6th Annual International Congress of the Mediterranean Studies Association
Central European University, Budapest
9:30 – 3:30
The bus will leave from Hotel City Panzio Matyas at 9:30 a.m. Hotel Taverna guests should assemble in lobby at 9:15 a.m. from which we walk over together (5 mins). From the CEU Residence (leave, to be on the safe side, by 8:45) take any bus to the Metro terminal and then Metrol (“red line”) to Astoria station. Exit towards Hotel Astoria and walk down (towards the Danube) Kossuth Lajos street to the last corner before the bridge, turn left, and you'll see the sign of Matyas (max. 10 mins.). We will arrive back to the same place by ca. 3-3:30 p.m.
Central European University, Nador u. 9
6:00 Opening Session followed by Reception hosted by CEU
1A. Senate Room
Shakespearean Geographies
Chair: David M. Bergeron, University of Kansas, Lawrence
“Elizabeth I, or England and Hungary: Unsettling Mediterranean Representation with Central European Hagiography”
Daryl Palmer, Regis University, Denver, Colorado
“Hamlet, Denmark, and the Politics of Pleasure”
Geraldo de Sousa, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio
“Wherefore to Mantua? Shakespeare’s Geography”
David M. Bergeron
“The Winter’s Tale: Folklore’s Function in Shakespeare’s Construction of Central Europe”
Richard Raspa, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
Orientalism in Latin American Literature I
Chair: Silvia Nagy-Zekmi, State University of New York at Albany, and Isabel de Sena, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
“Del Moro al Oriental”
Hernán Taboada, UNAM, Mexico
“‘Traveling Theories’: Orientalism and Modernity in Latin American Cultural Discourse”
Mabel Morańa, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
“Los beduinos de Sarmiento: un espejo orientalista en la pampa argentina”
Isabel de Sena
“Linguistic Choices and the Negotiation of Arab-Argentine Identities”
Christina Civantos, University of Miami, Florida
1C. Gellner Room
Archaeology and Museums
Chair: József Laszlovszky, Central European University, Budapest
“The Mediterranean and Central Europe: Point of View of Early Medieval Archaeology”
Bálint Csanád, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
“The Mediterranean and the Carpathian Basin Between the Late 6th and the First Half of the 7th Century AD: The Case of the Stirrup”
Vasco LaSalvia, Central European University, Budapest
“Spoiling the Spolia: The Destructive Influence of Museum Preservation”
Wendy Meryem Kural Shaw, Ohio State University, Columbus
1D. Room 309
Chair: Andrei Pippidi, University of Bucharest, Romania
“Ottomans in Venice, Venetians in Istanbul”
Belgin Turan Ozkaya, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
“The End of the Florentine Colony of Constantinople”
Andrei Pippidi
“Ottoman Political Spectacle: Reconsidering the Devshirme”
Charles Argo, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
“Articulating the Self Through Confrontations with the ‘Other’: The Imagining of Communities on the Habsburg-Ottoman-Hungarian Marches in an Account [British Library MS O.R. 12961] of the Sieges of Kanije 1600-01”
Claire Norton, Birmingham University, England
Art History I
Chair: Marilyn Stokstad, University of Kansas, Lawrence
“Mapping Visual Identity and Culture in the Mediterranean between the 10th and 13th Centuries”
Eva R. Hoffman, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
“Domenikos Theotokopoulos’ Landscapes of Mount Sinai—Between Byzantium and the Renaissance”
Cristina Stancioiu, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
“Negotiating Sanctity in Early Modern Spain: Mariana de Jesús and the Problem of the Portrait Likeness”
Mindy Nancarrow, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
“Italian Artists and Traders in Search of Fortune in Leopoli since the 16th Century”
Angelantonio Rosato, LIMES-Rivista Italiana di Geopolitica, Rome, Italy
2A. Senate Room
Between Tradition and Secularization: Inter-Religious Dialogues in the Mediterranean
Chair: Dan Diner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (Israel), and The Dubnow Institute (Leipzig, Germany)
“The Jewish Invention of the Mediterranean in the Age of Emancipation”
Dan Diner
“Muslim and Jewish Reformists in Mid-19th-Century Tunisia: The Beginnings of New Dialogue”
Yaron Tzur, Tel Aviv University, Israel, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
“The Kadi’s Prison: Apostates and Converts in an Ottoman Port-City”
Eyal Ginio, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel
2B. Popper Room
Orientalism in Latin American Literature II
Chairs: Silvia Nagy-Zekmi, State University of New York at Albany, and Isabel de Sena, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
“Order and Progress, Wars against Terrorism and the Politics of Fear”
