Mediterranean Studies: East and West at the Center, 1050-1600 is a series of seminars organized by Professor Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA French and Francophone Studies, and CMRS Associate Director for Medieval Studies) and funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

[The seminar] “will consider the Mediterranean as a geographical and environmental entity, the center for both East and West, and the site of a world system rather than a line of separation between the emerging “West” and an exotic “East.”

Mediterranean Studies: East and West at the Center, 1050-1600

Schedule for upcoming seminars:

Monday, January 26, 2009, 3:30-6:30 pm, Royce 306
Professor Valerie Ramseyer (History, and Director of Medieval-Renaissance Studies at Wellesley College)
“Religious Boundaries and Intersections in Medieval Southern Italy”

Monday, February 2, 2009, 3:30-6:30 pm, Royce 306
Professor E. Natalie Rothman (History/Anthropology, University of Toronto)

Monday, February 9, 2009, 4-7 pm, Humanities Building 193
Professor Zdenka Janekovic Roemer (Institute for Historical Studies, Dubrovnik, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
“Dubrovnik (Ragusa) in the Eastern Mediterranean”

Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 4:30-7:30 pm, Royce 306
(New time–originally scheduled for 3:30-6:30 pm.)
Professor Geraldine Heng (English, University of Texas-Austin)
“Fantasies of Civilizational Identity”

Monday, February 23, 2009, 4:00-7:00 pm, Humanities Building 193
Professor David Wrisley (American University of Beirut)
“Lusignan expeditions seen from Cyprus and Egypt”

Monday, March 2, 2009, 3:30-6:30 pm, Royce 306
Professor Maria Mavroudi (History, UC Berkeley)
“Byzantium and the Arabs; Bilinguals in the Middle Ages”

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