On (political) Identity Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Facultad de CC. de la Educación y Humanidades Avenida de los Alfares, 44 16.071-Cuenca Information: [email protected] Urban Sameness and Otherness in the late Middle Ages International Conference 26th-28th September 2011 UCLM, Campus of Cuenca Facultad de CC. de la Educación y Humanidades and Centro FUDEN (Bajada de las Angustias, 6) Organization/Sponsors: Coordinator: José Antonio Jara Fuente (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha) Organization/Sponsors: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Monday, 26th September 15:30 h. Reception and welcome address José Ignacio Albentosa Hernández, Vice-Chancellor, UCLMIntroducción Carmen Poyato Holgado, Dean, UCLM I. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PRACTICES 16:00 h. José Antonio Jara Fuente, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Individuals and the Group. Identifying, Categorizing and Defining Identity: Social Practice in Cuenca in the Late Middle Ages. Véronique Lamazou Duplan, Université de Pau. Identity and otherness. The Toulousian elites at the end of the Middle Ages: words, representations and practices. 17:30 h. Break 18:00 h. Debate Tuesday, 27th September II. THE COMMUNITY: COLLECTIVE ASPIRATIONS IN CONTEXT 9:30 h. Jelle Haemers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. «Le commun se esmeut». The politics of the “commons” in the late medieval Flemish city (13th-15th centuries). Christian Liddy, University of Durham. King, Commons, Probi Homines: Power and Identity in English Towns. Francesco Salvestrini, Università degli Studi di Firenze. The construction of Urban Identity in Late Medieval Italy. The case of Tuscany (Politics, Religion, Society). 11:45 h. Break 12:15 h. Debate 14:00 h. Break III. INDIVIDUALS FACING DEFINITION 16:00 h. María Asenjo González, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Urban Identity Options in Castile in the Fifteenth Century. Juan Antonio Barrio Barrio, Universidad de Alicante. The Identity of Informers through Inquisitorial Sources: Social Cainism and Social Subversion in the Kingdom of Valencia at the End of the Fifteenth Century. Hermínia Vasconcelos Vilar, Universidade de Évora. Between Commoners and Knights: Social Categories and Political Functions in Fourteenth-Century Portugal. 18:15 h. Break 18:45 h. Debate Wednesday, 28th September IV. FINAL DEBATE AND CONFERENCE CLOSURE 9:30 h.