Lynn McGovern, Sweet Briar College, Virginia
“Disappearing Acts: Remembering the Victims of the Dirty War”
Kevin Foster, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
“’Tengo de árabes noble descendencia’: identidad velada y reconocimiento en la última obra de Juan Francisco Manzano”
Marilyn Miller, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
“El mono gramático: escritura poética y orientalismo: Transacciones imaginarias de Octavio Paz”
Gladys Ilarregui, University of Delaware, Newark
2C. Gellner Room
Renaissance Literature
Chair: Gregory S. Hutcheson, University of Louisville, Kentucky
“The Exportation of Mediterranean Textuality: The Case of the Mestizo Codices of the 16th Century”
Laurence de Looze, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
“A Passing Reference to Transylvania in Cervantes’ Las dos doncellas”
Frances Luttkikhuizen, University of Barcelona, Spain
“Circumnavigating the Mediterranean as Pornutopic Fantasy in the Decameron (Day II)”
Louise O. Vasvári, State University of New York at Stony Brook
2D. Room 309
Chair: István Perczel, Central European University, Budapest
“The Doctrine of Two Ways and Natural Ethics in Lactantius”
Gábor Kendeffy, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
“The Northern Syrian Roman-Byzantine Landscape in the Middle Eastern Mediterranean Formal Homogenous Region”
Palma Librato, School of Architecture, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
2E. Room 409
Art History II
Chair: Liana De Girolami Cheney, University of Massachusetts Lowell
“The Art of the Icon”
Tina Waldeier Bizzarro, Rosemont College, Pennsylvania
“Bronzino’s Pygmalion and Galatea: l’antica bella maniera”
Liana De Girolami Cheney
“Esther in Budapest: Arent de Gelder’s ‘Esther and Mordecai Writing Letters to the Jews’”
Beth Gersh-Nesic, Purchase College, State University of NewYork
“Displaying the Other: The L.A. Mayer Museum of Islamic Art in Jerusalem”
Alla Myzelev, Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada
2F. Auditorium
The Holy Crown of Hungary
Visit to the Parliament Building, where the medieval crown of St Stephen is presently kept. Brief introduction to its history will be given by Prof. J. M. Bak. Maximum 25 persons. Please sign up at Registration Desk, the sooner, the better. Meet in the Auditorium, from which the group will proceed together to the site (ca. 15 minutes walk). The entrance fee is presently HUF 1200 (ca. EUR 5), payable at the entrance. The visit may take up some of the lunch-time.
12:15 – 2:00 Lunch (on your own)
Thursday 2:00 – 3:30
3A. Senate Room
Medieval Studies I
Chair: Joan Dusa, Los Angeles County Office of Education, California
“Church Offices and Social Promotion of the Families of Urban Elites in the Communal Societies of the Eastern Adriatic”
Zrinka Nikolic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
“Last Wills as Sources for Researching Social Structures in Late Medieval Dalmatian Communes”
Zoran Ladić, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb
“Italian Clerics, Court Members, and Merchants in Medieval Prague: A Sketch”
Christian-Frederick Felskau, Freie Universität, Berlin
3B. Popper Room (continued in 4B)
Between Generations: Muslim Responses to Globalization and the Contemporary World System in the Middle East and Europe
Chairs: Mark LeVine, University of California Irvine and John Esposito, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
Forum Discussants:
Nadia Yassine, Morocco
M. Hakan Yavuz, University of Utah
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, School of Oriental & African Studies, London, England
Amr Hamzawy, Cairo University, Egypt
Tariq Ramadan, University of Geneva, Switzerland, and University of Fribourg, Switzerland
John Esposito
Khaled Abou E-Fadl, University of California Los Angeles
Eastern Mediterranean Issues
Chair: Linda T. Darling, University of Arizona, Tucson
“Provisioning Istanbul from the Byzantine to the Ottoman Empires: A Study in Institutional Continuity and Change”
Onur Yildirim and Eyup Ozveren, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
“Rethinking the Medieval Mediterranean in Russia”
Nadia Selounskaia, Russian Academy of Sciences, Center for Comparative Studies of Ancient Civilizations, Moscow
“19th-Century European Travelers’ Accounts as the Shared or Comparative Sources in Writing Ottoman History”
Bülent Ozdemir, Balikesir University, Turkey
“Israel: From East and Central Europe to the Mediterranean”
David Ohana, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
3D. Room 309
The Piano Quartets of Johannes Brahms
Note: A concert featuring Alexandra Mascolo-David and James Allen Fiste will take place at 6:00 pm on Friday (admission by ticket only). Sponsored by Central Michigan University.
