“The Aghlabids”, Their Neighbors: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Art & Material Culture in Ninth-Century North Africa”, 23-24 mai 2014, Londres— LIMITE : 15/09/2013
This two-day workshop takes as its focus the history and material culture of the Aghlabid dynasty of Ifrīqiya and their immediate neighbors in the region. We envision the workshop as an opportunity for mutually-interested colleagues to begin a conversation about North Africa in the ninth century. It is hoped that the workshop will spark an initial conversation and spur an ongoing interdisciplinary dialogue on this crucial dynasty and period. We invite papers that consider the region not as a peripheral frontier whose artistic production was inferior […]