Brian A. Catlos: Upcoming Presentations

Past Conference Papers, Panels and Presentations

2022

“Reading Aljamiado” 2–5August 2022; 4-day Summers Skills Seminar, taught by Núria de Castilla (Sciences-Po): organizer
“Reading Archival Latin” 28 May & 31 May–2 June ; 4-day Summers Skills Seminar, taught by Brian A. Catlos
“Coexistence in Practice: Politics, Trade and Culture in the Late Medieval Anatolia and Iberia”: 17 & 18 May 2022 Med Worlds 9 Conference Fatih Sultan Mehmet Foundation University (Istanbul). Committee.
Crisis & Displacement”: 6 & 7 May 2022 The Mediterranean Seminar Spring 2022 Workshop: co-organizer (with Sharon Kinoshita & Mayte Green-Mercado (Rutgers University Newark) Rutgers University (Newark NJ).
“Religious Boundaries and the Boundaries of the Middle Ages”: 9-13 March The Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (Charlottesville VA). Organizer.
“Religious Texts and Confessional Integration in a Plural Mediterranean”: 9-13 March The Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (Charlottesville VA). Organizer.
“Sacred Spaces:” 25 & 26 February 2022 The Mediterranean Seminar Winter 2022 Workshop” co-organized with Sharon Kinoshita & Sergio LaPorta (History: Fresno State University) Fresno State University (Fresno CA)
“Northern Europe and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages: Networks and Comparisons”: 6–9 January 2022 136th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (New Orleans). Co-Organizer with Hugh Thomas (University of Miami).
“Medieval Catalonia: In and Of the Mediterranean”; 11 July, El present i el futur dels estudis de catalanística The Present and Future of Catalan Studies (North American Catalan Society) Institut d’Estudis Catalans (Barcelona)
“Un caso de conveniencia: relaciones entre cristianos, judíos y musulmanes en la España y el Mediterráneo medieval”: 5 July 2022, Keynote, “Leggere il Mediterraneo. Narrazioni, rotte e immaginari” - Scuola Estiva procidana dell’Università “L’Orientale,” Procida, Italy
“Convergence and Convenience in the Medieval Mediterranean”: 17 & 18 May 2022, Coexistence in Practice: Politics, Trade and Culture in the Late Medieval Anatolia and Iberia (Med Worlds) Fatih Sultan Mehmet Foundation University (Istanbul). Keynote.
“Islam and the Arabs in Spanish scholarship: the last 50 years…. and the next?”: 1 April, 50(+) years of Islam and the Arabs in Spanish Scholarship [In honor of James T. Monroe] University of California Berkeley (Berkeley) CA

2021

“Counterfeit Beauty: Portraiture, Ekphrasis and the Early Modern Ideal” 5 December, a works-in-progress workshop featuring Cristina Guardiola-Griffiths (Foreign Languages and Literatures: University of Delaware.) CU Mediterrnanean Studies Group. Via Zoom.Co-Organizer (with Núria Silleras-Fernández) and moderator.
“Confessional Frontiers in the Islamicate Mediterranean,” 30 November 2021 a panel at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (virtual). Chair & co-organizer (with Travis Bruce, McGill University)
“The Crown of Aragon as Object and Frame” 30 November, round-table “Il mondo della Corona d'Aragona è un ambito adatto per lavorarci bene dal suo esterno?” at La Corona d’Aragona, Oggi. l'Assemblea General de l’Associació d’Historiadors de la Corona d’Aragó (Cagliari) [zoom]. Panelist.
“The Learned Families of Ḥillah” 5 November, Works-in-progress workshop, featuring, Aun Hasan Ali (Religious Studies: CU Boulder) CU Mediterrnanean Studies Group. Via Zoom. Organizer, moderator and respondent.
“An Introduction to Latin Diplomatics and the Archive of Crown of Aragon” 10–14 May 2021 4th Mediterranean Seminar Summer Skills Seminar 4-day intensive course in Latin paleography and archival research. Organizer & Instructor.
“Teaching the Medieval as Mediterranean: Re-orienting the Meta-Narrative”: 23 March; round-table, sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America 135th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (held online). Organizer
The Global Mediterranean”: February 5, 19, March 5, April 9 & 16, Mediterranean Winter/Seminar Spring 2021Workshop (Virtual). Co-organizer (with Harry Kashdan, French and Italian: The Ohio State University & Sharon Kinoshita) & Moderator.
“Language Contact, Colonial Administration, and the Construction of Identity in Ancient Israel”: 5 May, Book Launch and Colloquium. CU Mediterrnanean Studies Group. Via Zoom. Organizer and moderator.
Contested Agency: Isabel of Portugal and Saint Beatriz da Silva”: 27 April, Works-in-progress workshop, featuring, Núria Silleras-Fernández (Spanish & Portuguese: CU Boulder) CU Mediterrnanean Studies Group. Via Zoom. Organizer and moderator.
“Black Italian Lives across Centuries and Disciplines”: 20 April: A symposium featuring three papers and two respondents. CU Mediterrnanean Studies Group. Via Zoom. Co-organizer (with Michela Ardizzoni, French & Italian, CU Boulder, and Suzanne Magnanini, French & Italian, CU Boulder ) and Moderator.
“Governance and Religion in Early Modern Europe”: 26 March Kayden Prize Symposium marking the publication of Church and State in Spanish Italy: Rituals and Political Legitimacy (Céline Dauverd). Organizer and moderator.
“The Popular Science of Difference”: 3 March; Works-in-progress workshop featuring Rachel Schine (Asian Languages & Civilizations, CU Boulder). CU Mediterrnanean Studies Group. Via Zoom. Organizer and moderator.
“Translation in the Libro de buen amor and the Libro de buen amor in Translation” 26 February - Research colloquium with Emily Francomano (Spanish and Portuguese: Georgetown University). CU Mediterrnanean Studies Group. Via Zoom. Co-organizer (with Núria Silleras-Fernández, Spanish and Portuguese, CU Boulder) & moderator.
“A Plea for a Medieval Reading of Ethiopic Manuscripts: The Case of The Homily on Frumentius”: 16 February. Research colloquium with Prof. Aaron Butts (Semitics: Catholic University of America). CU Mediterrnanean Studies Group. Via Zoom. Co-organizer (with Sam Boyd, Religious Studies, CU Boulder) & moderator.
“The Genoese Colonization of Corsica”: 5 February, A works-in-progress workshop featuring Prof. Celine Dauverd (History: CU Boulder). CU Mediterrnanean Studies Group. Via Zoom. Organizer and moderator.
“Ibn Rushd’s al-Kashf ʿan Manāhij al-Adilla: The Text, Its Importance and a New Edition”: 28 January. Research colloquium with Fouad Ben Ahmed (Philosophy and Methodology of Research: Dar el-Hadith el-Hassania Institute for Higher Islamic Studies) CU Mediterrnanean Studies Group. Via Zoom. Co-organizer (with Bob Pasnau, Philosophy, CU Boulder) & moderator“Ibn Rushd’s al-Kashf ʿan Manāhij al-Adilla: The Text, Its Importance and a New Edition”: 28 January. Research colloquium with Fouad Ben Ahmed (Philosophy and Methodology of Research: Dar el-Hadith el-Hassania Institute for Higher Islamic Studies) CU Mediterrnanean Studies Group. Via Zoom. Co-organizer (with Bob Pasnau, Philosophy, CU Boulder) & moderator .
“The Literary Construction of Imami Tradition: Ibn al-Mutahhar al-Hilli’s ijazah to the Banu Zuhrah”: 22 January. A works-in-progress workshop featuring Aun Hasan Ali (Religious Studies, CU Boulder). CU Mediterrnanean Studies Group. Via Zoom. Organizer and moderator .
“Latin Diplomatics Refresher” 6 & 7 January. A two-day refresher for participants of the Summer Skills Seminar – Introduction to the Archive of the Crown of Aragon. Via Zoom. Organizer.
“Teaching the Medieval as Mediterranean: Re-orienting the Meta-Narrative”: 8 January; round-table, sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America 135th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (Seattle). Panelist
“The Infidel Next Door: Muslims in Latin Christendom”: 8 December, Edinburgh Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Edinburgh [zoom]
“Minority Report: Muslim Subjects of Latin Christendom”: 3 November, Université de Quebec à Montréal (Montréal) • Hidden in Plain Sight. Black Africans in Medieval Sicily and the Mediterranean”: 20 April, Black Italian Lives across Centuries and Disciplines. University of Colorado Boulder via Zoom.
Response to “Franks and Mamluks: Diplomacy, Politics, and War in Medieval Syria,c.1250-1291”: 12 February 2021, manuscript workshop organized by The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Stanford University via Zoom.
“Faithful Infidels: The Muslims of Medieval Europe” 4 October, public lecture Smithsonian Journeys (Barca d’Alva, Portugal)
“The Jews of Medieval Spain and Portugal” 2 October, public lecture Smithsonian Journeys (Peso de Regua, Portugal)
“From the Beatles to Bill Gates: Western Culture and the Legacy of Islam” 28 September, public lecture Smithsonian Journeys (Lisbon)
“Reading Archival Latin” 28 May & 31 May–2 June ; 4-day Summers Skills Seminar, instructor.
“Moriscos” 22 February, guest lecture for HIST 4343 Spain and Portugal during the Golden Age (Céline Dauverd), CU Boulder
“Uncovering the Hidden History of Medieval Europe’s Muslims,” 10 November; Guest lecture for HUMN 2000 Methods and Approaches to the Humanities (CU Boulder)
“The Muslims of Medieval Europe,” 8 November; Guest lecture for HUMN 2000 Methods and Approaches to the Humanities (CU Boulder)
“Integration or Intolerance? Muslim-Jewish Convergence in the Zirid Kingdom of Granada”: 1 November HIS8050, Approches du Moyen Age.) Université de Quebec à Montréal (Montréal)
“An Introduction to Latin Diplomatics and the Archive of Crown of Aragon” 17–20 May 2021 4th Mediterranean Seminar Summer Skills Seminar. 4-day intensive course: 8 2-hour sessions. Instructor.
“Latin Diplomatics Refresher” 6 & 7 January 2-day intensive course of 2-hour sessions. Instructor.
“Infidels on Top: Politics and Permeability in the Age of Crusade" 6 April • guest lecture for Prof. Oren Falk, HIST 2590: The Crusades (History: Cornell University)
“The Granada ‘Pogrom’, 1066,” 28 January • guest lecture for Prof. Travis Bruce, HIST 401: Medieval Culture & Society: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle Ages (History: McGill University, Canada)
“Latin Diplomatics Refresher” 6 & 7 January 2-day intensive course of 2-hour sessions. Instructor

