NOTE: These
sessions are not in any particular order, except that the first 15 sessions
were proposed as complete sessions and cannot be changed. All other sessions
have been formed by the program committee. Please make sure your paper
is here; make sure your name is spelled correctly; make sure we have
the correct university; and make sure your paper title is correct. If
you have suggestions for changes, please let us know. However,
also be aware that as people withdraw and a few more papers are added,
that sessions will change. Some sessions will disappear and new ones
will be created. We will try to accommodate your requests, but also please
understand that if we move your paper to a different session, we must
move someone else out of that session. But if you believe your paper
is not appropriate for the session in which it has been placed please
let us know. If you would be willing to chair a specific
session please let us know. Send all changes to Richard
Clement.
2004
7th Annual International Congress
Mediterranean Studies Association
Catalonia & the Mediterranean
Universitat de Barcelona
Institut Europeu de la Mediterrania
Barcelona, Spain
May 26-29, 2004
SESSIONS (1 hour, 45 minutes, each paper 20 minutes)
Chair: Xavier Villalba, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
“Bilingualism, Working Memory and Acquisition of a Third Language”
Cristina Sanz, Mariona Anfruns, Beatriz Lado, Hui-Ju Lin, Almitra Medina (presenting), Catherine Stafford, and Harriet Wood Bowden, Georgetown University
“A Weighty Issue: How do English Speakers Begin to Acquire Spanish Stress”
Leslie S. Gordon, Georgetown Univesity
“Diferentes niveles de conciencia en el aprendizaje del español com L2: ¿Qué predice el MLAT?”
Melissa Bowles and Maite Camblor-Portilla, Georgetown University
Chair: María Soledad Fernández Utrera, University of British Columbia
“Exquisitos cadavers de la vanguardia catalana”
Rosa Sarabia, University of Toronto
“Sebastià Gasch’s City: From the Synoptic to the Eulogistic”
Robert A. Davidson, University of Toronto
Chair: María Soledad Fernández Utretra, University of British Columbia
“Encuentro Dalí-Lacan: el delirio del lenguaje poético”
Marta Marín-Dòmine, Wilfrid Laurier University
“Retrato de Mae West: Representación, intermedialidad y paranoia en el teatro plástico de Salvador Dalí”
María Soledad Fernández Utretra
Chair: Amy Aronson-Friedman, Valdosta State University
“A Catalan Contribution to the Converso Controversy”
Amy Aronson-Friedman
“Conversion and Diversion in Iberian Cutting Poems”
Jean Dangler, Tulane University
“Maurofilia and Maurofobia after the Reconquest: The ‘Split Other’ in El Abencerraje y la bella Jarifa”
Ana Benito, Indiana-Purdue University
“The Converso Problem and the Fountain of Life (Madrid, the Prado)”
Leslie Ann Blacksberg, Bowling Green State University
Chair: Eyda M. Merediz, University of Maryland, College Park
“From Barcelona to Mexico: Performative and Cinematic Versions of Bartolemé de las Casas”
Eyda M. Merediz
“Translating Atlantic Spain in Two 1938 Travel Narratives to Cape Verde”
Phyllis Peres, University of Maryland, College Park
“El pasado no est muertoí: España y Marruecos en el relato de viajes Del Rif al Yebala”
Silvia Bermúdez, University of California, Santa Barbara
Chair: Giose Rimanelli, State University of New York at Albany
“La giustizia catalanya”
Nancy D’Antuono, St. Mary’s College of Notre
Dame
“Características
dantescas en una obra de Miguel Delibes (siglo XX)”
Sheryl Lynn Postman, University of Massachusetts Lowell
“Physical
and Spiritual Landscapes in the Characters of Grazia Deledda’s and Pardo
Bazan’s Literary Worlds”
Mario Aste,
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Chair: Francis A.
Dutra, University of California, Santa Barbara
“O que se diz
e o que se cala: The 4th Count of Ericeira’s Scribal News
(1729-1740)”
Tiago C. P. dos Reis Miranda, Centro de Historia de Cultura–Universidade Nova de Lisboa
“Public Space and
Private Space in Early Modern Lisbon”
Bill M. Donovan,
Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland
“The Portuguese
Military Orders during the Reign of Afonso VI, 1656-1667”
Francis A. Dutra,
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Portugueses y castellanos en la Fastigimia”
Fernanda Olival,
Universidade de Evora
Chair: Jody Brotherston, Louisiana Tech University
“Stone Tectonic: The Galecian Horrero as Textile”
Ronald E. Dulaney, Jr., University of South Florida
“The Alfiz as a Symbol of Identity in Spanish Architecture”
Everett Rice, Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus
“Sorolla and His Mediterranean Architectural Legacy”
Jody Brotherston
“The Translation of the Atrium of Ancient Greece to 18th-Century Louisiana”
F. Lestar Martin, Louisiana Tech University
Chair: Elizabeth Mathias, St. John’s University
“The Bloody Flagellants of Guardia Sanframondi: A National Treasure”
Moyra Byrne, Washington, D.C.
