10th Anniversary Mediterranean Studies Congress
Universidade de Évora
Évora, Portugal
May 30 - June 2, 2007
10:00 – 1:00
Walking-tour of Évora (pre-registration required)
9:30 – 3:00 (depart from Hotel Cartuxa)
Bus-tour of prehistoric sites
(pre-registration required)
Universidade de Évora
6:00 Opening Session, Aula Magna
7:00
Reception hosted by Universidade de Évora
Universidade de Évora (all sessions will be held at the University)
1A. Imagens e Representações do
Portugal Mediterrânico: Dos Relatos Setecentistas aos Guias e Roteiros de
Viagens Contemporâneos
Chairs: Antónia Fialho Conde and Maria Ana
Bernardo, Universidade de Évora
“Itinerários e lugares: o Alentejo como espaço de
lazer e de cultura nos guias e roteiros de viagens (1880-1930)”
Ana Cardoso de Matos, Universidade de Évora
Maria Ana Bernardo
“Do
Alentejo Vermelho ao Alentejo New Age: imagens e representações”
Ana
Lavrador, Universidade de Lisboa
Maria
Alexandre Lousada, Universidade de Lisboa
“Évora e o Sul nos Relatos de Viagens do Período Moderno”
Antónia Fialho Conde
1B. Medieval History I
Chair: Jo Ann McNamara,
“Adriatic Identity: An Unknown Feeling in
Early Medieval Adriatic?”
Francesco Borri, Notre
Dame University, Indiana
“The Emirate of Bari: Christian-Muslim
Relations in the Ninth-Century Mediterranean”
Travis Bruce, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo
“The Topography of Genoese-Jewish Interaction
on Chios, 1450-1500”
Brian Becker, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo
“Cracking the Salamantine
Lantern Code from Jerusalem to Boston”
James F. Powers, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts
1C. Art History I
Chair: Gilbert Fernandez, Tennessee
Technological University, Cookeville
“Giorgio Vasari’s Oratory at Cortona”
Liana Cheney, University of Massachusetts
Lowell
“Stewards of Nature: An Analysis of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Seasons”
Donna Bilak, Bard
Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New
York
“Interrogations of Women, Women’s Sexuality,
Eroticism, and the Spiritual in Contemporary Mediterranean Art”
Martine Antle,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1D. 16th-Century Exploration and Travel
Chair: Daryl Palmer, Regis University,
Denver, Colorado
“An Assessment of William Toweson’s Three Voyages to Guinea (1555, 1556, 1558)”
Frances Luttikhuizen, Barcelona, Spain
“Imagining Europe”
Daniel Reff, Ohio State University, Columbus
“Spanish and Portuguese Explorers of the South Pacific”
Carol Beresiwsky, Kapiolani Community College, University of Hawaii
“The Case of Castaño
de Sosa: A Portuguese Conquistador Negotiates Authority in the American
Southwest”
Daryl
Palmer
1E. The Ottoman Empire and Modern
Chair:
“The Creation of the Turkish Image in the
16th-Century Mediterranean: Self-Reflection versus Anti-propaganda”
Özlem Kumrular, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
“Women’s Everyday Lives in Ottoman Society:
The Rule of Seclusion and Strategies of Participation”
Neşe Öztimur, Bursa,
Turkey
“Ottoman Provisionism
and Guilds: Tanners in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul”
Onur Yildirim, Middle
East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
“Women and Islamic Politics in the
Mediterranean Region: The Case of Turkey”
Nilufer Narli, Bahçeşehir
University, Istanbul, Turkey
2A. Notícias Setecentistas do
Ultramar Português
Chair: Fernanda Olival, Universidade de Évora
“Discussão, negociação e gestão da política ultramarina: a América
portuguesa no alvorecer do século XVIII”
Maria Fernanda Bicalho, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
“Do Atlântico ao Índico: notícias ultramarinas do Diário do 4.º Conde da
Ericeira (1729-1740)”
Tiago C. P. dos Reis Miranda, Centro de História da Cultura da Universidade
Nova de Lisboa
“Os oráculos da geografia iluminista: D. Luís da Cunha e D’Anville na
construção da cartografia sobre o Brasil”
Júnia Ferreira Furtado, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
“Poder e conhecimento: a imagem do Brasil colonial em Inglaterra”
Ângela Domingues, Instituto de Investigação Científica e Tropical, Lisbon
2B. Ancient History
Chair: Martine Sauret, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
“Athenian Naval Operations: Expeditions in
the Ionian Sea (375-373/2 BC)”
Kalomira Mataranga,
Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