2020

“Black Saints, Turkish Enemies: Slavery, Captivity, and Salvation in the Atlantic Mediterranean”: 2 December, seminar and round-table featuring Erin Rowe CU Mediterranean Studies Group. Via Zoom. Co-organizer (with Celine Dauverd) & moderator.
“Is (Islamic) Occult Science Science?” 5 November; seminar and round-table featuring Matthew Melvin-Koushki CU Mediterrnanean Studies Group. Via Zoom. Co-organizer (with Aun Ali)
“A Prophetic Judgement without Reprieve: The Concepts of Remnant and Law in Amos 3:12”: 29 October 2020:;works-in-progress seminar featuring Sam Boyd (Religious Studies) CU Mediterrnanean Studies Group. Via Zoom. Moderator & Organizer
“Medieval Iberian Retellings of Adam and Eve’s Fall”: 22 October 2020; presentation and round-table featuring David Wacks (Romance Languages: Oregon), Fred Astren (Jewish Studies: SF State), Aun Ali (RLST) and Sam Boyd (RLST). CU Mediterrnanean Studies Group. Via Zoom. Moderator & Organizer
“The School of Hillah in Islamic History”: 11 May; a works-in-progress workshop featuring Prof. Aun Ali (Religious Studies). CU Mediterrnanean Studies Group. Via Zoom. Organizer, moderator and respondent
“Mapping Tunisia in Mediterranean Studies. Approaches to Research and Professional Development in the Humanities and Social Sciences,” 9 & 10 March 2020 organizer (with Sharon Kinoshita, UCSC & William Granada (Harvard), Tunisia Office, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University (Tunis, Tunisia)
“Emotions, Passions and Feelings”: 21 & 22 February 2020, organizer (with Sharon Kinoshita & Tom Devaney, History: University of Rochester), Mediterranean Seminar Winter 2020 Workshop (Rochester NY)
“Babel without Babble: The Political Rhetoric of the Tower of Babel Story and Its Legacy”: 12 February; a works-in-progress workshop featuring Prof. Samuel L. Boyd (Religious Studies). Organizer, moderator and respondent
“Of Imperial Genealogies and Royal Exequies: Legitimating monarchical rule in the Spanish Habsburg Empire”: 15 January 2020, a talk by Prof. Alejandra Osorio (History: Wellesley College) Co-organizer with Céline Dauverd (HIST)
“Multiculturalism, Polyglossia & Ethnic Diversity: Conflict, Accommodation & Synthesis in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean,” 3—6 Janaury, co-organizer and commentator (with Núria Silleras-Fernández) 134th American Historical Association Annual Meeting (New York NY)
“From Religion to Race? Mudéjars, Moriscos and the End of the Middle Ages”: 22 December, Moriscos sin Fronteras (University of Manouba [Sfax, Tunisia]) via Zoom.
“Tunis, Sicily and Egypt: A Mediterranean Triangle”: 10 December, University of Carthage (Tunisia) via Zoom.
“Let’s Talk Mediterranean: A Conversation with Sharon Kinoshita and Brian Catlos”; 23 October 2020, Connectivity in The Premodern Mediterranean Research Focus Group (University of California Santa Barbara) via Zoom.
“Mediterranean Studies: Why and How”: 10 April 2020, Mapping Tunisia in Mediterranean Studies. Approaches to Research and Professional Development in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Tunisia Office, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University (Tunis, Tunisia)
“Uncovering the Hidden History of Medieval Europe’s Muslims,” 13 November; Guest lecture for HUMN 2000 Methods and Approaches to the Humanities (CU Boulder)
“The Muslims of Medieval Europe,” 11 November; Guest lecture for HUMN 2000 Methods and Approaches to the Humanities (CU Boulder) • “¿Convivencia o conveniencia? Las minorías religiosas en la España y el Mediterráneo medieval”; 10 November, Marginalización en la Edad Meda - Iniciativa de Estudios Globales, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru) via Zoom.
“The End of Convivencia? Berbers, Andalusis & the Fall of the Caliphate of Córdoba,” 18 May, Sarum Seminar [Stanford CA; via Zoom]
“An Introduction to Latin Diplomatics and the Archive of Crown of Aragon” 11–15 May 3rd Mediterranean Seminar Summer Skills Seminar. 4-day intensive course: 8 2-hour sessions. Instructor.
“The Scholarly Profession in North America,” “The Academic CV,” “Applying for grants & Jobs,” & “Conferences and Meetings,” 10 April, workshops for Tunisian graduate students and junior scholars (with Sharon Kinoshita), Mapping Tunisia in Mediterranean Studies. Approaches to Research and Professional Development in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Tunisia Office, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, Tunisia Office, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University (Tunis, Tunisia)
“Moriscos” 26 February, guest lecture for HIST 4343 Spain and Portugal during the Golden Age (Céline Dauverd), CU Boulder
“Al-Andulas: On Islamic Spain” a conversation with William Dalrymple: 26 January, [Headliner] Jaipur Literary Festival (Jaipur, India)
“The Life and Legend of Sultan Saladin” conversing with Jonathan Phillips: 26 January, Jaipur Literary Festival (Jaipur, India)
“The Nasrid Sultanate of Granada – A Neglected Chapter in the History of Al-Andalus” for The Journey to Al-Andalus Podcast (Flashpoint History)+

