April 2, 2026
In this presentation, Dr. Velasco will examine one of them, a legal re-definition of the people as the sensitive soul of the political entity.
The collaboration between philosophical inquiry and legal observation led to extraordinary lines of thought among Muslim, Jewish, and Christian intellectuals and legal thinkers in the medieval Iberian Peninsula. Beginning with the Brethren of Purity and the work of al-Ghazali, the talk will then move to focus on the Iberian Peninsula, with Averroes, Maimonides, and the legislative work of Alfonso X.
About the speaker: Dr. Velasco received his Ph.D. in Philology from the Universidad de Salamanca (Spain) in 1995 and his PhD in Law and Social Sciences from the EHESS, Paris, in 2025. He works on Law and Humanities in the Medieval Mediterranean basin. His latest books include Dead Voice: Law, Philosophy, and Fiction in the Iberian Middle Ages (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020), and Microliteratures: The Production of the Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Books (Cornell University Press, 2025).
Further information
- Location: Stern Great Room
- Time: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- Cost: Free