conference papers etc

Papers (presented):

V. Adriaenssens, “Networks and households in Mamluk politics in the 15^th century”, MMS Ghent-ASK Bonn Workshop, Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg - Bonn, January 2012
V. Adriaenssens, “Rules of the Game: Networks and Patronage in the Struggle for the Mamluk Sultanate in the 1420s - Sultan Barsbay's Rise to Power”, International Medieval Congress 2012, session: Political Traditions and State Formation in Mamluk Egypt and Syria (1250-1517), Leeds, July 2012
V. Adriaenssens, “Jānibak al-Ṣūfī (d. 841 AH) and the Intersection of Local and Transregional Networks in the 15th Century Mamluk Sultanate”, Bonn Conference: Everything is on the Move: The ”Mamluk Empire” as a Node in (Trans-)Regional Networks, dec 2012
Y. Daoudi, “Ritual Politics”, MMS Ghent- ASK Bonn Workshop, Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg - Bonn, January 2012
Y. Daoudi, “Ritual Politics: The Mamluk Sultanate (1412-1468) - A Prosopographical Data Analysis”, International Medieval Congress 2012, session: Political Traditions and State Formation in Mamluk Egypt and Syria (1250-1517), Leeds, July 2012
K. D’hulster, “Breaking Kings, Making Kings: The Accession of al-Ẓāhir Khushqadam (865 AH/1461 AD)”, International Colloquium, CHESFAME, Ghent University, May 2011
K. D’hulster, “Caught Between Aspiration and Anxiety, Praise and Exhortation: Ibn Sulṭān’s al-Jawāhir al-Muḍīya fī Ayyām al-Dawla al-‘Uthmānīya”, MMS Ghent-ASK Bonn Workshop, Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg - Bonn, January 2012
K. D’hulster, “Family Matters: The Family-In-Law Impulse in Mamluk Marriage Policy”, Table ronde international, Repenser l'histoire de la famille dans l'Islam médiéval, Montpellier, May 2012
K. D’hulster, “Fixed Rules to a Changing Game: Ottoman-Mamluk Diplomatic Letters in the Light of Administrative Manuals”, International Medieval Congress 2012, session: Political Traditions and State Formation in Mamluk Egypt and Syria (1250-1517), Leeds, July 2012
K. D’hulster, “Fixed Rules to a Changing Game? Mehmed the Conqueror's Realignment of Ottoman-Mamluk Diplomatic Conventions with the International Power Constellation”, International Conference: Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies, Liège, September 2012
S. Van Nieuwenhuyse, “A Theory of Conflict”, MMS Ghent-ASK Bonn Workshop, Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg - Bonn, January 2012
S. Van Nieuwenhuyse, “To Act or Not to Act: How to Become a Sultan in 15^th-Century Egypt”, International Medieval Congress 2012, session: Political Traditions and State Formation in Mamluk Egypt and Syria (1250-1517), Leeds, July 2012
J. Van Steenbergen, “The Mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate. Political Traditions and State Formation in 15th century Egypt and Syria”, Medieval Seminar Series, Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies, Ghent University, 16 February 2010
J. Van Steenbergen, "The ‘Mamlukisation’ of the Mamluk Sultanate (MMS)", International Colloquium, CHESFAME, Ghent University, May 2010
J. Van Steenbergen, "From the Regime of the Turks to the Sultanate of the Mamluks. Reflections on the late medieval Islamic world”, Amsterdam, Leerstoelgroep Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 21 May 2010
J. Van Steenbergen, ‘On Royal Pilgrimage and Patronage in 15^th-century Egypt: the Kitab al-Dhahab al-Masbuk by al-Maqrizi (d. 1442)’, Leeds, International Medieval Congress 2010, 12-15 juli 2010
J. Van Steenbergen, “Nomen est Omen: From the Regime of the Turks to the Sultanate of the Mamluks ?”, Egypt and Syria under Mamluk Rule: Political, Social and cultural Aspects, University of Haifa (Israel), April 2011
J. Van Steenbergen, “On Royal Pilgrimage and Patronage in 15^th-Century Egypt: the Kitāb al-Dhahab al-Masbūk by Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Maqrīzī (d. 1442) and its Documentary Value”, 5^th ISAP Conference, Tunis, March 2012