2019

“Shaping Pietro Aretino’s Controversial Persona,” 6 December, a talk by Prof. Enrico Parlato (Art History: Università della Tuscia) with respondents :Céline Dauverd (History), Suzanne Magnanini (French and Italian) and Fernando Loffredo (Art & Art History). Co-organized with Fernando Loffredo (Art & Art History)
“The Object in its Context - A Digital Project: The Inventories of Sant Antoni & Santa Clara in Barcelona (s. XIV-XVI),” 4 December, a seminar with respondents, Thea Lindquist (Digital Scholarship), Fernando Loffredo (ART), Rebecca Maloy (Music) and Núria Silleras-Fernández (SPAN). Co-organizer with Núria Silleras-Fernández (SPAN)
“Muslim peasants in Norman Sicily – Reconsidering Established Categories,” 13 November, a seminar by Hiroshi Takayama (University of Tokyo) with respondents: Brian A. Catlos (RLST), Celine Dauverd (HIST), Blanca Garí (University of Barcelona) and Paul Sidelko (Metro State). Organizer.
“Islamic Sicily – an Introduction” 12 November: Prof. Hiroshi Takayama (University of Tokyo). Organizer.
“ConTacto: Experiencias táctiles de lo sagrado y la divinidad en la Edad Media,: 29 October: a lecture in Spanish by Prof. Blanca Garí (Medieval History: Universitat de Barcelona). Co-organizer with Núria Silleras-Fernández (SPAN)
“Violence”: 4 & 5 October, organizer (with Sharon Kinoshita & Mark Meyerson, History: Toronto), Mediterranean Seminar Fall 2019 Workshop (Toronto ON)
“Medieval Iberian Retellings of Adam and Eve’s Fall”: 22 October 2020; presentation and round-table featuring David Wacks (Romance Languages: Oregon), Fred Astren (Jewish Studies: SF State), Aun Ali (RLST) and Sam Boyd (RLST). CU Mediterrnanean Studies Group. Via Zoom. Moderator & Organizer
“Minerva en la imprenta:La mujer en las artes del libro, de la idealización alegórica al silencio sobre su actividad en los negocios tipográficos,” and “Enlightening the Black Legend. Printing and the Book in Eighteenth-Century Spain”: 4 September, two talks by visiting scholar Albert Corbeto (Reial Academia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona) (co-organized with Núria Silleras-Fernández)
“Catalonia, the Crown of Aragon and the Pre-Modern Mediterranean: Politics, Language, Culture”: 10–13 July, co-organizer (with Núria Silleras-Fernández) Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (Barcelona)
“Movement, Mobility and Mediterranean Culture” : 11 July, Organizer Society for the Medieval Mediterranean (Barcelona)
“Cristianos y musulmanes: Paz y Conflicto en el Mediterráneo Medieval”: 28 May 2019, curator (invited) of a one-day conference at the Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma (Rome, Italy).
“Captivity”: 3 & 4 May 2019, organizer (with Sharon Kinoshita & Amy Remensnyder, History: Brown), Mediterranean Seminar Winter 2019 Workshop (Providence RI)
“Jews as Political Actors? Minorities and Political Processes in Pre-Modern Italy” 29 April, a talk by Pierre Savy (École Française de Rome). Co-organizer with Céline Dauverd (HIST)
“Blood/Lust: Staging the Early Modern Mediterranean” Thursday, 25 April 2019 a seminar by Patricia Grieve (Columbia University). Co-organizer with Núria Silleras-Fernández (SPAN)
“Muslims and Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe – New Directions”: 17 April 2019, International Symposium - University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder)
“Muslims of Medieval Sicily,” 16 April, a guest lecture for HUMN/RLST 3850 by Alex Metcalfe (History: University of Lancaster). Organizer.
“Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West: the Problem and Some Suggestions How to Solve it,” 16 April, a guest lecture for RLST/ARAB 2320 by Daniel König (History: University of Konstanz). Organizer.
“Weaponizing historical knowledge: ideology and scholarship in Medieval Iberian history,” 15 April a guest lecture for RLST/ARAB 2320 by Alejandro García Sanjuán (History: Universidad de Huelva). Organizer
“Captivity Letters,” 12 March, a seminar, “Captivity Letters,” by Daniel Hershenzon (Literatures, Cultures & Languages: University of Connecticut). Organizer
“The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean,” 11 March a guest lecture for RLST/ARAB 2320 by Daniel Hershenzon (Literatures, Cultures & Languages: University of Connecticut). Organizer
“Turning Points”: 1 & 2 March 2019, organizer (with Sharon Kinoshita & Molly Greene, History: Princeton), Mediterranean Seminar Winter 2019 Workshop (Princeton NJ
“A Mediterranean Saint for Christians and Muslims: St. George and al-Khidr,” 14 February, a guest lecture for RLST/ARAB 2320 by Prof. Erica Ferg (Liberal Arts: Regis University). Organizer
“Renegades, Turncoats, and Refugees in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean”: 4–7 January 2019, panel Organizer 133rd American Historical Association Annual Meeting (Chicago).
“Our Faithful Muslims Subjects: the Islamic Communities of Medieval Europe”: 25 October 2019, University of Würzburg (Würzburg, Germany)
“Intimate Infidels: The Free Muslims of Medieval Europe,” 24 October 2019, University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany)
“Those Who Stayed Behind: The Free Muslims of Latin Christendom”: 22 October 2019, University of Konstanz (Konstanz, Germany)
“Kingdoms of Faith: Writing a New History of Islamic Spain”: 21 October 2019, University of Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany)
“Cristianos y musulmanes: Paz y Conflicto en el Mediterráneo Medieval”: 28 May, opening presentation, Cristianos y musulmanes: Paz y Conflicto en el Mediterráneo Medieval Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma (Rome, Italy)
“Latin Lords, Muslim Subjects: Islamic Communities in Medieval Europe”: 14 May Distinguished Scholar Series Dartmouth Society of Fellows Dartmouth College (Dartmouth NH)
“A Forgotten History: The Muslims of Medieval Europe”: 10 April History Department – University of Virginia (Charlottesville VA)
“Intimate Enemies, Estranged Friends: Free Muslims in Medieval Europe”: 7 February Yale Lectures in Medieval Studies Yale University (New Haven, CT)
“Arab Pride and Scholarly Prejudices: Islamic Spain and the Golden Age of Convivencia”: 7 February Yale Council of Latin American and Iberian Studies Yale University (New Haven, CT)
“Islam and Muslims in Medieval Europe”: 5 February, University Seminar for Medieval Studies, Columbia University (New York, NY)
“Islamic Spain and the Foundations of Modern Western Culture,” 17 November 2019; Boulder Atheists (Boulder CO)
“Uncovering the Hidden History of Medieval Europe’s Muslims,” 30 October 2019; Guest lecture for HUMN 2000 Methods and Approaches to the Humanities (CU Boulder)
“The Muslims of Medieval Europe,” 28 October 2019; Guest lecture for HUMN 2000 Methods and Approaches to the Humanities (CU Boulder) • “Fear and Loathing in Medieval Spain? Vulnerability & Confidence among the Muslim Minority of Christian Aragon”: 23 October 2019, University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany)
“The Principle of Convenience: Modeling Ethno-religious relations in the Medieval Mediterranean I” & “The Principle of Convenience: Modeling Ethno-religious relations in the Medieval Mediterranean II”: 17 & 18 July, “Tolerance in Mediterranean Societies: History, Ideas and Institutions” Fondation du Roi Abdul-Aziz/ King Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud Foundation for Islamic Studies and Human Sciences Casablanca Summer School (Casablanca, Morocco).
“Christians, Muslims and Jews in Medieval Spain”: 13 April 2019, CU on the Weekend (University of Colorado, Boulder)

