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Thursday, 2 May 2013 – Saturday, 4 May 2013
University of California, Santa Cruz
Humanities 1 Building, Room 210
 

Symposium: Thursday, 2 May

Symposium: Friday, 3 May

Workshop: Saturday, 4 May

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The Workshop consists of discussion of three pre-circulated papers and a talk by our featured scholar, William Granara (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University).

Papers:

“‘Moors Must Not Be Taken for Black’: Islamic / French Cultural Translations Across the Early Modern Mediterranean”
Brian Sandberg (History, Northern Illinois University)

“The Hand of the Master: Thoughts on the Self-Perception of Icon-Painters, from Byzantium to El Greco”
Maria Evangeletou (History of Art & Visual Culture, University of California Santa Cruz)

“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.”
Peter Cowe (History, University of California at Los Angeles)

Talk:

“Rethinking Pirenne: Facile Divides, Historical Complexities, and the Possibilities of Cross-cultural Conflict”
William Granara (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University).
 

Space is limited, so please register as soon as possible. Registration opens for UC faculty and graduate students and those at institutions affiliated with the Mediterranean Consortium today. Registration for all others will begin on March 15 (registration requests may be sent in at any time; early applications will be queued in the order they are received).

Travel assistance (max.: $350) will be provided to attendees coming from outside the Bay area as available. UC graduate students have priority, followed by UC facult; others may apply. Travel assistance will be allocated after the meeting on the basis of availability; priority will be given to those who attended both events.

Registration requests and other inquiries should be directed to Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu) at the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research.

The program for the symposium will be announced shortly; presently confirmed speakers include:

Fred Astren, San Francisco State
Pamela Ballinger, University of Michigan
Edmund Burke III, UC Santa Cruz
Eric Calderwood, University of Michigan
Brian Catlos, University of Colorado at Boulder/ UC Santa Cruz
Chris Chism, UC Los Angeles
Tom Dandalet, UC Berkeley
Claire Farago, University of Colorado at Boulder
Carla Freccero, UC Santa Cruz
Susan Gillman, UC Santa Cruz
William Granara, Harvard University
Michelle Hamilton, University of Minnesota
Michèle Hannoosh, University of Michigan
Eva R. Hoffman, Tufts University
Harry Kashdan, University of Michigan
Sharon Kinoshita, UC Santa Cruz
Elizabeth Lambourn, University of Leicester/Stanford
Michael Lower, University of Minnesota
Karla Mallette, University of Michigan
G. S. Sahota, UC Santa Cruz
Dan Selden, UC Santa Cruz
William Strobel, University of Michigan
Dominique Valérian, Université de Paris I
Rob Wilson, UC Santa Cruz
Fariba Zarinebaf, UC Riverside
Nina Zhiri, UC San Diego

Nicholas Purcell, Camden Professor of Ancient History, and a Fellow of Brasenose College at Oxford, has revolutionized the way we think about Mediterranean history. In his groundbreaking The Corrupting Sea (2000), co-authored with Peregrine Horden, he charted a new course for the study of this cultural crucible by demonstrating that it consists of a series of micro-regions, each with a constituent micro-culture, that was linked together by this peculiar body of water in ways that have connected cultures and economies in the region into a kaleidoscopic whole. He has now turned his attention to the question of slavery and will speak to the Mediterranean Studies Group on selling people in Greco-Roman antiquity.

Tuesday April 16, 5:00-6:00 pm, Norlin British Studies, CU Boulder
 A public lecture:  –
Not Just About Slavery: Selling People in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Wednesday April 17, 11:00 am -1:00 pm, Macky 202
A guided seminar:  -
Valuing People: Humans as Commodities in the Ancient World.
Request readings and register for lunch here.

Further information at: www.mediterraneanstudies.org; view the poster here.

The Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project (MRP) in Mediterranean Studies announces its Spring 2013 Workshop, to be held at UCSC on Saturday, May 4, 2013. This is part of a three-day event which also includes a 2-day symposium “The Mediterranean and Maritime Perspectives” to be held 2–3 May (details below).

The Workshop consists of discussion of three pre-circulated papers and a talk by our featured scholar, William Granara (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University). The Mediterranean Studies MRP invites proposals for workshop papers (articles or chapters in-progress) on the topic “Mediterranean Perspectives,” which may include works on Mediterranean methodologies or perspectives, or studies strongly informed by such. We seek papers in any relevant discipline, especially comparative or interdisciplinary work that uses the Mediterranean as a frame of analysis. Priority is given to faculty and graduate students from the UC system and collaborating institutions, but any North American-based scholars working on relevant material are encouraged to apply. (Scholars from further abroad are welcome to apply, but we cannot guarantee full travel support.) The Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP will cover travel and lodging expenses for presenters.

