7th Annual International Congress

Mediterranean Studies Association

 

Catalonia & the Mediterranean

 

Universitat de Barcelona

Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània

 

Barcelona, Spain

May 26-29, 2004

 


 

 


 

 


 

 

 

Sponsored by:

  • Mediterranean Studies Association
  • Universitat de Barcelona
  • Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània
  • Museu d’Història de Catalunya
  • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture
  • Arizona State University, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
  • University of Kansas, Center for European Studies

 

Wednesday, May 26

9:00 – 3:30

Optional excursion to Tarragona or walking tour of Barcelona

 

5:00 pm Registration opens

Facultat de Filologia, Universitat de Barcelona,

Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585

6:00 pm Opening Session and Concert, Paraninfo

Concert: “Pictures in Sound”

Rene de la Garza, baritone

Alexandra Mascolo-David, piano

Rubia Santos, piano

Mary Rebecca Leuchak, image choreographer

 

Le travail du peintre, Francis Poulenc

(Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Paul Klee, Juan Miro, Jacques Villon)

 

Piano Sonata “October 1, 1905,” Leos Janacek

 

Lo Violi de Sant Francesc, Joaquin Rodrigo

(from Triptic de Mosen Cinto)

 

En Aranjuez, con tu amor, Joaquin Rodrigo 

(Theme of the adagio from “Concierto de Aranjuez”)

 

Cancion para dormir a un negrito, Xavier Montsalvatge

Canto negro (from Canciones Negras)

 

7:30 pm Reception hosted by Universitat de Barcelona

 

Thursday, May 27

Special Program, Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània

Identidades compartidas: Repensar la antropologia mediterránea/

Shared Identities: Rethinking Mediterranean Anthropology

Co-chairs and Organizers: Joan Bestard, Universitat de Barcelona and Maria-Àngels Roque, Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània

 

10:00 - 11:45 am

Compartiendo identidades/Sharing identities I

Chair: Joan Bestard

“La musealización de la sociedad mediterránea: Museos etnológicos e identidad

Xavier Roigé, Universitat de Barcelona

Classificació conceptual de la linguafranca de la Mediterrània

Eva Martínez, Universitat de Barcelona

Pensar el mito de las amazonas a la luz de la etnografía de comunidades pastorales de la Península Ibérica

Mª-Àngels Roque, Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània

 

11:45 - 12:15 am Coffee break

 

12:15 - 2:00 pm

Compartiendo identidades/Sharing identities II

Chair: Maria-Àngels Roque

“Time, Landscape and the Competition of Mediterranean Identities in Local Literatures”

Eliseu Carbonell, Universitat de Barecleona

Género, procreación y trabajo: el caso de lastrementinaires’”

Joan Frigolé, Universitat de Barcelona

Continuidad de los mitos de origen en el legendario Mediterráneo

Josefina Roma, Universitat de Barcelona

“La Mcdonalización de la dieta mediterránea: Reflexiones sobre un modelo construído y exportado

F. Xavier Medina, Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània

 

2:00 - 4:00 pm Lunch (on your own)

 

4:00 - 5:45 pm

Oral History in Mediterranean Society: Anthropological Views

Chair: Elizabeth Mathias, St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York

“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

 

5:45 - 6:15 pm Coffee break

 

6:15 - 8:00 pm

Entre la unidad y la diversidad/Between Unity and Diversity

Chair: Danielle Provansal, Universitat de Barcelona

“La visión del otro España-Marruecos

Eloy Martín, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Estrategias femeninas en la esfera familiar: mujeres marroquíes pactando matrimonios

Yolanda Aixelà, Universidad de Alicante

“Revisiting Gender in Mediterranean Anthropology: Some Aspects at Debate”

Danielle Provansal

“The Typographic Design: The Case of the Barcelona School

Octavi Rofes, Universitat de Barcelona

 

 

Thursday, May 27: sessions at the University (UB) and the Institute (IEM)

 

10:00 - 11:45 am

 

1A. (UB) Room 0.1

Dialoguing with the Iberian Past

Chair: Gregory S. Hutcheson, University of Louisville, Kentucky

“Cultural Studies Avant la Lettre: Américo Castro and the Hispanic Imagination”

E. Michael Gerli, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

“Going Between”

