14Th Annual Mediterranean Studies Congress Ionian University - Ιόνιο Πανεπιστήµιο Corfu, Greece – Κέρκυρα, Ελλάδα May 25 – 28, 2011
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14th Annual Mediterranean Studies Congress Ionian University - Ιόνιο Πανεπιστήµιο Corfu, Greece – Κέρκυρα, Ελλάδα May 25 – 28, 2011 Wednesday, May 25 10:30-12:30 Walking tour of historical Corfu (pre-registration required): meet at Old Fortress Ionian Academy / Ιόνιος Ακαδηµία 1, Kapodistriou St. 4:30 Registration opens 6:00 Opening Session Recital by the Students of the Music Department, Ionian University 8:00 Dinner hosted by Ionian University Rex Restaurant, 66 Kapodistriou St. Thursday, May 26 Ionian University, History Department, 72 Io. Theotoki St. 8:30 – Registration opens Thursday 9:00 – 11:00 1A. Ancient Mediterranean World Chair: Christos Karagiannis, University of Athens Ioannis Panagiotopoulos, University of Athens, “The Ecclesiastical Administration System in partibus infidelium: The Presuppositions, the Evolution and the Practice” Christos G. Karagiannis, “ Έσδρας, ο ιερέας [Ezra the Priest]” Athanasia Theodoropoulou, University of Athens, “Η περί ψυχής θεωρία του Βησσαρίωνα [Bessarion’s Theory on the Soul]” Michalis Mantzanas, University of Athens, “Η βιοηθική του Γρηγορίου Παλαµά» [Bioethics of St. Gregory Palamas]” 1B. Commerce, Conquest, Captivity: Conflicting Identities in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean Chair: Barbara F. Weissberger, University of Minnesota Kathryn Reyerson, University of Minnesota, “Identity in the Medieval Mediterranean World: Merchants and Pirates” Ronald E. Surtz, Princeton University, “Fernando el Católico’s Entry into Granada as Nuptial Consummation in a Sermon (1492) of Martin Garcia” Barbara F. Weissberger, “The Political and the Personal in Cervantes’s Two Captivity Plays” 1C. Mediterranean Studies I Chair: Joan Dusa, Los Angeles Krzysztof Kaucha, Catholic University of Lublin (KUL), Poland, “Mediterranean Studies as University Subject: A Successful Experiment?” Ëyup Özveren, Emrah Karaoguz, and Utku Havuç, Middle East Technical University, “Mediterranean Capitalism’: An Oxymoron?” Kürşad Ertuğrul, Middle East Technical University, “The AKP (Justice and Development Party): Turkish Neo-conservatism?” 1D. Mediterranean History: East and West Chair: Dimitrios Anoyatis-Pelé, Ionian University Vichelmina Zachou, Ionian University, “Η διοίκηση των δυτικών βυζαντινών επαρχιών [Management of Western Byzantine Provinces]” Ilias Giarenis, Ionian University, “Icons on the Mediterranean Sea. Byzantine Iconoclasm: History and Traditions [8th-9th centuries]” Fotini Karlafti-Mouratidi, Ionian University, “Συµβολαιογράφοι στα Ιόνια Νησιά επί βενετοκρατίας [Notaries in the Venetian-dominated Ionian Islands]” 2 Blanka Stiastna, Ionian University, “The Travel Conditions on the Route to the Orient at the End of the 19th century [Οι συνθήκες του ταξιδιού στο δρόµο προς την Ανατολή στο γύρισµα του 19ου αιώνα]” 1E. Ottoman Empire Chair: Sophia Laiou, Ionian University Evrim Turkcelik, Institute of History-Spanish National Research Council, “Kapudan Pasha Cigalazade and the Transformation of the Ottoman Mediterranean in the Last Decade of the 16th Century” Paolo Girardelli, Bogazici University, Istanbul, “Landscape in Context. Urban and Rural dimension of a coastal Estate on the Bosporus” Emiliano Bugatti, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, “Modern Cities in the Late Ottoman Period: A Comparative Study of the Izmir and Salonika Urban Scene” 11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break Thursday 11:15 – 1:15 2A. Shakespeare’s World / Ο κόσµος του Σαίξπηρ Chair: Susanne Clement, Utah State University Geraldo U. de Sousa, University of Kansas, “‘I’ th’ air or th’ earth?’: Shakespeare and Early Modern Meteorology [“Στον αέρα ή στη γη;”: Ο Σαίξπηρ και η µετεωρολογία των πρώιµων νεότερων χρόνων]” Richard Raspa, Wayne State University, “Romeo, Juliet, and Romantic Love: Revisiting Shakespeare through Freud [Ο Ρωµαίος, η Ιουλιέτα και ο ροµαντικός έρωτας: επαναπροσεγγίζοντας τον Σαίξπηρ µέσα από τον Φρόιντ]” David M. Bergeron, University of Kansas, “A Queen’s Translation: Mary Queen of Scots [Η “µεταφορά” µιας βασίλισσας: Μαίρη, η βασίλισσα της Σκωτίας]” 2B. Medieval and Early Modern Studies Chair: Marianna Koliva, Ionian University Teresa Sartore Senigaglia, University of Heidelberg, “A Tale of Two Islands: Relations between Venice and Rhodes (15th century): A Legal Pluralist Approach” Maryrica Lottman, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, “The Spanish Biblical Landscapes of Tirso de Molina’s La mejor espigadera” Robert John McCaw, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “Góngora moralisé: The Spiritualization of the ‘Soledades’ in Luis de Tejeda’s El peregrino de Babilonia” 2C. Modern & Contemporary Greece Chair: Dimitrios Anoyatis-Pelé, Ionian University Gianna Athanasopoulou & Dimitrios