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<p class="x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a name="x__MailOriginal" class=""><span class="" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black; background:white">The ???Ocean Crossings???</span></a><span class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black"> group, <span class="" style="background:white">University
 of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</span>, <span class="" style="background:white">announces the call for papers for the Graduate Student Colloquium</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="" style=""><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">Zeev Gourarier</span></b></span><span class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black"></span></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black; background:white">Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations</span></span><span class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black"></span></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">The Mediterranean has always been a space marked by fluidic and nomadic networks formed by transnational fluxes of people,
 goods and ideas. Mapping seems to be the preliminary condition for crossing to happen - allowing subjects to position themselves and to move within space. However, even the act of crossing can become a destabilizing moment through the breaking down of preconceived
 spatial and cultural coordinates. In this perspective, the Mediterranean allows the possibility to unsettle rather than to trace borders, thus opening up the space for new connections that transcend existing <span class="" style="background:white">social,
 cultural, or political </span>frameworks<span class="" style="background:white">.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black; background:white">For more information, please refer to the call for papers attached. </span></span><span class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black"></span></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">Inquiries and abstract may be directed to Jessica Sciubba and Corey Flack at </span></span><a href="mailto:illinoisoceancrossings@gmail.com" target="_blank" class=""><span class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">illinoisoceancrossings@gmail.com</span></span><span class="" style=""></span></a><span class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">.
 Abstracts must be received no later than December 23, 2014. </span></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">Department of French and Italian</span></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black">University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</span></span></p>
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