Brian Catlos, Professor of Religious Studies, will be organizing and moderating three panels at this year's American Association of Italian Studies Conference in Boulder, CO, March 26-29, 2015, entitled "Italy in the Mediterranean I: Conflict," "Italy in the Mediterranean II: Images," and "Italy in the Mediterranean III: Identities."
With University of San Diego faculty Sharon Kinoshita & Oumelbenine Zhiri, Catlos is organizing this year's UC Mediterranean Research Project Winter Workshop and Symposium: "Borders," taking place April 13-14, 2015 in La Jolla, CA.
He will also present at talk at Duke University on March 30 entitled "We Ought Not Persecute Jews, but Saracens: The Lives of Muslims in Medieval Latin Christendom." On March 31, Catlos will present a talk at Wake Forest University entitled "The King has not Authorized You to Kill Us... Vulnerability, Violence, and Resistance among Subject Muslims in Medieval Spain."
Catlos’s Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors: Faith, Power and Violence in the Age of Crusade and Jihad (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) has been published in Dutch tranlsation as Koningen, kruisvaarders & kalifen. Geloof, macht en geweld ten tijde van de kruistocten en de jihad by the publisher De Bezige Bij (“The Busy Bee”). De Bezige Bij was founded as an illegal press under German occupation in the Second World War, when its proceeds went to support Jewish children being hid from the Nazis by Dutch civilians. It is the leading literary press in the Netherlands, and publishes leading Dutch authors including Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch, Gerard Kornelis van het Reve, Jan Geurt Siebelink, Simon Vinkenoog, and Tommy Wieringa.
Both of Catlos' 2014 books Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors and Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom are in production in paper back editions.