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18th Annual Symposium<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReligious Communities Across Space and Time in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

March 4-5, 2022<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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The Darmstadt Haggadah, c. 1420<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Marco Institute\u2019s 18th<\/sup> annual symposium brings together scholars of the medieval and early modern world to examine how religious communities conceptualized and imagined themselves. The symposium will feature specialists whose geographic interests include Africa, the Middle East and Europe. \u201cCommunity,\u201d therefore, will be interpreted broadly to include not only world systems such as oikumene<\/em>, ummah<\/em> or ecclesia<\/em>, but also local communities such as individual mosques, monasteries or synagogues. Furthermore, papers will investigate how interactions between religious communities shaped their identities and experiences. The symposium will explore the diversity and complexity of pre-modern notions of religious communities across a wide range of geographic, confessional and temporal boundaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cReligious Communities\u201d Symposium is hosted by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Symposium committee: Manuela Ceballos, Matthew Bryan Gillis, Felege Yirga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keynote:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Emily Gottreich, <\/strong>University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Jewish umma<\/em>: Middle Eastern and North African Jewry and the Development of an Islamicate Community\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speakers<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Sean Anthony<\/strong>, The Ohio State University, \u201cThe Ummah and the Arabs: Ethnicity and Ideology in the Formation of the Early Islamic Polity\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Felege Yirga<\/strong>, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, \u201cRemembering Rome and Performing Romanness in the Post-Roman World: The Chronicle<\/em> of John of Nikiu\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Moore<\/strong>, University of Iowa, \u201cSaved from the Gates of Hell: Prayer for the Dead at Cluny\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mikael Muehlbauer<\/strong>, Columbia University, \u201cArchitectural Hybridity at the Lalibela Church Complex\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Clines<\/strong>, Western Carolina University, \u201cA City for (Almost) Every Nation: Diversity and Exclusion in Gregory Martin\u2019s Rome\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew Bryan Gillis<\/strong>, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, \u201cPious Heroes and Monstrous Foes in Carolingian War Poetry\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Molly Lester<\/strong>, US Naval Academy, \u201cHeretical Rites & Disordered Customs: Discerning Orthodox Liturgies among Christian Communities in Early Medieval Iberia\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kristina Richardson<\/strong>, CUNY, \u201cOttoman Romani in 1410s Germany: Muslim Apostates, Christian Converts\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Gomez<\/strong>, New York University, \u201cIslam as a (Surprisingly) Diverse Community, or Set of Communities, in Medieval West Africa\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claudia Rapp<\/strong>, University of Vienna, \u201cExperts and Amateurs: Religious Communities across Time and Space in Byzantium\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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