2018

“Margins of the Mediterranean”: 26 & 27 October 2018, organizer (with Sharon Kinoshita & Karla Mallette, Romance Languages, U of Michigan), Mediterranean Seminar Fall 2018 Workshop (Ann Arbor MI)
“Orpheus in Hell: Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction,”: 17 October, a talk by visiting scholar Sol Miguel-Prendes (Spanish & Italian: Wake Forest University) (co-organized with Núria Silleras-Fernández )
“All the Queen’s Men and Women: Portuguese Queens’ Households and Power (13th-15th centuries)”: 24 April, a talk by visiting scholar Maria Manuela Tavares dos Santos Silva (University of Lisbon) (co-organized with Núria Silleras-Fernández)
“Migrations”: 13 & 14 April, organizer (with Sharon Kinoshita & David Wacks, Spanish: U of Oregon) Mediterranean Seminar Spring 2018 Workshop (Eugene OR)
“Trade and Material Culture in the Mediterranean”: 2 March 2018, panel co-organizer (with Sharon Kinoshita) & chair, Medieval Academy of America (Atlanta GA).
“The Uses of Memory in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean”: 2 & 3 February, organizer (with Sharon Kinoshita & Thomas Burman, Medieval Studies N-D) Mediterranean Seminar Winter 2018 Workshop (Notre Dame)
“From Treasury to Collection: The Sumptuous Objects of Royal Iberian Women from the 14th to the 16th Centuries,”: 24 January a talk by visiting scholar Ana Maria Seabra de Almeida Rodrigues (Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon) (co-organized with Núria Silleras-Fernández)
“Race and Nation (or Not?) in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean”: 4-7 January 2018, panel co-organizer (with Sharon Kinoshita), 132nd American Historical Association Annual Meeting (Washington DC)
“Identity and Scale in the Ideal and Application of Holy War in the medieval Iberian Peninsula” 1 December La Reconquista. Ideología y justificación de la guerra santa peninsular (Palmela, Portugal)
“Kingdoms of Faith: Writing a New History of Islamic Spain”: 8 November, Inaugural Joint Lecture in Medieval Middle Eastern Studies Center for Middle Eastern Studies & the Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard University (Cambridge MA)
“Beyond Nostalgia: Berber “Puritans” and the End of Andalusi Convivencia?”: 13 October 2018 Iberia, The Mediterranean, and the World in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA (Los Angeles CA)
“The Muslims of Medieval Europe”: 14 June, History Department University of Leiden (Leiden, Netherlands).
“Convivencia and Conveniencia: “Toleration” and Convenience in Medieval Spain and Beyond.” Convivencia Debates: Issues and Methods in the Study of the History of Interreligious Contact in Medieval and Early Modern Europe”: 13 June, University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam).
“Pragmatism and “Tolerance”: The Muslim Minority in Medieval Europe”: 12 April Oregon State University (Corvallis OR)
“Faithful Infidels: The Muslim Minority of Medieval Europe”: 11 April Portland State University (Portland OR)
“The Principal of Convenience and Christian-Muslim Relations in the Hafsid Caliphate”: 14 February Tunis Hafside - Capitale du Califat (American Institute for Maghrib Studies and Centre d’Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis) keynote
“‘All Our Faithful Muslims’: The Islamic Communities of Medieval Europe”: 23 January Catholic University of America (Washington DC)
“Medieval Studies: Career Strategies and Managing the Market,” 20 November, Graduate Students Professionalization Seminar, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto (Toronto)
“The Jewish Man Who Would be King,” 29 October, Guest lecture for Jewish History to 1492 (RLST/HIST/JWST 1818-001) University of Colorado Boulder • “James I of Aragon, Crusader and Conqueror”: 5 October 2018 Smithsonian Journeys - A Cruise of Spain and Portugal (Bellver Castle (Mallorca), Spain) • “Tales of the Alhambra”: 7 October 2018 Smithsonian Journeys - A Cruise of Spain and Portugal (Motril, Spain)
“Kingdoms of Faith: Spain’s Islamic Past”: 23 September, a discussion with William Darlymple (Religious Studies, CU Boulder) Jaipur Literature Festival (Boulder CO). +
“Conveniencia y identidad: Hacia un model para entender la diversidad en el Mediterraneo Medieval”: 16 July 2018 Intercambios y conflictos en un Mediterráneo transcultural: redes, comercio y creación artística en la Edad Media y Moderna (Tarragona, Spain)
“Islam in Spain, the Rise and Fall of al-Andalus”: 7 July, panel discussion with Matthew Carr, Bradford Literary Festival (Bradford UK)
“Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain”: 2 May, book launch at The Tattered Cover Book Store (Littleton CO)
“Risky Business: Politics, Religious Identity and Violence in the Medieval Mediterranean”: 23 January, graduate seminar, Catholic University of America (Washington DC).

2017

"Ethnicity, Faith and Communal Relations": 3 & 4 November, organizer (with Sharon Kinoshita) Mediterranean Seminar Fall 2017 Workshop (University of Colorado at Boulder)
"Beyond Nostalgia: Berber "Puritans" and the End of Andalusi Convivencia?": 16 October Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Round-Table (UCLA)
“Turning the Crusades Inside Out - Teaching Holy War in the Mediterranean”: 13 October, Interconnected Medieval Worlds., UC Santa Barbara
"The Rise and Fall of Jehoseph ben Yitzaq : Jewish Pride and Muslim Prejudice in 11th-Century Islamic Spain": 12 September, Peak to Peak Lecture- Jewish Studies Traveling Chautauqua (Adams State, Alamosa CO)
“The Language of Exile: Hispano-Jewish Culture Before and After 1492,” 22 May 2017, public event featuring Brian Catlos, CU Boulder; Janet Jacobs, CU Boulder & David Bunis, Hebrew University). CU Mediterranean Studies Group. Organizer.
“The Jews of Medieval Spain: Convenience and Convivencia,” 22 May 2017, The Language of Exile: Hispano-Jewish Culture Before and After 1492 (University of Colorado, Boulder).
“Reading Ladino/Judezmo” 22–26 May, 2017 2nd Mediterranean Seminar Summer Skills Seminar (featuring David Bunis, Hebrew University).
“Western Civ and the Role of Islam: From Medieval Spain to the Digital Age”: 3 May 2017 University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at D.U. (University College, Denver University) (Golden, CO)@+
“Foreigners in their Own Lands: The Muslims of Medieval Europe”: 25 April, Gray Boyce Lecture in Medieval History, Northwestern University, (Evanstown IL) keynote
“Mysticism and Devotion”: 21 & 22 April, 2017, co-organizer with Sharon Kinoshita (UCSC) and Nan Goodman (JWST), Mediterranean Seminar Spring Workshop (CU Boulder)
“Reading Ladino/Judezmo” 22–26 May, 2017 2nd Mediterranean Seminar Summer Skills Seminar (featuring David Bunis, Hebrew University).
"Against the Grain: Teaching the Age of Crusades via the Mediterranean”: 7 April, presentation at round-table, ““Teaching the Medieval Mediterranean” Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting (Toronto ON)
"Teaching the Medieval Mediterranean”: 8 April 2017, Co-organizer with Sharon Kinoshita (UCSC) and Thomas Burman (Notre Dame), Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (Toronto ON)
"The Medieval Mediterranean V: “Transregional Histories”: 8 April 2017, Session Chair, Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (Toronto ON)
“From Bob Dylan to Bill Gates: What the West Owes to Islamic Spain”: 14 March 2017 University Women’s Club (UWC) of Boulder (Boulder CO)
"Religious Knowledge in the Premodern Mediterranean,” 24 March, Moderator Regional AAR/SBL (Boulder CO)
"Colonialism and Indigenous Resistance in the PreModern Iberian Peninsula and the Andes” 14 March, Co-organizer: with Nuria Silleras Fernandez (SPAN) and Peter Elmore (SPAN), symposium featuring Maria Teresa Narvaez and Mercedes Lopez-Baralt CU Mediterranean Studies Group (CU Boulder)
“The Ambiguities of Resistance”: 14 March,Colonialism and Indigenous Resistance in the PreModern Iberian Peninsula and the Andes CU Mediterranean Studies Group (CU Boulder) Round Table Participant
“Strange Bedfellows – Politics, Power and Religious Identity in the Crusade-Era Mediterranean”: 16 February, Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles CA)
"Culture Wars": 16 & 17 February 2017 Mediterranean Seminar Winter Workshop (Pomona College) Co-organizer w/ Sharon Kinoshita (UCSC) & Kenneth Baxter Wolf (Pomona College)
“Infidels and Neighbours: The Muslims of Medieval Europe”: 1 February, Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada).

