Identity in the Mediterranean World: From the Middle Ages to Today
Thursday to Saturday, April 7-9
Mediterranean Identities Conference
Cosponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies, the Center for Jewish Studies, the Center for Early Modern History, and the Institute for Global Studies
Schedule
Thursday, April 7
4:00 p.m. Keynote by Bernard Bachrach, University of Minnesota, “Charlemagne’s Mediterranean Empire.” Chair: Ann Waltner, Institute for Advanced Study
125 Nolte Center
Audio download (.mp3 - 89.9 MB), Video download (.m4v - 234.8 MB)
Question and Answer session with Professor Bachrach
5:30 reception and buffet, Nolte 120 (Fireplace Room), welcome by Kathryn Reyerson, IAS Mediterranean Collaborative Convener, Director of the Center for Medieval Studies, University of Minnesota
Friday, April 8
8:30 Coffee and Muffins, Nolte 125
9:00-10:30 - Conversion and the Question of Identity in the Mediterranean World
Chair: Marguerite Ragnow, Curator of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota
Audio download (.mp3 - 89.9 MB)
Wadad Kadi, University of Chicago, “Self-Identity of the Non-Arab Muslim Bureaucracy in Early Islam: ‘Abd al-Hamid’s (d. 750) ‘Letter to the Secretaries’”
Nabil Matar, University of Minnesota, “Muslim Conversion to Christianity in the Early Modern Period”
Galina Yermolenko, DeSales University, “Ottoman Captivity and Religious Conversion in the Ukrainian Cultural Imagination”
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 - Identity in Jewish Mediterranean Studies
Chair: Daniel Schroeter, Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota
Audio download (.mp3 - 44.4 MB)
Fred Astren, San Francisco State, "Jews in and of the Medieval Mediterranean"
Yaron Tsur, Tel Aviv University, “The Mediterranean Itinerary and Concepts of an 18th Century Rabbi: Hayyim Yoseph David Azulay (HIDA, 1724-1806)”
Audio download (.mp3 - 37.9 MB)
Joëlle Bahloul, Indiana University, "The Mediterranean Identity of Sephardic Jews: Critical Reflections on Ethnographic Experiences"
12:30-1:30 Lunch Buffet, 140 Nolte Center
1:30 – 3:00 - Identites in the Medieval Western Mediterranean
Chair: Carla Phillips, History, University of Minnesota
Audio download (.mp3 - 82.5 MB)
Timothy Smit, University of Oregon, “Mediterranean Connections: Merchants and Identity in Medieval Sicily”
Kevin Mummey, University of Minnesota, “Enchained in Paradise: Slave Identity in Majorca”
Matt Desing, University of Texas, El Paso, "Shifting Perceptions of the Mediterranean and Clerical Identities: The Case of the Libro de Apolonio (13th C. Castile)"
3: 30 Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 - Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean
Chair: Gabriela Currie, Music, French and Italian, University of Minnesota
Audio download (.mp3 - 36.8 MB)
Jesse Izzo, University of Minnesota, “Frankish Identity: Culture and Political Symbolism of the Elite in 13th C. Acre"
Theresa Vann, Joseph S. Micallef Curator of the Malta Center, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, Saint John’s University, “Muslim Identities in Christian Rhodes”
Cameron Bradley, University of Minnesota, “Hybrid Identities: Busbecq on Ethnicity and Religion in 16th C. Constantinople” (This talk was not recorded, per the speaker's request.)
Jesse Izzo, Theresa Vann, and Cameron Bradley answer questions about their presentations.
Dinner - free choice
8:00 p. m. Entertainment
Saturday, April 9
8:30 Coffee and Muffins
9:00-10:30 - Italian Identities at Home and Abroad
Chair: Donna Gabaccia, History, University of Minnesota
Audio download (.mp3 - 22.2 MB)
Rachel Gibson, University of Minnesota, “Correspondence from Candia: Venetian Trade in Shifting Waters"
Audio download (.mp3 - 56.3 MB)
Tovah Bender, Agnes Scott College, “Name, Space, and Identity in Fifteenth Century Tuscany in Comparative Context”
Mark Aloisio, Colorado State University, “Medieval Pantelleria: Precarious Identity in a Frontier Society”
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 - Identity in the Modern Mediterranean
Chair: Patricia Lorcin, IAS Mediterranean Collaborative Convener, University of Minnesota
Audio download (.mp3 - 107.6 MB)
Elizabeth Fraser, University of South Florida, “Miniatures in Black and White: Melling as Cultural Mediator”
Miriam Cooke, Duke University, “Mediterranean Cosmopolitanism”
Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University,”Rewiring the Erotic Charge of Empire: ‘Arab Men’ and French Fantasies of the Nation, 1967-1974”
Susanna Ferlito, University of Minnesota, “Mediterranean Wounds: Cristina di Belgioioso’s Exile in Turkey (1851-1856)”
12:30-1:30 Lunch Buffet
1:45-3:00, Performance of Venetian Music, 120 Nolte (Fireplace Room)
Introduction by Ann Waltner, Director of IAS, University of Minnesota
¡Saccabuche! - Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
3:30-5:00 - Identity in Venetian and Mediterranean Culture
Chair: John Watkins, IAS Mediterranean Collaborative Convener, University of Minnesota
Audio download (.mp3 - 93.2 MB)
David Perry, Dominican University, “Objects in Motion – the Material Culture of Medieval Venetian Identity”
Mark Netzloff, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “"Anglo-Venetian Intelligence Networks and the Politics of Information"
Eric Dursteler, Brigham Young University, "Language and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean"
5:30 Final Reception and Buffet in 1210 Heller Hall
7:30 p.m. West Wing of the Campus Club
¡Saccabuche!
Performance of "Matteo Ricci: His Maps and Music."
Sponsored by the Center for Early Modern History, The School of Music, and the Confucius Institute.