This looks like a fascinating intensive course for students of history and archaeology — but it is also open to a broader public.
The First International Course of Archaeology of Medieval Sefarad — to be held in September at the University of the Sea in Lorca, Spain — aims to provide theoretical and practical specialized training on the material culture of the Jewish minority who lived in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages (V-XV centuries).
The course objective is to provide the student with tools to identify and analyze those aspects of medieval material culture that may be considered distinguishing features of Jewish communities in the Islamic and Christian contexts of the Iberian Peninsula during the medieval period. It will combine lectures by specialists and workshops. The exceptional archaeological finds of late medieval Jewry at Lorca Castle and the fifteenth century synagogue will form a practical content, which will include working with original archaeological materials (ceramics, metals, glass) as well as analysis of archaeological contexts in situ.
The course is intended not only to specialists in Medieval Archaeology but to students, graduates and university graduates in history; professional archaeologists and cultural heritage managers. From a broader perspective, it can also be of great interest to students, graduates and graduates of other degrees related to the Social Sciences and Humanities, and Art History, Humanities, Geography and Anthropology.
See details and program here (in Spanish)
Also see program on JHE Calendar