1. Italy and the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Period
Chair:
David D’Andrea, Oklahoma State University, "Information and Incorporation: The Venetian Integration of its Subject Cities into the Mediterranean World"
Eric Dursteler, Brigham Young University, "Power and Information: The Venetian Postal System in the Mediterranean, 1573-1645"
Francesca Trivellato, Brown University, " Italian Merchants of Lisbon and the Sephardi Diaspora in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Mediterranean liaison?"
Stathis Kalyvas, University of Chicago, and Nikos Marantzidis, University of Macedonia, Greece, "The Two Paths of the Greek Communist Movement (1985-2000)"
Carlo Baccetti, Dipartamento di Scienza politica e sociologica (DISPO), Florence, Italy, "Communist Parties in Italy after PCI: The Partito della rifondazione communista (PRC) and the Partito dei communisti italiani (PdCI)"
Anna Bosco, Università di Trieste, Italy, "Adagio molto: The Slow Change of the Portuguese Communist Party"
Joan Botella, "Constraints, Contradictions and Crises: The Recent Evolution of Spanish Communists"
François Platone, CEVIPOF, CNRS, Paris (delivered by Catherine Leclerc, Université de Paris X), "The Recent Evolutions of PCF"
Celia Valiente, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, "Searching for Gender Equality in Political Representation: The Parity Movement in Current Spain"
Michael Baum, "Women’s Political and Economic Participation in Portugal since 1975: Successes and Obstacles"
Kari Melum, University of Tromsø, Norway, "Institutional Variables Affecting Female Representation in National Legislatures: The Case of Italy"
Laura Morales Diez de Ulzurum, Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Juan March de Estudios e Investigaciones, Madrid, Spain, "The Gender Gap in Political Participation in Spain (1980-2000): A Generational Approach"
Suzanne Guerlac, University of California, Berkeley, "Le ‘dispositif de la mer’ chez Valéry"
Elisabeth A. Howe, Assumption College, "La Mer chez Valéry"
14. Shakespeare and the Mediterranean
Chair:
David Bergeron, University of Kansas, "Absent Fathers in Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well"
Geraldo U. de Sousa, Xavier University, "The Unstable House: Shakespeare’s Venice and the Phenomenology of Place"
Diana E. Henderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Much Ado about Messina: Noting History (or not) in Shakespeare’s Comedy"
15. The Mediterranean in Perspective
Chair:
Maria Lúcia Bastos Kern, Pontíficia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, "Art et Idéologie: Le Méditerranisme de Torres-Garcia"
Arno Alvarez Kern, Pontíficia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, "Rapports ethniques et échanges culturels: L’Archéologie historique des sites de la Sicile"
M. de Lourdes Soares M. Ramalho, Elos Internacional da Comunidade Lusíada, Brazil, "Arcadismo—Lirismo e Epopéia—as sementes do nacionalismo literário Brasileiro"
Antônio Carlos Amâncio da Silva, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil, "Imagens exóticas no suor dos trópicos: A presença dos franceses no universo audiovisual brasileiro"
Susan L. Rosenstreich, Dowling College, "Things that Sparkle, Things that Shine: The Quality of Light and the Quality of Morality in La Chanson de Roland"
Anne Berthelot, University of Connecticut, "Dans quelle mesure la Méditerranée figure-t-elle dans l’imaginaire des romans arthuriens, comment l’espace méditerranéen vient-il parfois compléter l’espace breton et en confirmer en quelque sorte la légitimité?"
Christine Gaudry-Hudson, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, "‘Raising Cane’: A Feminist Rewriting of Joseph Zobel’s Novel in the Film Sugar CaneAlley"
Kristin Andrean Triff, Trinity College, "Nicholas III and the Foundations of Orsini Patronage"
Brian A. Curran, Pennsylvania State University, "Prince, Priest, and Pharaoh: Archaeology and the Fashioning of Identity in the Missal of Cardinal Pompeo Colonna"
Marjorie Och, Mary Washington College, "A Colonna Project for the Quirinale"
21. Provençal Troubadours
[Thursday afternoon]
Chair:
Kathryn Klingebiel, University of Hawai at Manoa, "A la recherche des troubadours perdus: le contexte méditerranéen"
Georges Peyrebrune, "Pourquoi les contemporains de Giraut de Bornelh lui ont-ils décerné le titre de ‘Maître des Troubadours’? Réponse sous trois aspects dans le temps".
