-Andalus

Friday, 9th of November, Instituto Cervantes London, Library

10:00 – 12:30

Dr. Fernando
Pancorbo

(Universität Basel, Switzerland)

“The rhetorical tools of the sacramental autos put at the service of Jewish orthodoxy

Thursday, 8th  November, Senate House, Bedford Room 37

14:30 – 16:00

ElenaPaulino

(UNED, Spain)

“Beyond Maurophilia and Maurophobia. New approaches to the Muslim other, Morisco and Islamicate Art in Iberia (14th-17th centuries)

Thursday, 8th  November, Senate House, Bedford Room 37

10:00 – 12:30

Andrea
Pauw

(University of Virginia, USA)

“Epic Hares and Local Heroes: Vicente Pérez de Culla’s Expulsión de los moriscos rebeldes de la Sierra, y Muela de Cortes por Simeon Zapata Valenciano (1635)

Thursday, 8th  November, Senate House, Bedford Room 37

12:00 – 13:30

Michael Aidan
Pope

(Birkbeck, University of London, UK)

“Baptising the African: Blackness and Old and New Christians in Early Modern Iberia

Friday, 9th of November, Instituto Cervantes London, Library

15:30 – 17:00

Rebecca
Quinn Teresi

(Johns Hopkins University / Edith O’Donnell Institute for Art History (UTD), USA)

“Visualising Limpieza de Sangre: The Immaculate Conception in service of the Hidalgo

Thursday, 8th  November, Senate House, Bedford Room 37

14:30 – 16:00

Teresa
Tinsley

(University of Exeter, UK)

“Hybrid nation: Hernando de Baeza and the Spain that might have been (c.1510)”

Friday, 9th of November, Instituto Cervantes London, Library

13:30 – 15:00

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Dr. Fernando Gómez Herrero


Educated in Europe (Spain and Britain; BA and MA U de Salamanca & Erasmus Program, U of Wales, Swansea) and the US (MA, Wake Forest U & PhD, Duke U & M.L.S. Simmons College), I have also travelled frequently to Latin America (mostly Mexico). I bring this international experience to the professional table. I have lived half my life in Europe and half in the United States as itinerant academic having held faculty and research posts at Duke, Stanford, Pittsburgh, Oberlin, Harvard U, Boston C, UMass, Boston). Back in Britain, I am teaching in Modern Languages (Hispanic Studies) at the U of Birmingham (2017-18), whilst pursuing diverse scholarly and research interests often riding the train in between London and Birmingham.

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Marine Ansquer


I am a second-year PhD student in Lyon (University Lyon 2, France), with the professor Philippe Meunier as director. I am studying the Spanish novela morisca (16th-17th centuries): Historia del Abencerraje y la hermosa Jarifa, Guerras civiles de Granada (Ginés Pérez de Hita), Historia de los dos enamorados Ozmín y Daraja (Mateo Alemán) and Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes). More specifically, I am working on the crossings between History and Fiction in my corpus, as the historical substrate is obvious in this genre, and I am trying to show in which ways the authors use this material to build their narratives. I am also studying the short fictional form, as these stories are mainly interpolated tales; I aim to determine the relations between the short novela, and the main story.

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Dr. Imogen Choi


Imogen Choi is Associate Professor in Spanish and Queen Sofía Fellow at Exeter College, University of Oxford. She is currently preparing a monograph for publication with Tamesis which connects the ‘new wars’ of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to political thought and the literary culture of early modern globalisation in the connected communities of Hispanic Europe and the Americas, using the epic poetry of viceregal Peru as a gateway into these questions. She is also co-editing a volume with Rodrigo Cacho, The Rise of Spanish American Poetry, 1500-1700: Literary and Cultural Transmission in the New World (Oxford: Legenda, 2019). Her next project deals with sacred epic poetry written in Spanish.