“L’Afrique du Nord
antique à la croisée des peuples de la Méditerranée”
Fatima Ouachour, Université de Nantes, France
“Des langues, un pays
(Plurilinguisme dans la Basse Antiquité égyptienne)”
Adel Sidarus,
Universidade de Évora
2C. Music History I
Chair: Alexandra Mascolo-David, Central
Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
“The Piano Music of the Portuguese Composer António de Lima Fragoso”
Alexandra Mascolo-David
“Villani-Côrtes’s Pianistic Idiom in His Art Songs: The Influence of
Brazilian Popular, Jazz, Folk, and Urban Musical Elements”
Rubia Santos, Central
Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
“O(A) Professor(a) de
Canto e o ensino: percursos e contextos”
Natália
de Lima Ferreira, Conservatório Regional de Ponta Delgada, Azores
2D. Early Modern English Drama I: North African
Encounters
Chair: David M. Bergeron, University of
Kansas, Lawrence
“Contaminating Cleopatra: Animal Hybridity and the Wilds of Egypt in Shakespeare’s Antony
and Cleopatra”
Gaywyn Moore, University of Kansas, Lawrence
“Marlowe’s Demythologized Aeneas”
Brian Harries, University of Kansas, Lawrence
“John Dryden’s Don Sebastian”
Geraldo U. de Sousa, University
of Kansas, Lawrence
2E. Portuguese History I
Chair: David Higgs, University of Toronto, Canada
“The Dark Side of the Mediterranean:
Expressions of Fear from the Inquisition to the Present”
Maria Antónia Lima,
Universidade de Évora
“¿Protegieron Salazar y
Franco sus industrias corcheras? Aranceles y tipos de cambio en España y
Portugal, 1930-1975”
Amélia Branco Dias, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão,
Lisboa, and Francisco M. Parejo Moruno, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain
“The Portuguese Revolution of 1974-75 and Its
Impact on the Spanish Transition to Democracy through the Eyes of the Spanish
Clandestine Press”
Raquel Varela, ISCTE, Lisbon
1:15 – 3:00 Lunch (on your own)
Thursday 3:00 – 5:00
3A. Urban Taxation and Power Networks: Social
Control of Revenue in the Iberian South (13th-15th Century)
Chair: Hermínia Vasconcelos Vilar, Universidade de
Évora
“Representation without Taxation? Portuguese Fourteenth-century ‘Cortes’ and Royal Finances”
António Castro Henriques,
York University, UK, and Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Lisbon
“A Few Problems around a Fiscal Transition”
Hermenegildo Fernandes, Universidade de Lisboa
“The King’s Control over Revenue: Modes of Tax Reception in Southern Medieval Portugal”
Hermínia Vasconcelos Vilar
“Personal Guaranties and Economic Fees: Building a Systemic Institutional Apparatus of Domination in Fifteenth-Century Urban Castile”
José Antonio Jara Fuente, Universidad de
Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain
3B. Romance Literary and Cultural Studies
Chair: Susan L. Rosenstreich,
Dowling College, Oakdale, New York
“Eleonora Fonseca
Pimentel: Construction of a Heroine, Martyr, and Revolutionary”
Alicia Vitti, Wake
Forest University, North Carolina
“Who Are We? A Troubled Pronoun in Two
Traditional Communities in Southwestern France”
Susan L. Rosenstreich
“Escritura geminada en
la novela sentimental”
Carmen Benito Vessels, University of Maryland, College Park
3C. Happy Birthday to You: Marking the
Anniversaries of Masterpieces
Chairs: Beth Gersh-Nesic, New York Arts Exchange and Purchase College, and Mindy Nancarrow, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
“Once More and Yet Again”
Marilyn Stokstad, University of Kansas, Lawrence
“Bon Anniversaire/Feliz Cumpleaños: Pablo Picasso’s Demoiselles at 100”
Beth Gersh-Nesic
“Gernika Gernikara: Picasso’s Guernica 25 Years Later”
Mindy Nancarrow
Discussant: “Periodicity”
M. Rebecca Leuchak, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island
3D. Early Modern European Studies
Chair: Paul S. Vickery, Oral Roberts
University, Tulsa, Oklahoma
“Inca Garcilaso,
Boccaccio, Acosta: A Reading of Royal Commentaries, Book VIII”
José-Luis Gastañaga,
Villanova University, Pennsylvania
“Gomes Eanes de Zurara, Garcia de Resende and
Their Impact upon Bartolome de las
Casas’ View on African Slavery”
Paul S. Vickery
“The Fragile Vessel: Theological Discourse
and the Ascetic Female Body in Early Modern Spain”
Susan Laningham,
Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville
“The Limits of the Possible in the Mediterranean: Grain Provisioning in
