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<b><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">50(+) years of<span> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"><i>Islam and the Arabs in Spanish Scholarship</i></span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"><span> </span>(James
Monroe, Brill 1970): A symposium on the occasion of its reissue</span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"><i><o:p><span style="margin:0px"> </span></o:p></i></span></b><br>
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<span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Friday April 1, 2022</span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"><o:p><span style="margin:0px"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;color:black">This one-day symposium will celebrate the impact of James T. Monroe’s seminal study </span><span style="margin:0px;color:black"><i>Islam and the Arabs in Spanish Scholarship, </i></span><span style="margin:0px;color:black">which
has </span><span style="margin:0px;color:black"><a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674251694" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">just appeared in a revised second edition</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;color:black">,
as well as the study of Islam in the West more broadly speaking. </span><span style="margin:0px;color:black"><o:p><span style="margin:0px"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;color:black">Much has happened since its original publication in 1970. Scholars from the US and abroad will present papers on the legacy of Monroe’s work and the current state of Arabic Studies and Islam in Spain and the US. This will
be a hybrid event with both in-person and virtual presentations from an international group of scholars.</span><span style="margin:0px;color:black"><o:p><span style="margin:0px"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black">Program<span> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><o:p><span style="margin:0px"> </span></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black">9:00</span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><span style="margin:0px"> <span> </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><b>Ignacio Navarete</b></span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><span> </span>(UC
Berkeley), Welcome/Opening Remarks<span> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><o:p><span style="margin:0px"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black">9:30</span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><span style="margin:0px"> <span> </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><b>David Wacks and Michelle M. Hamilton</b></span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black">,
“50(+) years of Islam and the Arabs in Spanish Scholarship”</span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><o:p><span style="margin:0px"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black">10:00-12:00</span></b><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><span> </span>[panelists will join via Zoom]</span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><o:p><span style="margin:0px"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black">Alejandro García Sanjuán</span></b><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><span> </span>(University of Huelva) “Nationalism and Colonialism in Spanish Scholarship about Medieval Iberia.” [virtual]<span> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><o:p><span style="margin:0px"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black">Brian Catlos</span></b><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><span> </span>(University of Colorado, Boulder): “Islam and the Arabs in Spanish scholarship: the last 50 years…. and the next?”</span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><o:p><span style="margin:0px"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black">Christina Civantos</span></b><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><span> </span>(University of Miami): “</span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><i>Jamón</i></span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><span> </span>&<span> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><i>Halal</i></span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black">:
Islam and the Arabs in Spain’s Alpujarra Region”</span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><o:p><span style="margin:0px"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black">1:30-3:30</span></b><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><span> </span>[the first panelist will join via Zoom]</span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><o:p><span style="margin:0px"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black">Dwight Reynolds</span></b><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><span> </span>(UC Santa Barbara) “50 years (+) of Music Scholarship on Medieval Iberia” [virtual]</span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><o:p><span style="margin:0px"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black">Kevin Blankinship</span></b><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><span> </span>(Brigham Young University) “A Banū Sāsān Underworld Poem by Naṣrid Andalusī Jurist ʿUmar al-Mālaqī (d. after 1440 CE)”</span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><o:p><span style="margin:0px"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black">Nasser Merkhan</span></b><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><span> </span>(UC Berkeley) “Translating Populism: On The<span> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><i>Risāla<span> </span></i></span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black">of
Ibn García”</span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><o:p><span style="margin:0px"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black">James T. Monroe</span></b><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black">, Concluding Remarks</span><span lang="EN" style="margin:0px;color:black"><o:p><span style="margin:0px"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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