Chair: Alexandra Mascolo-David, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
“The Piano Quartets of Johannes Brahms”
Alexandra Mascolo-David
“Thematic Unity in Brahms’ Piano Quartet in C Minor, op. 60, Based on the Clara Motive”
James Allen Fiste, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
3F. Auditorium
Comparative Representations of the Roma in European Literature and Film
Chair: Katherine Gyékényesi Gatto, John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio
“Representations of the Gypsy Woman in French and Ukrainian Art, Music, and Literature”
Hélčne N. Turkewicz-Sanko, John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio
“Influence of French ‘Nouveau Roman’ & ‘Nouvelle Vague’ on Péter Esterházy’s Novel, Tizenhét Hattyúk [sic; Seventeen Swans], and András Solyom’s Film, Érzékek Iskolája [School of the Senses]”
Mártha Pereszlényi-Pintér, John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio
“The Gypsy Woman and the Male Imagination in Western and Eastern Europe”
Katherine Gyékényesi Gatto
“Strangers Among Us—Gypsies in Today’s Transylvania” (documentary)
Rita Cebuc, John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio
Thursday 3:45 – 5:30
4A. Senate Room
Chair: Guy Mermier, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“Lost Troubadours and Troubadour Ghosts: Catalonia, Roussillon, and Italy”
Kathryn Klingebiel, University of Hawaii at Manoa
“English Translation of the Rumanian Bestiary Studied in the Light of the Ancient Physiologus Tradition”
Guy Mermier
“Estrutura Profunda Idéntica del Poema de Mio Cid y de la Chevalerie Ogier Franco-Véneta”
Eva Simon, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
“‘Hell on Earth’: Historicizing French Narrative Discourse in Bohemia, Hungary and Lombardy”
Anne M. Dropick, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
4B. Popper Room (continued from 3B)
Between Generations: Muslim Responses to Globalization and the Contemporary World System in the Middle East and Europe
Chairs: Mark LeVine, University of California Irvine and John Esposito, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
Forum Discussants:
Nadia Yassine, Morocco
M. Hakan Yavuz, University of Utah
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, School of Oriental & African Studies, London, England
Amr Hamzawy, Cairo University, Egypt
Tariq Ramadan, University of Geneva, Switzerland, and University of Fribourg, Switzerland
John Esposito
Khaled Abou E-Fadl, University of California Los Angeles
4C. Gellner Room
4D. Room 309
History I: Renaissance Networks
Chair: Paul S. Vickery, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma
“Long-distance Trade and State Formation in Late Medieval Mediterranean. The Case of the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt (1400-1517)”
Francisco J. Apellániz, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
“Was Las Casas Responsible for the African Slave Trade?”
