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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 annual meeting of the American Historical Association in San
Diego, CA, January 7-10, 2010
Proposer: Miriam Shadis, Ohio University shadis@ohio.edu
This panel embraces the idea that history in and of the Mediterranean is
worth doing, following on the recent work of Peregrine Horden and Nicholas
Purcell, among others, who of course continue the project begun by Fernand
Braudel earlier in the twentieth century. Studies of the Mediterranean,
however, have not (for reasons which potential panelists may wish to
explore) engaged the question of gender. Is it possible that the study of
gender does not have a place in the historical examination of the human
connections (exploration, colonization, trade, pilgrimage, crusade, exile,
et cetera) or environmental interaction of the medieval Mediterranean
region? Proposed papers may focus on gender and the medieval Mediterranean
as broadly construed as possible: to include late antiquity to the Ottoman
empire; northern Africa and Egypt, Iberia, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey,
Syria and Palestine.
Interested participants should send me their contact information, a paper
title, and a brief description of their proposed paper.
--
Miriam Shadis
Junior Faculty Fellow, Charles Ping Institute for the Humanities
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
740-593-4364
shadis@ohio.edu
*Miriam Shadis was a participant of the NEH Summer Institute held in Barcelona in 2008 under the direction of the Mediterranean Seminar
Call for papers for a panel sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist
Studies at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in San
Diego, CA, January 7-10, 2010
Proposer: Miriam Shadis, Ohio University shadis@ohio.edu
This panel embraces the idea that history in and of the Mediterranean is
worth doing, following on the recent work of Peregrine Horden and Nicholas
Purcell, among others, who of course continue the project begun by Fernand
Braudel earlier in the twentieth century. Studies of the Mediterranean,
however, have not (for reasons which potential panelists may wish to
explore) engaged the question of gender. Is it possible that the study of
gender does not have a place in the historical examination of the human
connections (exploration, colonization, trade, pilgrimage, crusade, exile,
et cetera) or environmental interaction of the medieval Mediterranean
region? Proposed papers may focus on gender and the medieval Mediterranean
as broadly construed as possible: to include late antiquity to the Ottoman
empire; northern Africa and Egypt, Iberia, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey,
Syria and Palestine.
Interested participants should send me their contact information, a paper
title, and a brief description of their proposed paper.
--
Miriam Shadis
Junior Faculty Fellow, Charles Ping Institute for the Humanities
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
740-593-4364
shadis@ohio.edu
*Miriam Shadis was a participant of the NEH Summer Institute held in Barcelona in 2008 under the direction of the Mediterranean Seminar