“Filomenia in Campagnia: The Breaking of a Spanish-Italian Saint”
Elizabeth Mathias
“Honor Without Shame: Values and Group Consciousness in an Andalusian Town”
Anna L. Wood, Association for Cultural Equity, Hunter College, New York
Discussant: Ellen Harold, Association for Cultural Equity, Hunter College, New York
“Ibiza and Its Music: A Musical Portrait of Old and New Traditions”
Judith Cohen, York University, and Esperança Bonet Roig, Vocal del Consell Assessor de Cultura Popular i Tradicional de les Illes Balears
“The Sardana: Folk and Classical Delight”
Juan La Manna, SUNY Oswego
Chair: Daniel Reff, Ohio State University
“The Inalienable Rights of the Dead: The Controversy over El Negro of Banyoles”
Brian Murphy, Ohio State University
“The Enlightenment and Jesuit and Indian Relations”
Daniel Reff
“A Rich Past and an Uncertain Future: Enlightenment and Jesuit Thought in the Iberian World”
Beatrice H. Domingues, Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University
Chair:
“Do Institutions Matter? Party Organisation and Democratic Consolidation in Spain and Greece”
Vasilios W. Alevizakos, London School of Economics
“The Lasting Impact of a Leftist Revolution for the Portuguese Party System”
Madalena Pontes-Resende, London School of Economics
“Democratic Institutions in a Non-Democratic Playing Field: The Impact
of the 1990 Electoral Reform on Patterns of Electoral Cooperation in Egypt”
Hendrik J. Kraetzmar, London School of Economics
Chair:
“Procedural and Illegitimate? A Reassessment of Turkish Democracy”
Leda A. Glyptis, London School of Economics
“Renewing Social Democracy in Greece: Analyzing PA.SO.K’s Modernization Paradigm”
Nikolaos Bilios, University of Athens
Chair: Gregory S. Hutcheson, University of Louisville
“Cultural Studies Avant la Lettre: Américo Castro and the Hispanic Imagination”
E. Michael Gerli, University of Virginia
“Going Between”
Leyla Rouhi, Williams College
“People and Pop Music in the Age of Hyper-Mechanical Reproduction”
Michael Solomon, University of Pennsylvania
“The Iberian Third Space”
Gregory S. Hutcheson
Chair: Joan Bestard, Universitat de Barcelona
Maria Àngels Roque, Institut Europeu de la Mediterrania
Chair: David M. Bergeron, University of Kansas
“King Lear and the Narratives of Death”
Richard Raspa, Wayne State University
“Shakespeare, Spain, and the Scholars”
Mary L. Dudy Bjork, University of California Santa Barbara
“King Lear and the History of Poverty”
Geraldo de Sousa, University of Kansas
Chair:
“The Architecture of Barcelona and Islamic Design”
Tarek El-Akkad, American University in Cairo
“Brise-Soleil as a Constituent Element of East Mediterranean Modernism”
Deniz Güner and H. Gökhan Kutlu, Izmir Institute of Technology
“Asplund and the Mediterranean”
Francis Lyn, University of South Florida
“Constitution
of Mediterranean Identity by Expressing the Preserved ‘Values’ in the Context
of Vernacular Architecture”
Humeyra Birol Akkurt, Dokuz Eylul University, and Deniz Ozkut, Izmir
Institute of Technology
Chair:
Chair:
“To Restore or Not to Restore? Modern Implementations at Roman Theatres in Spain”
Zeynep Akture Siram, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
“Integration of the Basilical Church and Hypostyle Mosque in Medieval Anatolia”
Ali Uzay Peker, Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara
“Transformation of the Anatolian Basilica in the Byzantine Middle Ages”
Ufuk Serin, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
“The Llotja de Mar: Gate to the Prosperous City”
Shelley E. Roff, University of Texas at San Antonio
Chair: Liana De Girolami Cheney, University of Massachusetts Lowell
“Who is depicted in Simon Vouet’s Allegory of the Human Soul? Prudence or Memory?”