Leyla Rouhi, Williams College, Massachusetts

“People and Pop Music in the Age of Hyper-Mechanical Reproduction”

Michael Solomon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

“The Iberian Third Space”

Gregory S. Hutcheson

 

1B. (UB) Room 0.2

Feminism and Gender I

Chair: Anne M. Pasero, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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, Miami

“The Development of the Don Juan Myth in the Mediterranean

Henriette Javorek, University of Hamburg, Germany

 

1C. (UB) Room 0.3

Art History I

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, Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art

“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

“Architecture Squeezed from A Pastry Tube: A Look at A. Gaudì

Tina Waldeier Bizzarro, Rosemont College, Pennsylvania

 

1D. (UB) Room 2.6

Shakespeare and the Mediterranean

Chair: David M. Bergeron, University of Kansas, Lawrence

King Lear and the Narratives of Death”

Richard Raspa, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

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, Lawrence

 

1E. (UB) Room 3.5

Public and Private Portugal in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

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 CulturaUniversidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

“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, Portugal

 

1F. (IEM)

Architecture, Archeology, and History

Chair: Everett Rice, Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus

“To Restore or Not to Restore? Modern Implementations at Roman Theatres in Spain

Zeynep Akture Siram, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

“Integration of the Basilical Church and Hypostyle Mosque in Medieval Anatolia

Ali Uzay Peker, Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

“Transformation of the Anatolian Basilica in the Byzantine Middle Ages”

Ufuk Serin, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

“The Llotja de Mar: Gate to the Prosperous City

Shelley E. Roff, University of Texas at San Antonio

 

11:45 - 12:15 am Coffee break

 

12:15 - 2:00 pm

 

2A. (UB) Room 0.1

Comparative Literature

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, Omaha, Nebraska

 

2B. (UB) Room 0.2

Democracy and Political Change across the Mediterranean

Chair: Vasilios W. Alevizakos, London School of Economics, Great Britain

“Do Institutions Matter? Party Organisation and Democratic Consolidation in Spain and Greece

Vasilios W. Alevizakos

“Democratic Institutions in a Non-Democratic Playing Field: The Impact of the 1990 Electoral Reform on Patterns of Electoral Cooperation in Egypt

Hendrik J. Kraetzschmar, London School of Economics, Great Britain

“Procedural and Illegitimate? A Reassessment of Turkish Democracy”

Leda A. Glyptis, London School of Economics, Great Britain

 

2C. (UB) Room 0.3

Art, History, and Culture

Chair: Silvia Bermúdez, University of California, Santa Barbara

“El Colegio de Ingleses and ‘La Vulnerata’: The Jesuit College and the Damaged Image at Valladolid

Robert G. Collmer, Baylor University, Waco, Texas

“To Paint Musically: Francis Poulenc and the Artist/Composer Connection”

Rebecca Leuchak and Nona Debenham, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island

 

2D. (UB) Room 2.6

English-Mediterranean Connections

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, Worcester, Massachusetts

“Spenser’s Mediterranean Homecoming”

David Cunnington, University of Oxford, Great Britain

“Love in a Cold Climate: Reconfigurations of Neoplatonism in English Caroline Literature”

Lesel Dawson, University of Bristol, Great Britain

 

2E. (UB) Room 3.5

Portuguese Studies

Chair: Tiago C. P. dos Reis Miranda, Centro de Historia de CulturaUniversidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

“Prayer, Processions and Persecution: Religious Belief and Practice in Early Eighteenth Century Portugal

John Villiers, King's College London, Great Britain

Elementos para una geografía histórica de las prácticas de sociabilidad: tabernas, cafés y asambleas en Lisboa (finales del siglo XVIII – primeras décadas del siglo XIX)”

Maria Alexandre Lousada, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

“Personification of Portugal in Eça de Queiros

Ricardo Sternberg, University of Toronto, Canada

 

2:00 - 4:00 pm Lunch (on your own)

 

4:00 - 5:45 pm

 

 

3A. (UB) Room 0.1

Multilingualism and the Mediterranean

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, Washington, D.C.

“A Weighty Issue: How do English Speakers Begin to Acquire Spanish Stress”

Leslie S. Gordon, Georgetown Univesity, Washington, D.C.

Diferentes niveles de conciencia en el aprendizaje del español com L2: ¿Qué predice el MLAT?”