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Andrea Pauw


Andrea Pauw is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA) where she is a currently a Jefferson Fellow. Her dissertation approaches "Aljamiado" and Arabic poetry composed by Mudejars and Moriscos in 15th-16th century Spain from a theoretical framework grounded in linguistic anthropology ("Aljamiado" refers to the use of the Arabic alphabet to transliterate Romance). Heretofore neglected poetic compositions offer insight into the realities of Aragonese Muslims’ religious and social practices. Moving from an emic to an etic perspective, the project also examines 19th-century visual representations of the expulsion (1609-14). Andrea is excited to participate in the Iberian (In)Tolerance conference and looks forward to learning from scholars in the field

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Dr. Fernando Pancorbo


Fernando Pancorbo is Assistant PostDoc at University Basel. His research focuses on Sephardic Literature, History of Judaism, Rhetoric and censored translations. At the end of this year, he will publish his first monography over Joseph Penso de Vega: Cultural and Literary Profil, in Olschki editorial. Furthermore, he works too on Erotic and Polemical Literature of Spain and Italy in the Sixteenth Century. Actually, he is editing the Rhetoric of Courtesans, written by Ferrante Pallavicino. At the same time, he collaborates with the Research Project "Southern European Historical Materials Concerning China in the 16th and 17th Centuries: Spanish Digital Database Construction Project", directed by Manel Ollé, from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in collaboration with the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation of Taiwan.

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Rebecca Quinn Teresi


Rebecca Quinn Teresi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University specialising in seventeenth-century Spanish art. Her dissertation, advised by Felipe Pereda, is entitled "Images of the Immaculate Conception and the Rhetorics of Purity in Golden Age Spain" and deals with the multimedia image explosion surrounding the controversy over the Immaculate Conception in the seventeenth century and the images’ appropriation for and intersection with other contemporary debates over purity. Rebecca has held curatorial fellowships at the Meadows Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the British Museum. Her final dissertation research is supported this year by the Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas, where she is a Graduate Fellow and Lecturer.

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Elizabeth Blakemore


Elizabeth is currently doing a research master’s degree in Hispanic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Specialising in Golden Age literature, her dissertation explores the representation of moriscos in Calderón’s Amar después de la muerte. Before beginning her postgraduate career, Elizabeth received a first-class MA honours degree in Spanish and English Literature from Edinburgh. In January 2018, she began teaching as a postgraduate tutor within the university’s SPLAS department, teaching medieval balladry and post-civil war fiction. Elizabeth intends to begin her PhD in 2019, continuing her research on marginalised communities and the concept of the other in the Spanish-speaking world, both within Golden Age society and the world today.

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Dr. Ewa A. Lukaszyk


Ewa A. Łukaszyk, Ph.D. Habil., born in 1972. After her studies in Romance philology and comparative literature in Poland and in Portugal (University of Lisbon), she obtained her Ph.D. and Habilitation (post-doctoral degree) at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where she also got her academic initiation in Oriental studies. In 2006-2016 she taught at the University of Warsaw. She published several books on Portuguese and Lusophone literatures: Terrytorium a świat (The Territory and the World, Kraków 2003), Pokusa pustyni (The Temptation of the Desert, Kraków 2005), Imperium i nostalgia (Empire and nostalgia, Warsaw 2015), and other. She also authored a number of publications in cultural theory and criticism, including a volume of essays Humanistyka, która nadchodzi (The coming humanities, Warsaw 2018). She was editor and co-editor of several volumes of studies in comparative literature, of which the latest is Niewłasne lektury (Unappropriated books, Warsaw 2018). Recently she has been a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's fellow in Portugal and Marie Curie-Skłodowska fellow in France. Currently she prepares a major research project under the title “Poetics of the Void. Mystical insight and transcultural transgression in the Mediterranean”. More info: https://www.ewa-lukaszyk.com/

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Elena Paulino


Elena Paulino is a postdoctoral Fellow “Juan de la Cierva” at the UNED in Madrid. She completed her Ph.D in Art History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2015, and she has been a postdoctoral fellow at the KHI in Florence, associated to the project “Convivencia, Iberian to Global Dynamics”. Her research focuses on art, architecture and patronage in the Crown of Castile during the Late Middle Ages, and their connections with al-Andalus.

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Dr. Borja Franco


Ramón y Cajal Fellow (tenured track position) in the Department of Art History at the UNED in Madrid, he is an expert on the complexities of alterity and of Spanish identities. He graduated with a BA in Piano and BA in Art History at the University of Valencia (2005). That year he won the First National Award for best academic results in Art History. He finished a PhD at the University of Barcelona (Suma cum Laude a), where he won the 2010 Best Humanities Dissertation Award. He has been a visiting scholar in several prestigious institutions such as the School of History and Archeology in Rome, the Instituto Storico per el Medievo (Rome), the Warburg Institute (London), Johns Hopkins University, University of California (Berkeley), Harvard University and Columbia University. He has received multiple grants to fund his projects, one of them from the BBVA Foundation in 2016-18 for his current project on “The image of Islam in Iberia”. He is also the PI of the International Project: Before Orientalism: Images of the Muslim Other In Iberia (15-17th centuries)

