9:00 – 3:00
Walking-tour of Lüneburg
(pre-registration required).
Glockenhaus,
Glockenstr. 1
6:00 Opening Session
7:00 Reception hosted by Leuphana
Universität Lüneburg
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Rotes Feld Campus, Rotenbleicher Weg 67
1A. Portuguese History
Chair: Bill M.
Donovan, Loyola College in Maryland
“Noble Brothers-in-Law in Love during the Reign of João
IV (1640-1656)”
Francis A. Dutra, University of California, Santa Barbara
“The Language of Religious Contestation in Late
Eighteenth-Century Portugal: Blasphemy and Propositions Denounced to the Lisbon
Inquisition”
David Higgs, University of Toronto, Canada
“‘An Inconvenient Murder’ Legal Punishment and Noble Prerogative in Early Modern
Portugal”
Bill M.
Donovan
“German Merchant Families and the Porto Wine Trade”
Pedro de
Brito, Porto, Portugal
1B. Spanish Literature
Chair: Roxana
Recio, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska
“Traducción y siglo XVI: Petrarca y Ariosto”
Roxana Recio
“Ilustración,
economía y relaciones hispano-portuguesas en Viajes por la América meridional de Félix de Azara”
Enrique Rodrigo, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska
“Beyond Classical Rhetoric: Revisiting Juan Manuel’s
Treatises Inner Sprache”
Carmen
Benito-Vessels, University of
Maryland, College Park
1B. Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Chair: Caroline Jewers, University of Kansas, Lawrence
“The Enigma of Ricoldo da Montecroce:
Authority, Authorship, and Audience in Religious Polemic”
Larry J.
Simon, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo
“Heroic Measures: Decoding Medieval
Heroes through Medieval Emotion Theory”
Caroline
Jewers
“The Transfer of Saints from Eastern
to Western Shores of the Mediterranean in Reality, Myth, and Legend”
Mary M.
Rowan, Brooklyn College, New York
“Jacques Cartier and Jean de Lery: Two
Narrators of Difference”
Susan L.
Rosenstreich, Dowling College,
Oakdale, New York
1C. Getting Personal with Artists and Their
Artworks: A Session to Honor Marilyn Stokstad
Chair: Mindy
Nancarrow, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
“Close Encounters with Antonio del Castillo”
Mindy
Nancarrow
“From the Trenches, or How I Learned to Question
Contemporary Conventions and Embrace My Inner Julia Roberts”
Beth S.
Gersh-Nesic, New York Arts Exchange
“Cryptic Encounters”
M. Rebecca
Leuchak, Roger Williams University,
Bristol, Rhode Island
Commentator: Marilyn Stokstad, University of Kansas,
Lawrence
2A. Imagining
and Building Communities: Towns and Identity in the Hispanic Kingdoms in the
Middle Ages
Chair: José
Antonio Jara Fuente, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain
“Power and fiscality, dividing the social body and
rebuilding the community: direct taxation as an instrument of social coercion
and cohesion”
José Antonio
Jara Fuente
“The Converso community: Forging an identity among
Jewish converts in the Kingdom of Aragon”
Juan Antonio
Barrio Barrio, University of
Alicante, Spain
“Fiscality in a frontier area: Albacete between the
XIIIth and the XVth centuries”
David Igual
Luis, University of Castilla-La
Mancha, Cuenca, Spain
“Nobility and Urban Elites: Building Common Identities, Opposing
Different Marks of Identification in Fifteenth-Century Castile”
Yolanda
Guerrero Navarrete, Universidad Autónoma de
Madrid, Spain
2B. Language and Linguistics
Chair: Angel Felices, University of Granada, Spain
“Algerian Women’s Linguistic Attitudes and Sexual
Taboos: A Sociolinguistic Analysis”
Mebtouche
Nedjai Fatma Zohra, University of
Tizi Ouzou, Algeria
“Tango: Narrative Art in Lunfardo”
Anita
Herzfeld, University of Kansas,
Lawrence
“The Phenomena of Negative Polarity in Modern Greek
and Romance Languages”
Anna Maria
Margariti, University of Patras,
Greece
“Axiological Analysis of Job Offers in the Contemporary
Spanish Press: A Sample from El País”
Angel Felices
2C. Shakespeare, Mediterranean, and the Baroque
Chair: Robert
E. Bjork, Arizona State University, Tempe
“Shakespeare’s Othello,
Caravaggio, and the Edge of Darkness”
Geraldo U.
