The Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government is hosting a panel discussion celebrating the release of The Peaceful Resolution of Territorial and Maritime Disputes by Emilia Justyna Powell and Krista E. Wiegand. Panelists will include both authors of the book, as well as Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Salimi. Emilia Justyna Powell is a professor of political science and concurrent professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, and a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government. She has written extensively on international law, international courts, international dispute resolution, the Islamic legal tradition, and Islamic constitutionalism. She received her PhD in political science from Florida State University, prior to which she studied at the University of Nicholas Copernicus in Torun, Poland, where she was born. Before joining the faculty at the University of Notre Dame, she taught at Georgia Southern University and the University of Alabama. This is her third book. Krista E. Wiegand is an associate professor of political science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, as well as the director of the global security program at the university's Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy. She also serves as co-editor-in-chief of the journal International Studies Quarterly. Her research focuses on territorial and maritime disputes, conflict resolution/management, war and militarized interstate disputes, terrorism and political violence, bargaining strategies, international mediation, arbitration, and adjudication of interstate and civil conflicts, and foreign policy strategies of states in East Asia. She received her PhD in political science from Duke University, as well as a BA and MA from the School of International Service at American University.  Prior to her time at UTK, she taught at Georgia Southern University. This is her fourth book.  Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Salimi is an official in the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs in the Sultanate of Oman. He studies early Islamic texts, currently focusing on the authenticity and contents of Ibadi texts of the 8th and 9th centuries to further the understanding of early Islamic political and theological thought. He is the director of the journal Tafahom, and has written extensively on the literature of early Islam, Koranic studies, and modern religious tendencies in the Islamic world.  Originally published at constudies.nd.edu.

This talk will be held in-person and streamed live on the institute's YouTube channel. Vist the event main page to find the viewing link. About the Talk This talk will spotlight the role of orality, vernacularity, and performance as means of knowledge transmission in late medieval women’s religious communities in northern France. Setting the stage for such processes are two manuscripts produced in the fourteenth century at the abbey of Origny Ste. Benoite. Liturgical dramas, saints’ lives, sermons, and images within these manuscripts illuminate a complex network of improvisational knowledge and communication practices that, I argue, can be recuperated through historical methods adapted from folklore and performance studies. About the Speaker Sara Ritchey is professor of history and distinguished professor in the humanities at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is author of Holy Matter: Changing Perceptions of the Material World in Late Medieval Christianity and Acts of Care: Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health. She is co editor-in-chief of the journal postmedieval. About the Series In 2002, the Medieval Institute inaugurated a lecture series in honor of Robert M. and Ricki Conway. Robert Conway was a 1966 graduate of Notre Dame and trustee of the University. He was, and his wife continues to be, long-time friends and supporters of the Medieval Institute. The annual Conway Lectures bring senior scholars of international distinction to Notre Dame each fall to speak on topics across a variety of disciplines.  Originally published at medieval.nd.edu.

Medieval Muslim Women, Maqamat Al Hariri This talk will be held in-person and streamed live on the institute's YouTube channel. Vist the event main page to find the viewing link. This lecture will be followed by a reception. About the Talk Ibn Qunfudh, a 14th-century Algerian biographer of the female saint ‘Azīza al-Saksāwiyya, admirably described how whenever ‘Azīza attended the mixed-gender religious assemblies “she would sit in the middle and deliver sermons, injunctions, and juridical responses” to everyone, displaying such “confident authority” that “no one would move without her order”. Yet Ibn Qunfudh's contemporary, the Egyptian jurist Ibn al-Ḥājj denounced “the moral corruption of men, women, and children all mingled together before the male or female hortatory preacher” and urged the authorities to forbid women from attending the assembly of “someone whom they claimed to be a female shaykh.” This lecture discusses how such contrasting opinions about the status and propriety of Muslim female  preachers are symptomatic of larger historical deliberations and contemporary scholarly debates among Muslim feminists concerning the roles Muslim women played in the transmission of knowledge and the extent of their involvement in Islam’s oral and written culture. About the Speaker Linda G. Jones is a research professor of medieval history at Pompeu Fabra University. Her research focuses on the religious and cultural history of medieval Muslim Iberia and the Maghreb, medieval Islamic preaching, the religiosity of the Mudejars, and cross-cultural gender studies. She has published a monographic book on Islamic preaching, coedited collective volumes on Jewish, Christian, and Muslim preaching and sainthood, and has several publications on islamic oratory and on gender, masculinity and Islam, including “Representations of Hegemonic Masculinities in Medieval Leonese-Castilian and Almohad Chronicles," Speculum 97/3 (2022): 737-774; and “Constructing Gender Identities and Relations in a Mudejar Hortatory Sermon Addressed to Women," Medieval Sophia 24 (2022). Her current research projects include a study of representations of male grief in premodern Islamic literature, a study of gender distinctions in the hagiographies of male and female Muslim saints, and the edition and analysis of two Mudejar sermonaries. About the Series In 2002, the Medieval Institute inaugurated a lecture series in honor of Robert M. and Ricki Conway. Robert Conway was a 1966 graduate of Notre Dame and trustee of the University. He was, and his wife continues to be, long-time friends and supporters of the Medieval Institute. The annual Conway Lectures bring senior scholars of international distinction to Notre Dame each fall to speak on topics across a variety of disciplines.  Originally published at medieval.nd.edu.

In 1964, Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase, "The medium is the message." Borrowing inspiration from Thom Anderson's 2003 film, Los Angeles Plays Itself, this collage of a program draws from twenty-five 16mm films within IU-Bloomington's collections which highlight the filmmaking process, film handling equipment, exhibition and the cellulose material itself, putting the medium of film at the forefront. Archivists will demonstrate 16mm film handling equipment beginning at 6pm. Curators Jon and Jennifer Vickers scheduled to appear. This is a free but ticketed event. Tickets will only be available for pick-up one hour prior to the performance. To guarantee your reservation please pick-up your Will Call tickets at least 15 minutes prior to the performance. In the event of a sell out, unclaimed Will Call tickets will be used to seat patrons waiting on standby.