Brian Catlos, Professor of Religious Studies, will be organizing and moderating three panels at this year's American Association of Italian Studies Conference in Boulder, CO, March 26-29, 2015, entitled "Italy in the Mediterranean I: Conflict," "Italy in the Mediterranean II: Images,"听and "Italy in the Mediterranean III: Identities."
With University of San Diego faculty听Sharon Kinoshita & Oumelbenine Zhiri, Catlos is organizing this year's UC Mediterranean Research Project Winter Workshop and Symposium: "Borders," taking place April 13-14, 2015 in La Jolla, CA.
He will also present听at talk听at Duke University on March 30 entitled "We Ought Not Persecute Jews, but Saracens: The Lives of Muslims in Medieval Latin Christendom." On March 31, Catlos will present a talk at Wake Forest University entitled "The King has not Authorized You to Kill Us... Vulnerability, Violence, and Resistance among Subject Muslims in Medieval Spain."
颁补迟濒辞蝉鈥檚(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) has been published in Dutch tranlsation as听Koningen,听kruisvaarders & kalifen. Geloof, macht en geweld ten tijde van de听kruistocten en de jihad听by the publisher听听(鈥淭he Busy Bee鈥�). De Bezige Bij was founded as an illegal press under German occupation in the Second World War, when its proceeds went to support Jewish children being hid from the Nazis by Dutch civilians. It is the leading literary press in the Netherlands, and publishes leading Dutch authors including听Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch,听Gerard Kornelis van het Reve,听Jan Geurt Siebelink,听Simon Vinkenoog, and听Tommy Wieringa.
Both of Catlos' 2014 books听听and听听are in production in paper back editions.