de Sousa, University of Kansas,
Lawrence
“The Mythic Journey in Othello: Embodied and Disembodied Selves
in Shakespeare and Joseph Campbell.”
Richard Raspa, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
“Shakespeare’s Letters: Troilus and Cressida”
David M. Bergeron, University of Kansas, Lawrence
1:15 – 3:00 Lunch (on your own)
Thursday 3:00 – 5:00
3A. Ancient and Medieval History
Chair: William
S. Monroe, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
“The Guardians of the Ionian Sea: Korkyra,
Cephallenia, Zakynthos (5th to 4th B.C.)”
Kalomira
Mataranga, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
“‘Mare nostrum’ vs. ‘al-bahr al-ausat’? The Roman and
Arab Conquest of the Mediterranean Sea and Its Neighboring Countries”
Jens
Scheiner, University of Hamburg
“Pope Formosus and Hamburg-Bremen”
William S.
Monroe
“The Place of Central and Eastern Europe on the
Cultural Map of the Continent: The Cyrillo-Methodian Church in the Middle Ages”
Ryszard
Grzesik, Institute for Slavistics,
Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan
3B. Demographics, Traditions, and Popular Culture
Chair: Gilbert
Fernandez, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville
“(Re)Producing the Turk: Demography and Territory in
Turkey”
Sezai Ozan
Zeybek, Open University, Milton
Keynes, UK
“Between Tradition and Modernity:
Interdisciplinary Discussion in Mediterranean Cinema”
Meral Özçınar, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Terzioglu, Turkey
“Defining ‘The
Mediterranean’: An Analysis of Etiquette and Behavior”
Hanna Nolze and Steffi Hobuss, Leuphana
Universität Lüneburg
“Treacherous Rockers and Prophets Betrayed”
Laurent Mignon, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
3C. English Drama and the Mediterranean
World
Chair: Geraldo
U. de Sousa, University of Kansas, Lawrence
“‘His Nature is too Noble for the World’:
Action and Speech as Roman Identity in Julius Caesar and Coriolanus.”
Brian
Harries, University of Kansas,
Lawrence
“Revisiting the Custom of the Country, Fletcher,
Massinger, and Cervantes”
Mary Dudy
Bjork, Arizona State University,
West, Phoenix
“Shakespeare and the Cinema: The Tempest as Cinematic Cipher of the Mediterranean”
Phillip
Drummond, New York University in
London, UK
Friday, May 30
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Rotes Feld Campus, Rotenbleicher Weg 67
Friday 9:00 – 11:00
4A. Mediterranean Perceptions and Relations
Chair: Jelena
Bulić, Croatian Institute for History, Zagreb, Croatia
“Women’s Fashions in Transition: Ottoman Borderlands
and the Anglo-Ottoman Exchange of Costumes”
Onur Inal, University of Arizona, Tucson
“Slavic Vigor
and Italian Elegance”: Dalmatia in Nineteenth-Century British Travelogue(s)”
Jelena Bulić
“Mediterranean Cosmopolitanism and the Law: The
Italians of Alexandria, Egypt in the Nineteenth Century”
Elizabeth H.
Shlala, Georgetown University,
Washington, DC
4B. Renaissance Culture
Chair: Susan L.
