The CU Mediterranean Studies Group recently hosted Albert Corbetó of the Reial Academia de Bones Lletres of Barcelona, a historian of typography and the book, who gave a class on women printers in the eighteenth-century, and on the relationship between book production and the dissemination of the Spanish “Black Legend.” The group, with the support of the department, is hosting Prof. Blanca Garí (History, University of Barcelona) for the fall semester, as she continues her research project on female-founded monastic houses in medieval Iberia. Prof Hiroshi Takayama (History, University of Tokyo), and expert on Islamic Sicily, is slated to visit in November. For details see www.cumediterranean.info.
The Mediterranean Seminar, also based in the department, is holding its fall workshop at the University of Toronto, and with the support of the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (Collegeville MN) on 4 & 5 October on the subject of “Violence.”
Prof. Catlos was interviewed on Sunday, 9 September on Spanish national radio, on the program La historia de cada dia, discussing Reinos de fe. Una nueva historia de la España musulmana, the Spanish translation of his Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain.
In October, a German translation, Al-Andalus Geschichte des maurischen Spanien, will by published by Beck; Prof. Catlos will be giving talks that month at the universities of Heidelberg, Tübingen, Konstanz, and Würzburg.
On November 17 he is scheduled to give a talk at the Arapahoe branch of the public library for the Boulder Atheists on Islam and the origins of modern Western culture.