Melissa Bowles and Maite Camblor-Portilla, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

 

3B. (UB) Room 0.2

Literature, Spirituality, and Culture

Chair: Susanna Morales Osorio, Universidad de Granada

“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, London, Canada

“El Mediterráneo a través de la ficción: el extraño caso de Sir John Mandeville”

Sonia Fernández Hoyos and Susanna Morales Osorio, Universidad de Granada

Ir y caer en expressiones idiomáticas que no implican movimiento

Ana Serradilla Castaño, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

“The Dark Goddess/Madonna in East-Central Europe, the Mediterranean, and Latin America

Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz, University of Texas at San Antonio

 

3C. (UB) Room 0.3

Literatures in Portuguese

Chair: Angélica Lopes, University of South Carolina, Columbia

Literatura de cordel

Angélica Lopes

“A Força na Anáguas: Querer e Poder de Mulheres na Obra de Lourdes RamalhoMatizes de Hispanidade no Palco Nordestino Contemporâneo

Valéria Andrade Souto-Maior, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil

Nomes e Anagramas nas Novelas Amatórias

Csilla Ladányi-Turóczy, Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

 

3D. (UB) Room 2.6

Artistic Pathways through the Centuries: The Mediterranean Peninsulas of Spain and Italy

Chair: Giose Rimanelli, State University of New York at Albany

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

 

3E. (UB) Room 3.5

The Contemporary Mediterranean

Chair: Joshua B. Stein, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island

“A Middle Eastern Bridge: The Rapprochement between Turkey and Israel

Amikam Nachmani, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

“Civil Society and Democratization in the Context of Turkish Politics”

Ayhan Akman, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

“De Pirenne a Braudel: el Mediterráneo como objeto historiográfico en el siglo XX”

Jaume Aurell, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

“Jose Semprun and the Mediterranean Humanist Tradition”

David Ohana, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel

 

3F. (IEM)

History and the Mediterranean

Chair: Clara Estow, University of Massachusetts Boston

“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, Italy

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, Italy

“The Ottoman Ocean Company”

Şakir Batmaz, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey

 

5:45 - 6:15 pm Coffee break

 

6:15 - 8:00 pm

 

4A. (UB) Room 0.1

Music History I

Chair: Juan La Manna, State University of New York Oswego

“The Sardana: Folk and Classical Delight”

Juan La Manna

Ibiza and Its Music: A Musical Portrait of Old and New Traditions”

Judith Cohen, York University, Toronto, Canada, and Esperança Bonet Roig, Vocal del Consell Assessor de Cultura Popular i Tradicional de les Illes Balears

 

4B. (UB) Room 0.2

Catalonian Studies I

Chair: Jaume Aurell, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

“The Balearic Islands in Late Antique and Byzantine Sources”

Andreas Rhoby, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna

“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, Lawrence

Eugeni D’Ors, Catalan Nationalism, and a Moment of History”

Victoria Enders, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff

 

4C. (UB) Room 0.3

Aesthetics of Iberian Architecture

Chair: Jody Brotherston, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston

“Stone Tectonic: The Galecian Horrero as Textile”

Ronald E. Dulaney, Jr., University of South Florida, Tampa

“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, Ruston

 

4D. (UB) Room 2.6

The Mediterranean and Beyond

Chair: Paul S. Vickery, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma

“The School of Salamanca and International Law”

Paul S. Vickery

“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

 

 

4E. (UB) Room 3.5

Medieval Iberia

Chair: Rafael M. Mérida Jiménez, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

Tres espadas para un rey: la imagen de la monarquia en las Questa del Sant Graal Catalana

Antonio Contreras Martín, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona

“El manuscrito como taller literario: el códice de la traducción en catalán de Los Trionfi del Ateneo do Barcelona

Roxana Recio, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska

La mujer y el poder: teoría y práctica de la reginalidad bajo medieval

Núria Silleras-Fernández, University of California Santa Cruz

 

4F. (IEM)

Greece

Chair: Ernest Greco, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island

“The Greater Mysteries of Eleusis in Aspect of the Comparative History of Religion”

Diána Bácsfi, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

“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, Great Britain

 

Friday, May 28: sessions at the University (UB) and the Institute (IEM)

 

10:00 - 11:45 am

 