Rosenstreich, Dowling College, Oakdale, New York
“The Rise of Ahmed Pesqual: Muslim Wealth, Power and
Prestige in Late Thirteenth-Century Spain”
Isabel O’Connor, Indiana University South Bend
“Bound with
Wond’rous Beauty: Eastern Codices in the Library of Federico da Montefeltro”
Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes, University of Stavanger, Norway
“Across Religious and Ethnic Boundaries: Networks and
Spaces in Early Modern Venice”
Stephen
Ortega, Simmons College, Boston,
Massachusetts
“Machiavelli’s Political Modeling”
Waldemar
Hanasz, University of Massachusetts
Lowell
4C. Archeology and Architecture
Chair: Marilyn Stokstad, University of
Kansas, Lawrence
“Some Observations
on the Thracian Castle in Eastern Thrace”
İsmail Hakkı Kurtuluş, Trakya Üniversity, Edirne, Turkey
“The Architecture of Houses in a Transitional Region
in the Case of Datça Peninsula”
Emre Ergul, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey
“French Colonial
Architectural Representation: Algiers Speaks Architecture (1830-1930)”
Kahina Amal Djiar, Polytechnic School of
Architecture and Urbanism, Algiers, Algeria
5A. Greek Literature, Philosophy, and Medicine
Chair: Vaios
Vaiopoulos, Ionian University, Corfu,
Greece
“Africa as the New Ithaca: In N. Kazantzakis’ Odyssey”
Christos C.
Evangeliou
“The Platonic Tradition
in Philosophy and Poetry of Russian Symbolism”
Lilia Castle,
Chaminade University of Honolulu,
Hawaii
“Disease and Transmissibility in the Ancient World:
the Triumph of the Common Sense”
Vaios
Vaiopoulos
“Refuting Polytheism: Shared Premises between the
Daimon and the Demon”
Isha Gamlath, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
5B. Art and Music
Chair: M. Rebecca
Leuchak, Roger Williams University,
Bristol, Rhode Island
“Turkish Figures in the European Ceramics”
Gulgun Yilmaz,
Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey
“Relationships between Etruscan and Anatolian Mural
Painting in Archaic Period”
Fuat Yilmaz, Ege
Üniversitesi Edebiyat, Izmir, Turkey
“Villani-Côrtes’ Pianistic Idiom in His Art Songs: The
Influence of Brazilian Popular, Jazz, Folk, and Urban Musical Elements”
Rubia Santos,
University of Wyoming, Laramie
5C. Medieval
and Early-Modern Spain
Chair: Paul S.
Vickery, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma
“Al-Andalus: The Meeting Place of Three
Cultures”
Ingrid
Classen-Bauer, Leuphana University
Lüneburg
“Beyond Classical Rhetoric: Revisiting Juan Manuel’s
Treatises Inner Sprache”
Carmen Benito-Vessels, University of Maryland, College Park
“Gomes Eanes de Zurara, Garcia de Resende and Their
Impact upon Bartolome de las Casas’ View on African Slavery”
Paul S.
Vickery
“Elizabethan Ottoman Policy: Containing Philip of
Spain”
Thomas P.
Martin, Shippensburg University,
Pennsylvania
“The Recent Discovery of the Diary of Lodewijck
Huygens on a Diplomatic Trip from Holland to Spain in 1660-1661”
Robert G.
Collmer, Baylor University, Waco,
Texas
5D. 20th Century History
Chair: Jo Ann
McNamara, Hunter College, New York
“The German Revolution of 1918: Sailors’ Revolt or
Admirals’ Mutiny?”
