The 2001-2002 Sawyer Seminar at the University of Chicago

SAWYER SEMINAR ON ISLAM


SPRING COLLOQUIUM


BEYOND EAST AND WEST:
RELIGION, LEARNING, AND POLITICS
IN THE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN MEDITERRANEAN


FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2002

PROGRAM:

08:45-09:15
Breakfast

09:15-09:30
Cornell Fleischer
(University of Chicago)
Opening Remarks

09:30-10:20
Lucy Pick
(University of Chicago)
From Arabic into Latin: The Cultural Significance of Translation

10:30-11:20
Adnan Husain
(NYU; Sawyer Post-Doc Fellow at U of Chicago)
Translating Identities: Polemics and Orientalism in the Corpus of Friar Alphonso Bonihominis

11:30-12:20
Jamil Ragep
(Oklahoma University)
East to West or West to East? The Earth's Motion in Cultural Context, 500-1600

12:20-01:30
Lunch Break

01:30-02:20
David Wrisley
(CUNY-Staten Island)
The Fall of Constantinople (1453) and Oriental History at the Court of Burgundy

02:30-03:20
Nabil Matar
(Florida Institute of Technology)
Magharibi Captives in Early Modern Christendom: An Interpretation

03:30-04.20
Cemal Kafadar
(Harvard University)
Coffee and the Conquest of the Night in the Early Modern Era

04:30-06:00
Discussion

DISCUSSANTS:
Cornell Fleischer (University of Chicago)
Adnan Husain (New York University)
Ahmet Karamustafa (Washington University-St. Louis)

Location:
The Franke Institute for the Humanitites
Seminar Room JRL S-118
(1100 E. 57th St.)

Sponsored by:
the A.W. Mellon Foundation
and
the Franke Institute for the Humanities of the University of Chicago

For questions and more information, please contact
Fehrullah Terkan at (f-terkan@uchicago.edu) or call (773) 834-4813.
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