2016

“Intellectual Interactions and Interactions among Intellectuals”: 19–21 November American Academy of Religion (San Antonio TX): co-organizer (w/ David Freidenreich, Colby College) & chair
“Sefarad and Beyond: From the Golden Age to Exile” 15 November, public event featuring music by Ljuba Davis and a presentation by Ross Brann (Near Eastern Studies, Cornell), Co-organizer w/ Sabahat Adil & Nan Goodman (JWST). (CU Boulder)
“Representations of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad in 13th century Castile” 14 November, Guest Seminar by Ross Brann (Near Eastern Studies, Cornell), Co-organizer w/ Sabahat Adil. (CU Boulder
“The (Jewish) Man Who Would be King”: October 26 Boulder Jewish Community Center (Boulder CO)
“The Life of a Text: Understanding an Epic” and “Present Tense: The Way of the World”: 24 & 25 September, Panelist Jaipur Literary Festival Boulder (Boulder CO)
“Between Christianity and Islam: the Moriscos of Early Modern Spain”: 16 May Europe’s Problem with Islam…. 500 Years Ago: Moriscos Identity & Aljamiado Literature in Early Modern Spain (University of Colorado, Boulder.
“Els Catalans i el Mediterrani”: 7 July, Presentation of Els catalans a la Mediterrània medieval Noves fonts, recerques i perspectives (ed.: Lluís Cifuentes i Comamala, Roser Salicrú i Lluch, M. Mercè viladrich i Grau), Museu Marítim (Barcelona).
"Magic, Medicine and Science: Cultures of Knowledge in the Medieval Mediterranean" 11 & 12 November Mediterranean Seminar Fall Workshop (Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, St. John's University, Collegetown MN) Co-organizer w/ Sharon Kinoshita (UCSC) & Daniel Gullo (HMML) •
“Identity and Agency: Muslim-Christian-Jewish Conveniencia in the Medieval Mediterranean”: 20–22 June, “Mediterranean Medieval Studies” 6th International Medieval Meeting Lleida, Universitat de Lleida (Lleida, Spain). Keynote speaker .
“Reclaiming the Mediterranean”: 30 May, The Intimate Sea: Jews, Families and Networks in the Mediterranean, Berman Center for Jewish Studies (Lehigh University)/University of Salento (Lecce, Italy).
"Between Christianity and Islam: Moriscos Identity & Aljamiado Literature in Early Modern Spain:" 16 May (featuring Nuria Martínes de Castilla, Universidad Complutense de Madrid). CI Mediterranean Studies Group. Organizer.
“Between Christianity and Islam: the Moriscos of Early Modern Spain” 16 May Between Christianity and Islam: Moriscos Identity & Aljamiado Literature in Early Modern Spain (University of Colorado, Boulder)
"Reading Aljamiado" 17–20 May Summer Skills Seminar (featuring Nuria Martínez de Castilla). Co-organizer (with Sabahat Adil, Asian Languages and Civilizations)
"Politics, Identity, and Religion: Representation in the Mediterranean," 8–9 April Mediterranean Seminar Spring Workshop (Center for Armenian Studies, CSU Fresno). Co-organizer w/ Sharon Kinoshita (UCSC) & Sergio La Porta (CSU Fresno)
"The Abenferres: "Mudéjar "Little Caesars" of Fourteenth-Century Lleida": 11 April 2016, CU Mediterranean Studies Group (CU Boulder).
"What were the Crusades and Why?" 16 March , Colorado University Retired Faculty Association Club (University of Colorado, Boulder).
"From Bob Dylan to Bill Gates: Islam and the Origins of Western Culture" 11 March, Arts and Sciences Alumni Lecture Series (University of Colorado South, Denver) Invited.
"Instinctively Cosmopolitan: The Travels and Encounters of Ahmad b. Qasim al-Hajari in the Early Modern Mediterranean": 9 March, featuring Amina Nawaz (University of Tübingen) CU Mediterranean Studies Group Co-organizer (with Sabahat Adil, ALC)
"Art as Institution: The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della Pittura, 1651"" 9 March (Claire Farago, ARTH) CU Mediterranean Studies Group Faculty Workshop: Organizer & Moderator.
"What Mediterranean Studies Can do for History": 3 March , Center for Middle Eastern Studies - Harvard University (Cambridge MA). Invited.
"Subterfuge and Deception in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean" 3–5 March Mediterranean Seminar Winter Workshop (Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University). Co-organizer w/ Sharon Kinoshita (UCSC) & William Granara (Harvard)
"Mediterranean Convivencia? – Two Round Tables in Honor of Thomas F. Glick": 26 & 27 February (Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting (Boston MA) Organizer & Moderator; w/Mark Abate: Westfield State).
"Just Say No to Convivencia": panelist in Mediterranean Convivencia? –Round Tables in Honor of Thomas F. Glick ; Medieval Academy of America 26 February (Boston MA).
"Just Say "No" to Convivencia: Conveniencia and Complex Systems" 26 February : Round-table presentation, Medieval Academy of America (Boston MA)
"Islamic Culture and the West" 12 February, Guest lecture for HIST 201: World Civ to 1500 (Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City UT). Invited.
"Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean, or Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Holy War But Were Afraid to Ask": 30 January 2016, CU on the Weekend (University of Colorado, Boulder).
"Identity and Action in Religiously Diverse Societies: Theorizing Difference in the Medieval Mediterranean and Beyond": 29 February 2016, Tufts University (Medford, MA). Invited.
"A Theology of Travel in Medieval 'Islamic' Education": 26 February, featuring Mujadad Zaman (University of Tübingen) CU Mediterranean Studies Group Co-organizer (with Sabahat Adil, ALC)
"Imagining the World: Travel Writing and Early Modern Globalisation": 19 February, featuring Nina Zhiri (UCSD) CU Mediterranean Studies Group Co-organizer (with Sabahat Adil, ALC)
"Lost in Translation? Language, Literature, and Culture in the Early Modern Iberian Mediterranean": 18 February, CU Mediterranean Studies Group Symposium, featuring John Dagenais (UCLA), Claire Gilbert (SLU), Fabien Montcher (SLU), Nina Zhiri (UCSD) Co-organizer (with Sabahat Adil, ALC), Moderator.
"The Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom": 11 February 2016, History Department, Brigham Young University (Provo, UT). Invited.
"Mediterranean & Empire": 27 January, Graduate Seminar • University of California Riverside Invited.
"Infidels or Brothers? Integration and Marginalization of European Muslims in the Pre-Modern Era": 27 January, The Islamophobia Series on Islam in Europe and Muslim- Christian Relations • University of California Riverside Invited.
"Sicily, Egypt and Anatolia: A Mediterranean Triangle": 21 January 2016 – Doing Mediterranean History, The Marco Institute • University of Tennessee Knoxville Invited.

