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Crusade, Jihad and Identity in the Medieval World

October 3 - 4 , 2008 Dartmouth College

Friday, October 3, 2008

Kreindler Auditorium , Haldeman Center (Room 041).

1:45pm: Welcome

2:00-4:05pm: Panel I: Crusade and Jihad in the Early Twelfth Century

Moderator: CAROLINE SMITH, Independent Scholar

2:00-2:40 PM:
NIALL CHRISTIE, Corpus Christi College (Vancouver): “Creating Sacred Identity: looking Backwards and Forwards with ‘Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami (d. 1106)
MATTHEW GABRIELE, Virginia Tech University: “Being a Frank in the Eleventh Century: Responding to the Call in 1095”

2:40-2:55pm: Coffee

2:55-3:35pm:
ROBERT CHAZAN, New York University: “Transforming Tragedy into Triumph: Jewish Responses to the First Crusade”
JAY RUBENSTEIN, University of Tennesee: "The Apocalypse in Retrospect: Holy War and the First Crusade."

3:35-4:05pm: Discussion

4:30-5:45pm:Keynote Address 1: MARIA ROSA MENOCAL, Yale University (New Haven, CT): “Love in Times of Wars: What the Arts Tell Us That Ideology Denies”

5:45-7:00pm: Reception

Saturday October 4, 2008

Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall.

8:30-10:30am: Panel II: Identity and Crusade in Latin Europe
Moderator: SEAN FIELD, University of Vermont

8:30-9:10am:
NICHOLAS PAUL, Fordham University (NY): “Ripoll and Jerusalem: Crusade, Identity, and Dynastic Legitimacy in Catalonia”
THOMAS MADDEN, Saint Louis University: “The Fourth Crusade Through Venetian Eyes”

9:10-9:25am: Coffee

9:25-10:05am:
MARK PEGG, Washington University in Saint Louis: “Holy War and Heresy”
SHARON FARMER, University of California at Santa Barbara (California): "The Empire Comes Back: What Robert of Artois Brought Back to France from Southern Italy and Spain"

10:05-10:30am: Discussion

10:30-11:00am: Coffee

11:00-12:30am: Panel III: Ideologies and Identity in the Levantine World
Moderator: KEVIN REINHART, Dartmouth College

11:00-11:40am:
DEBORAH GERISH, Emporia State University (Emporia Kansas): “Unwrinkling Time and Blurring Lines: Christian Identity in the Temple Poem.”
SULEIMAN MOURAD, Smith College (Northampton MA): “Fight in the Name of God”: Ibn ‘Asakir of Damascus and the Revival of Jihad Ideology under Sultan Nur al-Din”
MARINA RUSTOW, – Emory University (Atlanta, GA): “Jewish Crusaders to Palestine in the Twelfth Century?”

11:40-12:05pm: Discussion

12:05-2:00pm: Lunch provided by Dartmouth Sponsors.

2:00-3:30pm: Keynote Address 2: BENJAMIN KEDAR, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "Crusade and Jihad as seen by the adversary: Muslim perceptions of crusading, Latin perceptions of Jihad."


3:30-5:30pm: Panel IV: Jihad in the Late Medieval World
Moderator: PETER TRAVIS, Dartmouth College

3:30-4:10pm:
INAS ABBAS, University of Alexandria: “Forms of Resistance and Jihad Practice by the Andalusi Moriscos”
LINDA DARLING, University of Arizona: “Being or Becoming?  Ghaza and Early Ottoman Identity"

4:10-4:25pm: Coffee

4:25-5:05pm:
MURAT CEM MENGUC, Seton Hall University: “The Fifteenth-Century Ottoman historiography and Jihad”
DIANA ABOUALI, Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH): “Local politics, Poetry, and Saladin’s Legacy in Seventeenth-Century Jerusalem”

5:05-5:30pm: Discussion

7:00pm Banquet: DOC (Dartmouth Outing Club) House, Occom Pond. (Booking essential $25.00 per person)