ABSTRACTS

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Filippo ANDREI (University of California, Berkeley): "Albert of Aachen and the Chanson de Jérusalem"

Michael BARRY  (Princeton University and Consultant to the Aga Khan for Culture on Islamic Art and Museum Issues): PLENARY ADDRESS: "The Moor of Venice: Averroes and the Representations of Islamic Philosophy in Medieval and Renaissance European Art"

---: "King Arthur's Round Table and the Thousand and One Nights"

Valerio CAPPOZZO (Indiana University, Bloomington): "Islamic Intersections: the Conquest of Dream Sciences in Medieval Italian Miscellanies"

Niall CHRISTIE (Corpus Christi College Vancouver): "Fighting on Earth to Gain Heaven: The 'Vision of Paradise' Motif in the Kitab al-Jihad of ‘Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami (d. 1106)"

Erica DODD (University of Victoria): "The Virgo Lactans: From Jerusalem to Michelangelo"

Dorothy-June FRASER (UBC): “Seeing the Divine Light- Cultural Parallels and Optical Theory in Medieval Glass Mosaic- A Preliminary Study”

Amie KRAUS (UBC): “Themes of Conquest and Social Allegory in Medieval Europe: The Game of Chess in Les gius partiz des eschez (Anglo-norman, 14th century)”

Farid LAROUSSI (UBC): "Struggling with Jihad"

Marina LUSHCHENKO (UBC): "Searching for the Origins of the Turks in the Medieval West: William of Tyre, Hayton of Corycus and the Genre of Origo Gentis"

Roberta MOROSINI (Wake Forest University): “Alexander the traveler in Medieval and Renaissance Italian tradition : when a conquest is a quest” 

Jean-Luc NARDONE (Université Toulouse le Mirail, France): Quest and Conquest of the Self: The Pretext of the Crusades from the Fioretti (XXIV) to the Decameron (X, 9)"

Juliet O'BRIEN (UBC): "The Cansó de la Crozada and Literary Heresy"

Marco PRINA (University of California, Berkeley): “Political, Aesthetic and Symbolic Meanings of the Domed Basilicas of Sicily during the Comital Norman Reign (1091-1130)”

Kirsten RUSKO (UBC): “Jus Ad Bellum: Slaughter as an Act of Penitence in Sir Gowther”

Livia STOENESCU (Queen's University): Re-Interpreting the Myth of Trojan Descent

Alexis STATZ (UBC): “The Beloved Saracen: Reimagining the Conventional Heroine in Sir Bevis of Hampton”

Gregory STONE (Louisiana State University): "Dante's Crusade, World Peace, and the Conquest of Islam"

Azadeh YAMINI-HAMEDANI (Simon Fraser University): "The Quest of Words Unread: Islamic Inscriptions in Christian Art"

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