Lilian H. Zirpolo,
“Picasso’s El Guitare”
Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, New York Arts Exchange
“Finding
the Fountain of Youth: Barcelona’s Font de Canaletes and its Meaning for
Picasso’s Alterstil”
Memory Holloway, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Chair: Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, New York Arts Exchange
“The Politics of a Garden Scene: Livia’s Garden Room at Prima Porta”
Laura A. Voight, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
“Looking at the Overlooked: Zurbarán’s Paintings of the Infant Virgin Praying, Reading, and Sleeping”
Mindy Nancarrow, University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
“Giorgio Vasari's Ceres: A Muse of Rebirth and Nature”
Liana De Girolami Cheney, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Chair:
“The Use and Misuse of Art as Evidence by Medieval Historians: Miscues and Modest Achievements”
James F. Powers, Holy Cross College
“El Colegio
de Ingleses and ‘La Vulnerata’: The Jesuit College and the Damaged Image
at Valladolid”
Robert G. Collmer, Baylor University
“To Paint Musically: Francis Poulenc and the Artist/Composer Connection”
Rebecca Leuchak and Nona Debenham, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island
Chair: Judy Schaaf, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
“More Pleasant in the Mouth than in the Ear: Advice from the Mediterranean World to Queen Mary Tudor”
Lorraine Attreed, Holy Cross College
“Spenser’s Mediterranean Homecoming”
David Cunnington, University of Oxford
“Love in a Cold Climate: Reconfigurations of Neoplatonism in English Caroline Literature”
Lesel Dawson, University of Bristol
Chair:
“A Softcore movida: Catalonia, the Mediterranean, and Pornography during the Spanish Transition, 1977-1982”
Daniel Kowalsky, Paris
“Don Quixote, Salvador Dali, and the Matrix”
Strother Purdy, Marquette University
“La metàfora de l'illa: Comunitat i globalització en el Mediterrani segons ‘El Faro,’ de Manuel Balaguer”
Joan Ramon Resina, Cornell University
Chair:
“Cristo visto pelos europeus”
Antônio Carlos (Tunico) Amâncio, Universidade Federal Fluminense
“Snobs, Yobs and Italian Jobs: Crime, Euro-skepticism and the Mediterranean in British film 1969-2000”
Kevin Foster, Monash University, South Africa
“History, Memory, Myth: The Mediterranean as Location in Pasoloni’s Work”
Haim Bredsheeth, University of East London
Chair:
“Pregnant Men and the Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern Spain”
Sherry Velasco, University of Kentucky
“Erotic Themes in Catalonian Romanesque Sculpture”
Glenn W. Olsen, University of Utah
“Representaciones del homoerotismo femenino en las letras hispánicas medievales”
Rafael M. Mérida Jiménez, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Chair: Anne M. Pasero, Marquette University
“Mujer e ilustración: formación de la conciencia femenina en el ámbito mediterráneo”
Almudena Olondo, Saint Louis University Madrid Campus
“Susana Estrada a la Delacroix”
Aurora G. Morcillo, Florida International University
“The Development of the Don Juan Myth in the Mediterranean”
Henriette Javorek, University of Hamburg
Chair:
“Encounters with the Feminine in the Mediterranean”
Angie Voela, King’s College, London
“Monjada suy a mon dan: Another Female Voice in Mediterranean
Literature”
Joseph Garreau, University of Massachusetts
Lowell
“The ‘MythoSexEquality’as a New Mediterranean Voice”
Anissa Lardjane,
Chair:
“The School of Salamanca and International Law”
Paul S. Vickery, Oral Roberts University
“Seeking Justice: Muslim and Non-Muslim Usage of the Kadi’s Court in Settling Disputes in the Ottoman Society. A Case Study of Kayseri, ca. 1750-1904”
Süleyman Demirci, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey
“Viceroy Amat’s Tahiti: Eighteenth-Century Maps and Narratives of Pacific Exploration”
Mercedes Maroto Camino, University of Auckland
Chair:
“Integration Through Border Making: A Mechanism for Domination”
Ricky Shufer, Ben Gurion University
“A Middle Eastern Bridge: The Rapprochement between Turkey and Israel”
Amikam Nachmani, Bar-Ilan University
“Civil Society and Democratization in the Context of Turkish Politics”