J. Van Steenbergen, “On Royal Pilgrimage and Patronage in 15^th-Century Egypt: A Social Semiotic Reading of al-Maqrīzī’s Kitāb al-Dhahab al-Masbūk”, International Colloquium, CHESFAME, Ghent University, May 2012
J. Van Steenbergen, M. Dekkiche: “The Politics of the Hajj: Networks and Meanings from Shaykh to Khushqadam (815-872 AH)”: Bonn Conference: Everything is on the Move: The ”Mamluk Empire” as a Node in (Trans-)Regional Networks, dec 2012
P. Wing, “Economic and Political Centralization during the Reign of Barsbay: A View from Iran”, Egypt and Syria under Mamluk Rule: Political, Social and cultural Aspects, University of Haifa (Israel), April 2011
P. Wing, “Mamluk political change and Indian ocean trade in the 15^th century”, 20^th annual World History Association conference, Beijing (China), July 2011
P. Wing, “Submission, Defiance, and the Rules of Politics in the Mamluk Sultanate’s Anatolian Frontier”, 22^nd Congress of Byzantine Studies, session: ‘Political Cultures in Constantinople, the Provinces and Beyond’, Sofia, August 2011
P. Wing “Indian Ocean Trade and Sultanic Authority: The nāẓir of Jedda and the Mamluk Political Economy”, Ghent-ASK Bonn Workshop, Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg - Bonn, January 2012
P. Wing, “Submission, Defiance, and the Rules of Politics in the Mamluk Sultanate’s Anatolian Frontier”, International Colloquium, CHESFAME, Ghent University, May 2012
P. Wing, “Indian Ocean Trade and Sultanic Authority: The nāẓir of Jedda and the Mamluk Political Economy”, International Maritime History Conference, session: Conceptualization of maritime areas as a framework of global history, Ghent, July 2012
P. Wing, “Submission, Defiance, and the Rules of Politics in the Mamluk Sultanate’s Anatolian Frontier”, International Medieval Congress 2012, session: Rebellion, Resistance, and Subversion in Byzantium, the Latin West, and the Medieval Islamic World,I-VI, Leeds, July 2012
P. Wing, “Between Iraq and Hard Place: Sultan Ahmad Jalayir’s Time as a Refugee in the Mamluk Sultanate”, International Conference: Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies, Liège, September 2012
V. Adriaenssens, “Jānibak al-Ṣūfī (d. 841 AH) and the Intersection of Local and Transregional Networks in the 15th Century Mamluk Sultanate”, Bonn Conference: Everything is on the Move: The ”Mamluk Empire” as a Node in (Trans-)Regional Networks, Dec. 2012
Y. Daoudi, “The Representation of Sultan Jaqmaq (1438-1453) as Ritual Iconoclast: A critical assessment”, International colloquium on the history of Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras 22, Gent, 15-17/05/2013
Y. Daoudi, "Ritual Politics in Fifteenth-Century Egypt and Syria", Henri Pirenne Medieval Seminar Series, Gent, 25/10/2013
M. Dekkiche, “The Letter and Its Response: The Exchanges Between the Qara Qoyunlu and the Mamluk Sultan According to MS ar. 4440 (BnF, Paris)”, Conference: Les documents de chancellerie en langue arabe au prisme de l’historicité: écritures, lexique, syntaxe et intertextualité de ‘Abd al-Hamid al-Katib (m. 750) à al-Qalqashandi (m. 1418), Lyon, October 17-18, 2013
M. Dekkiche, “Between the Lines: The Diplomatic Letter and the Projection of Empire”, International conference Middle East Studies Association 2013 Annual Meeting, sessions strand: The Mamluk Sultanate and the Projection of Empire, New Orleans, October 10-13, 2013
M. Dekkiche, “Khadim al-Haramayn al-Sharifayn: Mamluk Religious Patronage in Mecca? A Survey”, International Colloquium on the History of Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras (10th-15th Centuries), Ghent, May 15-17, 2013
J. Van Steenbergen, M. Dekkiche: “The Politics of the Hajj: Networks and Meanings from Shaykh to Khushqadam (815-872 AH)”: Bonn Conference: Everything is on the Move: The ”Mamluk Empire” as a Node in (Trans-)Regional Networks, Dec. 2012