Paul S. Vickery
“Muslim-Jewish Relations in 16th-Century Constantinople/Istanbul, Based on the Life of the Businesswoman Garcia Mendez from Portugal”
Marianna Birnbaum, University of California Los Angeles
4E. Room 409
Crossing Boundaries: The Theater
Chair: Ricardo Bigi de Aquino, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
“Adrienne Lecouvreur: Reality and Myth in the Making of a Cultural Icon”
Ricardo Bigi de Aquino
“Rethinking Mother/Daughter Roles: Diana Raznovich’s Casa Matriz”
Margarita Vargas, State University of New York at Buffalo
“Mediterranean Life Lessons: A Sociocultural and Literary Analysis of Gérard Gélas’s Ode ŕ Canto”
Henriette Javorek, Universität der Bunderswehr, Hamburg, Germany
Friday 9:00 – 10:30
5A. Senate Room
Twentieth-Century Literature and Travel
Chair: Maria Angélica Lopes, University of South Carolina, Columbia
“O Viúvo: Franca Junior’s Apprenticeship”
Maria Angélica Lopes
“The Cosmopolitan Writer on the Orient Express: Leaving Turkey for Germany”
Petra Bagley, University of Central Lancashire, England
“Gustav Herling: A Writer in Double Exile”
Moyra Byrne, Washington, DC
5B. Popper Room
Medieval Literature II
Chair: Susan L. Rosenstreich, Dowling College, Oakdale, New York
“An Oriental Interpretation of La Celestina”
Amy Aronson-Friedman, Valdosta State University, Georgia
“Cathars and Courtly Love”
Susan L. Rosenstreich
“La filla del rei d'Ungria and Medieval Genre Theory”
Emily C. Francoromano, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
5C. Gellner Room
Medieval Studies II
Chair: Robert E. Bjork, Arizona State University, Tempe
“Immateriality of the Soul in King Alfred’s Boethius: Sources and Channels of Transmission of the Neoplatonist Doctrine of the High Middle Ages”
Ruta Sileikyte, Central European University, Budapest
“Sources of a Story about the Murdered Croatian King in the Hungarian-Polish Chronicle”
Ryszard Grzesik, Institute for Slavistics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań
“Singularity, Translation, and the Name of God”
David E. Johnson, State University of New York at Buffalo
5D. Room 309
Nationhood & Identity II
Chair: Henriette Javorek, Universität der Bunderswehr, Hamburg, Germany
“Religion, Territory and National Identity in Europe and United States: Christian Ecclesiology and the Symbolic Creation of Space”
Dan Dungaciu, University of Bucharest, Romania
“Europe on the Stage: Margarete Bieber’s The History of The Greek and Roman Theatre (1961) as an Historical Account of the Unitary Origin of European Identity”
Zeynep Aktüre Siram, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
“Ethnic Nationalism Versus State Nationalism: A Comparison Between the Case of Spain and the Case of Turkey—Basque and Kurdish Nationalism: A Common Fate?”
Nesrin Ucarlar, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey
“Food and Politics of Identities: The Case of Arab Cuisine in Israel”
Liora Gvion, Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel-Aviv, Israel
5E. Room 409
Propuestas interartísticas y recepción critica de la vanguardia espańola
Chair: Laurence de Looze, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
“Poesía visual, pintura verbal y la estética de los ańos veinte”
Rosa Sarabia, University of Toronto, Canada
“Góngora entre neoclasicismo y creacionismo en la poética del 27”
Hans Lauge Hansen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
“Monóculo de Ramón: fotografía, nación y memoria en la vanguardia”
María Soledad Fernández Utrera, University of Calgary, Canada
Friday 10:45 – 12:15
6A. Senate Room
Trends in Early Modern Portuguese History
Chair: Francis A. Dutra, University of California Santa Barbara
“Sexual Deviancy and the Portuguese Titled Nobility: The Case of the Count of Vila Franca”
Francis A. Dutra
“Interest Groups in Eighteenth-Century Portugal: The Mesa do Bem Comum and Its Demise”
Bill Donovan, Loyola College of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
“Heads of Portuguese Diplomatic Missions Abroad: An Introduction to a Prosopographical Approach”
Tiago C. P. dos Reis Miranda, Centro de História da Cultura da Universidade Nova de Lisboa/Instituto Diplomático do Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros de Portugal
6B. Popper Room
Mediterranean Military Orders in Central Europe
Chair: Zsolt Hunyadi, University of Szeged, Hungary
“The Knights Hospitalers in Hungary and Croatia”
Zsolt Hunyadi
“The Participation of the Crusading Orders in Polish Lands in the Crusade Movement”
Maria Starnawska, Academy of Podlasie, Siedlce, Poland
“The Charitable Activities of the Order of St. John of Malta in Post-Communist Central Europe, especially Hungary”
Peter Piazza, Ambassador to Hungary of the Sovereign Order of St. John of Malta
6C. Gellner Room
Greece: History, Culture, and Politics
Chair: Dennis Stathakopoulos, University of Vienna, and Central European University, Budapest
“The First Peace Operation? The European Great Powers’ Effort to Establish Peace in the Island of Crete in 1897”
Gábor Boldizsár, Zrinyi Military Academy, Budapest, Hungary
“‘All for Greece, Nothing Against Italy’: Religious Irredentism and Secular Nationalism in the Italian-Held Dodecanese Islands, 1919-1921”
Phillip Carabott, King’s College, London, England
“‘I’m Tired of My Country’: National Ideals and Greek Education in 1930”
Elissavet Vidali, King’s College, London, England
“Reconstruction in the Face of Civil Strife and Underdevelopment: UNRRA’s Operations in Greece (April 1945–June 1947)”
Flora Tsilaga, King’s College, London, England
6D. Room 309
6E. Room 409
Medieval Studies III
Chair: Rossina Kostova, University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria
“Economic Relations between Florence and Hungary in the Late Middle Ages”
Zsuzsanna Teke, Institue of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
“The Western Pontus in the 13th-15th Centuries: Crossroads or Periphery?”