Ayhan Akman, Sabanci University, Istanbul
Chair: Jo Ann McNamara, Hunter College, New York
“Frederick II’s Constitutions of Melfi as Commentary on the US Constitution”
Joshua B. Stein, Roger Williams University
“La leyenda de Otger Cataló, possible núcleo de la historia franco-véneta de Ogier le Danois”
Eva Simon, Budapest
“Community Identity and the Redemption of Captives: Comparative Perspectives Across the Mediterranean”
James Brodman, University of Central Arkansas
Chair:
“The Lost Treasure of Valencia: Fugitive Muslims from the Kingdom of Valencia during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries”
Mike Ryan, University of Minnesota
“Violence and Feudal Regime in the Iberian Peninsula out from Catalonia: Castile and Leon from the End of the 10th to the Middle of the 14th Century”
Oleg Aurov, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
“Life in the Saddle: The Twelfth-century Counts of Urgel and the Kingdoms
of Aragón-Barcelona and León-Castile”
Bernard F. Reilly, Villanova University
Chair: Clara Estow, University of Massachusetts Boston
“Books and Their Readers in Late Medieval Aragon”
Clara Estow, University of Massachusetts Boston
“Letrados versus Caballeros? A Reassessment of Alonso de Cartagena and his Knightly Patrons”
Luis X. Morera, University of Minnesota
“La Instalación del poder aragonés en el reino de Nápoles según las crónicas italianas (1424-1450)”
Stephan E. Péquignot, Casa de Velázques, Madrid
Marianna Birnbaum, University of California
Los Angeles
Chair: Zsolt Hunyadi, Central European University
“A Catalan Hospitaller in the Eastern Mediterranean: Antoni de Fluvià, Master of the Hospital in Rhodes (1421-1437)”
Pierre Bonneaud, Barcelona
“Mediterranean Personnel in the Commanderies of the Hungarian Hospitaller Priory”
Zsolt Hunyadi, Central European University
“La dificil experiència d’un grup vinculat al món portuari de la Barcelona baixmedieval: els cristians de la centura”
Daniel Duran i Duelt, Institució Milà i Fontanals
Chair:
“The Politics of Trade and Violence: Denia and Barcelona in the Eleventh Century”
Travis Bruce, Western Michigan University and Université de Poitiers
“The Ottoman Empire as a Mediterranean Power: Outline of a Maritime History”
Eyüp Özveren and Onur Yildirim, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
“In the Service of Italy’s ‘simulatore e dissimulatore’ the ambassadors of Ferrante I d’Aragona (1458-1494)”
Paul M. Dover, Georgian Court College
Chair:
“Aragonian and Hungarian Relations
in the Later 13th Century”
Attila Barany, Debrecen University
“Taxation
and Identity: Fiscal and Confessional Community in the Crown of Aragon”
Brian Catlos, University of California, Santa Cruz
“Venetian
Merchants, Wool from Aragon/Catalonia, and the Woolen Textile Industry
Around 1400: Antonio Contarini’s Brag”
Eleanor Congdon, Youngstown State University
Chair:
“Stories on a String”
Angélica Lopes, University of South Carolina
“A Força na Anáguas: Querer e Poder de Mulheres na Obra de Lourdes Ramalho—Matizes de Hispanidade no Palco Nordestino Contemporâneo”
Valéria Andrade Souto-Maior, Universidade Federal da Paraíba
“Nomes e Anagramas nas Novelas Amatórias”
Csilla Ladányi-Turóczy, Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Chair:
“Prayer, Processions and Persecution: Religious
Belief and Practice in Early Eighteenth Century Portugal”
John Villiers,
King's College, London
“Taverns, Cafés and Gathering Places in Lisbon, During the End of the 18th Century and the First Decades of the 19th Century”
Maria Alexandre Lousada, Universidade de Lisboa
“Personification of Portugal in Eça de Queiros”
Ricardo Sternberg, University of Toronto
Chair:
“The Barcelona Declaration 1995: A Reality or a Mere Vision”
Amine Hadj-Koudier, BBC World Service
“Spain Living, Spain Dying”
John Naylon, Keele University, Staffordshire
“Poets and Translators: The School of Barcelona”
Andrew S. Walsh, Universidad de Granada
Chair:
“Barcelona and Baroque Opera: The Work of Jordi Savall”
Sharon Cumberland, Seattle University
“Gabriel Fauré Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 15: A Historical and Formal Analysis”
Wei Tsun Chang and Seanad Dunigan Chang, Tennessee Technological University
