Apply Now! NEH Insitute Barcelona
Applications are now being taken for the Mediterranean Studies NEH Summer Institute 2010 in Barcelona. Our second four-week Summer Institute for University and College Professors,... [read more...]

UCSC establishes Center for Mediterranean Studies
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New Mediterranean Publication Series
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Call for Visiting Scholars
The Center for Mediterranean Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz now has the capacity to host non-US scholars as part of the Traditional Fulbright Scholar  Progra... [read more...]

Call for Applicants: Mellon Assistant Professor in Residence at UCLA
The Mellon-funded interdisciplinary program Mediterranean Studies: East and West at the Center invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Residence for a 2-year ... [read more...]

The Mediterranean at the College Art Association
The College Art Association Annual Conference, taking place in Chicago from February 10-13, 2010, will include a session entitled “Questioning Cultural Influence in the Medieval Me... [read more...]

CFP: 3rd Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies (Athens, Greece)
The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) organizes its 3rd International Conference on Mediterranean Studies in Athens, Greece, 31st of March 2010 and 1-3 April 2010.... [read more...]

CFP: AARHMS sessions at Kalamazoo
AARHMS, the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain, is sponsoring two sessions at the 45th International Congress on Medieval
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Mediterranean series at UCLA this Fall
Mediterranean Studies II: East and West at the Center, 1050-1600 is the second part of two-year seminar cycle organized by Zrinka Stahuljak (French and Francophone Studies, UCLA), ho... [read more...]

NEH Summer Institute 2010 in Barcelona Approved!
With great pleasure the Mediterranean Seminar announces that the National Endowment for the Humanities has approved funding for our second fou... [read more...]

Mediterranean Sessions at Kalamazoo
The Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies will sponsor two multidisciplinary sessions at the International Medieval Congress i... [read more...]

Mediterranean Seminar Session at AHA 2010
The Mediterranean Seminar is sponsoring the following session at the 124th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association to be held 7-10 January 2010 in San Diego, CA.
R... [read more...]

Mediterranean Sessions at the AHA
Several sessions relating to the Medieval Mediterranean will be held at the 124th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association to be held 7-10 January 2010 in San Diego, C... [read more...]

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... [read more...]

Two Mediterranean Seminar Sessions at Exeter in July
The Mediterranean Seminar is sponsoring two sessions (organized by Fred Astren and Brian Catlos) at the annual meeting of the Society of the Medieval Mediterranean at Exeter Univers... [read more...]

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... [read more...]

TALK: Jewish Culture in Contemporary Syria
The Maimonides Madrasah: Islam, Secularism, and the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Damascus
A visitor to t... [read more...]

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... [read more...]

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... [read more...]

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... [read more...]

"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... [read more...]

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... [read more...]

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... [read more...]

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... [read more...]

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.... [read more...]

New Book: The Arts of Intimacy
The Mediterranean Seminar is glad to announce the publication of The 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... [read more...]

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.
Schola... [read more...]

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... [read more...]

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 ... [read more...]

News & Events
CFP: 3rd Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies (Athens, Greece)
The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) organizes its 3rd International Conference on Mediterranean Studies in Athens, Greece, 31st of March 2010 and 1-3 April 2010. The conference website is: www.atiner.gr/docs/Mediterranean.htm.
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The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars, researchers and students from all areas of Mediterranean Studies, such as history, arts, archaeology, philosophy, culture, sociology, politics, international relations, economics, business, sports etc. Panel organizers are encouraged to submit their proposals by inviting other scholars that do research in the area. Specific sessions will be organized along country studies for both the European and the non-European countries of the Mediterranean Basin.
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The registration fee is €250 (euro), covering access to all sessions, two lunches, coffee breaks, and conference material. Special arrangements will be made with a local luxury hotel for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a number of special events will be organized: a Greek night of entertainment, a special one-day cruise in the Greek islands and a half-day tour around the wider area of Athens (Attica).
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Please submit an abstract (using email only to: atiner@atiner.gr) by October 5th, 2009 to: Dr. Gregory A. Katsas, Academic Member of ATINER and Associate Professor, The American College of Greece-Deree College, Greece. Abstracts should include: Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Affiliation, Current Position, an email address and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. Decisions are reached within 4 weeks. If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. chair a session, review papers to be included in the conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing of a book, or any other contribution, please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, (gtp@atiner.gr) Director, ATINER.


The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) was established in 1995 as an independent academic organization with the mission to become a forum, where academics and researchers - from all over the world - could meet in Athens and exchange ideas on their research and discuss the future developments of their discipline. Since 1995, ATINER has organized more than 100 international conferences and has published over 80 books. Academically, the Institute consists of four research divisions and nineteen research units. Each research unit organizes at least an annual conference and undertakes various small and large research projects.