2015

"From Bobby Fisher and Bob Dylan to Bill Gates: Islam, Medieval Spain, and the Roots of the Modern West": 10 December, Highland City Club (Boulder CO).
"Some Notes on the Relationship between Sunnis and Shi'is in Light of the Issue of Documentary Evidence in Islamic Law": 18 November (Aun Hasan Ali, RLST), CU Mediterranean Studies Group Faculty Workshop: Organizer, Moderator & Respondent.
"Is there a Medieval Muslim Mediterranean?" 21 November: Round-table presentation, Middle East Studies Association (Denver CO)
"MEH/Med: Middle East History/Mediterranean": 20 November, Conference Organizer, University of Colorado at Boulder (Boulder CO).
"Was there an Islamo-Mediterranean Culture – and When?": 20 November, Round Table Moderator, MEH/Med: Middle East History/Mediterranean (University of Colorado Boulder)
"Some Notes on the Relationship between Sunnis and Shi'is in Light of the Issue of Documentary Evidence in Islamic Law" 18 November (Aun Hasan Ali, RLST), CU Mediterranean Studies Group Faculty Workshop: Organizer, Moderator & Respondent.
"Mediterraneanizing the Medieval Master Narrative": 12 November, Mediterranean Studies: A Symposium (Center for Medieval Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities: Minneapolis MN) Invited.
"Escaping the Trap of the Master Narrative": 24 October, Religion and the (Master) Narrative University of Colorado at Boulder. Round table participant. Invited.
"The King has not Authorized You to Kill Us… Vulnerability and Resistance among the Muslim Minority in Medieval Spain": 7 October, City of Boulder Senior Center's "History behind the Headlines" (Boulder CO)
"A Brief History of the Phrase 'King of Kings': Political, Religious, and Philological Considerations" 27 September (Sam Boyd, RLST), CU Mediterranean Studies Group Faculty Workshop: Organizer, Moderator & Respondent.
"Matters of Faith" [Round table with: Anosh Irani, Esther David, Kalyan Ray, moderated by Arshia Sattar]: 20 September, Jaipur Literature Festival (Boulder CO).
"Jerusalem" [Round table with: Simon Sebag Montefiore and Esther David, moderated by Gideon Levy]: 20 September, Jaipur Literature Festival (Boulder CO).
"From the Beatles to Bill Gates: What Modern the West Owes to Medieval Islamic Spain": 16 September, Trinidad State Junior College (Trinidad CO)
"Subaltern Insurgents in the Islamic Eastern Mediterranean: Normans and Armenians in Political Networks of the Twelfth-Century": 2 July, Non-Muslim Contributions to Islamic Civilization (Brigham Young University, London Centre: London UK) Invited .
"Below the Surface: Sub-altern Elites and Ethno-Religious Politics in the Crusade-Era Mediterranean": 28 July, Negotiated Identities (NEH Summer Institute, Barcelona, Spain). Lecture.
"Ethno-Religious Relations and Physics of Scale": 20 July, Negotiated Identities (NEH Summer Institute, Barcelona, Spain). Lecture.
"Plural Societies in the Medieval Mediterranean: A Case of Convenience": 13 July, Negotiated Identities (NEH Summer Institute, Barcelona, Spain). Lecture.
"Mediterranean Institutions: Three Case Studies": 8 & 9 July (two sessions) Negotiated Identities (NEH Summer Institute, Barcelona, Spain). Seminar.
Mutual Intelligibility and the Culture of the Mediterranean": 7 July, Negotiated Identities (NEH Summer Institute, Barcelona, Spain). Lecture.
“Translation and Agency in Late Medieval and Early Modern Catalonia and Beyond”: 29 June –1 July 2015, 15th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (Barcelona, Spain). Session Chair & Commentator.
Infidel Kings & Unholy Warriors: 25 June, Presentation/Q & A for Prof. David Wacks, SPAN 341 Hispanic Culture through Literature I (University of Oregon, Eugene OR)
"Beyond the Clash of Civilizations: An Approach to Understanding Ethno-Religious Identity in the Plural Mediterranean”: June 15, The Center for the Study of Conversion, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Beersheva, Israel).
“Borders” 13 & 14 April 2015 (w/ Sharon Kinoshita & Oumelbenine Zhiri, Literature, UC San Diego), UC Mediterranean Research Project Winter Workshop & Symposium, co-organized with the University of California San Diego (La Jolla, CA)
"Survival, Resistance, Expulsion - Muslims and Muslim Identity in Medieval Spain”: 2 April, Charleston College (Charleston SC)
“The King has not Authorized You to Kill Us… Vulnerability, Violence, and Resistance among Subject Muslims in Medieval Spain”: 31 March, Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem NC)
“We Ought Not Prosecute Jews, but Saracens: The Lives of Muslims in Medieval Latin Christendom,”: 30 March, Duke Islamic Studies, Duke University (Durham NC)
Italy in the Mediterranean I: Conflict,” “Italy in the Mediterranean II: Images,” and “Italy in the Mediterranean III: Identities”: 28 & 29 March 2015, American Association of Italian Studies (Boulder CO). Organizer of Panels & Moderator.
“Was Norman Sicily Italian or Mediterranean?”: 29 March, American Association of Italian Studies (Boulder CO).
"Infidel Subjects: Identity, Politics and Culture in the Plural Medieval Mediterranean”: 20–21 February 2015, Claremont Colleges Late Antique-Medieval Studies Annual Conference. Pomona College, (Claremont, CA), Keynote Speaker.
“Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean: Pragmatism and Politics in an Age of Holy War”: 19 February, Whittier College, Spanish, History and the Global & Cultural Studies Program (Whittier CA).
“Between Prejudice and Pragmatism: The Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom”: 19 February, University of California Riverside. Invited.
“Did the Crusades Really Happen?” 11 February, City of Boulder Senior Center’s “History behind the Headlines” (Boulder CO)
“Islamic Culture, Medieval Spain, the Mediterranean and the West: From Bob Dylan to Deep Blue”: 7 February, University of Colorado Alumni Association Directors Club (University of Colorado Boulder)
Trade & Exchange” 30 January (w/ Sharon Kinoshita & Baki Tezcan, History, UC Davis), UC Mediterranean Research Project Winter Workshop & Symposium, co-organized with the University of California Davis (Davis CA)

2014

“The Muslims of the Medieval Latin West”: 2 December, The Rumi Club (University of Colorado, Boulder).
“Muslim Clients and Subjects in the Pre-Modern Christian Mediterranean”: 24 November 2014 (with Abigail Krasner Balbale, Bard Graduate Center), Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting (Washington DC). Session Organizer & Moderator.
“The Survival of Muslim Minorities in Latin Christian Lands – A Question of Convenience”: 24 November, Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting (Washington DC)
“This sea, although narrow, is difficult to cross: Terrestrial Commonalities and Maritime Connectivity in the Medieval Mediterranean World”: 7 November UC Mediterranean Research Project Fall Workshop & Symposium, University of California Santa Barbara, Keynote Speaker.
“Land and Sea in the Mediterranean World”: 7–8 November (w/ Sharon Kinoshita & Edward English, History, UC Santa Barbara), UC Mediterranean Research Project Fall Workshop & Symposium, co-organized with University of California Santa Barbara
“Forgotten Histories: The Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom”: 22 October , Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University (Washington, DC). Invited.
Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Meeting, “Conflict and Conquest”, 17 October, Atlanta, Georgia. Keynote Speaker
“Land and Sea in the Mediterranean World”: 7–8 November (w/ Sharon Kinoshita & Edward English, History, UC Santa Barbara), UC Mediterranean Research Project Fall Workshop & Symposium, co-organized with University of California Santa Barbara
“To All Our Faithful Muslim Subjects: the Islamic Minority in Western Christendom”: 17 October, Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Meeting, “Conflict and Conquest”, Atlanta, Georgia. Keynote Speaker.
"Inter-Faith Relations in the Medieval Mediterranean: A New Realism”: 11 October, Mosaic Foundation (Aurora, CO).
“Islamic Culture, Medieval Spain, the Mediterranean and the West: From Bob Dylan to Deep Blue”: 3 October, University of Colorado at Boulder Chancellor’s “CU Seminar”. Invited Faculty Speaker
“A New Take on the Crusades”: 2 October, guest seminar for Prof. Younus Mirza’s REL-171, Islam and Other Faiths Alleghany College (Meadville PA)
Medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean” 26–29 June, Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Annual Conference, Modena, Italy: 2014
"Invisible Empires: Transregional Subaltern Elites and the Grand Historical Narrative in the Medieval Mediterranean" 15 June History, Literature and Culture in a Mediterranean Frame, Instituto Sant'Anna, Sorrento, Italy.
“Power Relations and Religious Communities in the Western Mediterranean” & “Mediterranean Connectivities” 2 & 3 May (w/ Sharon Kinoshita & Andrew Devereux, History, LMU) UC Mediterranean Research Project Spring Workshop & Symposium, co-organized with the Spain-North Africa Project and Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles, CA).
"Muslim Dhimmis: Comparing Minorities in the Medieval Mediterranean": 22 April, Dhimmis in medieval Islam: Text and context from the Arab Heartland, the Mediterranean and the Caucasus, School of Oriental and African Studies (London UK) via remote link.
Framing the Medieval as Mediterranean": April 11, Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting/Medieval Association of the Pacific Annual Meeting (Los Angeles CA)
“Jews in Muslim and Christian Spain: Three Episodes in a Humanistic Context”: 5 April, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder “Admitted Student Day” for the Program in Jewish Studies.
"From Bobby Fisher and Bob Dylan to Bill Gates: Islam, Spain and the Roots of the Modern West": 4 April 2014, City of Boulder Senior Center "History Behind the Headlines" (Boulder CO)
“Minorities in the Mediterranean” 7 & 8 March (w/ Sharon Kinoshita & Fred Astren, Jewish Studies, SFSU), UC Mediterranean Research Project Winter Workshop & Symposium, co-organized with San Francisco State University (San Francisco CA)
"Identity, Power and Violence: Religious Minorities and Realpolitik in the Crusade-Era Mediterranean" 6 March 2014 UCSC Affiliates (Santa Cruz CA)
"Gender, Religious Identity, and the Law in 14th Century Christian Spain," 6 March 2014 Sarum Seminar (Menlo Park CA)
“Islam and Christendom in the Mediterranean, ca. 1000:” 19 February, for Prof. Burce Kawin, ENG 1500 Masterpieces of British Literature: The World in the Year 1000, CU Boulder
“The (Jewish) Man Who Would be King,” 6 February, Jewish Studies Colloquium, University of Colorado at Boulder. Invited.
Religious Diversity in the Medieval Mediterranean I: Inter-Communal Disputation and Discussion” & “Religious Diversity in the Medieval Mediterranean II: Intra-Communal Disputation and Discussion” 2–5 January, 128th American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, Session Co-Organizer, Chair & Commentator (w/ Alex Novikoff, Fordham University); Session sponsors: The Mediterranean Seminar and The Medieval Academy of America

