Selected Publications

  • Arsić, I. Forthcoming 2026. "Music and Dance as a Form of Dissent: Crypto-religious Resistance in Premodern Crown of Aragon." Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 27.
  • Arsić, I. Forthcoming 2026. “Are Women More Religious Than Men? The Causal Explanation of Conversas and Moriscas Phenomena.” Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality. Western Michigan University.
  • Arsić, I. 2025. “In Defense of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon.” Gender & History. Wiley Online Library. http://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12866.
  • Arsić, I. 2023. “Silencing the Voices: Finding Conversas in the Inquisitorial Records.” Etnoantropološki Problemi. https://doi.org/10.21301/eap.v18i2.10.

Key Presentations

  • "Strategies of Resistance: Conversas and Moriscas in the Preservation of ICH in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon."Coexistence in Multiculturalism: Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage in Late Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, Barcelona, UPF, September 15-16, 2025.  
  • “Navigating Adversity: Women's Strategies in Crypto-Religious Communities.” Annual Meetings of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), San Diego, USA, November 23–26, 2024.
  • “In Defense of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance.” GRIMSE-ECERM Seminar, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, May 7, 2024.
  • “Recapturing the Voices via Hostile Sources: The Case of Beatriz Núñez.” VII Seminario Islamolatina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, November 10–11, 2022.
  • “Are Women More Religious Than Men? The Causal Explanation of Conversas and Moriscas Phenomena.” International Workshop: Intersections of Gender and Genres in Medieval Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, September 18–19, 2022.