Moyra Byrne, Washington, DC, "A Modernized Backward South: Experiences and Fancies in Italy"
23. Modern Culture and Society
Chair:
Michael Seidman, University North Carolina–Wilmington, "The Unemployed Workers’ Movement in Paris, 1929-1934"
William Bestor, Linfield College, "The Psychological Interiors of Rural Portuguese Families"
Cláudia de Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, "A Brazilian Aesthetic in Pictures: The Representation of an Early 20th Century Bourgeois Culture"
Elizabeth Mathias, "Cows, Convicts, and Islands: Departure and Inter-species Imagery in D. H. Lawrence’s Sardinia"
Anna L. Chairetakis, Association for Cultural Equity, New York, "Mediterranean Microcosms: Paradigms of Shepherd Life in Lower Campania"
Margarita Vallejo Girvés, Universidad de Alcalà de Henares, Spain, "Les Îles de la Méditerranée comme lieu d’exil pendant l’époque romaine et l’antiquité tardive"
Scott Dale, Marquette University, "Gazel Ben-Aly: Cadalso’s Fictitious Moroccan Traveler in Late 18th-Century Spain: An Analysis of the Foreigner’s Cultural Perspectives of Spain in the Epistolary Novel, Cartas Marruecas (1774)"
Isabel de Sena, Sarah Lawrence College, "The Geography of Anxiety: Pero Tafur’s Andanças e viajes"
Dana Stevens, University of California, Berkeley, "‘Embark, Philosophers!’: Fernando Pessoa’s Singularly Mad Vision of Portugal’s Role in Modernity"
28. Literature II
Chair:
Maria Ascenção Ferreira Apolonia, Universidade São Marcos, Brazil, "Le Mythe Sébastianiste dans la ‘Literatura de Cordel’: Révision Historique de la Saga de Canudos"
Kenneth A. Stackhouse, Virginia Commonwealth University, "Portugal e Castela Celebram nos Teatros de Madri a Victória de Dom Fadrique de Toledo na Bahia contra os Holandeses"
Celina Fontenele Garcia, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil, "Pedro Nava: A Medicina e Os Lusíadas"
Odalice de Castro e Silva, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil, "Pour ‘Sevillizer’ le monde ou une lecture de l’espace esthétique entre deux cultures faite par le poète João Cabral de Melo Neto (1920-1999)"
29. History I
Chair:
William Farrand, University of Michigan, "Comments on the Origins of Marseilles: Environment and Archaeology"
Joan Dusa, Los Angeles, "Trade and Mining in the Angevin Hungarian Empire"
Daniel Williman, Binghamton University, "The Pirates and the Sovereigns, 1357"
30. History II
Chair:
Karen Corsano, Harvard University, "Thibaud de Castillon, Bishop of Lisbon, 1348-1356"
Lorraine Attreed, College of the Holy Cross, "Bastides and Bastidors: New Towns and their Builders in Medieval Britain and Gascony"
Fatima Regina Fernandes, Universidade do Porto, Portugal, "A linhagem dos Pereira em Portugal no século XIV: um estudo prosopográfico"
Josè, M. Martìnez Torrejón, Queens College, City University of New York, "Images of a King: Dom Sebastian and Al-Ksar-Quibir in Contemporaneous Literature and Early Historiography"
31. History III
Chair: JoAnn McNamara, Hunter College
James F. Powers, College of the Holy Cross, "Jerome’s Commentary on Daniel and Its Curious Tenth-Century Addition to the Beatus Commentary"
Glenn W. Olsen, University of Utah, "Sex and the Romanesque in Occitania-Provence"
Stephan Halikowski Smith, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, "Herbal Confusions: The Spanish-Provençal Secreta Secretorum, and Levantine Trade, Pilgrimage and Travel"
Pedro de Brito, Universidade do Porto, Portugal, "The Severins (Séverins) and the Tibaus (Thibaults): French Emigrant Families in the Lisbon of the Discoveries"
Matthew Vester, West Virginia University, "The Fragmentation of Local Political Interests in the Maritime Alps: Viozena, 1560-1580"
Beatriz H. Domingues, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil, "Enlightenment, Catholicism, and Modernity in Spain and New Spain: The Persistence of the Thomist Tradition"
Robert G. Collmer, Baylor University, "Memories of the 1596 asalto inglés on Cádiz"
34. History VI
Chair:
Paul. S. Vickery, Oral Roberts University, "Francisco de Vitoria, the Salamancan School, and Their Influence upon Alonso de la Veracruz and Bartolomé de las Casas"
Shankar Raman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Art, Cartography, and Trade in the Dutch Golden Age"
Virginia Meacham Gould, Our Lady of Holy Cross College, "‘Fervent like Angels’: The Influence of French Missionaries upon Afro-Creole Women in New Orleans, 1727-1852"
35. Mysticism, Poetics, and Encounters with the Other
Chair: Dalia de Sousa Sheppard, Spelman College
Madeleine Jeay, McMaster University, Canada, "Douceline de Digne: De l’usage politique de l’extase mystique"
M. Angélica Lopes, University of South Carolina, "Testament Topos in Six Diverse Poems"
Charles Borges, S.J., Loyola College, Baltimore, "Imposing their Viewpoints on the Other: Jesuits (and other Religious) from the Mediterranean in Action in India during the 16th–18th Centuries"