MSA 2024 PROGRAM (Preliminary version)

(updated March 26, 2024)

Wednesday, May 29
Session 1: 10:00 - 12:00 am Central European Summer Time

1A. Ancient Greece and Rome

Chair:
Yosef Z. Liebersohn, Bar-Ilan University, “War and War Dei es: Greece vs. Rome”
Seth Jeppesen, Brigham Young University, “’What is this debt you will exact of me? Is it new, or
come back again with the seasons round?’ A Social Jus ce Reading of Sophocles’ Oedipus.”
Panagio s Karanikas, Na onal and Kapodistrian University of Athens, “Medeae Medea forem
(Ovid, Her. 6.151): Jason as a double recipient. The parallel example of Odysseus as a
double recipient (Remedia Amoris 273-284).”
Vaios Vaiopoulos, Na onal and Kapodistrian University of Athens, “Bene cence and ingra tude
in Medea’s le er to Jason (Ov. Her. 12).”

1B. Jewish Lives in the Western Mediterranean

Chair: Denise Filios, University of Iowa
Esperanza Alfonso, CCHS (CSIC), “Ladino Traces in Hebrew Codices.”
Denise Filios, University of Iowa, “Béjar and the Routes of Jewish Life in Medieval Spain.”
Arturo Prats Oliván, Universidad Compluetense de Madrid, “The Ques ons of a Wise French
Jew. A Medieval Text or a Text from the 16th Century?”
Shai Srougo, University of Haifa, “Indigenous Pre-Industrial Ar stry Versus Mass Produc on:
Jewish Cra smen Naviga ng the Challenges of European Colonialism in the Suqs of Morocco
(1910s-1920s).” VIRTUAL

1C. Culture and Representa on of the Otherness Between 15th and 21st Century
Chair: Giuseppe Campagna, University of Messina
Salvatore Bo ari, University of Messina, “At the Court of the Sultan: Gen le Bellini in Istanbul.”
Giampaolo Chillè, University of Messina, “A Lost Masterpiece: The Destroyed “Saint Nicholas on
the Cathedra” by Antonello da Messina.”
Alessandro Abbate, University of Messina, “The Sicily of Thomas Hoby.”
Maria Teresa Pacilè, University of Messina, “A Cosmopolitan Mediterranean: The Right of the
Others in the Poli cal Theories of Lévinas, Arendt and Benhabib.”
Commentator: Giuseppe Campagna, University of Messina
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 1D. Spanish Culture in the 20th Century
Chair:
Edwin Murillo, University of Tennessee-Cha anooga, “Emissaries of Peninsular Malcontent.”
María Soledad Fernández Utrera, University of Bri sh Columbia, “José Gu érrez Solana: An
Anarchist Painter.”
Kathryn Everly, Syracuse University, “Remdios Varo’s Parodies of Surrealism in Narra ve
Pain ng.”
Margot Versteeg, University of Kansas, “When the Most Beau ful Woman on Stage is a
(Spanish) Man. Transformistas in Turn-of-the-Century Spain.”

1E. Exploring the Roots of the Turmoil in the Middle East from Mul ple Perspec ves
Chair: Takayuki Yokota, Meiji University
Kota Suechika, Ritsumeikan University, “Sectarianism and Electoral Corrup ons in Lebanon:
Evidence from the 2024 Public Opinion Survey.”
Takuro Kikkawa, Ritsumeikan Asia Paci c University, “The Gulf Crisis of 1990-1991 as a Turning
Point in Jordan's Foreign and Domes c Policy.”
Masamichi Iwasaka, Hokkai-Gakuen University, “A Compara ve Study of Military Interven ons
in Turkey: Nordlinger Revisited.”
Kohei Imai, Ins tu on of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO), “To Reminder You How I S ll Love
You: Percep ons of Ordinary Turks toward EU.”