Edmund
Clingan, City University of New York
“The United States and a Mediterranean Fratricide
Conflict: The Italian-Greek War, 1940-1941”
Gianluca
Borzoni, University of Cagliari,
Italy
“Fascism and Civil War in Southern Europe: 1943-1945
Italy in Comparative Perspective”
Philip
Minehan, International Institute,
University of California, Los Angeles
“The Commemoration of the Spanish Civil War in
Contemporary Spain”
Lorraine
Ryan, University of Limerick, Ireland
1:15 – 3:00 Lunch (on your own)
Friday 3:00 – 5:00
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Scharnhorstrasse Campus, Building 16, Room 310
6. Music and Dance: A Performance Session
Chair: Ligia Ravenna Pinheiro, Wittenberg University, Ohio
“Poulenc’s ‘Tel Jour, Telle Nuit’: A Pianist’s
Perspective”
Juan La
Manna, State University of New York
Oswego
“Poulenc’s ‘Tel Jour,
Telle Nuit’: A Singer’s Perspective”
Todd Graber, State University of New York Oswego
“Barefoot in Berlin; Isadora Duncan’s Early Career in
Europe”
Ligia Ravenna Pinheiro
Saturday, May 31
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Rotes Feld Campus, Rotenbleicher Weg 67
Saturday 9:00 – 11:00
7A. Ottoman Empire: Economy, Society and
Culture
Chair: Bulent Ozdemir, Balikesir University, Turkey
“Being a Gypsy in the Ottoman Empire”
Emine Dingeç, Dumlupinar University, Kütahya, Turkey
“The Economic History of Pax Ottomana”
Yaşar Bülbül, Kocaeli University, Turkey
“War and Civilian Casualties in Islam and the Ottoman
Practices”
Bulent Ozdemir
7B. Medieval and Renaissance History
Chair: James D.
Ryan, CUNY-Bronx, New York
“Byzantine Sardinia: Periphery of the
Empire or a Military Stronghold (7th-9th c.)?”
Luciano
Gallinari, Istituto di storia
dell’Europa mediterranea del CNR – Cagliari, Italy
“The Establishment of the Poor Clares in
13th-Century Rome: The Cases of S.
Cosimato (1234) and S. Silvestro in Capite (1285)”
Christian-Frederik
Felskau, Freie Universität, Berlin
“Convents,
Conversion and Confines: How to Avoid an Unwanted Marriage in Early Modern
Dalmatia”
Eric
Dursteler, Brigham Young University,
Provo, Utah
7C. Philosophy and Literature
Chair: Stephen
Gingerich, Cleveland State University, Ohio
“Miguel de Unamuno and Ortega y Gasset: Two
Mediterranean Philosophers Facing the Abyss of Modernity”
Joseph A.
Agee, Morehouse College, Atlanta,
Georgia
“Europe’s Frenzy: Spanish and European Universality in
the Thought of María Zambrano”
Stephen
Gingerich
“Auf Wiedersehen Deutschland, hola Mallorca: A
Mallorquin Heimat”
Petra M.
Bagley, University of Central
Lancashire, Preston, UK
“Transgressions in Assia Djebar’s Writing: Being,
Space and Women’s Bodies”
Louisa
Matmati, University of Annaba,
Algeria
8A. Contemporary Mediterranean
Chair: Thomas Demmelhuber, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
“The
Political Economy of Authoritarianism in the Mediterranean—Implications for International
Donor Cooperation”
Thomas Demmelhuber
“Partners or Friendly Neighbors? The Evolution of
Cross-Border Cooperation in the Mediterranean from the Euromed Partnership to
the European Neighborhood Policy”
Walid Bakhos, University of Montreal, Canada
“The Political Culture of the Republic of Cyprus”
Hubert
Faustmann, University of Nicosia,
Cyprus
“Turkey, Greece, Italy and Security in the
Mediterranean Area”
Vladislav B.
Sotirovic, Vilnius University,
Lithuania
8B. Turkish Music
Chair: Juan La
Manna, State University of New York Oswego
“A Good Example of Turkish Music Forms: ‘Mevlevi
Ceremonies (Ayin-i Şerif)’”
Zeynep Barut, Istanbul Technical University, State Conservatory of
Turkish Music, Turkey
“Periodic Analysis of Şarki Form in Turkish Music”
Fatma Gökdel, Istanbul Technical University, State Conservatory of
Turkish Music, Turkey
“Nakis in Turkish Music”
Şerife
Güvençoğlu, Istanbul Technical
University, State Conservatory of Turkish Music, Turkey
8C. Medieval and Renaissance Literature
MOVED TO 1B
Afternoon free
Saturday 7:30
Closing reception sponsored by MSA, Comodo Restaurant,
Obere Schrangenstr. 23