2020 MLA Sessions Organized by LLC Medieval Iberian

Join us for the following events at the MLA Convention in Seattle, organized by LLC Medieval Iberian. More information follows the session titles.

156. Political Uses of Medieval Iberia

507. New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies

653A. Medieval Iberia Cash Bar

Political Uses of Medieval Iberia
7:00 PM–8:15 PM Jan 9, 2020
WSCC – Chelan 5

Presentations

1: The Matter of al-Andalus and the Limits of Liberalism (Gregory Hutcheson,U of Louisville)

2: Andalusia as European Oriental Product (Isaac Garcia Guerrero,U of Wisconsin, Madison)

3: Philosephardism, Colonialism, and the Exploitation of Anti-Semitic Tropes by the Spanish Government (Vivian Mills, U of Washington, Seattle)

4: The Politicized Appropriations of the Medieval in Twenty-First-Century Spanish and Latin American Graphic Novels (Rebecca De Souza,U of Oxford, Hertford C)

Presider, Nadia R. Altschul, U of Glasgow

New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies
12:00 PM–1:15 PM Jan 11, 2020
WSCC – 214

Presentations

1: Ramon Llull; or, A Portable Art (Noel Blanco Mourelle,U of Chicago)

2: Rethinking Religious Identity Formation in the Medieval Castilian Epic (Rebecca De Souza,U of Oxford, Hertford C)

3: Finding the Way Around: When Fifteenth-Century Iberia Turned Its Back on the Mediterranean (Ross Karlan,Georgetown U)

Presider,Connie L. Scarborough,Texas Tech U

Medieval Iberia Cash Bar
7:15 PM–8:30 PM Jan 11, 2020
Sheraton – Diamond