Published: April 15, 2011

Brian Catlos (Religious Studies/ Humanities Core Faculty) has received an Innovative Seed Grant from the University of Colorado at Boulder for the academic year 2011-12.  The award will fund a program which will include two visiting scholars, a reading group, and a three-day event in the spring.

Gerard Wiegers (Religious Studies, University of Amsterdam), an expert in Spanish, Arabic and Aljamiado literature, Islamic law, and ethno-religious identity in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Maghrib and Europe, and author of A Man of Three Worlds : Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe (Hopkins, 2003)  will visit the University of Colorado 15-17 November for a talk and seminar (details TBA).

A major event is planned for 5-7 April 2012, including a one-day conference featuring CU and outside scholars, the spring session of the University of California Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project, and a round-table event featuring a discussion with scholars engaged in theorizing Mediterranean Studies.

The ISG will provide crucial support for the Colorado Mediterranean Studies Group (co-convened by Catlos and Claire Farago, Art & Art History) — an inter-disciplinary group including faculty and graduate students from 12 departments at CU Boulder and at neighboring institution — that is  affiliated with The Mediterranean Seminar.

Interested faculty and graduate students may contact Brian Catlos, and look for upcoming announcements and calls for participants.  For more information see the Mediterranean Seminar website (www.mediterraneanseminar.org).