5A. (UB) Room 0.1

Tales of Travel in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds

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

“De Galicia a Marruecos: de oceanos, mares y desiertos

Silvia Bermúdez, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

5B. (UB) Room 0.2

Dalí y la vanguardia catalana: propuestas intermediales

Chair: María Soledad Fernández Utrera, University of British Columbia

Exquisitos cadáveres de la vanguardia catalana

Rosa Sarabia, University of Toronto, Canada

Sebastià Gasch’s City: From the Synoptic to the Eulogistic”

Robert A. Davidson, University of Toronto, Canada

Encuentro Dalí-Lacan: el delirio del lenguaje poético

Marta Marín-Dòmine, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada

Retrato de Mae West: Representación, intermedialidad y paranoia en el teatro plástico de Salvador Dalí

María Soledad Fernández Utrera

 

5C. (UB) Room 0.3

Film I

Chair: Strother Purdy, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

“A Softcore movida:  Catalonia, the Mediterranean, and Pornography during the Spanish Transition, 1977-1982”

Daniel Kowalsky, Paris, France

“Don Quixote, Salvador Dali, and the Matrix”

Strother Purdy

“La metàfora de l'illa: Comunitat i globalització en el Mediterrani segons ‘El Faro,’ de Manuel Balaguer

Joan Ramon Resina, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

 

5D. (UB) Room 2.6

Culture and Identity

Chair: Susan L. Rosenstreich, Dowling College, Oakdale, New York

“Domestic Knowledge as a Source of Identity Formation: Arab Women in Israel as Carriers of Culinary Knowledge”

Liora Gvion, Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel-Aviv, Israel

“We of Castiglione: Reading a Linguistic Sign of Reconfigured Localized Identity”

Susan L. Rosenstreich

La cubanomanía española

Araceli San Martín Moreno, Saint Louis University, Campus de Madrid

 

5E. (IEM)

The Mediterranean: Contemporary Issues I

Chair: Eunice Rodriguez, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

“Architectural Identity of Izmir: Changes and Developments in the Housing Schemes in the 20th Century”

Orcan Gündüz and Gülnur Ballýce, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey

“Types of Provincial Structure and Population Health”

Eunice Rodriguez

  

5F. (IEM)

Medieval History II

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, Bristol, Rhode Island

“La leyenda de Otger Cataló, possible núcleo de la historia franco-véneta de Ogier le Danois

Eva Simon, Budapest, Hungary

“Community Identity and the Redemption of Captives: Comparative Perspectives Across the Mediterranean

James Brodman, University of Central Arkansas, Conway

“The Use and Misuse of Art as Evidence by Medieval Historians: Miscues and Modest Achievements”

James F. Powers, Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts

 

11:45 - 12:15 am Coffee break

 

12:15 - 2:00 pm

 

6A. (UB) Room 0.1

Art History II: Architecture

Chair: Marilyn Stokstad, University of Kansas, Lawrence

“The Architecture of Barcelona and Islamic Design”

Tarek El-Akkad, American University in Cairo, Egypt

Brise-Soleil as a Constituent Element of East Mediterranean Modernism

Deniz Güner and H. Gökhan Kutlu, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey

Asplund and the Mediterranean

Francis Lyn, University of South Florida, Tampa

“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, Turkey

 

6B. (UB) Room 0.2

Film II

Chair: Marta Marín-Dòmine, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada

“Snobs, Yobs and Italian Jobs: Crime, Euro-skepticism and the Mediterranean in British film 1969-2000”

Kevin Foster, Monash University, Roodepoort, South Africa

“History, Memory, Myth: The Mediterranean as Location in Pasoloni’s Work”

Haim Bresheeth, University of East London, Great Britain

 

6C. (UB) Room 0.3

Reassessing Convivencia

Chair: Amy Aronson-Friedman, Valdosta State University, Georgia

“A Catalan Contribution to the Converso Controversy”

Amy Aronson-Friedman

“Conversion and Diversion in Iberian Cutting Poems”

Jean Dangler, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

Maurofilia and Maurofobia after the Reconquest: The ‘Split Other’ in El Abencerraje y la bella Jarifa

Ana Benito, Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

“The Converso Problem and the Fountain of Life (Madrid, the Prado)”

Leslie Ann Blacksberg, Bowling Green State University, Ohio

 

6D. (UB) Room 2.6

Renaissance History I

Chair: Mary L. Dudy Bjork, University of California Santa Barbara

“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, Warrensburg

“Crossing Religious Boundaries in Early Modern Venice: Christian and Muslim Renegades”

Georgios Plakotos, University of Glasgow, Great Britain

 

6E. (IEM)

Turkey’s Changing Cyprus Policy

Chair: Deniz Ulke Aribogan, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey

“The Impact of Cyprus Problem upon Turkish Economy”

Hilal Akgul, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey

“An International Problem or a Domestic Political Material?”

