IS-LE Final Conference
Scientific Coordinators: Antonio Urquízar-Herrera, Alicia Miguélez, Elena Paulino, Borja Franco, Emir Filipović, and Ivana Čapeta Rakić
Venue and Date: Instituto Cervantes, Istanbul (Turkey) – July 7-8, 2023
Meeting call:
After 4 years and six months of existence, CA18129 IS-LE will end next September 2023. As a closing activity, the Action has planned a one-day Final Conference that could put together a relevant number of the researchers and the countries that have been involved in it. Been based in Spain and having held its first meeting in Lisbon, the Action considers that Istanbul will be the most appropriate closing location. This Final Conference aims at revising the outcomes of the Action and its impact in the participants’ research. Also, it will be an excellent opportunity to foster networking in the field and to devise new avenues for collaboration in the future. The academic program of the conference will consist of three panels of debate corresponding to the three working groups of the Action:
Panel 1 – The (imaginary) construction of the other. Chair: Borja Franco Llopis. The purpose of this WG has been to debate late medieval and early modern strategies for constructing religious, political and cultural otherness in the Mediterranean.
a) Anthropology and otherness: semantic discourses on the creation of the other.
b) From text to image, from image to text.
c) Material culture in the construction of the other.
Panel 2 – Migration and identity: National identities, local identities, religious identities. Chair: Emir Filipović. The purpose of this WG has been to spur debate on how migratory flows of Christians in Islamic territories, and vice-versa, influenced the shaping of the identities of the host peoples and immigrants during the Middle Ages and early modern period. This WG has looked at exile, expulsions, gender issues, and simple population movements.
a) Soldiers, prisoners, converts, renegades and the expelled: permeability among moving groups.
b) Trade and migration.
c) Moving scriptures.
Panel 3 – Beyond borders. Chair: Ivana Čapeta Rakić. This WG has been responsible for debating the concept of borders, as well as their value and representation during the late Middle Ages and early modern period in the Mediterranean.
a) The concept of border.
b) The representation of borders.