[Andalusi Studies] [CFP] Al-Andalus in Motion Istanbul, 15-16 November 2018

Mon Jul 23 08:46:44 PDT 2018

*Call for papers*

*Al-Andalus in Motion: Travelling Concepts and Cross-Cultural Contexts'*

*Istanbul Medeniyet University**, 15-16 November 2018*

*Please disseminate widely on listservs and social media.*

The history of Iberia, as both an originator and a product of global
colonization, constitutes a field of study for interrogating fundamental
concepts of contemporary liberal-democratic societies. The ‘Iberianate
venture’ embraces the ‘Al-Andalus’ syndrome (Islamic Andalusia as a model
of tolerant co-existence between Christians, Muslims and Jews), the Iberian
‘Black legend’ (repressive Inquisitorial Catholicism, imperial brutality,
economic backwardness), and Sefarad (an ambiguous place of home and exile
for Iberian Jews). Within the framework of the ‘Traveling Concepts’ strand
of the Language Acts & Worldmaking <https://www.languageacts.org/> project,
this conference will focus on the many ways in which Al-Andalus becomes a
figure of thought, a means by which societies, minority groups, and
individuals past and present represent and critically engage with questions
of religious pluralism, intercultural contact and national identity.

Proposals for papers are invited from across the disciplines with a focus
on the cross-cultural circulation of Andalusian and Sephardic ideas and
concepts across geographies and histories. Submissions are welcome on any
topic related to Al-Andalus and its afterlives including, but not limited
to:

   - The languages, cultures, literatures and music of Al-Andalus and its
   diasporas;
   - Memory and identity in the Andalusi and Sephardic diasporas and its
   diverse contexts of settlement;
   - The trajectory of an ideological fascination with Muslim
   Spain/Al-Andalus as a hybrid space, a porous frontier between East and
   West, Islam and Christendom;
   - Sephardic and Andalusi heritage industry and cultural tourism;
   - *Alhambrismo* and the Moorish style in architecture and the decorative
   arts; material culture, Orientalism and Neo-Orientalism;
   - Language encounters between Al-Andalus, Iberia and Sefarad: oralities,
   scripts, texts, translations;
   - The circulation of ideas and representations of Al-Andalus from early
   modern days to the present, in Europe, Latin America, Turkey, and the
   broader Islamicate world, and their cultural, ideological and political
   uses;
   - Al-Andalus in fantasy and worldbuilding games and virtual reality;
   - The cultural and political traction of the chronotopes of Al-Andalus
   in the Christian, Muslim and Sephardic worlds;
   - Travel and travellers in Al-Andalus/Sefarad/Iberia across time and
   space;
   - *Moros y cristianos* festivals, Al-Andalus fairs, public history and
   historical re-enactment;
   - Al-Andalus as a combat concept in War-on-Terror times.

Abstracts of 250-400 words on these or similar topics should be submitted
using the online application form athttp://lawmalandalus.org/apply.

*Important Dates*

Abstract Submission                                        August 31, 2018

Confirmation of acceptance                         September 10, 2018

Final program                                                    September
30, 2018
Conference Dates                                            November 15-16,
2018

*Contact*

İlmi Etudler Derneği
Aziz Mahmut Hüdayi Mh. Türbe Kapısı Sk. No: 13 Üsküdar İstanbul Turkey
+902163104318
http://lawmalandalus.org/
lawm at ilem.org.tr

*Language Acts and Worldmaking *(https://www.languageacts.org/) is a
flagship project funded by the AHRC Open World Research Initiative, which
aims to regenerate and transform modern language learning by foregrounding
language's power to shape how we live and make our worlds. *Travelling
Concepts *takes the Iberian Peninsula as both the originator and product of
a polycentric process of global colonization, and its history as a workshop
for questioning how language constructs the world. In a journey that takes
us from Brazil to China, and through multiple languages, we investigate the
ideological work performed by the vocabularies that historically cluster
around Iberia, whether embedded in individual words, phrases or extended
literary forms (narrative, lyric, history). Concepts such as ‘global’,
‘culture’, ‘civilisation’, ‘tolerance’, ‘Europe’ and the binary East/West
are central to the way Iberian history has been imagined both inside and
outside the Peninsula, from the Middle Ages to the present day.

*ILEM-Scientific Studies Association *(https://www.ilem.org.tr) was founded
in 2002 with a view to training and supporting scientists and intellectuals
engaging with the challenges of the contemporary world. Through the
organisation of academic, cultural, and public engagement events and
publications, ILEM aims to contribute to the generation and dissemination
of knowledge across the social sciences, arts, literature and theology in
dialogue and critical engagement with the wealth of ideas and scholarship
of the Islamicate traditions.

Dr Rachel Scott

Postdoctoral Research Associate – Language Acts and Worldmaking

Open World Research Initiative Centre

King’s College London

Room 5.43, Virginia Woolf Building

22 Kingsway

London WC2B 6LE

Tel: +44 (0)207 848 7414

Email: rachel.scott at kcl.ac.uk

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