Lunch: 12:00-14:00 Central European Summer Time

Session 2: 14:00 - 16:00 Central European Summer Time

2A. Recep ons of Egypt, Greece and Rome I

Chair: Patricia Johnson, College of the Holy Cross
Carmen Muñoz Pérez, Universidad de Cádiz, “Interconnec ons in the Mediterranean: Egyp an
Amulets in the Phoenician-Punic Necropolis of Cádiz.”
Antonino Crisa, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, “Sicily in the Modern Age: An quarians
and Archaeologists Shaping a New Cultural heritage (16th-17th centuries)”
Daniel Guernsey, Florida Interna onal University, “Athens versus Sparta: Oikeiôsis, Rousseau,
and the Civilizing Process in J.J. Winkelmann’s ‘The History of Ancient Art.’”
Patricia Johnson, College of the Holy Cross, “The Shepherdess in the Colonies: The Pastoral
Mode in Portraits and Pictorial Embroideries.”

2B. Land and Sea: Shaping the Mediterranean

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 Chair: Elena Bonma Gonzálvez, The College of Idaho
Maher Y. Abu-Munshar, Qatar University, “Earthquakes in the East and Muslim-Crusader
Rela ons: Can Natural Disasters Lead to Peace?”
Elena Bonma Gonzálvez, The College of Idaho, “Echoes of the Sea: The Mari me Stories of
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.”
Abdelmajid Hannoum, University of Kansas, “The Maghreb and the Mediterranean in the View
of Fernand Braudel.”
Michael T. Smith, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, “The Poli cs of Asylum-Seeking and
Migrant Return in Cyprus.”

2C. Poli cs, Warfare, and Trade in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
Chair: Salvatore Bo ari, University of Messina
Giuseppe Campagna, University of Messina, “Holy Ambassadors and False Epistles: From
Savonarola’s Florence to Sicily.”
Filippo Villari, University of Messina, “The Lazaret of Messina between 1695 and 1714.”
Mirella Vera Mafrici, University of Salerno, “Poli cs and Trade between Mediterranean and
Black Sea during the Napoleonic Wars.”
Ugo Muraca, University of Messina, “The Fight for Hegemony over the Mediterranean Sea
between Great Britain and France in the Napoleonic Age: A Geopoli cal Perspec ve.”
Commentator: Salvatore Bo ari, University of Messina

2D. Chroniclers and Travelers of the Mediterranean

Chair: Thomas Prasch, Washburn University
Márk Sólyom, Kodolányi János University, “Hispania and the Vandal-Alan Coali on in the
Chroncle of Count Marcellinus.”
Thomas Prasch, Washburn University, “From “dread and dreariness” to “ethereal fairyland”:
William Beckford in Spain.”
Panagio s Arvani s, University of Crete, “Between Riviera and Aegean Sea: Aspects of the
Mediterranean Tourist Landscape in the Literary Work of the Greek Travel Agent and Writer
Heracles Ioannidis.”

2E. Con ict and Security

Chair: Mirmehdi Aghazada, RUDN University
Shaul Bartal, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Orient Ins tute (IO), “Women’s
Par cipa on in Pales nian Terrorism, Especially Sacri ces Bombing A acks.” VIRTUAL?
Netanel Flamer, Bar-IIan University, “Combining Middle Eastern Studies with Intelligence
Studies: An Innova ve Model.” VIRTUAL
Husam Mohamad, University of Central Oklahoma, “October 7th A acks and Israel’s Grand
Strategy in the Pales nian Territories.”
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 Mirmehdi Aghazada, RUDN University, “Greater Mediterranean Regional Security Complex:
Main Charateris cs and Features.”

Co ee Break: 16:00 - 16:30 Central European Summer Time

Session 3: 16:30 - 18:30 Central European Summer Time

3A. Recep ons of Egypt, Greece and Rome II

Chair: Stelios Panayotakis, University of Crete
Ma hew Ancell, Brigham Young University, “Fallen Among Flowers: Venus and Adonis in
Calderón de la Barca’s The Purple of the Rose.”
Stelios Panayotakis, University of Crete, “Ero c Fic on and Na onal Iden ty: Korais Reads
Heliodorus.”
Joseph Agee, Morehouse College, “José Ortega y Gasset and the Origin of Deduc ve Thinking in
Ancient Greece.”
Josefa Álvarez, Le Moyne College, “Friendship and Epicurean Praise of Slowness in Two
Postmodern Poets: Juan Antonio González Iglesias and Aurora Luque.”

