Spring 2013 Mediterranean Studies MRP Symposium: The Mediterranean and Maritime Perspectives
Thursday, 2 May – Friday, 3 May • Humanities 1 Building, Room 210, UC Santa Cruz
The Mediterranean and Maritime Perspectives Symposium and Workshop Program (PDF)
Thursday, 2 May
3:00-4:00 PM Registration, Coffee, and Conversation
3:45-4:00 PM Introduction and Welcome: William A. Ladusaw
Dean of Humanities, UC Santa Cruz
4:00-4:30 PM Welcome: Brian Catlos and Sharon Kinoshita
Co-directors, UC Mediterranean Studies Multicampus Research Project
4:30-5:00 PM Brian Catlos (Religious Studies, Colorado-Boulder / Humanities, UC Santa Cruz)
“Mediterranean Sea / Mediterranean Lands”
5:00-6:00 PM Panel I. Legalisms
Chair: Sharon Kinoshita (Literature, UC Santa Cruz)
Michael Lower (History, Minnesota)
“Norms and Practice in Medieval Mediterranean Studies”
Dominique Valérian (History, Université de Lyon)
“Is there an international maritime law in the medieval Mediterranean?”
Fariba Zarinebaf (History, UC Riverside)
“Plural Legalism in the Mediterranean Port Cities: Capitulations, Councils, and Commerce”
6:00-6:45 PM Reception
7:00-9:00 PM Dinner
Friday, 3 May
9:00-9:30 AM Registration and Coffee
9:30-10:45 AM Panel II. Regionalisms
Chair: Edmund Burke III (History, UC Santa Cruz)
Pamela Ballinger (History, Michigan)
“Other Seas: Adding water to the history of the Adriatic”
Michelle Hamilton (Spanish & Portuguese, Minnesota)
“Medieval Iberian Studies at the Limits of the Mediterranean”
Eric Calderwood (Romance Languages / Spanish, Michigan)
“At the Margins: Spain and Morocco in (and out of) Mediterranean Studies”
Tom Dandalet (History, UC Berkeley)
“The Making of the Mediterranean Family: The Case of the Colonna of Rome in the Early Modern Period”
10:00 AM – 12:15 PM Panel III. Circulations
Chair: Christine Chism (English, UC Los Angeles)
Eva Hoffman (Art History, Tufts)
“The Geography of the Mediterranean Visual Identities”
Dan Selden (Literature, UC Santa Cruz)
“Dialectics of Ancient Novel”
Elizabeth Lambourn (History, De Montford University, UK / Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Stanford)
“Reflections on Scholar/Scholarship in a “New” Ocean: the Indian Ocean”
Nina Zhiri (Literature, UC San Diego)
“Literary and intellectual history in a Mediterranean perspective”
12:15-1:15 PM Lunch
1:30-2:00 PM Michèle Hannoosh (Romance Languages / French, Michigan)
“The Mediterranean Perspective on Global History and Culture: An Interdisciplinary Faculty Cluster at the University of Michigan”
2:00-3:15 pm Panel IV. Field Imaginaries
Chair: Carla Freccero (Literature, UC Santa Cruz)
Harry Kashdan and William Stroebel (Comparative Literature, Michigan)
“Mediterranean Topographies at the University of Michigan”
Fred Astren (Jewish History, San Francisco State University)
“Jewish History as a Diagnostic for Mediterranean History”
Rob Wilson (Literature, UC Santa Cruz)
“Oceania as Peril and Promise: Towards a Worlded Vision of Asia-Pacific”
G. S. Sahota (Literature, UC Santa Cruz)
“Allegorico-Historical Tangent on Conrad’s Lord Jim”
3:15-3:45 PM Break and Refreshments
3:45-5:00 PM Panel V. Beyond the Mediterranean
Chair: Brian Catlos (Religious Studies, Colorado-Boulder / Humanities, UC Santa Cruz)
Karla Mallette (Romance Languages and Near Eastern Studies, Michigan)
“Mediterranean Studies and Area Studies”
Christine Chism (English, UC Los Angeles)
“A Sea of Lost Women: Oceanic Studies, the Mediterranean, and Middle English Writing”
Claire Farago (Art History, Colorado)
“Configuring the Mediterranean as a Regional Trading Network in the World History of Art and Material Culture”
Susan Gillman (Literature, UC Santa Cruz)
“Humboldt’s American Mediterranean: The Spectre of Comparisons?”
5:00-5:30 PM Sharon Kinoshita (Literature, UC Santa Cruz)
Charting the Mediterranean and other Oceanic Spaces
5:30-6:00 PM Conclusions
6:00-6:45 PM Reception
Spring 2013 Mediterranean Studies MRP Workshop: The Mediterranean and Maritime Perspectives
Saturday, 4 May • Humanities 1 Building, Room 210, UC Santa Cruz
9:30-10:00 AM Registration and Coffee
10:00-10:30 AM Introductions: Brian Catlos and Sharon Kinoshita
Co-directors, UC Mediterranean Studies Multicampus Research Project
10:30-11:40 AM Brian Sandberg (History, Northern Illinois University)
“‘Moors Must Not be Taken for Black’: Islamic / French Cultural Translations Across the Early Modern Mediterranean”
11:40-11:50 AM Break
11:50 AM – 1:00 PM Maria Evangelatou (History of Art & Visual Culture, UC Santa Cruz)
“The Hand of the Master: Thoughts on the Self-Perception of Icon Painters, from Byzantium to El Greco”
1:00-2:00 PM Lunch
2:00-3:10 PM Peter Cowe (History, UC Los Angeles)
“The Changing Interface between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean from Medieval to Early Modern Times as a Key Factor in the Dynamic Reconfiguration of the Network of Armenian Trade Colonies”
3:10-3:30 PM Break and Refreshments
3:30-4:45 PM Keynote Lecture: William Granara (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard)
“Rethinking Pirenne: Facile Divides, Historical Complexities, and the Possibilities of Cross-cultural Conflict”
4:45-5:15 PM Concluding Remarks
5:15-6:00 PM Reception