Encounters, Legacies and Trajectories: A Research Colloquium on Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Literary Worlds
Virginia Woolf Building, Strand Campus, London
Building on previous collaborations, this Colloquium brings together scholars from three well-established international research groups based in London, Barcelona and Madrid in order to share current projects and foster future lines of research in the study of medieval and early modern Iberia and its contact zones across the globe.
The research groups are:
Legarad: Legado de Sefarad: La producción material e intelectual del judaísmo sefardí bajomedieval, IV (The Legacy of Sefarad: Material and Intellectual Production in Late Medieval Sephardic Judaism, 4)
https://digital.csic.es/cris/project/pj00291
Madrid, CSIC: This is the fourth edition of a research project on medieval Hebrew manuscript culture. Their approach is interdisciplinary and holistic, placing the Hebrew codex within its late-medieval cultural context, in relation to Jewish culture itself, and in dialogue with Latin and vernacular manuscript cultures. This stage of the nationally funded project (2022-2026) is devoted to previously unknown or little-studied manuscript materials which shed light upon the dissemination of genres and formats within and outside the Iberian Peninsula.
Language Acts and Worldmaking, ‘Travelling Concepts’
https://languageacts.org/travelling-concepts/
This research strand formed part of the nationally funded ‘Language Acts and Worldmaking’ project (2016-2021), which now continues as a research centre within the Global Cultures Institute of King’s College London. We examine the interactions between the cultures of the three Abrahamic faiths of Iberia, and the global legacy of this encounter as both historical reality and ideological construct.
Seminario de Estudios sobre el Renacimiento (Seminar on Renaissance Studies)
Founded in 2001 and based in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, this multi-stranded research group has supported a rich array of research projects conducted by established scholars as well as pre- and post-doctoral researchers. There are three broad research fields: religious movements and Habsburg politics; censorship and dissent; the history of the book and reading practices. Within each field, individual projects set Iberian developments within a European and global context, from China, Africa, Northern Europe to the New World.
Programme
10.30: Welcome: Julian Weiss, Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela (KCL) and Rachel Scott (RHUL)
10.40-11.00: Introductions to the Research Groups
11.00-12.30: Session 1: Legarad, IV: The Legacy of Sefarad: Material and Intellectual Production in Late Medieval Sephardic Judaism
Chair: Andrea Schatz (KCL)
Esperanza Alfonso (CSIC, Madrid), ‘In the Margins of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts’
Arturo Prats (Universidad Complutense, Madrid), ‘“Please understand this, brothers and friends”: A Hebrew Poem about Wine’
David Torollo (Universidad Complutense, Madrid), ‘Intrareligious Cultural Translation Across the Mediterranean’
12.30-2.00: Sandwich Lunch (Third Floor Common Room)
2.00-3.30: Session 2: Language Acts and Worldmaking: Travelling Concepts
Chair: Esperanza Alfonso
Julian Weiss: ‘Our Jewish Roots: The Problem of the Essenes’ – Response: Nathanael Vette (KCL)
Juan Carlos Mantilla (KCL): ‘Early Modern Orientalisms and the Antiquity of the Indigenous Americas’ – Response: Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela (KCL)
Rachel Scott: ‘Framing Intercultural Encounters in Three Iberian Translations of Kalila wa-Dimna’ – Response: David Torollo
3.30-4.00: Coffee Break (Third Floor Common Room)
4.00-5.15: Session 3: Seminario de Estudios sobre el Renacimiento
Chair: Juan Carlos Mantilla; Response: Julian Weiss
Iveta Nakládová (Palacký University, Olomouc): ‘Early Modern Theory and Methodology of Franciscan Evangelization of China (Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, ca. 1580-1720)’
Javier Burguillo (Universidad de Salamanca), ‘El Colegio de los Irlandeses de Salamanca y la construcción de un nuevo discurso político y religioso para Irlanda en la Edad Moderna’
5.15-5.45: Open discussion: common threads, future directions
6.00: Wine and canapé reception (Third Floor Common Room)
Funded by a generous grant from the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Places are limited; to register click here.
At this event
Emeritus Professor of Medieval & Early Modern Spanish
Reader in Latin American Culture
Reader in Jewish Studies
Lecturer in Bible, Gender and the Arts
Postdoctoral Research Assistant –Travelling Concepts, Language Acts and Worldmaking
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