Franklin & Marshall College

Franklin & Marshall will host a colloquium devoted to "Mediterranean Journeys: From Odysseus to Migrant Workers" on Saturday, April 12 at the Joseph International Center. The conference, sponsored by the Central Pennsylvania Consortium, the Departments of Italian, French, History, and Classics at F&M, French and Italian at Dickinson College, French and Italian at Gettysburg College, the International Studies Program, and the Center for Liberal Arts and Society, and the Ware College House, is free and open to the public, however registration is required. Contact Giovanna Faleschini Lerner for more information at .

The Mediterranean basin is a space of unique cultural, commercial, and political exchanges, as well as unrelenting religious conflicts and ethnic tensions. Through the centuries, its waters have been traversed by pilgrims, merchants, explorers and pirates. Scholars from Central Pennsylvania colleges and universities gather for the first time this year to explore and discuss issues of cultural dialogue, hybridity, travel, and the permeability of ethnic and national borders in the Mediterranean from a variety of disciplinary perspectives--from literature to cinema and art, from philosophy to classics and religious studies, from anthropology to archaeology and geography.

The conference will feature the following schedule:

8:30 am REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST
Joseph International Center--Living Room

9 am OPENING REMARKS--Provost Ann Steiner and Associate Dean of the Faculty Tamara Goeglein (Franklin & Marshall)
Joseph International Center--Forum

9:15-10:45 SESSION I: MEDITERRANEAN SPACES
Norma Bouchard (Italian and Comparative Literature, University of Connecticut, Storrs)
"From Discourses on to Discourses from the Mediterranean"

Karen Pinto (History, Gettysburg College)
"Unrequited Love across the Mouth of the Mediterranean: An Analysis of the Relationship of al-Andalus and the Maghrib through Arabic Maps and Poetry"

Nancy Khalek (Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall)
"Dreams of Hagia Sophia: The Muslim Siege of Constantinople in 674 AD, Abu Ayyub and the Medieval Islamic Imagination"

10:45-11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00-12:30 SESSION II: MEDITERRANEAN IDENTITIES
Anna Botta (Italian, Smith College)
"Mobility and Identity in the Mediterranean: Vincenzo Marra's Tornando a casa and Laurent Gaude's Eldorado"

Boubakary Diakité (French and Francophone Studies, Franklin & Marshall)
Capter l'odeur francaise: Letters and body in Fatou Diome's La preference nationale

Simon Hawkins (Anthropology, Franklin & Marshall)
"Haggling for a Cosmopolitan Identity: Tourists and Merchants in Tunis"

Geoff Schad (History, Albright College)
"The Aleppine Bourgeoisie Between Empire and Nation-State, c. 1908-1958"

12:30-1:30 LUNCH
Joseph International Center--Living Room

1:45-3:15 SESSION III: HYBRIDITY
Gretchen Meyers (Classical Studies and Archaeology, Franklin & Marshall)
"Living Waters: Hybrid River Gods and Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean"

Marie-Jo Binet (French and Italian, Gettysburg College)
"LEsquive: (Word) Games of Love and Chance"

Rita Gargotta (Spanish, Franklin & Marshall College)
"The Sicilian Culinary Landscape: Cuisine by Conquest"

3:15-3:30 COFFEE BREAK

3:30-5 SESSION IV: MEDITERRANEAN VOYAGES
Giovanna Faleschini Lerner (Italian, Franklin & Marshall)
"Mediterranean Crossings in Italian Migration Cinema"

Dan Washburn (Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall College)
"Defining Exile: The Exempla of the Ancient Mediterranean"

Tullio Pagano (French and Italian, Dickinson College)
"Mediterranean Deportations: Female Slaves and Sexual Exploitation in Renaissance Italy"

5:30-6:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Roberto Dainotto (Italian and European Studies, Duke University)
"A (Short) History of the Histories of the Mediterranean"
Ware College House--Great Room

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