3B. Does Geography and Climate In uence Socie es and Laws? At the Boundaries of Law and
Culture: The Making of Law in the Mediterranean Jurisdic ons

Chair: Aniceto Masferrer, University of Valencia

Marta Can n-Larumbe, University of Valencia, “The Cons tu onalisa on of the Family in
Mediterranean Countries: Similari es and Divergences.”
Patricia Plana de Juan, University of Valencia, “Public Morality in the Mediterranean Legal
Systems.”
Mónica Mar nez López-Sáez, University of Valencia, “Similari es and Peculiari es in the
Mediterranean Model(s): A Closer Look at Cons tu onal Dra ing, Iden ty, Rights and
Jurisdic on.”
José Franco-Chasán & Aniceto Masferrer, University Rey Juan Carlos & University of Valencia,
“Popular Juries or Solid Ins tu ons? The Mediterranean ‘Ins tu onalised’ Character.”
Commentator: Juan Cañizares

3C. Mediterranean Mean Streets: Urban Vice in the Early Modern Era
Chair: Ma hew Ancell, Brigham Young University
Eric Dursteler, Brigham Young University, “Men Behaving Badly: Sex and Travel in Early Modern
Istanbul.”
John Hunt, Utah Valley University, “Embassies of Vice: Gambling at Ambassadors’ Palace in
Seventeenth-Century Rome.”
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 Elizabeth S. Cohen, York University (Toronto), “Costs with Bene ts: Vice-Work from the Point of
View of Roman Pros tutes circa 1600.”

3D. Rhetoric and Poli cs

Chair: Simon Nicholls, She eld Hallam University
Barbara Spinoula, Hellenic Military Academy, “’The whole of Greece dressed in mourning, the
whole of her inconsolable.’ Two Funeral Ora ons for the Greatest Philhellenes: Lord Noel
Byron and Captain Frank Abney Has ngs.”
Simon Nicholls, She eld Hallam University, “Developing or Relaunching a ‘Na onal Culture’?
The Par t Socialista de Mallorca (PSM) during the Transi on to Democracy.”
Ana Clara Birrento, Maria Helena Saianda, Olga Gonçalves, University of Evora, “Fi y Years
A er.”
Lungta Seki, Kobe University, “The Development of Linkages between Domes c and Foreign
Policy Issues in Erdoğan’s Rhetoric.”

3E. Human Rights as a Developing Concept in the Mediterranean

Chair: Susan O. Shapiro, Utah State University
Susan O. Shapiro, Utah State University, “The Founda ons of Human Rights in Ancient Greek
Thought”
Darryl A. Phillips, Connec cut College, “Ci zenship as an Emerging Human Right in Ancient
Rome”
Susan L. Rosenstreich, Dowling College, “The Right to Have Rights in 1664: Ius Gen um in the
the Abbé Jean Paulmier’s Mémoires touchant l’etablissement d’une mission chres enne
dans le troisième monde.”
Sco Juall, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, “Of Corpses, Clothing, and Compassion:
The Human Rights of Uniden ed Deceased Migrants in Chus Gu érrez’s Retorno a Hansala
(2008)”
Commentator: Susan L. Rosenstreich, Dowling College

Thursday, May 30
Session 4: 10:00 -12:00 am Central European Summer Time

4A. America and the Mediterranean

Chair: Mar ne Sauret, Macalester College
Mar ne Sauret, Macalester College, “De Bry’s Rendi on of the French Explora on in Florida by
Laudonnière in 1564-1565. Distori ons and Altera ons.”
Anthony J. Antonucci, California State Polytechnic University (CSU Pomona), “’Our Italy
Revisited’: Italian Immigra on and the Making of an ‘American Mediterranean’ on the Paci c
Coast, 1768-1908.”
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 Stacy E. Holden, Purdue University, “The O omon Mediterranean in the American Imagina on.”
Filippo Naitana, Quinnipiac University, “Pavese, Praz, and the Two Gertrudes.”