Rossina Kostova
“The Black Death and the Dalmatian City—The Examples of Dubrovnik, Zadar, Split, and Trogir”
Gordan Ravanĉić, Croatian Institute for History, Zagreb
6X. Round Lobby
Corvinas and other Medieval Manuscripts: Visit to the Széchényi National Library
The Keeper of MSS, Dr. Orsolya Karsay, will present a few Corvina codices in original and others in facsimile or digitalized format. Other medieval MSS and a special group of Slavic MSS (a joint research project of the library and CEU) will be presented in a special exhibition. The possibility of seeing rare books and meeting librarians is also foreseen. Maximum 25 persons. Please sign up at Registration Desk, the sooner, the better. Meet in the round lobby (near Registration), from which the group will proceed by public transport (if you have no ticket, these will be available at HUF 150) to Buda Castle. The visit may take up a good part of the lunch-break time. (A cafeteria is available in the Library and other restaurants are nearby.)
12:15 – 2:00 Lunch (on your own)
Friday 2:00 – 3:30
7A. Senate Room
Ottoman History II
Chair: Joan Dusa, Los Angeles County Office of Education, California
“The Story of the Building of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople and the Historiographic Tradition”
Kateryna Kovalchuk, Central European University, Budapest
“Ottoman Conquests of 1453 and 1475 and Their Impact on the Jewish Communities of Byzantium and Crimean Peninsula”
Mikhail Kizilov, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
“Documents on the Crisis and Transformation in the Genoese Commercial Empire at the Time of the Fall of Constantinople”
Enrico Basso, Soprintendenza Archivistica per la Liguria—Genova, Italy
“The Fall of Constantinople and the Discourse of the Turkish Peril in Europe”
Almut Höfert, University of Basel, Switzerland
7B. Popper Room
Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean Issues I
Chair: Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Central European University, Budapest
“Constitutional Conundrums in Turkey”
Arolda Elbasani, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
“Regional Voting Behavior in Spain”
Margaret Gonzalez-Perez, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond
“Regional Security in the Western Mediterranean”
Jaouad Haqhaqi, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
“Asylum in the Mediterranean Region: Rights Unfulfilled”
Isabel Cara Martin, American University in Cairo, Egypt
7C. Gellner Room
Spanish Literature and the Information Age I
Chair: Nina Molinaro, University of Colorado, Boulder
“(Dis)information and El Sueńo de Venecia by Paloma Diaz Mas”
Robert C. Spires, University of Kansas, Lawrence
“Virtual Reality in Jesús Torrecillas’ Guía de Los Angeles”
Dennis Perri, Grinnell College, Iowa
“Guillermo de Torre’s Technological Prosthesis”
Juli Highfill, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
7D. Room 309
Medieval Studies IV
Chair: Clara Estow, University of Massachusetts Boston
“Mapping Central Europe: The Catalan Atlas and the European Imagination”
Clara Estow
“Italy and Central Europe in the Ninth Century: As Seen Through the Annales Fuldenses and Other Contemporary Sources”
William S. Monroe, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
“Al-Andalus and the Moral Discourse of History”
William Gallois, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
“The Influence of Abi Shaq al-Shatibi on Muslim Spanish Society”
Deina Abdelkader, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
7E. Room 409
Art History III
Chair: Béla Zsolt Szakács, Central European University, Budapest
“Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: From Transparency to Neue Sachlichkeit”
Preston Thayer, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
“Karol Schayer, a Pole in Beirut”
George Arbid, Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, Beirut
“Woven Essentialism: ‘Transylvanian Carpets’ and Western Perspectives of the East”
James Clyde Allen Redman, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
7F. Auditorium
Digitization of the Corvinas Manuscripts in the National Library
Presentation on the digitization project of the magnificent manuscripts from the original Renaissance collection created by King Matthias. Thirty-five manuscripts in the National Library have been digitized in this phase of the project that will eventually bring together in a virtual collection all the 216 identified manuscripts worldwide.