Nevin Yurdsever Ates, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey

“The Reasons of Change in Turkey’s Cyprus Policy”

Deniz Ulke Aribogan

 

6F. (IEM)

Medieval History III (Navigation and Trade)

Chair: James D. Ryan, CUNY-Bronx, New York

“The Politics of Trade and Violence: Denia and Barcelona in the Eleventh Century”

Travis Bruce, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, and Université de Poitiers, France

“The Ottoman Empire as a Mediterranean Power: Outline of a Maritime History”

Eyüp Özveren and Onur Yildirim, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

“Life in the Saddle: The Twelfth-century Counts of Urgel and the Kingdoms of Aragón-Barcelona and León-Castile”

Bernard F. Reilly, Villanova University, Pennsylvania

“In the Service of Italy’s ‘simulatore e dissimulatore’ the ambassadors of Ferrante I d’Aragona (1458-1494)”

Paul M. Dover, Georgian Court College, Lakewood, New Jersey

 

2:00 - 4:00 pm Lunch (on your own)

 

4:00 - 5:45 pm

 

7A. (UB) Room 0.1

Music History II

Chair: Wei Tsun Chang, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville

Barcelona and Baroque Opera: The Work of Jordi Savall

Sharon Cumberland, Seattle University, Washington

“Gabriel Fauré Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 15: A Historical and Formal Analysis”

Wei Tsun Chang and Seanad Dunigan Chang, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville

“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, Mount Pleasant

 

7B. (UB) Room 0.2

Renaissance History II

Chair: Paul M. Dover, Georgian Court College, Lakewood, New Jersey

“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

 

7C. (UB) Room 0.3

Art History III

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, Pennsylvania

“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

 

7D. (UB) Room 2.6

Feminism and Gender II

Chair: Victoria Enders, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff

“Encounters with the Feminine in the Mediterranean

Angie Voela, King’s College London, Great Britain

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, Paris, France

 

7E. (IEM)

Catalonian Studies II

Chair: Antonio Contreras Martín, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona

Gender and Nationalism in Early 20th c. Catalonia: Eugeni d'Ors' Ben Plantada and Women in the Invention of a Catalan Mediterranean Nation”

Ana Isabel Romero Sire, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Desde Pedralbes hasta la Creciente Fértil: el Mediterráneo en la obra de Clara Janés

Anne M. Pasero, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

“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, France

Retorn a les illes: narrativa catalana d’aquest darrer tombant de segle

Juan M. Ribera Llopis, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

 

7F. (IEM)

Medieval History IV (Navigation and Trade)

Chair: Eleanor Congdon, Youngstown State University

Aragonian and Hungarian Relations in the Later 13th Century”

Attila Barany, Debrecen University, Hungary

“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, Ohio

Puertos y ciudades portuarias en el Mediterraneo: Transformaciones des de la baja edad media a la moderna

Joan Alemany, Curator of exhibition “Mediterraneum: Splendour of Medieval Mediterranean (XIIIthXVth Centuries)”

 

6:30 pm

Visit to exhibition “Mediterraneum,” Museu Marítim

(bus will depart from the Institute at 6:00)

 

 

Saturday, May 29: all sessions at the Institute

 

10:00 - 11:45 am

 

8A. (IEM)

History of Sexuality

Chair: Strother Purdy, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

“Pregnant Men and the Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern Spain

Sherry Velasco, University of Kentucky, Lexington

“Erotic Themes in Catalonian Romanesque Sculpture”

Glenn W. Olsen, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

Representaciones del homoerotismo femenino en las letras hispánicas medievales

Rafael M. Mérida Jiménez, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

 

8B. (IEM)

Music History III

Chair: Alexandra Mascolo-David, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant

“The Tango’s Influence on Brazilian Piano Literature”