4B. La mer en feu – Revisiter la Méditerranée à travers les récits de guerre/ The Sea on re –
Revisi ng the Mediterranean through War Narra ves
Chair: Sara Izzo, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn/University of Bonn
Laure Lévêque, Université de Toulon, “La Méditerranée vue par le “Jules Verne militaire”:
L’Invasion noire (1894, 1913) du Capitaine Danrit, une guerre de papier avant-courrière de la
Première Guerre mondiale. The Mediterranean Sea seen by the “military Jules Verne”:
Captain Danrit’s L’Invasion noire (1894, 1913), or a ba le of books foreshadowing World
War I”
Marcella Leopizzi, Università del Salento – Lecce, “La guerre d’Algérie dans les vers de Guillevic
et de Meschonnic. La poésie pour repenser la Méditerranée et pour a eindre une nouvelle
concep on de l’homme et du monde /The Algerian War in the verses of Guillevic and
Meschonnic. Poetry to rethink the Mediterranean and to achieve a new concep on of man
and the world.”
Ulrich Schlie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn/University of Bonn, “Cri cal
examina on on the German view towards the Mediterranean during the interwar period
and the Second World War/Examen cri que de la vision allemande de la Méditerranée
pendant l'entre-deux-guerres et la Seconde Guerre mondiale.”
Commentator: Sandra Gorgievski, Université de Toulon

4C. Con ict, Networks and Mobility in the Early Modern Mediterranean World. Western
Mediterranean History Study Group (GEHMO) - Session #1
Chair: Àngel Casals Mar nez, Universitat de Barcelona
Àngel Casals Mar nez, Universitat de Barcelona, “«Guerras populares»: la rma de paces en la
Barcelona del siglo XVI” (“«Popular wars»: the signing of peace in Barcelona in the 16th
century”)
Anna González Pérez, Universitat de Barcelona, “Felipe II y los privilegios de Barcelona en
empos de alteraciones: 1587-1598”(“Philip II and the privileges of Barcelona in mes of
altera ons: 1587-1598”)
Gerard Lligoña Vidal, Universitat de Barcelona, “Andreu Pont d’Oceja. La biogra a del Diputat
Eclesiàs c (1647 – 1650)” (“Andreu Pont d’Oceja: Ecclesias cal Deputy's Biography (1647 –
1650)”)
Mu Du, Universitat de Barcelona, “Ceremonia e iden dad: la celebración de la paz de Ryswick
en Barcelona” (“Ceremony and iden ty: the Ryswick peace celebra on in Barcelona”)

4D. Encounters and Exchanges in the Mediterranean

Chair: Sebas an Müller, Ins tute for Mediterranean Studies, Busan University of Foreign Studies
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 Sebas an Müller, Ins tute for Mediterranean Studies, Busan University of Foreign Studies,
“Collec ve Burials and Collec ve Memory: Early Iron Age Chamber Tombs in the
Mediterranean.”
Motahare Mozafari, Ins tute for Mediterranean Studies, Busan University of Foreign Studies,
“Su Wisdom for a World in Harmony: Peace and Coexistence in Rumi's Mathnavi.” VIRTUAL
Mona Farouk Mohamed Ahmed, Ins tute for Mediterranean Studies, Busan University of
Foreign Studies, “Jerusalem's evolu on through Chris aniza on, Islamiza on, and
Judaiza on.” VIRTUAL

Lunch: 12:00 - 14:00 Central European Summer Time

Session 5: 14:00-16:00 Central European Summer Time

5A. The Mediterranean in Anglophone Literatures

Chair: Miguel Mar nez López, University of Valencia
Puri cación Ribes Traver, University of Valencia, “The Spanish Recep on of Molina Foix’s and J.
C. Plaza’s 1992 Version of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: A Reassessment.”
Jesús Tronch Pérez, University of Valencia, "The Mediterranean Sea in the Fic onal Geography
of Elizabethan Drama: A Survey of Evoca ons.”
Laura Monrós Gaspar, University of Valencia, “The Mediterranean at the London Cultural
Olympiad 2012”
Miguel Mar nez López, University of Valencia, “Utopian Landscapes of Mediterranean Spain
through American Eyes: From Washington Irving to Ernest Hemingway, and Beyond.”