3:30 – 3:45 Coffee Break (outside Popper and Gellner rooms)
Friday 3:45 – 5:30
8A. Senate Room
Chair: Deina Abdelkader, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
“Town and Community: The Jewish Communities in the Mediterranean in the 19th–20th Centuries”
Jacob Barnai, University of Haifa, Israel
“The Mediterranean Orientation in the Discourse of Intellectuals in Egypt and Israel: A Comparative Study”
Shimon Shamir, Tel Aviv University, Israel
“Anti-colonialismo, Movimento Ati-colonialista (MAC) e a Internacionalizaçăo do Movimento de Libertaçăo: O Contributo de Amílcar Cabral para a denúncia do colonialismo portuguęs”
Juliăo Soares Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal
“Conflicting Identities: The Revival of Mittleuropa in Italian National Discourse after 1989 vs. Italy’s ‘Southern Europeanness’”
Ilaria Favretto, University of Kingston, Kingston-upon-Thames, England
8B. Popper Room
Dalmatian/Croatian/Balkan History
Chair: Vasco LaSalvia, Central European University, Budapest
“Communes and a Magnate: The Example of the Relationship between Ŝubići and Dalmatian Cities”
Damir Karbić, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb
“Les échanges économiques sur la côte adriatique orientale ŕ la fin du Moyen Age”
Sabine Florence Fabijanec, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb
“Coupled Oscillation on the Balkan Peninsula”
Sahizer Aydin, Bochum, Germany
8C. Gellner Room
8D. Room 309
8E. Room 409
Literature, Music, Dance & Film: Enduring Memory
Chair: Cleveland Johnson, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
“Czardas Like Paprika: The Export of Cultural Spice”
Juan F. LaManna, State University of New York at Oswego
“Recovered Memories: Al-Andalus in the 21st-Century”
Gregory S. Hutcheson, University of Louisville, Kentucky
Palace of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
6:00 – 7:00 Concert, sponsored by Central Michigan University (by ticket only)
Alexandra Mascolo-David, piano
James Fiste, cello
7:00 – 8:30 Reception hosted by MSA (by ticket only)
9A. Senate Room
Globalization
Chair: Mark LeVine, University of California Irvine
“Processes of the Local Deconstruction of Global Events and Messages: Case Studies from Egypt”
Amr Hamzawy, Cairo University, Egypt
“The Mediterranean and Modernity in the Age of Globalization”
Sangjin Park, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Korea
“The Cultural Economics of Globalization: Continuities and Divergences in Muslim and European Experiences Over Time”
Mark LeVine
9B. Popper Room
Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean Issues II
Chair: Abdulla al-Dabbagh, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain
“Understanding Osama Bin Laden through a Reading of Don Quijote”
Joanna Courteau, Iowa State University, Ames
“Towards Peace in the Mediterranean: Controversial Issues in Arabic/Israeli and American Literature”
Saddik M. Gohar, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain
“Mediterranean Demography: The Two Sides of the Sea”
Bouhdira Sofiane, University of Tunis, Tunisia
“Mediterraneanism in Modern Arab Cultural Thought”
Abdulla al-Dabbagh
9C. Gellner Room
Medieval Studies V
Chair: István Petrovics,University of Szeged, Hungary
“Immigrants from Mediterranean Countries in the Urban Communities of Medieval Slavonia in the Late Middle Ages”
Marija Karbić, Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb
“Chiese eretiche, eretici senza Chiesa nel Mediterraneo tardomedievale”
György Galamb, University of Szeged, Hungary
“Agostino Barbadigo’s Instructiones datae Angelo Gradenigo as a Source for the History of Late Fifteenth Century Venetian Maritime Law”
Evguenia V. Anichtchenco, Institute of Russian History, St. Petersburg
9D. Room 309
Spanish Literature and the Information Age II
Chair: Robert C. Spires, University of Kansas, Lawrence
