UC funds Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project
With an endowment of over $480,000 the University of California has approved a five-year Multi-Campus Research Project on Mediterranean Studies, based at UC Santa Cruz and to begin 1... [
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Two Mediterranean Seminar Sessions at Exeter in July
CFP: Gendering the "New Thalassology" -- Men, Women, and the Medieval Mediterranean at the 2010 AHA
Gendering the "New Thalassology" -- Men, Women, and the Medieval Mediterranean
Call for papers for a panel sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist
Studies at the a... [
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TALK: Jewish Culture in Contemporary Syria
The Maimonides Madrasah: Islam, Secularism, and the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in DamascusA visitor to t... [
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NEH Summer Institute Scholar Awarded Carnegie Scholarship
Hussein Fancy (History, University of Michigan) has been awarded a Carnegie Scholarship to work on a project relating to his work at the Mediterranean Seminar's 2008 Summer Institute... [
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Maria Evangelatou awarded Byzantine studies fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks
Prof. Maria Evangelatou (History of Art and Visual Culture, University of Caifornia Santa Cruz), a Mediterranean Seminar collaborator has been awarded a Residential Fellowship in Byz... [
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CFP: Commerce and Religion in Medieval and Early Modern Times
This session is being presented at the European Social Science History Conference, to be held at Ghent, Belgium, 13-16 April 2010.
How did merchants belonging to different relig... [
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"Stones of Famagusta" Screening
On Tuesday, March 3, Allan Langdale will screen his acclaimed film, "The Stones of Famagusta: the Story of a Forgotten City," at Social Sciences 1, room 110 on the UC Santa Cruz Camp... [
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CFP "Merchants, Mercenaries and Missionaries"
A conference, "Merchants, Mercenaries and Missionaries: The Society and Culture of the Medieval Mediterranean, c. 500-1500," will be held from Thursday 9th July
to Sunday 12th J... [
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Mediterranean Empires at Stanford, January 22
The Stanford University Mediterranean Studies Forum presents:
"Sorting out Toleration and Persecution: Imperial Examples"
Karen Barkey, Professor of Sociology (Columb... [
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Oxford UP plans new Mediterranean Series
In the last generation the study of the Mediterranean region has been
transformed. Far more people write about its documentary history; what
we can say about its archaeology has mu... [
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Conference Registration deadline, January 5
Register now for "Alternative Teleologies:
The Mediterranean and the Modern World(s)," a conference be held at the
University of California Santa Cruz on Saturday January 17.... [
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New Book: The Arts of Intimacy
The Mediterranean Seminar is glad to announce the publication of T
he Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Cult... [read more...]In Memoriam: Father Robert Ignatius Burns, S.J.
ON 22 November 2008 the much loved and admired Fr. Robert Burns, a pioneering historian of the Muslim minority of the medieval Kingdom of Valencia, passed away. Father Burns wa... [
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Mediterranean Conference at UCSC
On Saturday January 17, 2009 a conference, "Alternative Teleologies: The Mediterranean and the Modern World(s)," will be held at the University of California Santa Cruz.
USC Seminar on Mediterranean Studies begins
Seminar on Mediterranean Studies: From Ancient to Early Modern Times, at the University of Southern California
Announcing a Mediterranean Studies workshop, organized by Professo... [
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Position in Medieval Mediterranean History
A tenure-track assistant professorship in Medieval Mediterranean History is being advertised at Charleston College, SC. A copy of the advertisement is included below:
The ... [
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Mediterranean Studies source book published by UNC Press
An anthology of primary sources in translation on the Mediteranean has been published by The University of North Carolina Press:
Mediterranean PassagesGeorgia State Un... [
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University of Minnesota seeks Medieval Mediterranean Art Historian
The following job search announcement for a historian of Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World has been relayed by Mediterranean Seminar associate Krista Twu:
Medieval ... [read more...]CFP: Mediterranean Research Meeting at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
The 10th Mediterranean Research Meeting will be held at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (European University Institute, Florence, Italy) on 25-28 March, 2009.
read more...]Call for Papers: Rethinking Cultures and Identities in the Medieval Mediterranean
Call for papers: two special sessions on "Rethinking Cultures and Identities in the Medieval Mediterranean" at the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 7–10, 2009) ... [
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NEH Summer Institute Concludes
On Friday, 25 July, the NEH Summer Institute, the Medieval Mediterranean and the Emergence of the West concluded. Over the course of four weeks, 24 participating university faculty f... [
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Barcelona lecture series to begin July 1
A free and public lecture series, "The Medieval Mediterranean & the Emergence of the West," will take place at the Palau del Lloctinent (c/ dels Comtes, 2) in Barcelona beginning... [
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The Center for Cultural Studies and the Mediterranean Seminar
New monograph on queenship in the Mediterranean
Mediterranean Studies Research Unit member Nuria Silleras-Fernandez (History, UCSC) has written
Power, Piety, and Patronage in La... [read more...]New Italian Studies Journal
The University of California Italian Studies Multi-Campus Research Group announces the debut of a new digital, peer-review journal,
California Itali... [read more...]UC France-Berkeley Program gets underway
As the first phase of the collaborative research project, “Inter-Confessional Relations and Trade in the Medieval Mediterranean” historians Damien Coulon (U. Strasbourg) and Domi... [
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Sharon Kinoshita receives MLA prize
Mediterranean Seminar co-director and Literature professor Sharon Kinoshita has received an honorable mention award from The Modern Language Association of America (MLA) as part of i... [
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UCHRI Residential Research Group Concludes
The Residential Research Group “The Emergence of "the West": Shifting Hegemonies in the Medieval Mediterranean,” [link to UCHRI projects] has concluded its fall program for 2007.... [
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