5B. La mer en feu – Revisiter la Méditerranée à travers les récits de guerre/ The Sea on re –
Revisi ng the Mediterranean through War Narra ves II
Chair: Sara Izzo, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn/University of Bonn
Valérie Michel-Fauré, École Supérieure d'Art et Design Toulon Provence Méditerranée, “La
Méditerranée, entre mer étrangère et terres d’exil : un récit du li oral varois et les îles
d’or /"The Mediterranean, between foreign seas and lands of exile: an account of the Var
coastline and the Golden Isles."
Sandra Gorgievski, Université de Toulon, “La Méditerranée au prisme des croisades: de
quelques traités de croisades des XIVe et XVe siècles au roman Outremer de Nabil Saleh
(1998) /"The Mediterranean Sea seen through the lenses of the crusades: from some
fourteenth and eenth-century crusade trea ses to Nabil Saleh’s 1988 novel Outremer.”
Sara Izzo, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn/University of Bonn, “Revisiter la
guerre italo-grecque: Reconstruc ons li éraires de la Méditerranée à par r de l’œuvre de
Renzo Biasion/Revisi ng the Italo-Greek war: Literary reconstruc ons of the Mediterranean
through the work of Renzo Biasion.”
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 Commentator: Sandra Gorgievski, Université de Toulon

5C. Con ict, Networks and Mobility in the Early Modern Mediterranean World. Western
Mediterranean History Study Group (GEHMO) - Session #2
Chair: Àngel Casals Mar nez, Universitat de Barcelona
Jaume Dan i Riu, Universitat de Barcelona, “Los consulados catalanes en Cerdeña (siglos XVI-
XVII)” (“The Catalan consulates in Sardinia (16th-17th centuries)”)
Jan Figueras i Gibert, Universitat de Barcelona, “De la notoria miserabilidad de dicho gremio».
Guild con ict and deregula on in an eighteenth century Catalan town”
Joan Rodríguez Santeugini, Universitat de Barcelona, “La violència en el camp català segons els
fons de la batllia de Cardona (segles XVI-XVII)” (“Violence in the Catalan countryside
according to the records of the ‘batllia’ of Cardona (16th-17th centuries)”

5D. Landscapes, Gardens, and Gastronomy

Chair: Rose Facchini, Tu s University
Kelly Thor, Washburn University, “Approaching the Powerful Place of Gormaz (Soria, Spain)
through the Lens of Con nuity and Belief.”
Maryrica Lo man, UNC Charlo e, “The Prac cal Huerta and the Desiring Jardín: Two Aspects of
the Female Garden (An illustrated presenta on).”
Juliann Vitullo, Arizona State University, “Re-placing the Mediterranean Diet in Southern Italy.”
Rose Fracchini, Tu s University, “Ecogastronomy in Comtemporary Italian Specula ve Fic on: A
Case Study in Mazara del Vallo.”

Co ee Break: 16:00 - 16:30 Central European Summer Time

Session 6: 16:30 - 18:30 Central European Summer Time

6A. Contemporary Cultures and Iden es

Chair:
Linda Istanbulli, The Pennsylvania State University, “Postsecular Arab Fic on: The Complexity of
the Cultural Space.”
Arturo Matute Castro, Kennesaw State University, “From Barcelona to the Ionian Sea: New
Territories of Cuban Literary Diaspora.”
Ivan Missoni, Independent Scholar, “Passion Play on the Mediterranean: Hallmark of Con nuity,
Unity, and Richness in Diversity.”

6B. Perspec ves on French Literature

Chair: Caroline Jewers, University of Kansas
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 Bruce Hayes, University of Kansas, “A Tale of Two French Renaissance Sa rists: Rabelais and
Calvin.”
Caroline Jewers, University of Kansas, “Eugène-François Vidocq and the Birth of Detec ve
Fic on.”
James Gilroy, University of Denver, “Napoleon III’s Personal Image in Zola’s Rougon-Macquart.”
Fernando Gomes, Universidade de Évora, “The City of Algiers in Yasmina Khadra’s Detec ve
Fic on.”

