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The CU Mediterranean Studies Group recently hosted Albert Corbetó of the Reial Academia de Bones Lletres of Barcelona, a historian of typography and the book, who gave a class on women printers in the eighteenth-century, and on the relationship between book production and the dissemination of the Spanish “Black Legend.” The group, with the support of the department, is hosting Prof. Blanca Garí (History, �Թ��� of Barcelona) for the fall semester, as she continues her research project on female-founded monastic houses in medieval Iberia. Prof Hiroshi Takayama (History, �Թ��� of Tokyo), and expert on Islamic Sicily, is slated to visit in November. For details see .

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Prof. Catlos was interviewed on Sunday, 9 September on Spanish national radio, on the program ,���徱�����ܲ������Բ���Reinos de fe. Una nueva historia de la España musulmana, the Spanish translation of his Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain.

In October, a German translation, Al-Andalus Geschichte des maurischen Spanien, will by published by Beck; Prof. Catlos will be giving talks that month at the universities of Heidelberg, Tübingen, Konstanz, and Würzburg.

On November 17 he is scheduled to give a talk at the Arapahoe branch of the public library for the Boulder Atheists on Islam and the origins of modern Western culture.