The deadline for workshop proposals is March 1, 2013. Please submit an abstract (250-500 words) and two-page CV by this date to mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org (subject line: Winter 2013 Abstract). Successful applicants are expected to submit a 35-page (maximum) double-spaced paper-in-progress for pre-circulation by April 14.

A separate call for workshop and symposium registration will be sent out on March 7. Workshop presenters and attendees are encouraged to attend both events.

The program for the symposium will be announced shortly; presently confirmed speakers include:

Fred Astren, San Francisco State University
Pamela Ballinger, University of Michigan
Eric Calderwood, University of Michigan
Brian Catlos, University of Colorado at Boulder/ UC Santa Cruz
Chris Chism, UCLA
Julia Clancy-Smith, Arizona State University
Chris Connery, UC Santa Cruz
Tom Dandalet, UC Berkeley
Claire Farago, University of Colorado at Boulder
Laurent Feller, Université de Paris I
Carla Freccero, UC Santa Cruz
Susan Gillman, UC Santa Cruz
William Granara, Harvard University
Michelle Hamilton, Minnesota
Michèle Hannoosh, University of Michigan
Eva R. Hoffman, Tufts University
Anthony Kaldellis, Ohio State
Sharon Kinoshita, UC Santa Cruz
Elizabeth Lambourn, University of Leicester/Stanford
Michael Lower, Minnesota
Karla Mallette, University of Michigan
Christophe Picard, Université de Paris
G. S. Sahota, UC Santa Cruz
Dan Selden, UC Santa Cruz
Dominique Valérian, Université de Paris I
Rob Wilson, UC Santa Cruz
Fariba Zarinebaf, UC Riverside
Nina Zhiri, UC San Diego

The Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project (MRP) in Mediterranean Studies announces its Spring 2013 Workshop, to be held at UCSC on Saturday, May 4, 2013. This is part of a three-day event which also includes a 2-day symposium “The Mediterranean and Maritime Perspectives” to be held 2–3 May (details below).

The Workshop consists of discussion of three pre-circulated papers and a talk by our featured scholar, William Granara (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University). The Mediterranean Studies MRP invites proposals for workshop papers (articles or chapters in-progress) on the topic “Mediterranean Perspectives,” which may include works on Mediterranean methodologies or perspectives, or studies strongly informed by such. We seek papers in any relevant discipline, especially comparative or interdisciplinary work that uses the Mediterranean as a frame of analysis. Priority is given to faculty and graduate students from the UC system and collaborating institutions, but any North American-based scholars working on relevant material are encouraged to apply. (Scholars from further abroad are welcome to apply, but we cannot guarantee full travel support.) The Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP will cover travel and lodging expenses for presenters.

The deadline for workshop proposals is March 1, 2013. Please submit an abstract (250-500 words) and two-page CV by this date to mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org (subject line: Winter 2013 Abstract). Please clearly indicate that the event you are applying to is the “Spring 2013 Workshop.” Successful applicants are expected to submit a 35-page (maximum) double-spaced paper-in-progress for pre-circulation by April 14.

A separate call for workshop and symposium registration will be sent out on March 7. Workshop presenters and attendees are encouraged to attend both events.

The program for the symposium will be announced shortly; presently confirmed speakers include:

Fred Astren, San Francisco State
Pamela Ballinger, U of Michigan
Eric Calderwood, U of Michigan
Brian Catlos, University of Colorado at Boulder/ UC Santa Cruz
Chris Chism, UCLA
Julia Clancy-Smith, Arizona State University
Chris Connery, UC Santa Cruz
Tom Dandalet, UC Berkeley
Claire Farago, University of Colorado at Boulder
Laurent Feller, Université de Paris I
Carla Freccero, UC Santa Cruz
Susan Gillman, UC Santa Cruz
William Granara, Harvard
Michelle Hamilton, Minnesota
Michèle Hannoosh, U of Michigan
Eva R. Hoffman, Tufts
Anthony Kaldellis, Ohio State
Sharon Kinoshita, UC Santa Cruz
Elizabeth Lambourn, University of Leicester/Stanford
Michael Lower, Minnesota
Karla Mallette, U of Michigan
Christophe Picard, Université de Paris
G. S. Sahota, UC Santa Cruz
Dan Selden, UC Santa Cruz
Dominique Valérian, Université de Paris I
Rob Wilson, UC Santa Cruz
Fariba Zarinebaf, UC Riverside
Nina Zhiri, UC San Diego

Saturday, 2 February 2013
University of California, Los Angeles
Royce Hall, Room 306
 

Parking: Use the Self Pay Parking in UCLA Lots 2, 3, and 4. Please visit the UCLA Parking website for more information and maps.
 

“Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean”
Thursday, January 31 – Friday, February 1, 2013

Throughout the medieval and early modern periods, contact zones of trade, translation, coexistence, and intellectual exchange flourished episodically in Muslim occupied Spain, the kingdoms of al-Andalus, Sicily, the Levant, Byzantium, southeastern Europe, and Arabic Persia. They provide opportunity for the study of interlingual communication, economic and cultural trade, political, military and philosophical conflict and conquest, and cultural and religious negotiation. The facility with which ideas and technologies traversed the Mediterranean is testament to the commonalities underlying the apparently dramatic contrasts between linguistic, ethnic, and religious groups. This conference, organized by Professors Chris Chism (English, UCLA), Sharon Gerstel (Art History, UCLA), Teofilo Ruiz (History, UCLA), and Zrinka Stahuljak (French & Francophone Studies, UCLA), brings together an international array of authorities in the field of Mediterranean Studies to delineate multicultural modelsin the Mediterranean and its surrounding transcontinental circuits, to see how they negotiate difference over time and across various cultural and political divides.

More information about the Ahmanson Conference can be found here: http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/conference_cross-cultural_jan2013.html

The Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project (MRP) in Mediterranean Studies announces its Winter 2013 Workshop, to be held at UCLA on Saturday, 2 February 2013.  This is part of a three-day event which also includes the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) Ahmanson Conference, “Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean,” to be held on January 31-February 1.

The Workshop consists of discussion of three pre-circulated papers and a talk by our featured scholar, Michael Herzfeld (Anthropology, Harvard University).

Carol Lansing, Professor of History, UC Santa Barbara
“Rape and Captivity in the Central Mediterranean in the Later Middle Ages”

Erith Jaffe-Berg, Associate Professor of Theater, UC Riverside
“Mediterranean Cartographies of Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell’ Arte Actresses”

Lucia Carminati, Graduate Student, Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona
“Egypt 1919: Working-class Cosmopolitanism and Shifting Boundaries of Belonging”

Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
“Gender, Geography, and the Imagining of the Mediterranean”

Space is limited, so please register now. Registration opens for UC faculty and graduate students and those at institutions affiliated with the Mediterranean Consortium today. Registration for all others will begin on Dec. 26 (registration requests may be sent in at any time; early applications will be queued in the order they are received).

Travel assistance (max $350) will be provided to attendees coming from outside the LA area. UC graduate students and faculty are guaranteed this support; others can apply, and it will be awarded on the basis of availability.

Registration requests and other inquiries should be directed to Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu) at the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research.

Attendees are encouraged to register for the Ahmanson Conference. This is done through UCLA’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; see http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/calendar_jan13.html#1-30.

November 9, 2012
University of California, Santa Barbara
The McCune Conference Room, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building

9:00 Coffee/Registration

9:30 Introduction

10:00 Workshop paper 1: Luca Zavagno (Visiting Research Fellow, Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Center, Princeton)
“Two Hegemonies, One Island: Cyprus between the Byzantines and the Umayyads (650-850 A.D.)”

11:15 Workshop paper 2: Nikki Malain (Graduate Student, History, UC Santa Barbara)
“Predators and praeda: The Logistics of Piracy in the Twelfth-century Mediterranean”

12:30 Lunch (for pre-registered participants only)

1:30 Workshop paper 3: Karen R. Mathews (Research Assistant Professor, Art & Art History, University of Miami)
“Anxiety of Origins: Shifting Conceptions of the Past in Genoese Historical Chronicles and Civic Architecture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries”

2:45 Coffee Break

3:00 Keynote: Marcus Milwright (Professor, History of Art, University of Victoria, British Columbia)
“Archaeology and the Study of Traditional Urban Crafts in the Islamic Mediterranean”

Marcus Milwright is a professor in the Department of History in Art, University of Victoria. He received his doctorate in 1999 from the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford. His research interests include the art and archaeology of the Islamic Middle East, labour and craft practices in the urban environment, and cross-cultural contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean. He has published two books, The Fortress of the Raven: Karak in the Middle Islamic Period (1100-1650) (Brill, 2008) and An Introduction to Islamic Archaeology (Edinburgh University Press, 2010). He is currently working on a history of the balsam gardens of Matariyya in Egypt and a study of the Umayyad mosaic inscriptions in the Dome of the Rock.