“The Contributions of Portuguese cellist Guillhermina Suggia to the Art of Cello Playing and to the Rise of Female Professional Cellists at the End of the Nineteenth and First Half of the Twentieth Century”
James A. Fiste, Central Michigan University
Chair:
“The Tango’s Influence on Brazilian Piano Literature”
Alexandra Mascolo-David and Rubia Santos, Central Michigan University
“Different Sounds for Different People: The Re-evaluation of Identities in the Riproposta Experience of World Music in Sicily”
Roberto F. Catalano, University of La Verne, California
“It’s Not Enough to just be Els Pets: Surviving Success in Contemporary Catalonia”
Maria Van Liew, West Chester University, Pennsylvania
Chair:
“Medicine and Disease in Early Modern Spain: The Households of Charles V (1519-1558) and The Empress Isabel of Portugal (1526-1539)”
Aurelio Espinosa, University of Arizona, Tucson
“The Good, the Beautiful and the Heretical: Giulia Gonzaga and the Origin of the Valdesian Circle in Naples”
Daniel A. Crews, Central Missouri State University
“Crossing Religious Boundaries in Early Modern Venice: Christian and Muslim Renegades”
Georgios Plakotos, University of Glasgow
Chair:
“Autobiography of Enea Silvio Piccolomini (Pius II) as Renaissance Self-Fashioning”
Yuri Zaretsky, Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Science
“The Great Siege: The Naval Blockade of Genoa by the Catalan Fleet in 1456-1458: New Courses from the Milanese Archives”
Enrico Basso, Soprintendenza Archivistica per la Liguria—Genova, Italy
“The Understanding of the Mediterranean at Lepanto in 1571”
Jenny Jordan, University of California Los Angeles
“Penitents and Captives: The Moriscos of Valencia and the Mediterranean World”
Benjamin Ehlers, University of Georgia, Athens
Chair:
“Church, State and Education: The Privileged Position of the Sección Femenina”
Jessica Davidson, Brandeis University
“De Pirenne a Braudel: el Mediterráneo como objeto historiográfico en el siglo XX”
Jaume Aurell, Universidad de Navarra
“Between Empires and Faith: The Work of the Burgos Fathers in Mozambique (1960-1975)”
Mustafah Dhada, Clark Atlanta University
Chair: Cleveland Johnson, Spelman College, Atlanta
“Dimensiones figurativas y vivenciales del Mediterráneo en los escritos del Siglo de Oro”
Encarnación Juárez-Almendros, University of Notre Dame
“Seguidillas folclóricas del siglo XVIII español”
Scott Dale, Marquette University
“Sacrifice and the Body in Garcilaso’s Eclogues”
John McCaw, University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee
Chair:
“Of Bumpy Flows and Distorted Networks: Dynamics of ‘Global-Local’ Information in Contemporary Spanish Narrative and Film”
Monika Szumilak, University of Michigan
“Architectural Identity of Izmir: Changes and Developments in the Housing Schemes in the 20th Century”
Orcan Gündüz, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir
“Types of Provincial Structure and Population Health”
Eunice Rodriguez, Cornell University
Chair: Giulio Massano, University of Masschusetts Dartmouth
“Antonio Garcia Gutierrez’s El Trovador: From Rejection to Immortality”
J. Heli Hernandez, University of Massachusetts Lowell
“The Spanish Sources of Verdi's Operas”
Giulio Massano
“El inca Garcilaso traductor de León Hebreo: una huella del Renacimientro
italiano en un escritor del Nuevo Mundo”
Enrique Rodrigo, Creighton University
Chair:
“The Balearic Islands in Late Antique and Byzantine Sources”
Andreas Rhoby, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
“Franciscans versus Dominicans: A Debate on the Eucharist in Barcelona in the Fourteenth Century”
György Galamb, University of Szeged, Hungary
“History, Legend, and Patriotism in Catalonia’s National Anthem”
Luis Corteguera, University of Kansas
“Eugeni D’Ors, Catalan Nationalism, and a Moment of History”
Victoria Enders, Northern Arizona University
Chair:
“Desde Pedralbes hasta la Creciente Fértil: el Mediterráneo en la obra de Clara Janés”
Anne M. Pasero, Marquette University
“Fishing Communities in Mediterranean Societies: The Influence of Catalan and Spanish on the Speaking of Sea Fishermen in Ghazaouet Area (Algeria)”
Mohammed Hamdoun, University of Paris 13