J. Van Steenbergen, “The Flux and Reflux of Mamluk State Formation: social theory, social agency and prosopography in lade medieval Egypt.” Leiden, Institute for History, Eurasian Empires research group, seminar, 24 January 2013
J. Van Steenbergen, “The Flux and Reflux of Mamluk State Formation: Reconsidering Mamluk notions of elite, state and empire”, International conference Middle East Studies Association 2013 Annual Meeting, sessions strand: The Mamluk Sultanate and the Projection of Empire, New Orleans, October 10-13, 2013
Y. Daoudi, ‘Instrumentalising Religion in 15th-century Mamluk Politics’, International Medieval Congress 2014, Leeds, 7-10 July 2014, session ‘Building an Empire: Theory and Practice under the Mamluk Sultanate, 1250-1517’
Y. Daoudi, ‘Ritual Politics in Fifteenth-century Egypt and Syria: Legitimising, Structuring and Challenging the Order’, International Conference ‘Whither the Early Modern State? Fifteenth-century State Formations across Eurasia. Connections, Divergences, and Comparisons’, Gent, 10-12 September 2014, Session 9: (Re)producing the state in Egypt and Syria
M. Dekkiche, ‘Keeping the Peace in Premodern Islam. Theory and Practice of Diplomacy under the Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517)’, Research Group Communities Comparisons Connections, Gent, 16 June 2014 (monthly research seminar)
M. Dekkiche, ‘Towards the Empire: Use and Means of Mamluk 15th-Century Diplomacy’, International Medieval Congress 2014, Leeds, 7-10 July 2014, session ‘Building an Empire: Theory and Practice under the Mamluk Sultanate, 1250-1517
M. Dekkiche, ‘State Recognition in the Service of State Formation? Legitimacy in 15th-century Mamluk Egypt’, International Conference ‘Whither the Early Modern State? Fifteenth-century State Formations across Eurasia. Connections, Divergences, and Comparisons’, Gent, 10-12 September 2014, Session 9: (Re)producing the state in Egypt and Syria
M. Dekkiche, ‘Dār al-Ḥarb, Dār al-Islām: Status, functions and reality in Mamluk Diplomacy’, International conference ‘Der Bruch des Vertrages. Die Verbintlichkeit der Diplomatie und ihre Grenzen’, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 17-19 September 2014, panel: Der Bruch des Vertrags als intra- und interkulturelles Problem: Mittelmeerraum
K. D’hulster, ‘Mapping the Mamluk Sultanate: from Cartographic Borders to Socio-Spatial Networks’, International Medieval Congress 2014, Leeds, 7-10 July 2014, session ‘Building an Empire: Theory and Practice under the Mamluk Sultanate, 1250-1517’
K. D’hulster, ‘’The Road to the Citadel as a Syllogism? Mamluks’ Careers between Patronage and Institutionalisation”, International Conference ‘Whither the Early Modern State? Fifteenth-century State Formations across Eurasia. Connections, Divergences, and Comparisons’, Gent, 10-12 September 2014, Session 2: Elite identitites and strategies in the Cairo sultanate
J. Van Steenbergen, ‘The Flux and Reflux of Mamluk State (Trans-)Formation: Reconsidering Notions of Elite, State, and Empire in Late Medieval Syro-Egypt’, International Medieval Congress 2014, Leeds, 7-10 July 2014, session ‘Building an Empire: Theory and Practice under the Mamluk Sultanate, 1250-1517
J. Van Steenbergen, ‘Whither the Early Modern State? ‘Mamlukisation’ and the Flux and Reflux of Mamluk State Formation’, International Conference ‘Whither the Early Modern State? Fifteenth-century State Formations across Eurasia. Connections, Divergences, and Comparisons’, Gent, 10-12 September 2014, Opening session
P. Wing (former postdoc, affiliated member), ‘The Syrian Commercial Elite and 15th-Century Mamluk State-building’, International Conference ‘Whither the Early Modern State? Fifteenth-century State Formations across Eurasia. Connections, Divergences, and Comparisons’, Gent, 10-12 September 2014, Session 4: Peripheral elites in Mamluk and Ottoman Spaces