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.
MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN WAYS SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM
MORNING SESSION. 10:00 am-12:00 pm
- 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”
- 2:30 pm-3:00 pm (EST), Q&A and Closing Remarks
| Registration Link | https://temple.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JzgTXT6OSGuhx8Lw9pCwXw#/registration |
| Venue | Zoom Webinar |
| Starts | Fri Apr 11 2025, 10:00 AM EDT |
| Ends | Fri Apr 11 2025, 3:00 PM EDT |
