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The Maghrib Workshop and The Spain-North Africa Project
March 3, 2017 - March 4, 2017 | Stevenson Fireside Lounge
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Friday, March 3
Law and Movement: Historical Roots and Contexts,
Contemporary Questions, Part 2 (The Maghrib Workshop)
Morning
9:00 Coffee and Introduction
9:30 Camilo Gómez-Rivas, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Refugees of the Reconquista and the Ransoming of Captives”
11:00 Marc Andre, Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes, “Militarizing the Metropolis? The Army during the Algerian War in France through the Fortress Montluc”
12:30 Lunch
Afternoon
1:30 Lia Brozgal, French and Francophone Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, “‘Heureux les kabyles blonds’: Reading Race in the October 17 Archive”
3:00 Break
3:15 Alma Heckman, History and Jewish Studies, UCSC, “The Rights and Obligations of Divorce: Jews and Moroccan Independence”
4:45 Concluding Remarks
6:00 Dinner
Saturday, March 4
Andalusī Musical Traditions of the Western Mediterranean
(The Spain-North Africa Project)
Morning
9:00 Coffee and Introduction
9:30 Rachel Colwell, Music, University of California, Berkeley, “al-Jaww al-Malouf al-Tounsi, an Acoustemology of Listening”
10:30 Jonathan Glasser, Anthropology, College of William and Mary, “The Problem of Muslim-Jewish Musical Borderlands at Algeria’s Spanish-Ottoman Frontier”
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon
1:00 Chris Silver, History, University of California, Los Angeles, “Marching (and Waltzing) toward Independence: North African Jewish Musicians at Mid-Century”
2:30 Break
2:45 Dwight Reynolds, Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Al-Andalus in the Musical World of the Medieval Mediterranean”
4:15 Brain-Storming Session on Follow-up
5:00 End!
Contact:
Camilo Gómez-Rivas
831.205.9001
cgomezri@ucsc.edu
Funded by:
University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) Faculty Working Group grant and the Institute for Humanities Research