4:15 Closing Comments

4:30 Reception (for pre-registered participants only; to 5pm)

Please register with Courtney Mahaney at cmahaney@ucsc.edu for the lunch and reception and to receive the pre-circulated workshop papers.

If you have any questions regarding the program, please contact Edward English at english@history.ucsb.edu.

The Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project (MRP) in Mediterranean Studies announces its Winter 2013 Workshop, to be held at UCLA on Saturday, February 2.  This is part of a three-day event which also includes the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) Ahmanson Conference, “Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean,” to be held on January 31-February 1 (details below).

The Workshop consists of discussion of three pre-circulated papers and a talk by our featured scholar, Michael Herzfeld (Anthropology, Harvard University). The Mediterranean Studies MRP invites proposals for workshop papers on the topic “Gendering the Mediterranean,” construed either literally or figuratively. We seek papers in any relevant discipline, especially comparative or interdisciplinary work that uses the Mediterranean as a frame of analysis. Priority is given to faculty and graduate students from the UC system and collaborating institutions, but any North American-based scholars working on relevant material are encouraged to apply. The Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP will cover travel and lodging expenses for presenters.

The deadline for workshop proposals is December 1, 2012. Please submit an abstract (250-500 words) and two-page CV by this date to mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org (subject line: Winter 2013 Abstract). Successful applicants are expected to submit a 35-page (maximum) double-spaced paper-in-progress for pre-circulation by January 10.

A separate call for workshop and conference registration will be sent out on December 7. Workshop presenters and attendees are encouraged to attend both events.

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The program for the UCLA CMRS Ahmanson Conference on January 31 and February 1, 2013, will be announced shortly. Speakers will include:

Joshua C. Birk (History, Smith College),
Maribel Fierro (Divinity School, Univ. of Chicago)
Maria Georgopoulou (Director, Gennadius Library, Athens),
William Granara (NELC, Harvard University)
Molly Greene (History, Princeton University)
Daniel Hershenzon (Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute),
Cecily Hillsdale (Art History, McGill University)
Shayne Legassie, (English/CL, UNC-Chapel Hill),
Teresa Shawcross (History, Princeton)
Marine Aykazyan (French & Francophone Studies, UCLA)
Maya Maskarinec (History, UCLA)
Antonio Zaldivar (History, UCLA)

To submit a proposal or for further information, please contact mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org

Sea Changes: Mediterranean and Maritime Perspectives on History and Culture
The Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP in Mediterranean Studies present:
An International Symposium/Workshop to be held at UC Santa Cruz, 2-4 May, 2013

A maritime perspective provides scholars with a fresh approach to the study of society and culture, including the development of art, literature, and institutions. In the mid-twentieth century, Fernand Braudel first reformulated the history of Early Modern Europe and the Islamic world by taking the sea between them not as a barrier but as an analytical starting point. Taking geography as its point of departure, this history focused not on the supposedly inherent qualities that separated them, but on the connections that bound the people of the coasts and their continental hinterlands to various trans-Mediterranean others. Emphasizing the importance of movement, trade, and communication, it invited the interrogation of categories that had come to seem self-evident (especially the nation), challenged the foundations of dominant historical metanarratives, and called new attention to the significance of peoples and places long regarded as mere intermediaries.

This gathering invites scholars of the humanities and social science engaged in the study of maritime environments–in particular, the application of Oceanic models (pertaining to the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, Pacific, or Indian Oceans, etc.) to the study of the history of human society and culture. Rather than pure research presentations or case studies, Papers (20 minutes) should engage explicitly and directly with the Mediterranean and/or Oceanic Studies as methodological frames or emerging disciplines. Themes include:

• “In the sea” or “of the sea? The practica of maritime methodologies; geographical determinism and/or human adaptations;
• Revelations and Revisions: What the sea brings to scholarship.
• The historiography and reception of the sea in scholarship

This conference will be held in conjunction with the Mediterranean Studies UCMRP Spring workshop (a separate call for workshop papers will follow).

Please submit a 200-word abstract and two-page CV mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org by January 13.
Conference presenters will be provided accommodations, as well as travel funds as budget permits.