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Online Workshop hosted by the University of Antwerp, May 12-13, 2022
Registration via email: AWOR2022@uantwerpen.be
Day 1: May 12
2 pm - 2:30 pm: Welcome and introductory remarks
2:30pm – 4 pm: Panel 1 Thinking Territoriality
Chair: Houssine Alloul (University of Amsterdam)
- Karen Pinto (University of Colorado-Boulder) “On the Cusp of Dār al-Islām and Dār al-ḥarb: The Islamicate Cartographic Vision of the Border with Byzantium (Thughūr al-shamiyya)
- Samuel Kigar (University of Puget Sound) “Itineracy, Homecoming, and Territory in the Maghreb Over the Longue Durée”
- Peter Kitlas (Emory University) A Scribe’s Realm: Islamic ideals of treaty making and negotiation in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire
4:30 pm-5:30 pm: Panel 2 Rhetorics of Territoriality
Chair: Sanjay Subrahmanyam (UCLA)
- Palmira Brummett (University of Tennessee) “The End of the Renaissance: Ambrosio Bembo and the ‘Limits’ of Ottoman Space”
- Sarah Waheed (University of South Carolina) “A Warrior Queen of the Deccan: Contesting Territorial Space and the Power of the Zenana”
Day 2: May 13
1:30pm -3:00pm. Panel 4 Staging Diplomacy
Chair: Karen Pinto (University of Colorado-Boulder)
- Shivangini Tandon (Max Planck Institute for Human Development; Aligarh Muslim University, India), “From a Cultural Category to a Territorial Claim: Imaginations of ‘Hindustan’ in Mughal Imperial Discourse”
- Georg Christ (University of Manchester) “Rogue Emporia and Spatial Dynamics of Fading Power: Venice and the Mamluk Empire in the Late Middle Ages
- Shounak Ghosh (Vanderbilt University) “Diplomatic Practices in the Persianate World: Notes from a Mughal Ambassador’s Diary”
3:30pm-4:30 pm. Panel 5 Mobilities and Intermediaries
Chair: Palmira Brummett (University of Tennessee)
- Anthony Minnema (Samford University) “Between Amīr and Rey moro: Bahā’ al-Dawla Ibn Hūd and the Question of Sovereignty in Thirteenth-Century Murcia”
- Özlem Yıldız (Temple University) “Art in Diplomacy: Ottoman-Qajar Visual Exchange through Ambassadorial Visits in the Early Nineteenth Century”
4:30 pm: concluding remarks
5:30pm: Keynote lecture at the University of Antwerp (Promotiezaal van het Klooster van de Grauwzusters) followed with a reception
(open to a broader public with registration: malika.dekkiche@uantwerpen.be)
Sanjay Subrahmanyam (UCLA), "Round about 1500: Diplomacy and Conflict in the western Indian Ocean before and after Vasco da Gama".