“Retorn a les illes: narrativa catalana d’aquest darrer tombant de segle”
Juan M. Ribera Llopis, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Chair:
“The Greater Mysteries of Eleusis in Aspect of the Comparative History of Religion”
Diána Bácsfi, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
“Value Theory and Attic Drama: The Instance of Hippolytus”
Alvin C. Kibel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Foreign
Hirelings and Communist Bandits: The ‘Enemy’ through the Looking Glass
of a National Army Conscript and his Wife during the Greek Civil War, 1947-1949”
Philip Carabott, King’s College London
Chair:
“Maltese Cosmopolitism: Between Kind and ‘Violent’ Invaders”
Carmelina Gugliuzzo, University of Messina
“Missing Persons in the Age of Philip II”
Sheila Pelizzon, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
“The Power of Color: How a Lowly Insect Nearly Rivaled Gold and Silver
in Spain’s Trans-Atlantic Trade”
Rick Langhorst, Spelman College, Atlanta
Chair:
“Projecting the Past: Brazilian History and Audiovisual Media”
Sônia Cristina Lino, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
“Felipe II e os vassalos portugueses no Brasil Colonial”
Ronald Raminelli, Universidad Federal Fluminense
Chair: Diana Glad, Spelman College
“St. Paul and Idiocy”
David E. Johnson, State University of New York at Buffalo
“Physics or Metaphysics in José Ortega y Gasset?”
Joseph A. Agee, Morehouse College
“An Analysis of Sayyid Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani (1838/9-1897) in 19th-Century Islamic Political Thought”
Seda Unsar, University of Southern California
Chair:
“Domestic Knowledge as A Source of Identity Formation: Arab Women in Israel as Carriers of Culinary Knowledge”
Liora Gvion, Kibbutzim College of Education
“We of Castiglione: Reading a Linguistic Sign of Reconfigured Localized Identity”
Susan L. Rosenstreich, Dowling College
“Sustaining Values as an Approach to Cultural Sustainability”
Khalid S. Al-Hagla, Beirut Arab University, Lebanon
Chair:
“Don Juan Manuel, the Football Coach and Ronaldo: A 21st-century Reading of El Conde Lucanor, Ejemplo II”
Laurence de Looze, University of Western Ontario
“El Mediterráneo a través de la ficción: el extraño caso de Sir John Mandeville”
Sonia Fernández Hoyos and Susanna Morales Osorio, Universidad de Granada
“The Dark Goddess/Madonna in East-Central Europe, the Mediterranean,
and Latin America”
Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz, University of Texas at San Antonio
Chair:
“Tres espadas para un rey: la imagen de la monarquia en las Questa del Sant Graal Catalana”
Antonio Contreras Martín, Generalitat de Catalunya
“El manuscrito como taller literario: el códice de la traducción en catalán
de Los Trionfi del Ateneo do Barcelona”
Roxana Recio, Creighton University
“La mujer y el poder: teoría y práctica de la reginalidad bajo medieval”
Núria Silleras-Fernández, University
of California Santa Cruz
Chair:
“Is Kanish-Karum (2nd Century BC)
the First Example of Levantinism?”
Hasan Ali Şahin, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey
“That Old
Mediterranean Vice: Dissimulation in Front of the Plague”
Giuseppe Restifo, Universita degli Studi di Messina
“Carinola (Campania, Italy): Inventory of the Urban Architectural Heritage of a Feudal Setting between Late Middle Ages and Modern Age”
Giovanni M. Masucci, Seconda Università di Napoli
Chair:
“La cubanomanía española”
Araceli San Martín Moreno, Saint Louis University, Campus de Madrid
“Ir y caer en expressiones idiomáticas que no implican movimiento”
Ana Serradilla Castaño, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Chair: Deniz Ulke Aribogan, Bilgi University, Istanbul
“The Impact of Cyprus Problem upon Turkish Economy”
Hilal Akgul, Bilgi University, Istanbul
“An International Problem or a Domestic Political Material?”
Nevin Yurdsever Ates, Bilgi University, Istanbul
“The Reasons of Change in Turkey’s Cyprus Policy”
Deniz Ulke Aribogan
Chair:
“Architecture Squeezed from A Pastry Tube: A Look at A. Gaudì”
Tina Waldeier Bizzarro, Rosemont College
“Gaudi, Dali and the Influence of the Spanish Landscape”
Ellen Kosmer, Worcester State College