Spanish and Ottoman Empires at the End of the Eighteenth Century”
Seven Agir,
Princeton University
3E. Medieval Literature
Chair: Kathryn Klingebiel, University of Hawaii
at Manoa
“Rereading Boccaccio’s Masetto
da Lamporecchio”
Richard Bonanno,
Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts
“Banned at the BN”
Kathryn Klingebiel
“Les Explorateurs Normands”
Martine Sauret, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Friday, June 1, 9:00 – 11:00
4A. Hispanic Studies and the Mediterranean I
Chair: Enrique Rodrigo, Creighton University,
Omaha, Nebraska
“La lírica amorosa de Jorge Manrique: tópicos y
lenguaje”
Filomena Compagno, Terracina, Italy
“La historia del Sendebar como icono de la cultura mediterránea”
Maria Dolores Bollo-Panadero, Miami University,
Oxford, Ohio
“Cancioneros
y Petrarca: Una Muestra de la Produccion Poetica en el Mediterraneo”
Roxana Recio, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska
4B. Ties That Bind: Religious Organizations and
the State in Early Modern Portugal
Chair: Francis Dutra, University of California at Santa Barbara
“The Lisbon Inquisition and the Elite after Pombal”
David Higgs,
“Philip II and the Portuguese Order of Christ, 1580-1598”
Francis Dutra
“Business Interest Groups in Early Modern Portugal: The Mesa do Bem Commun do Commercio”
Bill Donovan, Loyola College of Maryland
4C. Archaeology and Architecture
Chair: Suna Guven,
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
“An Old Port-City in the Eastern Mediterranean: Alaiye
(Alanya) and Cultural Relations with the Occident (An
Archaeological Approach)”
Z. Kenan Bilici,
Ankara University, Turkey
“Some Observations on Late Antique and Byzantine Rural Settlements in
Western Asia Minor”
Ufuk Serin, Middle East Technical University,
Ankara, Turkey
“A Building of the Last Ottoman Architecture:
The Selimiye Mosque in Uskudar”
Betül Bakir, Yildiz Technical Institute, Istanbul, Turkey
“Traditional Lefka
Houses of Cyprus”
Gül Akdeniz, Yildiz
Technical Institute, Istanbul, Turkey
4D. Arabic Poetry, Europe, and Orientalism
Chair: Abdulla Al-Dabbagh,
United Arab Emirates University
“Same-Sex Love between Women in Medieval
Arabic Literature”
Sahar Amer, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Muhammad Zafzaf,
Latin America, and the Politics of Literacy”
Samuel England, University of California,
Berkeley
“East of the Mediterranean: The Positive
Achievement of Victorian Orientalism”
Abdulla Al-Dabbagh
4E. Mediterranean Cultural Studies I
Chair: Susan L. Rosenstreich,
Dowling College, Oakdale, New York
“Transition of a Port City: From Ottoman to
French-Mandate Beirut”
Pelin Kihtir Öztürk, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
“From the Lost Tribe to the Smallest Ally: An
Outline of the History of the Little-Known Assyrian Christians during and after
WW I”
Bulent Ozdemir, Balikesir University, Balikesir,
Turkey
“New Settlements during Fascist Regime(s):
From an Economical Need to a Strategic Instrument of Propaganda”
Romeo Carabelli,
University of Tours, France
5A. Security in the Euro-Mediterranean Space:
Discourse and Realities
Chair: Nursin Atesoglu Guney, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
“The Alliance of Civilizations: The Meaning of Cultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean”
Cumhur Mumcu, Maltepe University, Istanbul, Turkey
“The Fostering of a Euro-Mediterranean Entity as a Prelude for Dialogue”
Thomas Demmelhuber, University of Erlangen, Germany
“Recent Security Initiatives of the EU and NATO in the Mediterranean: The Western Stand”
Nursin Atesoglu Guney
“EU-NATO Security Strategies: The Main Challenges Facing the West in Mediterranean Security”
Visne Korkmaz, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
5B. Mediterranean Subjects and Objects in
Twentieth-Century Spain
Chair: Nina Molinaro, University of Colorado at Boulder
“Reading Lesbian Desire in Julia and El
amor es un juego solitario”
Dolores Martín-Armas, SUNY, Potsdam
“Buñuel, Dalí, and the Object of Decay”
Juli Highfill, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“Watching, Wanting, and the Gen X Soundtrack of Gabriela Bustelo’s Veo Veo”
Nina Molinaro
“The Other Side of the Mediterranean: The Question of Landscape in Xurxo Lobato’s Photography”
Patricia Keller, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
5C. Film, Photography, and Cultural Studies
