Florence University of the Arts SUNY Stony Brook University

Friday, Dec. 4 TH Saturday, Dec. 5 TH

GABINETTO VIEUSSEUX - Sala Ferri | | Piazza degli Strozzi PALAZZO BOMBICCI GUICCIARDINI STROZZI | Corso dei Tintori, 21

8:30 – 9:15 10:00 – 10:30 11:30 – 11:45 9:30 –10:30 MARK T. ABATE Registration Keynote Speech Coffee Break Panel 6 – Aula Bellisario Westfield State University LISA SASSON Moderator: Fabio Binarelli Pragmatic Heterogeneity and Profitable 9:15 – 10:00 New York University Pluralism: Conflict, Convivencia, and Creativity Inauguration and 11:45 – 12:45 JEFFREY S. GAAB in the Medieval Mediterranean World Opening Remarks 10:30 – 11:30 WILLIAM Farmingdale State College Panel 1 BOELHOWER “De Re Mediterranea” in Germany? Ludwig I and 10:30 – 11:00 EUGENIO GIANI Moderator: Louisiana State University the Classical Reinvention of Munich 1825–1848 Coffee Break - Sala Rosa President of the Mario Mignone Writing the Mediterranean Tuscan Region Council World: the Migrant as ROBERT A. Floating Signifier 11:00 – 13:00 11:00 – 13:00 MARIA FEDERICA SAUNDERS Panel 7 – Aula Strozzi Panel 8 – Aula Bellisario GIULIANI Farmingdale State College President of 5th commission MARCO Moderator: Cecilia Ricci Moderator: Samuele Bucelli of City Council Mapping the Mediterranean: DI DONATO Imagining Mare Nostrum Unione delle Università HARRY KASHDAN ELISA UFFREDUZZI JAMES LYNCH from the Papyrian Past to the del Mediterraneo University of Michigan Università degli Studi di Firenze FUA Provost Geovisual Present Mediterranean in Transition: “Una faccia, una pancia?” Mediterranean Many countries, an only Choreography: Complexities and New Culinary Encounters in Contemporary Film Orientalism in Italian Silent Cinema MARIO MIGNONE JOSEPH F. STANLEY Regional Perspectives from as a Common Pattern of Dance in SBU Conference Coordinator Simmons College Boston an Islamist Point of View RADESH PALAKURTHI Mediterranean Countries Negotiating Trade: University of Memphis UMBERTO GORI Merchant Manuals and A Preliminary Study of the Adherence to ANTONIO PELLEGRINO FUA Conference Coordinator Cross–Cultural Exchange in the Mediterranean Diet among Selected Independent Researcher the Medieval Mediterranean Countries in the Mediterranean Region Vast, Diverse, and Equally Immutable: Sonic Notes on the Mediterranean Sea PALAZZO BOMBICCI GUICCIARDINI STROZZI | Corso dei Tintori, 21 MAX SAITO Westfield State University ELENA K. DAHL 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break - Sala Rosa Food Co–ops and the Promotion of Peace Earlham College 14:00 – 15:30 14:00 – 15:30 and Justice in the Mediterranean Region A Voice is Heard Echoing Panel 2 – Aula Strozzi Panel 3 – Aula Bellisario Moderator: Marco Di Donato Moderator: Isabella Martini NINA MUKERJEE FURSTENAU University of Missouri MOTAZ KHORSHID BORIS VUKIĆEVIĆ Plated: Bridging Cultures, Eating History University of Cairo University of Montenegro Mediterranean Africa The Mediterranean Identity of Montenegro 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break - Sala Rosa

MOHAMED HASHASH ELENA RADICCHI 14:00 – 15:30 14:00 – 15:30 LUISS Università Guido Carli - Roma SANDRA NANNINI Panel 9 – Aula Strozzi Panel 10 – Aula Bellisario The Aquatic Identity of Mediterranean Islam: University of the Arts Moderator: Simonetta Ferrini from Córdoba Paradigm to the Emergent Reason Changing Life Styles in Mediterranean FUA STUDENTS Moderator: Valentina Dolara Countries: Towards a Homogenization GALINA BAKHTIAROVA JEAN LUC NARDONE of Habits, Values and Cultures? Western Connecticut State University Does the Mediterranean Diet Still Exist? Université de Toulouse Le Mirail From Cuba with Songs, Mansions and Palm Course: The Mediterranean Diet Quest and Conquest of the Self : NICOLETTA SALOMON Trees: Colonial Nostalgia in the Mediterranean Coordinator: Cecilia Ricci The Pretext of the Crusades from the Florence University of the Arts and Catalan Nation Fioretti (XXIV) to the Decameron (X, 9) Dreaming of a City on the Northern African Emerging Countries and their Water: Venice–Atlantis? Economic Systems. The Changing Mediterranean AMANDA SKAMAGKA Perspective at The Beginning of 21st Century University of Athens Course: Global Economy 15:30 Coffee Break - Sala Rosa Cultural Aspects of “Mare Nostrum”: Coordinator: Andrea Giuntini through the Greek Poet Yannis Ritsos’ Eyes The Pomegranate and its Symbolism, 16:00 – 18:00 16:00 – 18:00 EMANUELA SESTI Yesterday and Today Panel 4 – Aula Strozzi Panel 5 – Aula Bellisario Alinari Foundation Course: Symbols and Symbolism Moderator: Simonetta Ferrini Moderator: Grace Joh The Photograph of the Nineteenth Coordinator: Lucia Giardino Century in the Mediterranean SARA MORAN MARTINO TRAXLER Sensuousness and Silence: Ungaretti Florence University of the Arts and Camus, Mediterranean Authors Italy (and ) Confronting Migration 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break - Sala Rosa Across the Mediterranean LEONARDO LASTILLA 16:00 – 18:00 16:00 – 18:00 Florence University of the Arts STEFANO MUNERONI Panel 12 – Aula Strozzi Panel 11 – Aula Bellisario A Literary Cruise Around the Mediterranean University of Alberta FUA STUDENTS Moderator: Isabella Martini Gianni Clementi’s Finis Terrae: Shaping Moderator: Fabio Binarelli JAMES P. BARLOON Transnational Subjectivities in the Mediterranean STEPHEN R. PATNODE University of St. Thomas Denied Humanity: Farmingdale State College Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra: JEMA STELLATO PLEDGER The Struggle Between Belonging American Encounters with the Mediterranean A Mediterranean Sea Change Swinburne University and Becoming World in the Twentieth Century The Concept of Identity within the Coordinator: Valentina Dolara NICK CERAMELLA Mediterranean Framework Operation Mare MATTEO PRETELLI Islam in the Mediterranean region, Stony Brook University Nostrum; its Affect in terms of Creating Dickinson College Bologna religious or political challenge The Mythical Mediterranean Sea: an Emerging Mediterranean Identity Screening Italian–American Soldiers in Italy in World War II Coordinator: Marco Di Donato Inexhaustible Source of Inspiration for British Literature and Culture. Ecumenism: Tracing Migrating Faiths in STEFANO LUCONI the Mediterranean Università degli Studi di Padova Coordinator: Sara Piccolo Paci Mediterranean Democracy and the United States Corridoio Fiorentino - Palazzo Doni | Via Magliabechi, 1 during the Cold War: Italy’s 1976 Elections and the 18:00 Student Art Exhibit Citizens Alliance for Mediterranean Freedom