160107 News: The Mediterranean Seminar Announces Phase III & a New Board

Founded in 2004 as a modest in-house venture at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the Mediterranean Seminar (www.mediterraneanseminar.org)– currently with over 1,000 associated scholars worldwide – continues to be the leading initiative in Mediterranean Studies. This June marked the end of our five-year Multi-Campus Research Project Initiative (MRPI), funded by the University of California Office of the President. Beginning in July 2010, this grant enabled us to organize fifteen workshop/conferences at six different University of California campuses and various collaborating institutions. In addition, we organized panels at the conferences of a number of scholarly associations (the Medieval Academy, the American Historical Association, the Middle East Studies Association, the Modern Language Association, the Society for the Study of the Medieval Mediterranean), as well as four NEH Summer Institutes for University and College Professors. We have launched a book series, Mediterraneans, with Palgrave Macmillan, currently with two volumes in the publication pipeline. Finally, and most importantly, we have continued to function as a forum for interdisciplinary collaboration and as a clearing house (via our email notifications) for projects relating to Mediterranean Studies, and we are proud of having contributed to the consolidation of what has become a very collegial and stimulating scholarly community. We look forward to continuing with the next stage of this project, including our quarterly workshops and new programs, and welcome our new Board.

Sincerely,
Brian A. Catlos & Sharon Kinoshita, Co-Directors

Advisory Board
▪	Fred Astren: Jewish Studies, San Francisco State Univerisity
▪	Edmund “Terry” Burke III, History, UC Santa Cruz
▪	Thomas E. Burman: History, University of Tennessee - Knoxville
▪	Christine Chism: English, University of California, Los Angeles
▪	Anthony Cutler: Art History, Pennsylvania State University
▪	Andrew Devereux: History, Loyola Marymount University
▪	Edward English: History, University of California, Santa Barbara
▪	William Granara: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
▪	Daniel Gullo: Malta Study Center, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
▪	Harvey Hames: History, Ben Gurion University
▪	Cecily Hilsdale: Art History & Communication Studies, McGill University
▪	Peregrine Horden: Medieval History, Royal Holloway, University of London
▪	Sergio La Porta: Armenian Studies, California State University, Fresno 
▪	Yuen-Gen Liang: History, Wheaton College
▪	Karla Mallette: Romance Languages, University of Michigan
▪	Mark Meyerson: Medieval Studies & History, University of Toronto
▪	Marcus Milwright: Islamic Art & Archaeology, University of Victoria 
▪	Roberta Morosini: Italian, Wake Forest University
▪	Maria Morras: Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
▪	Ignacio Navarrete: Spanish & Portuguese, University of California, Berkeley
▪	Kathryn Reyerson: History, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
▪	Teofilo Ruiz: History, UCLA
▪	Flocel Sabaté: History, Universitat de Lleida
▪	Roser Salicrú: Medieval Studies, Institució Milà i Fontanals, CSIC
▪	Nuria Silleras-Fernández: Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado, Boulder
▪	Baki Tezcan: Religious Studies, University of California, Davis
▪	John Tolan: History, Université de Nantes 
▪	Dominque Valérian: History, Université de Lyon
▪	David Wacks: Romance Languages, University of Oregon
▪	Kenneth Baxter Wolf: History and Classics, Pomona University
▪	Fariba Zarinebaf: History, University of California, Riverside
▪	Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri: Literature, University of California, San Diego

Upcoming Mediterranean Seminar Workshops
▪	Winter 2016: “Subterfuge and Deception in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean,” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, March 3–5
▪	Spring 2016: “Politics, Identity, and Religion: Representation in the Mediterranean,” CSU Fresno, April 8-9
▪	Fall 2016: “Magic, Medicine and Science: Cultures of Knowledge in the Medieval Mediterranean,” Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, October 7-8
▪	Winter 2017: “Culture Wars,” Pomona College, February 17–18
If you are interested in sponsoring and co-organizing a workshop, please contact the Co-Directors at mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org

Panels at Professional Meetings and Conferences
The Mediterranean Seminar is happy to co-organize Mediterranean-oriented panels at academic conferences and meetings of professional societies. Contact the Co-Directors at mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org for further information.

Book Series
We are proud to announce that the first volume of our new series, Mediterraneans, published by Palgrave Macmillan will appear in summer 2016. The Mediterranean World and Medieval and Early Modern Studies - Can We Talk Mediterranean?, ed. Catlos & Kinoshita, features essays by Brian Catlos, Sharon Kinoshita, Claire Farago, Cecily Hilsdale and Peregrine Horden.
Mediterraneans is accepting proposals for monographs, collections of essays, translations, and editions of sources that engage with or relate to larger issues of Mediterranean history and culture. Inquiries may be made to the Co-Directors at mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org.

Undergraduate Textbook
With the sponsorship of the Mediterranean Seminar, Thomas Burman, Brian Catlos & Mark Meyerson are writing an undergraduate course book with the working title, “The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650—1650CE.”  Suitable for lower- and mid-level college courses, this textbook surveys the history and culture of the Mediterranean world in the medieval and early modern periods, emphasizing the interaction of the three Abrahamic faiths and integrating key developments in European, African, and West Asian histories. The book will be published by Bedford St. Martins no earlier than Fall 2017.

Skills Seminars
Hosted by CU Boulder and the CU Boulder Mediterranean Studies Group, we will offer the first of our annual Skills Seminars in May 2015. Open to graduate students, scholars, and cultural professionals, the first course, “Reading Aljamiado,” will feature Prof. Nuria Martinez-de-Castilla (Universidad Complutense, Madrid). For further information, see: www.cumediterranean.info#aljamiado
Application deadline: January 15

Mediterranean Studies Orientation Seminars
Brian Catlos and Sharon Kinoshita offer 1- or 2-day orientations on Mediterranean Studies pedagogy and research for faculty and graduate students. If you are interested in hosting an Orientation Seminar, contact the Co-Directors at mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org for further information.