6C. Con ict, Networks and Mobility in the Early Modern Mediterranean World. Western
Mediterranean History Study Group (GEHMO) - Session #3
Chair: Àngel Casals Mar nez, Universitat de Barcelona
Juan Pedro Navarro Mar nez and Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha, Universitat de Barcelona,
“Violencias infan les en el Mediterráneo Moderno: género, jerarquía y desprotección social
de las infancias de los siglos XVII y XVIII” (“Childhood violence in the Early Modern
Mediterranean: gender, hierarchy and social lack of protec on of childhood in the 17th and
18th centuries”)
Ona Vila i Palacín, Universitat de Barcelona, “Los capítulos matrimoniales del Hospital de la
Santa Creu: una aproximación a las estrategias de integración social de las expósitas en la
Barcelona del siglo XVI” (“The marriage contracts of the Hospital de la Santa Creu: an
approach to the social integra on strategies of foundlings in 16th century Barcelona”)
Margalida Coll Amer, Universitat de Barcelona, "La devoció mariana en temps de la
Contrareforma (1563-1650). El canvi de la devoció popular a l'illa de Mallorca” (“Marian
devo on at the me of the Counter-Reforma on (1563-1650). “The change of popular
devo on to the island of Mallorca”)

6D. Friends, Enemies, and Finance in the 16th and 17th centuries
Chair: Celine Dauverd, University of Colorado Boulder
Celine Dauverd, University of Colorado Boulder, “Pope Paul III and the Conquest of Tunis, 1535.”
Hiromasa Matsukura, Kyushu University, “The Concept of ‘friendship’ (dostluḳ) in the O omon
Empire’s 16th century Diploma c Prac ces with the Habsbury Monarchy.”
Mary D’Ambrosio, Rutgers University, “’Mamma, Li Turchi!’ How O oman Pirates Destroyed the
Southern Italian Coast – But Italy Had the Last Laugh.”
Sama Mammadova, Harvard University, “From Popular Credit to Royal Charity: Mon di Pietà in
the Spanish Mediterranean 1500s – 1700s.”

Friday, May 31
Session 7: 10:00 -12:00 am Central European Summer Time

7A. Cross-Cultural Connec ons in the Medieval World

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 Chair: Gabriela Cerghedean, Beloit College
Hakan Kilinc, Mugla S. K. University, “Epics Across Distant Shores: A Compara ve Journey of Cid
and Ba algazi.”
Jonathan Wilcox, University of Iowa, “Deserts in Dorset and Camels in Mercia: Mediterranean
Marvels at the Edge of the World in Saints’ Lives Retold in Early Medieval England.”
James Morton, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, “An Athonite Legal Text in the Norman
Salento: Arsenios of Philotheou’s Synopsis of Divine Canons.”
Gabriela Cerghedean, Beloit College, “Foretelling the Future Across the Mediterranean: Dream
Books, Somniale Danielis, and Prophe c Intersec onality in Medieval Iberia.”

7B. Film Studies

Chair: Vincenzo Selleri, Farmingdale State College SUNY
Mary Elizabeth Allen, University of Connec cut, “Women’s Lives Centered in Contemporary
Moroccan Cinema.”
Asmaa Benbaba, University of Kansas, “Io Capitano: A Tale of Two Senegalese Immigrants.”
Vincenzo Selleri, Farmingdale State College SUNY, “The World of Italian Horror: A Digital
Resource for Film Studies.”

7C. Women’s Voices

Chair: Monica Garoiu, University of Tennessee Cha anooga
Katerina Kiltzanidou, Democritus University of Thrace, “Women and Church Dona ons: Some
Examples of Female Donors in Churches of the Early O oman Period in the Wider Region of
Macedonia (15th – 16th c.).” VIRTUAL
A. Ebru Akcasu, Anglo-American University, “The Magical Realism of Re rement: Emine Semiye
on Age, Gender, and Labor.”
Theresa Delaplain, University of Arkansas, “Ar stry, Tenacity and Dedica on from the Female
Composers of the Paris Conservatoire n the 19th Century: Resis ng Gender Discrimina on in
the Field of Music Composi on.”
Monica Garoiu, University of Tennessee Cha anooga, “Veiled Voices of the Mediterranean:
Assia Djebar.”

7D. Shaping the Eastern Mediterranean

Chair: Ismini Lamb, Georgetown University
Elad Ben-Dor, Bar-Ilan University, “Interna onaliza on – the Plan and the Reality: The UN and
the Ques on of Jerusalem in 1948-1949.”
Omar Bortolazzi, American University in Dubai, “The Making of Transna onal Mediterranean
Entrepeneurship: Amal, Hezbollah, and the Lebanese Shi’a.”
Ahmet Emre Dikyurt, Texas A&M University, “Genera onal Ethnography in Post-1974 Cyprus:
Island Narra ves and Shi ing (Im)mobility through Na on-Making, Belonging, Iden ty, and
Border Reali es.”
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 Ismini Lamb, Georgetown University, “Bending History: A Comparison of Turkey 1922 and Gaza
2023 on the E cacy of Strategic Decep on.”

