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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Dear all, this is to bring your attention to a workshop taking place in Florence on Monday and Tuesday (May 19 & 20) with a focus on the Mediterranean. Italy is central to the programme and could be of interest to scholars in Italian Studies working on colonial and postcolonial studies and/or with an interest in the Mediterranean as a unified space. http://globalgovernanceprogramme.eui.eu Valerie McGuire Islands: New Theorizations of Insularity in the Mediterranean May 19 & 20, 2014 One of the integral yet little analyzed parts of the Mediterranean, islands offer vistas into the broader world of the ‘middle sea’. At once bounded and open spaces, routes toward both connection and isolation, this workshop explores how islands may be synecdoche for larger issues affecting contemporary studies of the Mediterranean. By studying one of its constituent parts, this workshop aims to reassess common binaries undergirding current theories of the Mediterranean, such as stasis in opposition to mobility, connectivity and contact in opposition to insularity and isolation, modernity in opposition to backwardness. Speakers are from across the disciplinary and chronological spectrum. This first forum for discussion is part of a larger research and networking project to be carried forward into 2015. Themes of the present workshop include islands and their representations, hybridity and utopia; island, empire and nation; and islands as sites for exile, migration and biopolitical regimes of ‘temporary’ permanence. May 19, Villa Sassetti, New York University Villa La Pietra (Florence) 10:00 - 10:15 Opening Remarks: Valerie McGuire (Scientific Coordinator) Welcome: Bruce Edelstein Panel 1: 10:15 - 11:45 The Science of Islands Dorit Brixius (European University Institute), “Enlightened Edens? Science and Islands in the Indian Ocean World around 1800” Stephan Van Damme (European University Institute), 'Sceptical Islands: the French naturalist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort and his travel in Early Eighteenth-century Cyclades' Discussant: Sebastiao Silva (European University Institute) Panel 2: 12-13:30 Keynote David Abulafia (Cambridge University), ‘Is the Mediterranean a useful category?’ Panel 3: 14:30 -16:00 Miniature Continents/Mediterranean Bridges Antonis Hadjikyriacou (Princeton University), "The production of insular space in Ottoman Cyprus" Lucy Riall (European University Institute), ‘Sicily, Sicilianità and the Mediterranean’ Discussant: David Abulafia Panel 4: 17:30-19:00 Contact Zones Valerie McGuire (European University Institute), ‘The Citizens Offshore: Fascist Empire and Utopia in the Dodecanese Islands’ Karine Varley (Strathclyde University), 'Interconnection and Isolation: Wartime Corsica between Vichy France and Fascist Italy' Discussant: Ludivine Broch (European University Institute) May 20, 2014 Sala Europa, Villa Schifanoia, European University Institute Panel 5: 10:15 – 12:45 Empire Simon Jackson (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies), 'Training for the Syrian Mandate: the Légion d'Orient in Cyprus, 1916-1918' Alexis Rappas, (Koc University, Istanbul), “Memory and Property in Insular Spaces: The Case of Postcolonial Rhodes” Stephanie Malia Hom (University of Oklahoma), “Lampedusa and the Ends of Italian Empire” Discussant: Rebecca Falkoff (New York University) Panel 6: 14:00-16:00 Migration, Exile and Biopolitics Godfrey Baldacchino (University of Malta), “Mediterranean islands as enclave meta-geographies.” Camille Schmoll (University of Paris), “Islands as Borderlands” Discussant: Anna Triandafyllidou (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies) Panel 7: 16:30 – 18:00 Related Lecture James Hathaway “Protection Elsewhere: What the Refugee Convention Allows (and Requires)” or “Is the Dublin Regulation Really Legal?” Valerie McGuire, PhD in Italian Studies Max Weber Post-Doctoral Fellow Department of History and Civilization European University Institute Via dei Roccettini 9 Office BF 040 San Domenico, Italy 50014 Tel. [+39] 055 4685 855 Cell [+39] 366.401.9494 ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/italian-studies