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session I: friday january 30th, 3:00-5:00 pm
(Special History Session: Dr. Laura Stern and Dr. Christopher Furhmann, chairs)

Adam Jones, Southern Methodist University (Dr. Bonnie Wheeler, advisor)
“St. Nilus, The Monk Who Slept between the East and the West”

Jeff Brubaker, University of Texas at Arlington (Dr. Sarah Davis-Secord, advisor)
“Byzantine Diplomacy from 962-1204, From Success to Failure”

Bryan Garrett, University of North Texas ( Dr. Laura Stern, advisor)
“The Failures of the Councils of Ferrara-Florence”

Daniel Moore, University of Virginia (Dr. Peter Baker, advisor)
“Theological Possessions and Mandeville's Travels”

keynote address: 5:30-6:30 pm
Dr. D. Fairchild Ruggles, University of Illinois Champaign Urbana
“The Stratigraphy of Forgetting: the Construction and Afterlife of the Mosque Cathedral of Cordoba”

session II: saturday january 31st, 10:00-12:00

Ashley Laverock, Tufts University (Dr. Eva Hoffman, advisor)
“Eighth-Century Iconoclasm at the Complex of St. Stephen, Umm al Rasas, Jordan: A Case Study of Cultural Interactions between Christians, Jews, and Muslims”

Hedda Finke, Freie Universitat Berlin (Dr. Eberhard König, advisor)
“Representing the Islamic neighbour in the context of Romanesque church sculpture: Steps of interpreting a figurine on a Navarrese capital of the 12th century (St. Martín, Artaiz)”

Kim McCarty, University of North Texas (Dr. Mickey Abel, advisor)
“Water and Conquest: The Municipal Bath-house in Medieval Girona”

Sarah Cosgrove, Southern Methodist University (Dr. Pamela Patton, advisor)
“Leaves of Inspiration: Islamic Manuscript Traditions and the Cantigas de Santa Maria in the Court of
Alfonso X”

lunch break 12:00-1:00

session III: saturday january 31st, 1:00-2:30

Megan Bernstein, University of Kansas (Dr. Valija Evalds, advisor)
“In Conversation with Monsters: Communication Issues of the Plinian Races in Medieval Art”

Andrea Duffie, University of North Texas (Dr. Mickey Abel, advisor)
“Divine Illumination: Platonic Concepts and Religion in the Middle Ages”

Aja Martin, Southern Methodist University (Dr. Pamela Patton, advisor)
“Pedro el Cruel en el Jardin de Imagen: The Role of Palatial Gardens in Fourteenth Century Castile”

coffee break: 2:30-3:00

session IV: saturday january 31st, 3:00-4:30

Danya Crites, University of Iowa (Dr. Robert Bork, advisor)
“The Stratigraphy of Remembering: Reality and Myth in the Supposed Visigothic Origins of Seville's Churches”

Tobias Ruetenik, Institutes of Technology and Architecture, Universitat Berlin (Dr. Claudia Rückert, advisor)
“Transformation of Mosques into Churches in Toledo”

Patricia Blessing, Princeton University (Dr. Thomas Leisten, advisor)
“Seljuk, Ilkhanid or...? Architecture, History and Style in Eastern Anatolia, 1250-1330”

conclusion - discussants remarks: 4:30-5:00
dr. d. fairchild ruggles