Alexandra Mascolo-David and Rubia Santos, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant

“It’s Not Enough to just be Els Pets: Surviving Success in Contemporary Catalonia”

Maria Van Liew, West Chester University, Pennsylvania

 

8C. (IEM)

Early Modern Spanish Literature

Chair: Cleveland Johnson, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia

Dimensiones figurativas y vivenciales del Mediterráneo en los escritos del Siglo de Oro

Encarnación Juárez-Almendros, University of Notre Dame, Indiana

“Seguidillas folclóricas del siglo XVIII español

Scott Dale, Marquette University en Madrid

“Sacrifice and the Body in Garcilaso’s Eclogues

John McCaw, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

 

8D. (IEM)

Some Consequences of the Enlightenment for the Jesuits and Iberia

Chair: Daniel Reff, Ohio State University, Columbus

“The Inalienable Rights of the Dead: The Controversy over El Negro of Banyoles

Brian Murphy, Ohio State University, Columbus

“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, Washington, D.C.

 

8E. (IEM)

Medieval History V

Chair: Zsolt Hunyadi, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

“Un hospitalario catalan en el Mediterraneo oriental: Antoni de Fluvià, maestre del Hospital en Rodas (1421-1437)”

Pierre Bonneaud, Barcelona

“Mediterranean Personnel in the Commanderies of the Hungarian Hospitaller Priory”

Zsolt Hunyadi

“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, Barcelona

 

11:45 - 12:15 am Coffee break

 

12:15 - 2:00 pm

 

9A. (IEM)

The Mediterranean: Contemporary Issues II

Chair: Maria Van Liew, West Chester University, Pennsylvania

“The Barcelona Declaration 1995: A Reality or a Mere Vision”

Amine Hadj-Koudier, BBC World Service, London, Great Britain

Spain Living, Spain Dying”

John Naylon, Keele University, Great Britain

“Poets and Translators:  The School of Barcelona

Andrew S. Walsh, Universidad de Granada

 

 9B. (IEM)

Twentieth-Century History

Chair: Anissa Lardjane, Paris, France

“Church, State and Education: The Privileged Position of the Sección Femenina

Jessica Davidson, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

“Between Empires and Faith: The Work of the Burgos Fathers in Mozambique (1960-1975)”

Mustafah Dhada, Clark Atlanta University, Georgia

 

9C. (IEM)

The Mediterranean and the Atlantic

Chair: Sheila Pelizzon, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

“Maltese Cosmopolitism: Between Kind and ‘Violent’ Invaders”

Carmelina Gugliuzzo, University of Messina, Italy

“Omitted People in the Mediterranean in the Age of Philip II”

Sheila Pelizzon

“The Power of Color: How a Lowly Insect Nearly Rivaled Gold and Silver in Spain’s Trans-Atlantic Trade”

Rick Langhorst, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia

 

9D. (IEM)

Philosophy, Politics, and Literature

Chair: Diana Glad, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia

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, Atlanta, Georgia

“An Analysis of Sayyid Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani (1838/9-1897) in 19th-Century Islamic Political Thought”

Seda Unsar, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

 

9E. (IEM)

Medieval History VI (Art and Power)

Chair: Jaume Sobrequès i Calicò, Director Museu d’Història de Catalunya

“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, Minneapolis

“La Instalación del poder aragonés en el reino de Nápoles según las crónicas italianas (1424-1450)”

Stephan E. Péquignot, Casa de Velázques, Madrid

“El retorno a la antigüedad: una obsesión artística medieval”

Xavier Barral i Altet, Curator of exhibition “Mediterraneum: Splendour of Medieval Mediterranean (XIIIthXVth Centuries)”

 

 

2:00 - 4:00 pm Lunch (on your own)

 

 

 

6:00 Museu d’Història de Catalunya, Closing Concert and Reception

(bus departs from the Hotel Gran Ducat at 5:00 and again at 5:30)

 

Concert

Clarion String Trio

Wei Tsun Chang, Violin

Seanad Dunigan Chang, Viola

James Fiste, Cello

 

Serenade for violin viola and cello, Op. 8 in D major, Ludwig van Beethoven

Passacaglia for violin and viola, Handel–Halvorsen

Serenade for violin, viola and cello, Op. 10 in A minor, Erno v. Dohnanyi

 

Reception