Anoyatis-Pelé, Ionian University, “Examples of Natality in Greece during the 20th Century” Christina Banou, Ionian University, “The Role of the Publisher and of the Editor in the Publishing Industry in Greece Nowadays” 3 Georgios Papaioannou, Ionian University, “Promoting Culture via Digital Technologies: Preliminary Observations on the 2010-inaugurated Igoumenitsa Archaeological Museum, Greece” 2D. Mediterranean Studies I Chair: J. M. Jamil Brownson, United Arab Emirates University Helen Beneki, Ionian University, and Anastasia Filippoupoliti, Democritus University, “Reflections of ‘Mediterranean Identity’ in Mediterranean Maritime Museums” Iro Kissandraki, Panteion University of Greece, “Greece and Turkey in the Same Serial” Galip B. İsen, Bilgi University, and Burcu Bostanoglu, Gazi University, “All Gods Are Dead- Time to Build New Temples” 2E. Medieval History I Chair: Joan Dusa, Los Angeles Lydia Walker, Western Michigan University, “The ‘Scepter of the Jews’ in Riccoldo da Monte Croce’s Ad nationes orientales” Joan Dusa, “The Question of the defensor ecclesiae in the Early Fourteenth Century” Krystle Perkins, University of Kansas, “The Daily Struggle for Power Evidenced in Medieval Carnival through Notarial Marginalia” Habil Elmar Eggert, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, “The Mediterranean World in the Medieval Encyclopedia De proprietatibus rerum” 1:15 – 3:00 Lunch (on your own) Thursday 3:00 – 5:00 3A. Special Session on Albania Chair: Ben Taggie, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth & MSA Auron Tare, the Albanian Center of Marine Research, “Rewriting History: Albanian Coastal Exploration” 3B. Portuguese Language and Literature Chair: Ioannis Panagiotopoulos, University of Athens Margarida Reffoios, University of Évora, “Vergílio Ferreira (1916-1996): son oeuvre dans le contexte de la réception littéraire occidentale.” Carla Ferreira de Castro, University of Évora, “Fernando Pessoa and the Art of Dreaming” Ana Luísa Vilela, University of Évora, and Fábio Mário da Silva, University of Évora, “Exchanging Looks with Sappho: Eroticism in the Poetics of Judith Teixeira” 3C. Boundaries Chair: Helen Angelomatis, Ionian University J. M. Jamil Brownson, United Arab Emirates University, “Conceptual Geopolitical, Economic. and Cultural Explorations of Liquid Continents: Mediterranean Connections to the Indian Ocean” Nese Öztimur, Faruk Sarac Design Academy, Bursa, Turkey, “Women, Labor, and the Silk Industry in the Ottoman Empire during the 19th Century” 4 Evy Johanne Håland, Department of Archaeology and History of Art, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, “Water Rituals in Greek Caves: From Modern Case Studies to Ancient Sources” 3D. Ancient World I Chair: Kalomira Mataranga, Ionian University Işık Şahin,Trakya University, “The Cults of Zeus from Inscriptions in Turkish Thrace” Athanasios Efstathiou, Ionian University, “Teaching Grammar by Question and Answer in Late Antiquity” Fuat Yilmaz, University of Trakya, Turkey, “The Dennis Painter, His Works, and Chronology” 3E. Theatre and film Chair: Margarita Vargas, University of Buffalo Margarita Vargas, “Antigone in 21st-Century Mexico” Jan Maxwell, Delta College, “Hollywood v. the Character of the Fifth-century Spartans” 8:00 Dinner sponsored by the Municipality of Corfu and His Excellency, Ioannis Trepeklis, Mayor of Corfu Mister Pizza Restaurant Δάρη 1, Γαρίτσα (Dari 1, Garitsa) Friday, May 27 Ionian University, History Department, 72 Io. Theotoki St. 8:30 Registration opens Friday 9:00 – 11:00 4A. Language, Linguistics, and Pedagogy Chair: Anita Herzfeld, University of Kansas Haralambos Symeonidis, University of Kentucky, “Bilingualism or Multilingualism as an Important Factor of Reactivation of Pre-existing Language Structures in Jewish Spanish of Thessalonica, Greece” Anita Herzfeld, University of Kansas, “Sociolinguistic Aspects of Lunfardo” Maria João Marçalo, University of Évora, “The Art of Translating Easy English into Portuguese: The Portuguese Tresor (1840) and Similar Books and Grammars (18th and 19th Centuries)” Paul Michael Chandler, University of Hawaii at Manoa, “Teaching the Appropriate Portuguese Vocabulary: What the Research Suggests” 4B. Medieval History II Chair: Spyros Asonitis, Ionian University Luigi Andrea Berto, Western Michigan University, “Dukes, Bishops, and Power in Early Medieval Naples” Felicity Ratte, Marlboro College, “The Celebrated City in the Mediterranean: Possibilities for Comparison between Florence and Cairo, c. 1300” 5 Frederik Felskau, Freie Universität Berlin, “The Establishment of the Poor Clares in 13th-century Rome: The Cases of S. Cosimato (1234) and S. Silvestro in Capite (1285)” 4C. Art History I Chair: Susan Rosenstreich, Dowling College Gülgün Yilmaz, University of Trakya, Turkey, “Matrakci Nasuh: An Ottoman Miniature-painter and his Mediterranean Landscapes” Ângela Brandão, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, “Ángeles