2013

"Law and Religion" 13–14 September Moving Beyond the "Land of the Three Cultures": Re-Thinking Medieval Iberia, History Department, University of Notre Dame; Session Moderator. By Invitation.
"Paradoxes of Plurality: Society, Culture and Religion in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean": 9–11 September, Light Colour Line - Perceiving the Mediterranean: Conflicting Narratives and Ritual Dynamics, 5th International Conference of Mediterranean Worlds Bern (Switzerland). Keynote Speaker
"Conveniencia and Physics of Scale: Ethno-Religious Relations in Medieval Spain and the Mediterranean": 6 June, Instituto de Historia CCHS-CSIC, Madrid, Spain. Invited.
"Mediterranean and Maritime Perspectives" 2–4 May, (Co-organizer with Sharon Kinoshita) UCMRP Spring Workshop & Conference, University of California Santa Cruz
""According to Right and Reason..." the Conundrum of Religious Diversity and Secular Law in the Medieval Mediterranean," 28 February, Goode Family Lecture, University of Wyoming, Laramie WY. Invited.
"The (Jewish) Man Who Would be King," 6 February, Jewish Studies Colloquium, University of Colorado at Boulder. Invited.
"Gendering the Mediterranean" 2 February, (Co-organizer with Sharon Kinoshita) UCMRP Winter Workshop, in conjunction with the UCLA CMRS Ahmanson Conference, 31 January–2 February, University of California at Los Angeles
"Stories of the Mediterranean in the Long Middle Ages I: Lives" & "Stories of the Mediterranean in the Long Middle Ages II: Places" 3–6 January, 127th American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Session Co-Organizer (w/ Andrew Devereux, Loyola Marymount); Session sponsor: The Mediterranean Seminar and The Medieval Academy of America.

2012

"Exceptional Iberia or Normative Mediterranean? Contexts of Ethno-religious Relations in the Middle Ages," 18 October, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus OH
"Domino Effects and Hybridization of the Mediterranean," 6–9 September 4th International Conference of Mediterranean Worlds, (Istanbul, Turkey), Conference Organization Committee Member (Organizer: Luca Zavagno, Eastern Mediterranean University)
“Networks and Knowledge in the Medieval Muslim-Christian-Jewish Mediterranean” NEH Summer Institute for College and University Professors (Barcelona: July, 2012), Co-Director (w/ S. Kinoshita, Literature, UCSC)
“Does City Air Make Infidels Less Free? Religious Diversity in Town and Country in the Medieval Mediterranean" 21–26 May 2012 workshop presentation at “La cohabitation religieuse dans les villes européennes et méditerranéennes, Xe - XVIe siècles” Fondation Treilles, Tourtour (Provence)
"Exile and Expulsion: the End of the Medieval Mediterranean?" 19–21 April 2012, Early Modern Migrations: Exiles, Expulsion, & Religious Refugees, 1400–1700, Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, Victoria University (Toronto). Session Organizer.
“Can We Talk Mediterranean?”: 5–7 April, October (Co-Organizer w/ Sharon Kinoshita & Claire Fargo, CU Boulder) UCMRP Spring Workshop & Round Table, UC Santa Cruz & University of Colorado at Boulder
"Ethno-Religious Diversity and Pre-Modern Mediterranean Economy, Society and Culture" Workshop co-director (w/ Sharon Kinoshita, UCSC), 22-24 March 2012: 13th Mediterranean Research Meeting, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (Florence & Montecatini Terme, Italy)
Reconstructing the Mediterranean”: 3–4 February (Co-Organizer w/ Sharon Kinoshita & Nina Zhiri, UCSD) UCMRP Winter Workshop, UC Santa Cruz & University of California San Diego
"Pirates, State Actors, and Hegemonic Systems in the Pre-modern Mediterranean, Part 1: Hegemony and Legitimacy I: Hegemony and Legitimacy" and "II: Transgressors and Opportunists"; 6 January 2012, 126th American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Session Co-Organizer (w/ Karla Mallette, U Michigan).
"The Transformation of Christian and Muslim Communities from Spiritual to Territorial after the Wars of Twelfth-Century Iberia"; 8 January 2012, 126th American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Session Moderator/Commentator

2011

"Religious Orthodoxy, Ethno-Religious Plurality and Legal Compromise in the Medieval Mediterranean," 21 November, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Francisco CA.
"Religion and Law in the Medieval Mediterranean World" 21 November, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Francisco CA. Session Co-Organizer (w/ David Freidenreich, Colby College)
"Rivalry & Rhetoric": 29 October (Co-Organizer w/ Sharon Kinoshita & Chris Chism, UCLA) UCMRP Winter Workshop, UC Santa Cruz & University of California Los Angeles
“Reluctant Tolerance: The Dilemma of Law in the Religiously Diverse Medieval Mediterranean”: 13 September, Zentrum Moderner Orient (Berlin).
"Convergence of the Mediterranean: Commerce, Capital and Trade Routes in the History of a Sea," 6–9 September 3rd International Conference of Mediterranean Worlds, (Salerno, Italy), Conference Co-Organizer (Organizer: Luca Zavagno, Eastern Mediterranean University)
"Religious Minorities in Portugal – A Mediterranean Dynamic?": June/July, 42nd Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Meeting, Lisbon (Portugal)
"Was Medieval Portugal Mediterranean?": June/July 2011, 42nd Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Meeting, Lisbon (Portugal), Session Co-Organizer (w/ S. Kinoshita, UCSC)
"Compromisos forçosos: la llei i la fe a l'entorn multi-religiós del Mediterrani medieval": 30 May 2011, Faculty of Law, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona).
"Mediterranean Culture and Conveniencia: Disentangling the Paradoxes of Pre-Modern Ethno-Religious Plurality,"18 April, Colloquium on the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean: New Approaches, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto. Keynote Speaker.
"Mediterranean Empire," 8–9 April, Co-organizer (w/ Sharon Kinoshita & Baki Tezcan, UCD): UCMRP Spring Workshop, University of California Santa Cruz & University of California at Davis
"What is "Medieval"?" Round-table participant, 1 April, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Ethno-Religious Relations in the Medieval Mediterranean: Multi-Valence in a Complex System," 30 March 2011, Ethnic Identity in the Medieval Mediterranean, University of California at Davis.
"Islamic Spain and Modern Western Culture, or What Bill Gates and Bob Dylan Owe to Medieval Islam," 13 March, Mosaic Foundation (Denver CO).
"'Muslims, Jews and Christians in Medieval Iberia": 17 February, University of Southern California. Invited Lecture.
"Mediterranean Princely Courts and the Transmission of Culture," 19 February, University of California Santa Barbara, Conference Board Member, co-Organizer (Organizer: Edward English, UC Santa Barbara)
"Court Culture in the Mediterranean," 18 February, Co-organizer (w/ Sharon Kinoshita): UCMRP Winter Workshop, University of California Santa Cruz & University of California at Santa Barbara
"Fear and Loathing in Medieval Spain? Vulnerability & Confidence among the Muslim Minority of Christian Aragon": 10 January, Sarum Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. Invited
"Pre- and Early Modern Literature in a Mediterranean Context" 8 January, Session Co-organizer (w/ Sharon Kinoshita): Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles CA

