Organiser: RomanIslam – Center for Comparative Empire & Transcultural Studies Universität Hamburg
The conference will be transmitted online via ZOOM and external participants are welcome. Please contact Laura Donath (laura.donath@studium.uni-hamburg.de) by March 18th 2021 to gain access to the link.
Conference programme
Monday 22 March 2021
15.00-15.10pm – Opening words by Isabel Toral (Freie Universitat Berlin) and Antonia Bosanquet (Romanlslam, Universitat Hamburg)
15.10-15.20pm – Welcome speech by Sabine Panzram and Stefan Heidemann (Directors of Romanlslam, Universitat Hamburg)
15.20-16.00pm – Eduardo Manzano (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid), From the Jjijaz to a/Anda/us: The rawcja of the Umayyad rulers in the Alcazar of Cordoba
Moderator: Stefan Heidemann
16.00-16.15pm – Coffee break
16.15-17.45pm – Panel 1: Imperial heritage and legitimation
Arietta Papaconstantinou (University of Reading), Reconfiguring Rome: Umayyad engagement with the imperial heritage
Jorge Elices (Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo), Between East and West: Objects of sovereignty and Umayyad discourses of Legitimation
Aurelien Montel (Universite Lyon), “When the Umayyad caliphate fell, people of the Maghrib acted like the Anda/usians”. Can the Maghrebi princes of the 11th century be considered as “party-kings”?
Discussant: Georg Leube (Universität Bayreuth / Universität Hamburg)
17.45-18.00pm – Coffee break
18.00-19.30pm – Panel 2: Ideology, legitimacy and rhetoric
Sebastian Bitsch (Georg-August-Universität Gottingen), The Rhetoric of Caliphal Legitimacy. On the use of alqab by the Umayyad rulers in East and West
Isabel Toral (Freie Universität Berlin), ‘Abd al-Raf:iman al-Dakhi/, the “Falcon of Quraysh “. The chain of legitimacy between the Umayyads in East and West
Elsa Cardoso (Universidade de Lisboa), ‘Syria rises to receive the Caliph’: Umayyad legitimacy from Damascus to Cordoba
Discussant: Antoine Borrut (University of Maryland)
Tuesday 23 March 2021
15.00-16.30pm – Panel 3: Rebellion, conflict and Islamication
Antonia Bosanquet (Romanlslam, Universität Hamburg), How the Umayyads lost the Maghrib: Presentations of the Berber revolt in Arab historical texts
Javier Albarran (Romanlslam, Universität Hamburg/ Universidad Aut6noma de Madrid), The Battles of the Umayyads. Remembering War from West to East
Hannah-Lena Hagemann (Universität Hamburg), Talking about a Revolution – The Rhetoric of Rebellion against Umayyad rule
Discussant: Jens Scheiner (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
16.30-16.45pm – Coffee break
16.45-18.15pm – Panel 4: Cities and material culture
Eneko Lopez (Universidad del Pafs Vasco), An authority from Damascus or Baghdad? Origin and consolidation of the political conception of the Umayyad tfraz of Cordoba
Antonio Vallejo (Conjunto Arqueol6gico Madinat al-Zahra, Cordoba), Between East and West: the ceremonial center of the Umayyad Caliphate
Stefan Heidemann (Romanlslam, Universität Hamburg), The Umayyad Visual Language of Power
Discussant: Isabel Toral
18.15-18.30 – Coffee break
18.30-19.10pm – Maribel Fierro (Consejo Superior de lnvestigaciones Cientificas, Madrid), Final remarks
Moderator: Sabine Panzram
19.10-19.20pm – Closing words by Javier Albarran and Elsa Cardoso
Medieval Art Research 
I’d like to attend many of your online lectures however I don’t see a Registration and don’t know where I’d go to log on. Kindly advsie. Also, I live in California however don’t see you listing the times as GMT. Shall I assume that the lecture times are GMT?