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Center for Italian Studies at Stony Brook University
November 12-14, 2015
THE IDEA OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
An International Conference to Explore What the Mediterranean Region
Represented in the Age of Progress and What It May Represent in the
Era of Geopolitical Realliances and Globalization.
Stony Brook University’s Wang Center – Lecture Hall Two
Free and Open to the Public
For a detailed program and schedule, visit the Center for Italian Studies web site (www.stonybrook.edu/italianstudies)
You may also contact the Center for Italian Studies (631-632-7444)
for conference updates and developments.
The Mediterranean has been the cradle of civilizations with a unique history of having given birth to all the Western cultures, to three world-wide religions, and to opening pathways to the Orient. An organic and autonomous Mediterranean identity may not exist as such today; but in the collective imagination of the people of the world and especially in the last two centuries with migrations from the Mediterranean area settling throughout the entire world, there exists a “popolo mediterraneo.”
Globalization has made evident the importance of preserving culture and the development of a consciousness that especially constitutes a matchless resource for the nations of the Mediterranean and the new Europe. Because of what has been happening in the last few months, the geopolitical disorders regarding the issues of borders, transnationalism, mobility and migration of the Mediterranean especially have attracted increasingly more attention.
These are the reasons that justify an attempt to recognize the value of the Mediterranean basin as a region having an original culture capable of connecting many other fragmented cultures,. and set the stage for an intellectually exciting forum for new ideas and new knowledge.
The Conference Program will include presentations by International Scholars and Government Officials connected to states of the Mediterranean.
For a detailed program and schedule, visit the Center for Italian Studies web site (www.stonybrook.edu/italianstudies)
You may also contact the Center for Italian Studies (631-632-7444) for conference updates and developments.
The Idea of the Mediterranean
November 12-14, 2015
Wang Center ~ Lecture Room Two
Conference
Program
Thursday, November 12, 2015
5:00 pm
Welcoming Remarks:
Mario B. Mignone, Director, Center for Italian Studies, Stony Brook University
Greetings:
Sacha Kopp, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Stony Brook University
Keynote Lecture: Amara Lakhous, Algerian-Italian Author
Burn this Mediterranean?
Harraga: A Non-Conformist Narrative
Friday, November 13, 2015
8:00- 8:45 am:
Registration with Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 11:00 am
Session 1: Conceptualizing the Mediterranean
Chair: Salvatore Rotella, Chancellor Emeritus
Bernardo Piciché (Virginia Commonwealth University)
A Mediterranean Identity?
Avinoam Shalem (Columbia University)
Intersecting Historiographies:
Henri Pirenne, Ernst Herzfeld, and the Myth of Origin
Alessandro Carrera (University of Houston)
Nihilism and the Mediterranean
Maria Hadjipolycarpou (Columbia University)
Lives in Disguise.
Autobiography in the Modern Mediterranean
11:00 -11:15 am: Coffee Break
11:15 am – 12:45 pm
Session 2: Religion Across the Mediterranean
Chair: Karen Barkey, Columbia University
Manoël Pénicaud (Aix-Marseille University)
Muslim Pilgrims at the House of Mary in Ephesus.
Considerations on “Open Sanctuaries” in the Mediterranean
Dionigi Albera (Aix-Marseille University)
Religious Crossing in the Mediterranean:
A Broad-Spectrum Overview
Costanza Ferrini (Independent Researcher, Italy)
“The Mediterranean Sea does not bathe Europe”
Notes for a Comparative Reading
of Mediterranean-European Literature
12:45– 2:00 pm: Lunch
On Your Own:
The Presenters will be lunching at the Campus/Simons Center Café.
You are welcome to join them with payment to Café’s Cashier for individual menu selections.
2:00 – 3:45 pm
Session 3: Cultural Perspectives on the Mediterranean
Chair: Frank Dalmas, Stony Brook University
Alan Verskin (University of Rhode Island)
The Idea of Universal
Philosophical Education in the Medieval Mediterranean
Karla Mallette (University of Michigan)
St. Elmo's Fire: Fortune and
Fortune Telling in Mediterranean Literature
Franco Fabbri (University of Turin)
Popular Music and the Mediterranean:
Reflecting About Concepts
3:45 – 4:00pm: Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:30 pm
Session 4: Italy at the Center of the Mediterranean
Chair: Luigi Fontanella, Stony Brook University
Claudio Fogu (University of California, Santa Barbara)
The View from the Mediterranean: The Italian South as Center
Norma Bouchard (San Diego State, CA)
The Idea of the Mediterranean in Contemporary Italian Thought
Giovanna Summerfield (Auburn University)
Sicily, A Case Study at the Crossroads
Saturday, November 14, 2015
8:00 – 8:45 am:
Registration with Continental Breakfast
8:50 am
Greetings:
Dennis Assanis, Provost and Senior Academic Vice President, Stony Brook University
9:00 – 10:45 am
Session 5: Geopolitical Perspectives on the Mediterranean
Chair: Stefano Vaccara, Editor of La Voce di New York
Manlio Graziano (La Sorbonne)
“Mare Nostrum” in a Multipolar World:
Geopolitical Analysis of a Superfluity of Claims
Molly Greene (Princeton University)
Mediterranean Disorder: The Early Modern Perspective
Liugi Troiani (St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome; Euro/Mediterranean Trade Services Initiative)
Managing the Mediterranean Disorder:
An Inclusive Model for the External Powers
and EU
10:45 – 11:00 am: Coffee Break
11:00am – 1:00 pm
Session 6: Migration and Terrorism Across the Mediterranean
Chair: Nikos Panou, Stony Brook University
Claudio Rossi (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)
Migrants and Terrorists: The Battle of the Mediterranean
Arije Antinori ( Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)
Dangerous Games:
The Dark Side of the Mediterranean Region
Marcello Saija (University of Palermo)
Lampedusa: The Ellis Island of the Mediterranean?
Sebastian Rotella (Author/Journalist: Propublica)
Borderless Jihad: the Charlie Hebdo Case and
The Evolving Terrorist Threat in the Mediterranean
1:00 – 2:15 pm: Lunch Break ~ On Your Own
The Presenters will be lunching at the Campus/Hilton Garden Inn.
You are welcome to join them with advance reservations (call 631-632-7444)
and payment of $35 per person.
2:30 – 3:30 pm
Closing Summary
Chair: Wolf Schaefer, Interim Dean of International Academic Programs
Stony Brook University
Edmund Burke (University of California: Santa Cruz)
Concluding talk followed by Q & A
4:00 pm
End of Conference Reception – All are Invited
Center for Italian Studies
Frank Melville Memorial Library, Room E4340.
“A Mediterranean Toast”
by Sandro Bottega with a variety of Wines coming from
Venetian Vineyards
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Mario B. Mignone, Director
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor
Editor of Forum Italicum
Center for Italian Studies
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3358
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