Chair;  Aisha Hussain (University of Salford and Events Editor, MEMOs)

Hassana Moosa (King’s College London), Lines of Difference: Turks, Moors and the Racialisation of Islam in Early Modern English Drama

Charles Beirouti (University of Oxford), ‘A Church Purified from Errour and Superstition’: Anglican Travellers and the Religious Diversity of the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman World

Peter Good (University of Kent), From Dirtying Carpets to Sharing Cups: Christian impressions of Safavid Shiism

“The Turkish Vanities”: Early Modern English negotiations of Islam