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MARCH 2

SCHOOL OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LISBON

OPENING SESSION | 9:00

Professor Doutor Miguel Tamen, Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon

Professor Doutor José Horta, Director of the Centre for History f the  University of Lisbon

Professor Doutor Carlos Fabião, Director of the UNIARQ - Centre for Archeology of the  University of Lisbon

Arqueóloga Maria Antónia Amaral, Director of Castelo de S. Jorge

Dr. Diogo Moura, Culture Councilor of Lisbon City Hall

Conference Organization RSSAM

9:30-10:00 |  Ana Gomes and Alexandra Gaspar (DGPC)

• Results of the archaeological excavations carried out at the Cloister of the Cathedral of Lisbon and its contribution to the study of cult spaces

10:00-10:30 | Maria João Branco (IEM NOVA) and Hermenegildo Fernandes (CH-ULisboa)

• Spaces of institutionalization of power: cathedrals and mosques in medieval Iberia (11th-13th centuries)

Discussion 10:30-10:45 | Pause 15 min

11:00-11:30 |  Paulo Almeida Fernandes (NOVA FCSH)

• On the cultural overlap in the Middle Ages. A reflection based on the Islamic remains identified in the cloister of the Sé of Lisbon

11:30-12:00 |  Susana Gómez Martínez (UÉ|CAM-CEAACP)

• The "church that was a mosque" of Mértola

12:00-12:30 | Pedro Vasco Martins (FormaUrbis Lab - FAUL)

• The Aljama Mosque of Coimbra. Identification hypothesis through an analysis of the urban fabric

Discussion 12:30-12:45 | 12:45-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 | Josep Torro (U. Valencia) and Alexandre Mateu Picó (U. Valencia)

• The appropriation and Christian transformation of the mosques in the kingdom of Valencia (13th-14th centuries)

14:30-15:00|  Ana Caessa (CML); Nuno Mota (CML); Ana Beatriz Santos (UNIARQ|FCT); Susana Garcia (Osteolab – ISCSP | MNHNC-UL); Mário Gouveia (IEM – NOVA |INCM); Pedro Vasco Martins (FormaUrbis Lab - FAUL)

• From the Roman cryptoporticus to the Medieval mosque: the transformation of an urban space in the long diachrony

Discussion 15:30-15:45 | Pause 15 min

16:00-16:30 |  Santiago Macias (NOVA FCSH)

• Mosques in Gharb al-Andalus: once upon a time there was the Islamic world

16:30-17:00 | Ana Miranda ( LAQV-REQUIMTE | CH-ULisboa | UNIARQ )

• The mosque: a multifunctional sacred space
  

17:00-17:30 | Inês Lourinho (CH-ULisboa)

• The aljama mosque as spoil of war and foundational moment of a new political order. Observation from the cases of Marrakech and Lisbon, 1147

Discussion 17:00-17:45

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MARCH 3

SCHOOL OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LISBON

GABINETE DE ESTUDOS OLISIPONENSES

9:30-10:00 |  Maria José Gonçalves and Carlos Oliveira (CMS)

• In search of the Aljama Mosque of Silves. Possibilities and limitations of archaeological data

10:00-10:30 |  Helena Catarino (CEAACP)

• The Old Castle Mosque of Alcoutim: transformations in the urban plot, construction and dynamics of use

Discussion 10:30-10:45 | Pause 15 min

11:00-11:30 | Hermínia Vilar (UÉ - CIDEHUS)

• Evidence of reversibility in Evora? Some issues around the Sé

12:00-12:30 | Hermenegildo Fernandes (CH-ULisboa); Jacinta Bugalhão (UNIARQ) e Manuel Fialho Silva (GEO-CML)

• Locate Lisbon's Aljama Mosque

Discussion 12:30-12:45 | 12:45-14:00 lunch

14:00-14:30 |  Alexandre Gonçalves (UNIARQ) and Helena Catarino (CEAACP)

• The Alto da Vigia (Sintra) and the dynamics of use of a ribat

14:30-15:00 | Luís Filipe Oliveira (U. Algarve)

•  From mosque to church: the cases of Silves and Loulé

Discussion 15:30-15:50 | Pause 10 min

16:00-16:30 Ferdinando Maurici (Regione Siciliana – Soprintendente del Mare)

• Reuse and transformation of sacred spaces in the Sicilian Middle Ages. Three cases: Agrigento, Siracusa and Palermo
  

16:30-17:00 |  Giuseppe Mandalá (CSIC)

• From mosques to churches: reflections on the Sicilian case

Discussion 17:00-17:30

18:30 – Book release session | Gabinete de Estudos Olisiponenses

With Hermenegildo Fernandes and Maria João Branco

A Fronteira do Gharb Al-Andalus: Terreno de Confronto entre Almorávidas e Cristãos (1093-1147)

Publisher: Centre for History of the University of Lisbon

Inês Lourinho (CH-ULisboa)

Mutação Urbana na Lisboa Medieval: Das Taifas a D. Dinis

Publisher: Centre for History of the University of Lisbon

Manuel Fialho Silva (GEO-CML | CH-ULisboa)

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MARCH 4

CASTELO DE SÃO JORGE

9:00-9:30 | Fernando Branco Correia (UÉ-CIDEHUS)

• From Mosque to Church of Santa Maria da Alcáçova of Elvas

9:30-10:00 |  Daniel Montiel Valadez (U. Granada)

• Examples of reversibility and non-reversibility of Christian sacred spaces in the southeast of early al-Andalus

10:00-10:30 | Isabel Cristina Fernandes (GEsOS - Município de Palmela | UÉ-CIDEHUS | IEM NOVA)

• Motivations and expressions of power: the reversibility of the sacred in the cases of Palmela and Alcácer

Discussion 10:30-10:50 | Pause 10 min

SESSION 10 | Chair Josep Torró (U. Valencia)

11:00-11:30 | Amélia Andrade (IEM - NOVA)

• The spaces of the king in medieval Lisbon: the protagonism of the Alcáçova (13th-15th centuries)

11:30-12:00 |  Susana Calvo Capilla (U. Complutense Madrid)

• The Andalusian mosques and their surroundings after the Christian conquest. Transformations and survival

11:30-12:30 | Final discussion

Closing

Head of Castelo de S. Jorge | Organization

13:00-15:00 | Lunch

15:00 | Castelo de São Jorge' tour