Susan McDonough, this year the George William Cotrell Jr member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, is an Associate Professor of history at UMBC. A scholar of women, gender and sexuality in the medieval Mediterranean, Susan is currently at work on two projects: one is solo-authored monograph on sex workers, the other, a collaboration with Michelle Armstrong-Partida of Emory University, began with Mediterranean singlewomen and has grown to include single men, migration, shared cultures of sexuality, and gender identity. Her work has been supported by fellowships with the NEH and the Newberry Library.
The topic of this virtual symposium, Medieval Mediterranean Ways, is conceptualized very broadly geographically as well as intellectually, and it seeks to examine both meanings of the word “ways”, as direction and as manner. Our articulation alludes to both Mediterranean ways as routes or directions as well as ways as manners, customs and cultural practices. Thus, this symposium aims at engaging in an intellectual dialogue that widely encompasses areas of inquiry as varied as trade, cartography, visual cultures and intercultural and interreligious relationships across the Mediterranean during the medieval period.
10:00 am-10:30 am (EST) Susan McDonough, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, Medieval History, “Moving in the Mediterranean: Public Women and Their Routes”
10:30 am-11:00 am (EST) Sébastien Garnier, Université Paris 1, “What lies behind al-Tiǧānī’s travelogue (scr. post 711/1311)?”
11:00 am-11:30 am (EST) David Wacks, Univ. of Oregon, Sephardic Studies , “Medieval Sephardic Narratives of Mediterranean Migration”
11:30 am-12:00 pm (EST) Q&A
12:00 pm-1:00 pm (EST) Lunch Break
AFTERNOON SESSION. 1:00 pm-3:00 pm
1:00 pm-1:30 pm (EST) Ariel Fein, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, Byzantine and Islamic Art History, “A Refugee Family across Syria and North Africa: Artistic Heritage and Communal Self-Memory”
1:30 pm-2:00 pm (EST) Michelle Hamilton, University of Minnesota, and Núria Silleras-Fernández, University of Colorado , “Iberia and the Multilingual Mediterranean”
2:00 pm-2:30 pm (EST) Uri Zvi Shachar, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, “Paths of Faith: Fourteenth Century Mediterranean Encyclopedism”
Welcome to the website of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association! The DVMA is a regional association dedicated to advancing Medieval Studies in the Delaware Valley and beyond. Meetings are held four times a year around our region to provide members with an opportunity to present research and stay connected with other medievalists in the area.