“The Tragic End of Ethics? Gender, Technology and Contemporary Spanish Literature”
Nina L. Molinaro, University of Colorado, Boulder
“Siting and Writing the Body in the Fiction of Lucía Extebarria”
Jessica A. Folkart, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
“On Embodied Vision and the Persistence of Memory: Virtual Reality in Alejandro Amenábar’s Abre los ojos”
Monika Szumilak, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
9E. Room 409
Art History IV: Art & Architecture
Chair: János M. Bak, Central European University, Budapest
“Byzantium or Italy? Interpreting 11th-Century Hungarian Architecture”
Béla Zsolt Szakács, Central European University, Budapest
“Local Variants of Byzantine Church Architecture in Belarus”
Iryna Hanetskaya, Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences, Minsk, Belarus
“The Boundaries of the Mediterranean City”
Giulia Annalinda Neglia, School of Architecture, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Saturday 10:45 – 12:15
10A. Senate Room
Mediterranean Queens in Central Europe—Central European Queens in the Mediterranean World
Chair: Marianna Birnbaum, University of California Los Angeles
“Donna Regina: Queen Maria of Hungary”
Attila Barany, University of Debrecen, Hungary
“Bona Sforza in Poland (16th Century)”
Anna Brzezinska, Central European University, Budapest
“Two Hungarian Queens: Beatrice of Aragon and Anne of Candale (15th-16th Centuries)”
Orsolya Réthelyi, Central European University, Budapest
10B. Popper Room
De Constantinople ŕ Barcelone
Chair: Salvatore Bono, Societé internationale des historiens de la Méditerranée, Rome, Italy
“Hungarian-Ottoman Peace Treaties: Made, Kept, Broken”
Sándor Papp, University of Szeged, Hungary
“La Sud de la Mediterranée vu par les Hongrois aus XIX e sičcle (Récits de voyage)”
Ákos Ferwagner, University of Szeged, Hungary
“L’occupation de l’Egypte en 1882 et l’Autriche-Hongrie”
Krisztián Komár, University of Szeged, Hungary
“Le processus de Barcelone et les pays candidats de l’Europe centrale a l’Union européenne”
László J. Nagy, University of Szeged, Hungary
10C. Gellner Room
Merchants and Merchant Networks in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Chair: Eric Dursteler, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Commentator: David Michael D'Andrea, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
“Antwerp and Venice: Connecting the North Sea and the Mediterranean”
Donald J. Harreld, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
“Working and Living in Venice: A Greek Perspective”
Ersie Burke, Anatolia College and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
“Venetian Merchants in Constantinople, 1573-1645”
Eric Dursteler
10D. Room 309
10E. Room 409
Ottoman History III
Chair: Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Central European University, Budapest
“Istanbul and Late Ottoman Modernism: Reconsidering the Relationship between the Ottoman Capital and Arab Provincial Capitals”
Nadia Al-Bagdadi
“Western Literary Reflections of the Fall of Constantinople”
S. Purdy, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
“The Image of the Turks in 17th-Century Transylvania: A Case Study”
Gábor Kármán, Central European University, Budapest
12:15 – 2:00 Lunch (on your own)
Saturday 2:00 – 3:30
The “Grand Turk” in Political Thought from the 16th to the18th Century
Chair: János M. Bak, Central European University, Budapest
“The Conqueror of Constantinople as an Ideal Ruler in Orthodox Russia of the 16th Century (Mehmed II in Ivan Peresvetov’s Works)”
Mark Youssim, Moscow Institute of Universal History, Russian Academy of Sciences
“Dimitri Cantemir’s Writings about the Grand Turk in the Court of Peter the Great”
Andrea Marculescu, Central European University, Budapest
“Pope Pius II’s Letter to Sultan Mohammed II: A Version of Renaissance Self-Fashioning?”