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Dr. Roger Boase's Biography


Roger Boase, Ph.D. (1977), Honorary Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. His publications include The Origin and Meaning of Courtly Love (Manchester University Press, 1977), The Troubadour Revival (RKP, 1979), Pashtun Tales from the Pakistan-Afghan Frontier (Saqi, 2003), Islam and Global Dialogue (Ashgate, 2005), Secrets of Pinar’s Game: Court Ladies and Courtly Verse in Fifteenth-Century Spain (Brill, 2017), and many articles on 15th-century cancionero poetry and on the expulsion of the Muslims from Spain.

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Bert Carlstrom


Bert Carlstrom is a PhD Candidate at Queen Mary University of London. He studies the creation of identity and conceptions of foreignness in 15th and 16th century Iberia. He currently focuses on the religious indoctrination and pastoral instruction of conversos and moriscos during the time of the Catholic Monarchs, with particular reference to the work of Hernando de Talavera in Granada.

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Michael Aidan Pope


Michael Aidan Pope is currently working on a PhD in Birkbeck's department of Cultures and Languages, under the supervision of Dr Carmen Fracchia. The working title of his project is 'Converting to Christianity in Early Modern Iberia: The Cultural Functions of Baptism'. He was awarded an Arts Research Studentship from the School of Arts in support of this project. Before this, Michael completed his part-time MA in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Cultural Studies in 2017, also at Birkbeck, graduating with a Distinction. He was awarded the Aaron Sims Studentship for this MA.

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Helen Flatley


I am a DPhil student at the University of Oxford, with a background in both medieval (European) history and Islamic Studies. My research interests lie in the cultural and religious history of medieval Iberia, particularly focusing on interactions between Muslims, Christians and Jews in both al-Andalus and Christian Iberia. My doctoral project aims to shed light on the nature of interreligious interaction and exchange in in 12th and 13th-century Iberia, through a case study of the Mozarabs of Toledo in the two centuries after the conquest of the city by Alfonso VI.

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Teresa Tinsley


Teresa Tinsley completed her PhD in the Department of History at the University of Exeter in September 2018, after a long career in languages education and research. Her doctoral thesis, on "Hernando de Baeza and the making of Catholic Spain", concerns the life and work of Hernando de Baeza, a 15th-16th century Spanish author, interpreter, diplomat and negotiator of Jewish descent whose experiences encompassed acting as intermediary between Mohammed XI 'Boabdil', the last Muslim emir of Granada and the Catholic Monarchs, surviving the excesses of the Spanish Inquisition in Cordoba, and representing Spain's great military hero the 'Gran Capitán' in the papal court of Julius II.

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Dr. Georgina Dopico


Dr. GEORGINA DOPICO is Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. Her areas of research include early-modern Spanish literatures and cultures, cultural history, the Inquisition, and gender studies. Her books include, co-edited with Francisco Layna, USA Cervantes: 39 Cervantistas en Estados Unidos (CSIC / Polifemo, 2009), Perfect Wives, Other Women: Adultery and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain (Duke, 2001), Suplemento al Tesoro de la Lengua Española Castellana de Sebastián de Covarrubias (with Jacques Lezra) (Madrid: Polifemo, 2001), and, co-edited with Roberto González Echevarría, En un lugar de la Mancha (Salamanca: Ediciones Almar, 1999). She received a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from Yale University and her AB in History and Literature from Harvard University.

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Dr. Jaime Contreras


Dr. Jaime Contreras is Chair of Modern History –and currently Emeritus Professor– at the University of Alcalá. One of the main and more renowned specialists in Spanish Inquisition history and social, cultural and religious Spanish modern history, he has published relevant books like El Santo Oficio de la Inquisición en Galicia, 1560-1700 (1982), Historia de la Inquisición española, 1478-1834 (1997), Carlos II el Hechizado. Poder y melancolía en la corte del último Austria (2003), Los olvidados de la historia: herejes (2004) y Judíos y moriscos (2005), among others.

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Dr. Susana Gala


Dr. Susana Gala Pellicer completed her PhD with honors in the Department of Comparative Literature at the Universidad de Alcalá. As a result of her research, she has contributed in several books and has published a number of articles in academic journals. She has also done research at and been invited to different universities overseas to give MA and PhD lectures.

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