Mediterranean Encounters: People, History and Literature
11-12 February 2005

CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge
Supported by:
CRASSH
Middle East Graduate Association (MEGA)

The Mediterranean world has a rich history of encounters between people of various cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds. Given the often contentious nature of current discourse on the region, it is beneficial to adopt an inter-disciplinary approach to its study. Thus the Middle East Graduate Association of the University of Cambridge is hosting this conference to bring together studies on the exchange and interaction between various peoples within the Mediterranean in areas of trade, culture, literature and relations of power. The conference will be organized along several main themes: European and Middle Eastern historiography of the Mediterranean, the Mediterranean as a trade zone, Relations of power within the Mediterranean and the Mediterranean in literature and culture.

Conveners:
Murat Menguc (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge)
Amina Elbendary (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge)
Academic Advisor:
Irad Malkin (Professor of Ancient Greek History, Tel Aviv University)

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Programme:

Friday 11 February
10.00-10.30 Coffee and Registration
10.30-11.00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
David Abulafia (Professor of Mediterranean History, University of Cambridge)
11.00-13.00 Session One
Chair: Ludmilla Jordanova (CRASSH, University of Cambridge)

The Mediterranean Option
Irad Malkin (Professor of Ancient Greek History, Tel Aviv University)

The Forgotten History of Cosmopolitanism
Dr William Gallois (Mellon Fellow in History, School of Oriental and
African Studies, Unive rsity of London)

The Legacy of Mediterranean Cosmopolitanism and the Political Rhetoric
of Identity in Modern Egypt: The Case of Women
Mona El- Sherif (Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of
California Berkeley)

13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.45 Session Two: Identities
Chair: Murat Menguc (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge)

East meets West: Constructing a Mediterranean Identity in Albert
Camus's La nouvelle culture méditerranéenne
Neil Foxlee (University of Central Lancashire)

Orienting the Mezzogiorno: The Italian Southern Question and the
Mediterranean Races, 1861-1911
Aliza S. Wong (Faculty of History, Texas Tech University)

Beirut: A Case-Study in the Limits of Hellenisation
Nadine Boksmati (University of Cambridge)

15.45-16.15 Tea and Coffee
16.15-17.45 Session Three: The Mediterranean City
Chair: Paul Cartledge (Professor of Greek History, University of Cambridge)

Grog Shop Encounters in Alexandria, 1880-1900
Will Hanley (History Department, Princeton University)

Profile of a Mediterranean City: The Case of Medieval Scutari (XIV-XV Century)
Mag. Enriketa Pandelejmoni (Department for Southeast European History,
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz)

Levantine Christians and Muslims in Early Modern Venice: Communities,
Networks and Identities
Georgios Plakotos (Department of Modern History, University of Glasgow)

Saturday 12 February
9.30-10.30 Mediterranean History as World History
Peregrine Horden (Reader in Medieval History, Royal Holloway,
University of London)
10.30-11.00 Tea and Coffee
11.00-13.00 Session Four: Session 4: Historical Constructs
Chair: TBC

The Map of the Christian Topography and its Influence
Maja Kominko (University of Oxford)

Religious Borders, Mobility and Conversion in the Mediterranean around 1600
Kim Siebenhüner (Modern History Faculty, University of Oxford)

Trade, Western Merchants and Ottoman Law in the Mediterranean: The
Evidence of a Manuscript from the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris
Viorel Panaite (University of Bucharest)

13. 00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Session Five: Europe and the Mediterranean
Chair: Irad Malkin (Professor of Ancient Greek History, Tel Aviv University)

Similarities and Differences between the Regional Development
(Policies) of Turkey, Greece, Italy and Spain as Mediterranean
Countries in the Globalization Process
Levin Özgen (Süleyman Demirel University)

Trade and Security in the Mediterranean: Comparing EU and US Free
Trade Strategies in the Maghreb
Jean F. Crombois (Alakhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco)

Turkey's Straits: A Contested Conduit between Europe and Asia
Susan Allen (Providence College, USA)

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Registration
A booking foorm is available to download here: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2004-5/medencounters.html . Please return booking forms by 4 February. Please direct any enquiries about the conference to events@crassh.cam.ac.uk with your details.

For more information about the academic content of the conference, please contact the convener Murat Menguc mm499@cam.ac.uk.

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Colloquium « Rhetoric and historiography »

On the 13th, 14th and 15th of October, 2005, the Université Laval (Quebec City, Canada) will have the pleasure of hosting this Colloquium, which takes place within the framework established by the cooperation agreements signed with the Université Marc-Bloch (Strasbourg, France). A second meeting will be hosted in Strasbourg in October 2006. The goal of the conference is to foster critical reflection on the links that exist between historiography and rhetoric. If one may say that historians and orators share a common will to persuade their audience and the same belief that their respective arts represent the sole path to discovering the truth, it must also be recognized that the two arts do not use the same means to reach that end. And yet the two fields intersect at various points: the historiographer, for example, must master a kind of rhetoric that will lend credibility to his words, while the orator must make frequent allusions to historical facts to illustrate and reinforce his arguments.

Conference organizers invite papers from anyone who is interested in exploring the relationship between these two genres; contributions may consider such various aspects as the points of convergence and divergence between the two fields, the notions of generic ambivalence, truth or exemplarity, or ancient perspectives on the two literary genres.

Scholars interested in participating to the colloquium in Quebec City should send a 300-words abstract before the 15th of March 2005 to: <alban.baudou@lit.ulaval.ca>.

Fees will be of $ 30 CAN, payable on arrival. Details about the organization of the Colloquium will be available in June on the web site of the Institut d’études anciennes de l’Université Laval: <www.ftsr.ulaval.ca/iea>

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