Christian-Islamic Interactions
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Christian-Islamic Interactions
Mobility, Connection, Transformation (1450-1800)
PROGRAMME
Monday, 10 February Sala Azzurra
9.00 Welcome & introductionGiuseppe Marcocci | Università della Tuscia, ViterboGeneral introduction
Serena Di Nepi | Sapienza-Università di RomaMorning introduction
9.30 Session IChair: Kay Peter Jankrift | Universität Augsburg
Bernadette Andrea | University of Texas at San AntonioConnecting the histories of Teresa Sampsonia and Mariam Khan: The travels and transformations of two women from the Islamic world in early seventeenth-century England
Bernard Heyberger | EHESS, ParisA border-crossing Ottoman Christian at the beginning of the eighteenth century
Discussant: Mercedes García-Arenal | CSIC, Madrid
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Session IIChair: Bernard D. Cooperman | University of Maryland
Eric R. Dursteler | Brigham Young University Sex and transcultural connections in early modern Istanbul
Umberto Grassi | Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa"La sodomía no era pecado": Sessualità illecita tra cristiani e musulmani nel mondo iberico di età moderna
Discussant: Marina Caffiero | Sapienza-Università di Roma
12.00 Pause
12.30 Session IIIChair: Maria Pia Pedani | Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia
Giuseppina Minchella | Sapienza-Università di RomaAttraverso gli occhi di Venezia: Il confine veneto-ottomano nel XVII secolo–una lunga frontiera aperta e condivisa
Cecilia Tarruell | EHESS, ParisLa interacción entre cristianos y musulmanes convertidos al catolicismo en el seno de los ejércitos de la Monarquía hispánica (ca. 1574-1609)
Discussant: Giovanna Fiume | Università di Palermo
13.30 Lunch
15.00 Session IV Chair and afternoon introduction: Felicita Tramontana | Università di Palermo
Mahnaz Yousefzadeh | New York University The Persian Sofie at the Medici court
Maria Pia Pedani | Università Ca’ Foscari, VeneziaA place of interaction: The Venetian Bailo's palace in Constantinople (17th-18th c.)
Discussant: Jorge Flores | European University Institute, Firenze
16.00 Coffee break
16.30 Session VChair: Massimo Firpo | Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Francisco Javier Apellániz | European University Institute, FirenzeWestern notaries and Islamic judges: Solving interfaith conflict in late medieval Alexandria and Damascus
Bernard D. Cooperman | University of MarylandNegotiating jurisdictions: Free ports, piracy and trade between Livorno and Tunis
Discussant: Franco Angiolini | Università di Pisa
17.30 Pause
18.00 Session VIChair: Eric R. Dursteler | Brigham Young University
Andrea Pelizza | Archivio di Stato di VeneziaNonostante la guerra: Venezia e il recupero di schiavi e prigionieri nella crisi del secondo Seicento
Justin J. Meggitt | University of Cambridge A paradoxical encounter: Early Quakers and the reception of Islam in the seventeenth century
Discussant: Felicita Tramontana | Università di Palermo
20.30 Dinner
Tuesday, 11 February Sala Azzurra
9.00 Session VIIChair and morning introduction: Giuseppe Marcocci | Università della Tuscia, Viterbo
Katarzyna K. Starczewska | CSIC, MadridLeo Africanus' contribution to a Latin translation of the Qur'an: A case study of intellectual activity after conversion
Paola Molino | Universität WienOttomans on paper: Library catalogues and news circulation in late Renaissance Vienna
Alexander Bevilacqua | Princeton UniversityA library of Islamic letters in Louis XIV's France
Discussant: Stefania Pastore | Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Session VIIIChair: Adriano Prosperi | Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Fatma Sinem Eryilmaz | Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa Imagined encounters: What could Sultan Süleyman be doing in an Ecce Homo of Titian?
Kay Peter Jankrift | Universität Augsburg A story of the thousand and second night: Travelers, precious souvenirs and the images of the Orient in 16th-century Augsburg
William Kynan-Wilson | University of Cambridge From mosque to church, dervish to monk: The religious rhetoric of Ottoman costume albums
Discussant: Paola Molino | Universität Wien
12.30 Final discussion
13.30 Lunch