The Spring/ Winter 2021 Mediterranean Seminar Workshop
February to April 2021 [Podcasts]
The Ohio State University/ Remote
“The Global Mediterranean”
“To claim that there is a global Mediterranean which in the sixteenth century, reached as far as the Azores and the New World, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, the Baltic and the loop of the Niger, may appear an unwarranted exaggeration of its boundaries. . . [Yet] what boundaries can be marked when we are dealing not with plants and animals, relief and climate, but men, whom no barriers or frontiers can stop?”
• Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, 168.
As the field of Mediterranean Studies has gained academic purchase in recent decades, the Mediterranean itself has remained a portable concept, a shorthand encoding assumptions about everything from diet to romantic temperament. Scholarship interrogating these assumptions forms an increasingly abundant body of research on the particularities of the Mediterranean world throughout its history. In many studies, a Mediterranean analytical framework is treated as a starting point, or a set of tropes and clichés to be interrogated in granular detail. This conference seeks to explore the life of the Mediterranean itself as a productive discourse.
Program & Papers
Session will be podcasted for a limited time starting a few hours after each session. Click on the link below the corresponding meeting time to stream the recording of the session.
Draft papers are available for registered “live” participants only. You may contact the author if you wish to request a paper.
Friday, February 5, 3:00—4:30pm Eastern Time
[Podcast]
To access the recording for this meeting email your request to: mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org
Introductions
• Harry Kashdan (The Ohio State University)
• Brian A. Catlos (Religious Studies, University of Colorado Boulder) and Sharon Kinoshita (Literature, University of California Santa Cruz), The Mediterranean Seminar
• The Participants
Workshop Paper #1
”The Birth of a Mediterranean Global Imaginaire “
• Marcus Ziemann (Classics, The Ohio State University)
Response: Sean Burrus (Bowdoin College Museum of Art)
Moderator: Brian A. Catlos (Religious Studies, University of Colorado Boulder)
Friday, February 19, 3:00—4:15pm Eastern Time
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Listen to the recorded meeting here [ Passcode: r^88jf5T]
Workshop Paper #2
”Shrinking Mediterranean, Expanding Atlantic: The Genoese between the Ottoman and Iberian Empires, 1435-1492”
• Padraic Rohan (History, Stanford University)
Response: Andrew Devereux (History, University of California San Diego)
Friday, March 5, 3:00—4:15pm Eastern Time
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Workshop Paper #3
”Working the Global Mediterranean: Mezemorta Hüseyin Paşa as Corsair, Captive, Dey, and Admiral in the Late Seventeenth Century”
• John J. Curry (History, University of Nevada-Las Vegas)
Response: Fariba Zarinebaf (History, University of California Riverside)
Friday, April 9, 3:00—4:30pm Eastern Time
Round Table 1
Global Mediterranean/Global Middle Ages: Eurocentric or Revisionist?
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Moderator: Brian A. Catlos
1. Allen Fromherz (History, Georgia State University)
2. Kathryn Hain (History, Northeast Community College)
3. Ian Merkel (Professor, History, University of Miami)
4. Melinda McClimans (Middle East Studies Center, The Ohio State University)
5. Erik Scaltriti (French and Italian, The Ohio State University)
6. Danielle Schoon, (Near Eastern Studies, The Ohio State University)
7. David Wacks (Spanish, University of Oregon)
Friday, April 16, 3:00—4:30pm Eastern Time
Round Table 2
Is it Anachronistic to Frame Mediterranean Circulation as Global?
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Moderator: Sharon Kinoshita
1. Sean Burrus (Bowdoin College Museum)
2. Anny Gaul (Arabic, University of Maryland)
3. Alberto Gelmi (Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center)
4. Carolina López-Ruiz (Classics, The Ohio State University)
5. Enrico Zammarchi, (French and Italian, The Ohio State University)
6. Oumelbanine Zhiri (Literature, University of California San Diego)
Concluding Remarks
• Brian A. Catlos, Sharon Kinoshita, Harry Kashdan & audience
Registered Participants:
Marta Albalá Pelegrín (English and Modern Languages: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona )
Abdulhamit Arvas (English: University of Pennsylvania )
Fred Astren (Department of Jewish Studies: San Francisco State University)
Tracey L. Billado (History: Queens College, CUNY)
Tamar Marie Boyadjian (English : Michigan State University)
Houssem Eddine Chachia (History: University of Sfax)
Michael Eisenberg (Law: Touro)
Magda El-Sherbini (University Library: Ohio State University)
Mayte Green-Mercado (History: Rutgers-Newark)
Sarah-Grace Heller (French and Italian: Ohio State University)
Alicia Hernandez Robles (Medieval History: Universidad de Murcia)
Achraf Idrissi (English and North American Studies: University of Debrecen)
Thomas Kealy (School of Business and Social Sciences: Colby-Sawyer College)
Ebtisam Mursi (Romance Studies: Cornell University)
Susan J. Noakes (French and Italian: University of Minnesota--Twin Cities)
Ömer Fatih Parlak (History: Bogazici University)
Maryam Patton (History and Middle Eastern Studies: Harvard University)
Karen Pinto (History: Loyola University Maryland)
Rosario Pollicino (Language, Literatures, and Cultures: University of South Carolina, Columbia)
Francisco Prieto-Chorro (Medieval History: Universitat de València )
Amy Remensnyder (History: Brown University )
Huseyin Gungor Sahin (Modern Languages: Atilim University)
Elizabeth Spragins (Spanish: College of the Holy Cross)
Giovanna Summerfield (Foreign Languages and Literatures: Auburn University)
Chris Theofilogiannakos (Museum & Heritage Services: City of Toronto)
Rebecca Wartell (Jewish Studies: CU Boulder )
Jessica Weiss (Art: Metropolitan State University of Denver)
Practica
Materials
Workshop papers and round-table position papers will be available only to attendees of the “live meetings.” Registration for all meetings is now closed.
Information
General inquiries can be addressed to the Mediterranean Seminar.
Sponsors , Organization & Support:
This workshop is organized by Harry Kashdan (The Ohio State University), Sharon Kinoshita (University of California Santa Cruz), and Brian A. Catlos (University of Colorado Boulder).
The Spring 2021 vritual workshop is hosted by the Global Mediterranean Project, Humanities Institute Working Group and jointly sponsored by the Ohio State’s Center for Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences Arts and Humanities Grant Program, Department of African American and African Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of Classics, Department of Comparative Studies, Department of French and Italian, Department of History of Art, Department of History, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, French and Italian Graduate Student Association, Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme, Humanities Institute, International Studies, Melton Center for Jewish Studies, Migration, Mobility, and Immobility Project, and Office of International Affairs, and the CU Mediterranean Studies Group. The Mediterranean Seminar is supported by the University of Colorado Boulder.