Yuri Zaretsky, Russian State University for the Humanities Collegium, Budapest
11B. Popper Room
History II
Chair: Carla Rahn Phillips, University of Minnesota
“Family Identity and Empire: The Fernández de Córdoba Lineage in Oran and Navarre”
Yuen-Gen Liang, Princeton University, New Jersey
“Central European Travelers in Iberia in the Fifteenth Century”
William D. Phillips, Jr., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
“The Contact Between Tübingen (Germany) and Constantinople at the End of the 16th Century: The correspondence between Martin Crusius and Theodosios Zygomalas”
Andreas Rhoby, University of Vienna, Austria
11C. Gellner Room
Medieval Studies VI
Chair: István Petrovics,University of Szeged, Hungary
“Hungary and the Adriatic Coast in the Middle Ages: Power Aspirations and Dynastic Contacts of the Árpádian and Anjou Kings in the Adriatic Region”
István Petrovics
“The Development of Notarial Practice and Its Influence on the Development of Written Culture”
Branka Grbavac, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb
“La Riforma ospedaliera del XV secolo in Italia e la sua influenza nell’Europa Centrale”
Francesco Bianchi, Universitŕ degli Studi di Parma, Italy
“Knighthood in León and Castile in the 13th through the Middle of the14th Century”
Oleg Aurov, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
11D. Room 309
History III
Chair: Brian A. Hodson, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
“A Discourse on Justice in the Eastern Mediterranean Lands in the Late 15th Century”
Linda T. Darling, University of Arizona, Tucson
“Catholic Crusaders in Imperial Service: Cardinal Kollonitsch, Count Carafa, and the Reconquest of Hungary”
Brian A. Hodson
“Joseph Bonaparte in America: Artistic Contributions to a New Republic (1815-1839)”
Regina A. Mezei, Mercer County Community College, Trenton, New Jersey
“Three Women of Asolo, Italy: Caterina Cornaro, Katharine de Kay Bronson, and Eleonora Duse”
Robert G. Collmer, Baylor University, Waco, Texas
11E. Room 409
Art History V
Chair: Rebecca Leuchak, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island
“The Influence of Ottoman Threat on the Choice of Motives in Sacral Paintings in Dalmatian Communes in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries”
Meri Kunĉić, Lexicographic Institute Miroslav Krleža, Zagreb, Croatia
“The Benedictine Abey of Opatija (Croatia): Foundation, Dating, Naming, and Other Problems”
Amir Muzur, Rijeka, Croatia
“The Art of Mattia Pretti in Seventeenth-Century Central Europe”
Luigi Tassoni, University of Pécs, Hungary
“Dynastic Ambitions and Art in Mid-15th Century Mantua”
George Noszlopy, University of Central England, Birmingham, England
3:30 – 3:45 Coffee Break (outside Popper and Gellner rooms)
Saturday 3:45 – 5:30
12A. Senate Room
12B. Popper Room
Chair: Gábor Klaniczay, Central European University, and Collegium Budapest
“The Influence of the Eastern Rituals on the Orphic Mysterium Cults of the Hellenistic Age”
Diana B. Bácsfi, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
“Cultic Healing in Antique Pagan and Byzantine Christian Cults”
Ildikó Csepregi, Central European University, Budapest
“Animals and Plants in the Iberian Sentimental Romances”
Csilla Ladanyi-Turoczy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
“L’immaginario acqueo e le immagini del mare negli scrittori del centro Europa”
Lorenzo Chichiú, Academia Lingua Italiana, Assisi, Italy
12C. Gellner Room
Medieval Studies VII
Chair: Joan Dusa, Los Angeles County Office of Education, California
“How Real Was the Possibility of Reunification between Orthodoxy and Catholicism in the Fourteenth Century?”
Joan Dusa
“Le relazioni tra la Repubblica di Genova e l'Ungheria dopo la caduta di Costantinopoli”
Alfonso Assini, Archivio di Stato di Genova, Italy
“Opinions on Ecclesiastical Union before and after the Fall of Constantinople”
István Baán, University of Miskolc, Hungary
12D. Room 309
Armenia: Culture & History
Chair: Zsolt Hunyadi, University of Szeged, Hungary
“The Apocryphal Letter of Concordance Between Gregory the Illuminator of Armenia and Pope Sylvester and Its Concept of Union Between Churches”
Zara Pogossian, Central European University, Budapest
“Andrew II of Hungary, Leon I of the Armenians, and Pope Honorius III: An Arpadian Flirtation with Cilicia”
Peter Halfter, Marbach/Neckar, Germany
“La Subaucasia en La Fleur des Histoires de la Terre d’Orient di Het’Own”
Marco Bais, University of Bologna, Italy
12E. Room 409
Northern Europe and the Mediterranean in 19th and 20th Century Painting [session in Italian]
Chair: Maurizia Migliorini, University of Genoa, Italy
“Phenomenology of Pictorial Styles between Northern Europe and the Mediterranean”
Maurizia Migliorini
“Monet and the Mediterranean”
Leo Lecci, University of Genoa, Italy
“The Italian Journeys of Paul Klee”
Paola Valenti, University of Genoa, Italy