Mediterranean Studies II: East and West at the Center, 1050-1600
(Fall 2009)
Illustration from a map in Cosmographia Ptolémeé, Nicholas Germanus (ed.), 1482.
"Mediterranean Studies II: East and West at the Center, 1050-1600" is the second part of a two-part seminar series organized by Professor Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA French & Francophone Studies and CMRS Associate Director for Medieval Studies) and funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This seminar has been considering the Mediterranean as an entity, the center for both East and West, and part of a world system rather than a line of separation between the emerging “West” and an exotic “East.” Accordingly, starting in the West, in the Iberian peninsula and Occitania, we have been concentrating throughout the seminar primarily on the central and “Eastern” Mediterranean, from Sicily and the Italian Peninsula, to the Maghreb, Adriatic, Byzantium, Crete, Cyprus, Syria, Palestine, Mamluk Egypt, and the Ottoman Empire. For the second part of the seminar series we have invited our guests to reflect on the methodology applicable to Mediterranean Studies.
Seminar sessions are three hours in length and have a workshop format. The guest speaker presents a lecture during the first hour. After a short break, participants reconvene and discuss the topic introduced in the lecture.
Monday, October 19, 2009, 3:00-6:00 PM, Royce Hall 306
Professor Oumelbanine Zhiri (Literature, UC San Diego) “Archiving the Orient in Early Modern Europe”
Seminar Leaders: Christine Chism (English, UCLA) and Peter Stacey (History, UCLA)
Monday, October 26, 2009, 3:00-6:00 PM, Royce Hall 306
Professor Jocelyne Dakhlia(Centre de Recherches Historiques, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris) “Lingua franca: Hybridity and Conflict in the Mediterranean”
Monday, November 16, 2009, 3:00-6:00 PM, Royce Hall 306
Professor Teresa Shawcross(Schulman Research Fellow in History, Trinity Hall, Cambridge University) “Identities in Transition: Historical Writing and Regime Change in the Late Medieval Eastern Mediterranean”
