Linda Gale Jones
Title: Sacralizing Humility through the Rain Rogation Khutbas of al-Qadi Mundhir ibn Sa‘id: Reconfigurations of Power between the Caliph, the Qadi, and the People of Umayyad Cordoba”
Type of participation: invited conference paper
Conference: “Prédication et sacrament. Insertion liturgique et enjeux politiques d’une parole ‘sacrée’ de l’Antiquité tardive au XVIIe siècle”
Place of celebration: ENS de Lyon, France
Date: October 18-19, 2019
Title: “Sufi ‘Soft Power’: An Alternative Model of Hegemonic Masculinity in Nasrid Granada”
Type of participation: invited conference paper
Conference: Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Co-sponsored session: “Men, Masculinities, and Religion Unit” and “Religion in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean Unit”
Place of celebration: Convention Center, Denver Colorado, USA.
Title: “‘And God Equated the Remembrance of the Pious Women and the Pious Men’: Discourses of Gender Equality and Difference in the Sermons of Shu‘ayb al-Hurayfish”
Type of participation: invited conference paper
Conference: “Medieval Monks, Nuns and Monastic Life” 21st Biennial Symposium of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
Place of celebration: University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Date: July 15-20, 2018
Title: “‘Marriage is half of your religion’: Discourses on Marriage, Religious Identity, and Gender Roles in Medieval and Contemporary Islamic Preaching”
Type of participation: invited conference paper
Conference: “Modern Muslim Homiletics: Ritual, Discourse, and Ideology
University of Copenhagen, Denmark on behalf of the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul
Date: May 11-12, 2018
Title: “Masculinidades contrastadas: representaciones problemáticas del género masculino en la hagiografía musulmana pre-moderna”
Type of participation: invited conference paper
Conference: “Santos, santas y religiosidad en al-Ándalus y el Magreb moderno y contemporáneo”
Universidad de Salamanca
Date: November 14-15, 2017
Title: “Not by the Veil Alone: Islamic Studies as a Contribution to Gender Studies”
Type of participation: invited conference paper
Conference: International Colloquium: New Perspectives on Gender Studies: Islamic Masculinities Past and Present
Place of celebration: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Date: July 2017
Title: “Images of Women, Men, and Marriage in Islamic Sermons on Marriage”
Type of participation: invited conference paper
Conference: International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (Panel organized by the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
Place of celebration: Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA.
Date: July 2017
Title: “‘Oh Slave Girl, You Reside among the Christians; You Must be One of Them’: Rhetorical Mechanisms of Social Exclusion and Transgression in the Sermons of Medieval Mediterranean Muslim Preachers”
Type of participation: invited conference paper
Conference: “Living on the Edge: Transgression, Exclusion and Persecution in the Middle Ages”. ARDIT (Associació de Recerca i Difusió Interdisciplinàries en Cultures Medievals¨
Place of celebration: Universitat de Barcelona
Date: May 17-19 2017
Title: “‘Where is the Man who Fasted from what is Forbidden and Feasted on what is Permitted?’ A Rhetorical Analysis of the Ramadan Sermons of the Sufi Preacher Shu‘ayb al-Ḥurayfīsh”
Type of participation: invited conference paper
Conference: International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds
Place of celebration: Leeds, England
Date: July 2016
Title: “Muslim Preaching in the Crown of Aragon: A Study in Muslim Cultural Adaptation and Transcultural Contacts”
Type of participation: invited conference paper by the Department of History of the University of Bergen
Conference: Seminar
Bergen, Norway
Date: June 2016
Title: “Contrasted Masculinities: Warfare and Manliness in Muslim and Christians Versions of the Spanish Crusades”
Type of participation: invited conference paper
Conference: Crusading Masculinities International Workshop
Place of celebration: University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Date: April de 2016
Title: “Un relato de conversión sobre el místico Abu Madyan en el sermón del predicador mameluco Shu’ayb al-Hurayfish (s. XIV): reflejos de los contactos entre el Mediterráneo occidental y oriental”
Type of participation: invited conference paper
Conference: International Workshop, “Predicar en el Mediterráneo medieval: negociando identidades, mediando relaciones culturales en el Mediterráneo y Europa”. International workshop organized by Linda Jones and Adrienne Hamy
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Date: March 2016
Title: “Popularizing Sanctity among the Mudejars of Aragón (13th to 15th centuries).”
Type of participation: Invited conference paper
Conference: “Santos y santidad en el judaísmo, el cristianismo y el Islam: un análisis comparativo (siglos XII a XVII),” coordinators: Alexandre Coello de la Rosa and Linda G. Jones.
Place of celebration: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Date: 27 – 28 March, 2015
Title: “‘With Unconditional Submission and Forbearance in Adversity’: Affect and Masculine Religious Identity in Medieval Andalusi Biography and Adab Literature.”
Type of participation: paper
Conference: Annual Conference of the American Academy of Religion
Place of celebration: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Date: November, 2013
Organization of Conferences, Seminars, Workshops
Title: “Co-Sponsored Session: Men, Masculinities, and Religion Unit and Religion and Popular Culture”
Co-organization of conference panel with Dr. Amanullah De Sondy (University College Cork, Ireland)
Annual conference of the American Academy of Religion
Date: November 2019
Title: Conference panel II, “Islamic Mysticism and Spirituality in Spain and North Africa”
Ambit: Panel in the Association of Spanish and Portuguese Historians annual conference within the framework of the activities of the IUHJVV and the Spain North Africa Project (SNAP)
Type of activity: Organization of conference panel
Date: July 2019
Title: “Education for the People? The Case of the Almohad Revolution (12th-13th Centuries)” by Dr. Maribel Fierro (CCHS-CSIC, Madrid)
Ambit: Seminar of the Institut d’Història del IUHJVV (2018-2019) within the framework of the activities of the research group “SGR” “NEXUS”
Type of activity: Organization of Seminar IUHJVV
Date: June 2019
Title: “Unitarian Prophet? Morisco Messiah? New Takes on Muhammad in 16th-Century European Culture,” by Dr. John Tolan (University of Nantes)
Ambit: Seminar of the Institut d’Història del IUHJVV (2018-2019) within the framework of the activities of the research group “SGR” ECERM
Type of activity: Co-organization of seminar with Dr. Joan Pau Rubies
Date: January 2019
Title: “Estudios interdisciplinarios y comparativos sobre identidades religiosas, (trans)culturales y de género en la Península Ibérica y el Mediterráneo – Conclusiones del proyecto I + D (MINECO/FEDER FFI2015-63659-C2-2-P)
Ambit: International workshop in the framework of the research Project (Ref: MINECO/FEDER FFI2015-63659-C2-2-P) and the activities of the IUHJVV and ECERM
Type of activity: Organization of the international workshop
Date: October 2018
Title: “New Perspectives on Gender Studies: Islamic Masculinities Past and Present”.
Ambit: International colloquium in the framework of the activities of the IUHJVV, NEXUS and the research project (FFI2015-63659-CP-2-2, MINECO/FEDER, UE
Type of activity: Organization of international colloquium
Date: July 2017
Title: “Nuevas perspectivas sobre la predicación de san Vicente Ferrer, O.P. (m. 1419),” a cargo de la Dra. Carolina Losada (Universidad de Buenos Aires y Dr. Oriol Catalán (UPF)”.
Ambit: International colloquium in the framework of the activities of IUHJVV, ECERM, NEXUS, and the research project (FFI2015-63659-CP-2-2, MINECO/FEDER, UE
Type of activity: Organization of an international colloquium
Date: July 2017