3rd International Conference of Mediterranean Worlds:
Convergence of the Mediterranean:
COMMERCE, CAPITAL AND TRADE ROUTES IN THE HISTORY OF A SEA
Salerno, Italy September 6-9, 2011
An interdisciplinary conference
organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Eastern
Mediterranean University in collaboration with the Department of
Historical and Social Sciences, University of Salerno, The
Mediterranean Seminar and Research Centre of Trans-Mediterranean
Studies -Institut für Kunstgeschichte, University of Bern.
The Mediterranean, in various
literatures, is perceived as infinite: a sphere of unseen
possibilities. Both the sea and its shores are intractably connected and
in constant flux. Border, boundary, or bridge, the mass of water has
for millennia been divisive or connective for those who inhabit its
shores. Port cities on particular shores share a common hybrid and
cosmopolitan, socio-economic and political structure.
This is as true today as ever it was in the past: from
pre-history to the 21st century.
Whether the Mediterranean facilitates cultural and
ethnic interplay, or whether we view it as a barrier that separates
civilisations and traditions, a close study of Mediterranean economic
exchange can be revealing. The history of transportation and commercial
activities tells stories of man and culture; the nature of individuals
and societies; problems inherent in shipping routes, and currencies.
Commercial activity, for the purpose of this conference, is the method
of mapping, reading and comprehending the Mediterranean world, and
dialogue with societies beyond its internal shores.
We hope that our rubric of 'Mediterranean Worlds' is broad enough to
encompass the work of scholars researching across the
whole range of aspects of the Mediterranean literature, while at the
same time highlighting this year's special topic of 'commerce, capital
and trade routes'.
We welcome the submission of: Suggested panel
presentations comprising 3-4 presenters and chairperson (please submit
3/4 x 250-word abstract and a short rationale for the panel theme).
250-word abstracts for twenty-minute
papers that broadly address the above themes, and that may address, but
not be limited by, the following topics:
A Basin of Connectivity and ConflictCommunication and TransportSpeculative Seas: Trade Systems, Commodities and PricesCaravans of the MediterraneanThe Peninsula and the IslandGlobalising the Mediterranean: Inter-national traders, companies and agencies. Mapping the Mediterranean CommerceHistory through weights and measures: History of TradeCrossing the Trade RoadsRisks and hazards of Passing the MediterraneanRoads and trade stationsLands of Desire: Warring for Trade in the MediterraneanAdvertising and Commodity in the Mediterranean HistoryPorts, hybrid cultures and cosmopolitan societiesTraders of Byzantium: in and beyond Constantinople.
Art and Science: Transmediterranean Concepts of Visual Culture Art and Science: Transmediterranean Impact on Visual CultureInterchanges of Culture: Sicily, Southern Italy and the Transmediterranean (East) from 1050 to 1250
http://medworlds.org/index.html
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