Chair: Nicholas Herman, University of Pennsylvania
'Beyond the ‘Bacini’ Phenomenon: Indo-Mediterranean Trajectories regarding the Incorporation of Imported Artifacts into the Built Environment in Medieval Italy and along the Swahili Coast (Vera-Simone Schulz, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut)
The Early Medieval Sword: Tracing Advancements in Metallurgy and Mining (James R. Neal, Independent Scholar)
Staging Islamic Romanitas: Texts and Objects (Shirin Khanmohamadi, San Francisco State University)
