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Moriscos and converts in the classroom... and beyond
April 26, 2022From 10:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Ambassadors’ Hall (at Calle Alcalá, 62, First Floor).
From 10:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In Spanish.
On Tuesday, April 26, we are organizing this day in Madrid on innovation in teaching to deal with ways to include the issue of religious minorities in the modern and contemporary world in the educational curriculum.
At this event, we will discuss how education on diversity and otherness is being implemented. To that end, we will be analyzing how the image of social/religious minorities has been constructed through changing and complex strategies from medieval times to the present day, and how that subject fits into the task of educating students and the public on three different levels: at universities, in secondary schools and in cultural mediation activities. Specialists in History, Art
History, Arab Philology and Anthropology will be discussing their teaching experiences and the activities they use to deal with these issues. Throughout the day, the importance of these factors in today’s society and the need to create networks to share materials and new teaching and scientific approaches will be discussed. In order to offer a broader range of opinions, professionals from different areas and in different subjects will be taking part from all over the country, along with two international experts whose contributions will help provide a contrast
with experiences in Spain: Youssef El Alaoui, a professor at the University of Rouen in France, a country that has endured major social integration problems linked to North African immigration, and Houssem Edine Chachia, a professor at the University of Tunis, who will explain how he integrates his discourse in an Islamic territory, thus providing a counterpoint to the cases described by Spanish experts.
Event schedule
History, Arab Philology and Anthropology will be discussing their teaching experiences and the activities they use to deal with these issues. Throughout the day, the importance of these factors in today’s society and the need to create networks to share materials and new teaching and scientific approaches will be discussed. In order to offer a broader range of opinions, professionals from different areas and in different subjects will be taking part from all over the country, along with two international experts whose contributions will help provide a contrast
with experiences in Spain: Youssef El Alaoui, a professor at the University of Rouen in France, a country that has endured major social integration problems linked to North African immigration, and Houssem Edine Chachia, a professor at the University of Tunis, who will explain how he integrates his discourse in an Islamic territory, thus providing a counterpoint to the cases described by Spanish experts.
Organized within the framework of the research project “Before Orientalism:Figures of ‘Otherness’ in the Mediterranean in the Modern Age from the internalenemy to the Turkish threat” (PID2019-105070GB-I00. IMPI2), co-directed by BorjaFranco Llopis (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED) andFrancisco J. Moreno Díaz del Campo (University of Castilla-La Mancha) with thecooperation of Casa Árabe and the Pluralism and Co-existence Foundation.
It will begin with the opening conference “Islamic Minorities: Society, image and historiography,” by Luis F. Bernabé Pons, a professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Alicante. In addition to the coordinators of the event, there will be contributions by Elena Paulino Montero (UNED), Iván Rega Castro (University of León), Daniel Crespo (UCM), Jose M. Perceval (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), María Dolores Serrano-Niza (University of La Laguna), Rafael M. Girón Pascual (University of Cordoba), David Martín López (University of Castilla-La
Mancha), Felipe Vidales (Center for Studies on Islamic Toledo), Irene Suárez (Islamic Culture Foundation [FUNCI]) and Rita Gomes Faria (Pluralism and Co-existence Foundation).