7E. Early Modern History and Culture

Chair: Kiril Petkov, The University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Marcus Höhen, Evangelisches Schulzentrum Bad Düben, “The Earthly and the Supernatural:
Music as a Means of Dis nguishing the Contras ng Worlds of Shakespearean
Mediterranean-set Plays.”
Rafaella Pilo, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, “Pedro de Vico Archbishop in the Kingdom of
Sardinia: A Strange Case of good Good Shepherd?”
Ayse Cicek Unal, Yale University, “An Empire on the Edge: Law, Autonomy, and Authority in
O oman North Africa, 1650-1700.”
Kiril Petkov, The University of Wisconsin-River Falls, “Inventorizing Iden ty: The Meanings of
Belonging in a Seventeenth-Century Cretan Family Bequest.”

Lunch: 12:00 - 14:00 Central European Summer Time

Session 8: 14:00-16:00 Central European Summer Time

8A. Perspec ves on Religion and Poli cs in the Mediterranean World

Chair: Filip Malesevic, Université de Fribourg
Filip Malesevic, Université de Fribourg, “The Maccabean Government: Lorenzo Valla’s Poli cal
Thought and the Construc on of Aragaonese Government in Southern Italy.”
Kazuki Matsumoto, Kyushu University, “Sunniza on in O oman Empire of 16th Centuries: A
Compara ve Analysis of Two ‘İlm-i Ḥāls’ Contents.”
E y Terem, Rhodes College, “Ra onal Faith for Modern Muslims: De ning Islam in Interwar
Morocco.”

8B. Art and Ar s c Visuali es

Chair: Kathy Miraglia, University of Massachuse s Dartmouth
Kathy Miraglia, University of Massachuse s Dartmouth, “The Importance of Church
Architecture in the Development of the Byzan ne Panel Icon.”
Hilary Haakenson, California State University, Pomona, “Where Wisdom and the Wanton
Twince: Sergianni, Solomon, and the Queen in the Shadow of Vesuvius.”
Barbara Wa s, Florida Interna onal University, “Observa ons on Masaccio’s Expulsion of Adam
and Eve (Brancacci Chapel, Sta. Maria del Carmine, Florence).”
Paolo Tabacchini, Masaryk University, “For an Iconography of Emo ons: A Warburgian Reading
of Poliziano’s Stanze per la giostra.”
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 8C. Medicine and Culture from the Early Modern Era to Today
Chair: Alexandru Balas, State University of New York at Cortland
José-Luis Gastañaga, University of Tennessee, Cha anooga, “Medical Lore and Literary Tradi on
in Celes na.”
John Dagenais, University of California, Los Angeles, “Transla ng a Medieval Valencian Classic:
The Spill of Jaume Roig.”
Alexandru Balas, State University of New York at Cortland, “The Perspec ves of a Transylvanian
Traveler in the Eastern Mediterranean (Turkey, Lebanon, Pales ne, and Egypt) in the 19th
century.”
Deniz Yucel, William Paterson University of New Jersey, “Covid-19 Pandemic and its Impact on
Family Climate among German Families.” VIRTUAL

8D. From the Sea to the New Silk Roads

Chair: Renard Gluzman, The Na onal and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Renard Gluzman, The Na onal and Kapodistrian University of Athens, “The Sea in Words: Ship’s
Log Entries on Observed Condi ons at Sea Before the Inven on of the Beaufort Scale.”
Michael North, University of Greifswald, “Connected Oceans.”
Angelos Giannakopoulos, Na onal University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy / University of
Düsseldorf, “New Silk Roads and their Impact on the Mediterranean: From the ‘Belt and
Road Ini a ve (BRI) to the ‘India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor’ (IMEC).”
Zeynep Aktüre, Izmir Ins tute of Technology (IZTECH), “Interna onal Coopera on Possibili es
O ered by Poten al Mediterranean Silk Roads World Heritage Nomina ons Involving
Turkey.”
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