[MGSA-L] Princeton Hellenic Studies Mediterranean Seminar: "Turning Points" / March 1-2, 2019

[Dimitri H. Gondicas]

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY



Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

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Department of History







Mediterranean Seminar

Workshop







"Turning Points"



www.mediterraneanseminar.org<http://www.mediterraneanseminar.org>





Friday, March 1, 2019

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Saturday, March 2, 2019



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Registration



Space is limited and registration is required. By registering attendees agree to attend the entire program.



Lunch will be provided on March 2.



For general information contact mailbox at mediterraneanseminar.org<http://mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org>.



To register and to receive the workshop papers, and for logistical and site-specific information including accommodation options, please contact Jennifer D. Loessy (jloessy at Princeton.edu<http://jloessy@Princeton.edu>)





Program



Friday, March 1, 2019



The workshop will begin with registration at 1:00pm, followed by two workshop papers and a keynote presentation:



*  "Skin Deep: Color Classification of Muslim Slaves in Barcelona and Majorca, 1237-1335"

Ariana Myers (Graduate Student, History, Princeton University)

Respondent:   Mohamad Ballan (Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Dartmouth)



* "Architecture and Landscape in a Plural Environment: Contextualizing Pera/Beyoğlu in the 1770s and 1830s"

Paolo Girardelli (Professor, History, Bogaziçi University; Visiting Professor, Art History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Respondent: Georgios Markou (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton)



Keynote Presentation

"Shipwrecks: Navigational Turning Points in the 18th Century Mediterranean"

Julia Clancy-Smith (Professor, Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona)



Saturday, March 2, 2019



The workshop will continue at 9:00am with one workshop paper, followed by three round tables:



* "Rewriting the Script"

William Stroebel (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton)

Respondent:  Veli Yashin (Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, Univ. of Southern California; Visiting Scholar, Near Eastern Languages, Yale)



Roundtable #1 Can we escape Eurocentric chronologies?

*    Nicole Archambeau (Assistant Professor, History, Colorado SU)

*    Sergio LaPorta (Professor, Armenian Studies, CSU Fresno)

*    Lena Salaymeh (Visiting Scholar, Davis Center, Princeton)

*    Veli Yashin (Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, USC)

*    Adriano Duque (Associate Professor, Spanish Studies, Villanova)

*    Amy Remensnyder (Professor, History, Brown)



Roundtable #2 When did Empires end and Nations Begin in the Mediterranean?

*    Ceren Abi (Graduate Student, History, UCLA)

*    Mohamad Ballan (Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Dartmouth)

*    Lawrence McCrank (Independent Scholar)

*    Elizabeth Terry-Roisin (Adjunct Assistant Prof, History, Austin C)

*    Ian Hathaway (Graduate Student, History & Renaissance Studies, Yale)



Roundtable #3 Can we speak about turning points across disciplines?

*    Fred Astren (Professor, Jewish Studies, San Francisco SU)

*    Samuel Cohen (Assistant Professor, History, Sonoma SU)

*    Jonathan Haddad (Assistant Professor, French, U of Georgia)

*    Kira Robison (Assistant Professor, History, Tennessee-Chattanooga)

*    Marla Segol (Associate Professor, Jewish Studies, SUNY Buffalo)

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