2010

"The Qur'an in Context: the Reading of Scripture and the Writing of History": 8 November, Self & Socity Stevenson Core Course, University of California Santa Cruz. Invited.
"Reconsidering Geography & Culture in the Plural, Pre-Modern Mediterranean": 26 October, Group for Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, University of California Berkeley. Invited
"The Beginning and End of Diversity in Spain": 12 October, LIT151 Literature and Life in "Don Quijote" UC Santa Cruz. Guest Lecture.
"Why the Mediterranean?," 8 October, Co-organizer (w/ Sharon Kinoshita): UCMRP Fall Workshop, University of California Santa Cruz
"Conveniencia or the Convenience Principle: A Model for Ethno-Religoius Interaction in the Medieval Mediterranean": 7 October, Mediterranean Seminar (UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project, UC Santa Cruz).
"Diversity & Identity in the Medieval Mediterrnanean: Towards A Model": 27 July, Cultural Hybridities: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean (NEH Summer Institute, Barcelona, Spain).
"Mudéjar Religiosity in Christian Sources: Oblique Strategems (Observer and Subject)": 22 July, World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies. Barcelona
"Cultural Hybridities: Christians, Muslims and Jews and the Medieval Mediterranean," July 4–30, Co-Director (w/ S. Kinoshita), NEH Summer Institute for College and University Professors (Barcelona); in conjunction with the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), Ministerio de Cultura de España, Arxiu de la Corona d'Arargó (Barcelona), Museu de la Ciutat (Barcelona), Museu d'Art de Girona, Associació del Call de Girona, Rough Guides
"Estabilidad social en época de crisis: La sociedad mudéjar en siglo XIV," 1 July, Cátedra d'Estudis Medievals (XV Curs d'Estiu), Por política, terror social (Balaguer, Spain). Invited
"Entre eulx pluiseurs Sarrazins…": Jueus i musulmans al regne de Martí I": June 5, Martí I, l'Humà, el darrer rei de la dinastia de Barcelona (1396-1410). L'interregne i el Compromís de Casp, Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona. Invited.
"The Paradoxes of Pluralism: Ethno-Religious Diversity & the Medieval Mediterranean": 14 April, Center for Cultural Studies, University of California Santa Cruz. Invited.
"The Convenience Principle: Understanding Communal Interaction in the Multi-Confessional Medieval Mediterranean": 8 April, Faculty Research Seminar, History Department, University of Colorado at Boulder. Invited.
"Ethno-religious Minorities in the Medieval Mediterranean: Comparative Approaches": 20 March, Comparative History Workshop, McMaster University (Hamilton/ Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada). Invited.
"Ethno-religious Relations in the Medieval Mediterranean: Resolving the Paradox": 10 January, 124th American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Diego
"Jews in Medieval Spain: Familiar Scenarios, New Perspectives": 13 February 2010, Introduction to Jewish History, University of Colorado at Boulder. Guest lecture.
"Jews in Muslim and Christian Spain in a Humanistic Perspective: Three Episodes": 10 February, HIST/JWST 1108 Introduction to Jewish History CU Boulder. Guest Lecture.
"Rethinking the Medieval Mediterranean," 10 January 2010, Session Co-organizer (with Sharon Kinoshita): 124th American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Diego.
"Medieval Christian-Muslim Relations: Towards a Synthesis," 9 January: Session Chair: 124th American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Diego.
"lluminating the Importance of Islands and Maritime Borderlands in Islamic Empires (Mediterranean)," 10 January: Chair & Respondent: 124th American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Diego.

2009

"The Convenience Principle: Religious Identity and Politics in the Medieval Mediterranean:" 16 November, University of Southern California. Invited.
"Forced Compromises: The Law and Religion in the Medieval Mediterranean": 25 October, Religion and Law in the Global Middle Ages, University of Minnesota. Invited.
"Mudéjar Communities and their Rulers: A "Colonial Elite" in the Medieval Crown of Aragon": 16 October, École Française de Rome (Rome). Invited.
"Accursed, Superior Men: Power and Identity in the Medieval Mediterranean": 5 October, Mediterranean Studies II: East and West at the Center, 1050-1600, University of California Los Angeles. Invited.
"Conveniencia' or "The Convenience Principle:" The Mechanics of Ethno-Religious Diversity in the Medieval Mediterranean": 8 July, Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, Exeter University
"A Sea of Diversity I & II" (8 July) Co-Organizer (w/ Fred Astren, Jewish Studies, SFSU): Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, Exeter University
"Religious Frontiers and Cultural Borders: Medieval Spain (I)" (8 July) Session Chair: Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, Exeter University, UK
"La medicina e la coltura e società mediterranee medioevali": 19 June, Civilizations and Medicine, New Salerno Medical School (Università di Salerno), Salerno, Italy. Invited.
"A Shut and Open Case: Axa and Mariem aben Gamar Sue a Muslim Official in Thirteenth-Century Aragon": 5 May, Works in Progress, History Dept., UCSC.
""Muslim Spain and the Modern West (or "What Bob Dylan & Bill Gates owe to Islam")"": 19 March, UCSC Emeriti Group, UC Santa Cruz
"Geography and Culture in the PreModern Mediterranean" 14 March, History Department Seminar, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore MD). Invited.
"The Crusades: Conflict of Civilization or Collateral Damage": 9 March, Sarum Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioural Sciences, Stanford University. Invited.
"Towards the Mediterranean: Historical Coherence and Historiographical Orientation for the Study of the Medieval West": 4 February, Department of History, Yale University (New Haven, CN). Invited.
"Was there a Medieval Mediteranean?" 17 January, Alternative Teleologies: The Mediterranean and the Modern World(s), University of California Santa Cruz.
"Alternative Teleologies: The Mediterranean and the Modern World(s)," (16 & 17 January) Co-organizer (with Sharon Kinoshita) UC Santa Cruz

2008
"Sketching a Pre-Modern Colonial Elite: Muslim Communities and their Rulers in Medieval Christian Iberia" 24 October, Elites rurales méditerranéennes au Moyen Âge (Ve-XVe siècle), Université de Paris - I, Sorbonne-Panthéon (Paris). Invited.
"Where Do We the Draw the Line? Borders and Frontiers in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean" 20 October, Mobilité-Echanges-Transferts Research Group, Université Marc-Bloch (Strasbourg). Invited.
"¿Justicia o corrupción? Un pleito civil entre dos mujeres musulmanes i un oficial de la aljama de Daroca": 17 September, XI Simposio Internacional de Mudejarismo (Teruel, Spain)
"The Medieval Mediterranean & the Origins of the West" 4-week NEH Summer Institute (Barcelona: June 29 –July 25), Co-Director (w/ S. Kinoshita, UCSC)
"An Intelligible Sea: Diversity and Innovation in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean": 27 June, World History Association Annual Meeting London, UK
"Why the Mediterranean?" 30 June, The Medieval Mediterranean & the Origins of the West, an NEH Summer Institute (Barcelona), in conjunction with the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), Ministerio de Cultura de España, Arxiu de la Corona d'Arargó (Barcelona), Universitat de Barcelona, Museu d'Art de Girona, Associació del Call de Girona, Rough Guides .
"A Genealogy of Marginalization? Non-Christians in the Royal Law of the Kingdom of Valencia, 1238–1525," 17 May, Christianities and Empire, a workshop sponsored by UCSD Center for the Humanities, San Diego CA. Invited.
"Cities of Light": 26 March, Q &A and hosting of historical documentary film, Stevenson College UCSC
"From Bobby Fisher and Bob Dylan to Bill Gates: Islam, Spain and the Roots of the Modern West," 10 March, Sarum Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioural Sciences, Stanford University. Invited.
"Confessional Identity, Crusade and Commerce in the Medieval Mediterranean"; 20 February, at Moving Commodities and Identities in the Mediterranean, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA.
"Commerce, Crusade and Confessional Identity in the Late Middle Ages," 16 February, at Commerce and Religious Identity in the Late Medieval Mediterranean, UCSC