Spring 2012 Mediterranean Studies MRP Workshop: Can We Talk Mediterranean?
Friday, 6 April • University Club 106, University of Colorado at Boulder
9:00-9:30 AM Coffee/Registration
9:30-10:00 AM Introduction
10:00-11:15 AM Eric Dursteler (History, Brigham Young University)
“Language and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean”
11:15 AM-12:30 PM Neil Doshi (French, University of Pittsburgh)
“Materiality, Modernity, and the Dialectics of Reading in the Modern Mediterranean”
12:30-1:30 PM Lunch
1:30-2:45 PM Jeffrey Miner (History, Stanford University)
“Law, Identity and Membership in the Genoese Mediterranean”
2:45-3:00 PM Coffee Break
3:00-4:00 PM Keynote: Perergine Horden (Royal Holloway)
“Mediterranean connectivities: a comparative approach”
4:00-4:15 PM Closing Comments
4:15-5:00 PM Reception
Spring 2012 Mediterranean Studies MRP Workshop Roundtable Discussions
Saturday, 7 April • University Club 106, University of Colorado at Boulder
8:45-9:00 AM Coffee/Registration
9:00-10:30 AM “Mediterranean Studies at CU”
- Chair: Paul Hammer (History, CU Boulder)
- Noel Lenski (Classics, CU Boulder) “Slave Raiding and Slave Trading among Pre-Islamic Arabs”
- Claire Farago (Art & Art History, CU Boulder) “Desiderata for the Study of Early Modern Art of the Mediterranean”
- Celine Dauverd (History, CU Boulder) “Cultivating differences: The Genoese Office of the Sea in the Constantinople of Sultan Mehmed II, 1453-1481”
10:30-10:45 AM Break
10:45 AM-12:15 PM Round-Table “Can We Talk Mediterranean?”
- Brian Catlos (Religious Studies, CUB/History UC Santa Cruz)
- Sharon Kinoshita (Literature, UC Santa Cruz)
- Cecily Hilsdale (Art & Art History, McGill University)
- Peregrine Horden (History, Royal Holloway)
- moderated by Claire Farago (Art & Art History, CU Boulder)
12:15 PM Reception