Chair: Paula Soares,
Universidade de Évora
“Performing the City,
Performing Spain: Acciones culturales en la vanguardia histórica española”
Maria Soledad Fernandez Utrera, University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
“Tropes of the Sea: The Mediterranean as Cinematic Sign of Liminality and Difference”
Phillip Drummond, New York University in London, UK
5D. A Bridge to the 21st Century: Italian
Writers from the 1950s to Today
Chair: Giose Rimanelli, State University of New York at Albany
“Americani sullo schermo italiano: ‘Arrivano i
nostri,’ il boogie woogie e ‘tu vuò fa l’americano”
Antonio Vitti, Wake Forest University, North Carolina
“The Poetic and Narrative Works of Paolo Volponi: An Account of Post-war Italian Society”
Joseph Perricone, Fordham University, New York
“Rhyme and Meter in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Dialect Poetry”
Luigi Bonaffini, Brooklyn College, New York
“The Medieval World in an Italian Writer’s Work Written in the US: Giose Rimanelli’s Accademia”
Sheryl Lyn Postman, University of Massachusetts Lowell
5E. Medieval History II
Chair: Clara Estow, University of Massachusetts
Boston
“Sisterhood and Sainthood: The Daughters of
King Sancho I of Portugal”
Ronald Surtz,
Princeton University, New Jersey
“Portugal: The View from the Court of
Fernando III of Castile”
Bernard F. Reilly, Villanova University,
Pennsylvania
“Religious Piety or Social Distinction: Patrician
Patronage of the Dominican Convent of Santa Catalina in Thirteenth-Century
Barcelona”
Antonio M. Zaldivar,
Princeton University, New Jersey
“In Gold We Trust: Notes on the Gold Trade in
Medieval Iberia”
Clara Estow
1:15 – 3:00 Lunch (on your own)
Friday 3:00 – 5:00
6A. Hispanic Studies and the Mediterranean II
Chair: Roxana Recio, Creighton University, Omaha,
Nebraska
“La Suerte de Jorge Manrique en Alemán”
Charlotte Frei, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz,
Germany
“El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes
y sus relaciones con la narrativa bufonesca del Mediterráneo”
Enrique
Rodrigo, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska
“Costana y el amor a lo Petrarca: una poética desarollada del Mediterráneo”
Josefa Conde de Lindquist, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“María de Aragón, Isabel de Portugal e Isabel de Castilla: Un estandarte en
defensa de las mujeres en la tardía Edad Media”
Jaime Leaños, University of Nevada-Reno
6B. Contemporary Mediterranean Issues
Chair: John Naylon,
Keele University, UK
“Confetti of Empire: Gibraltar, a British
Colony in the Mediterranean”
John Naylon
“Forms of Mediterranean resistance
against the Atlantic Imperialism”
Elina (Carmelina) Gugliuzzo, Università degli
Studi di Messina, Italy
“‘A British Jihadist’:
Co-existence and Muslim Radicalism”
Amikam Nachmani, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan,
Israel
6C. Architecture and Art
Chair: Memory Holloway, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
“Roman Period Theater Construction in Sicily:
A Theoretical Approach Based on Fernand Braudel’s ‘Three Planes of Historical Time’”
Zeynep Akture, Izmir
Institute of Technology, Turkey
“The Poetics of Rupture, Oblivion and Remembrance: Connecting Past and
Present in Nicosia, Cyprus”
Suna Guven, Middle East
Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
“Time Traveling and Visions of the Future:
Pan-Antropos Path”
Paula Soares, Universidade
de Évora
6D. Lusophone Literature and Culture
Chair: Ana Luísa Vilela,
Universidade de Évora
“O mar como metáfora do
espaço criativo na poesia portuguesa contemporânea”
Maria
Cristina Firmino Santos, Universidade de Évora
“O sujeito da História
também rediscute o discurso mítico e o discurso poético nas literaturas
portuguesa e brasileira”
Mônica de Souza Lopes, Faculdade de Artes do Paraná, Brazil
“Presence of the Sacred Bull, Seen through
Two Divergent Aspects”
Antonieta
Costa, Universidade do Minho, Braga
6E. Music History II
Chair: Nermin Kaygusuz, State Conservatory of Turkish Music, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
“‘Fasil’
in Turkish Music”
Şerife Güvençoğlu,
State Conservatory of Turkish Music,
Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
“The Musical Notation of Hamparsum
Limonciyan as Introduced to Turkish Music in the
First Quarter of the Nineteenth Century”
Gulay Karamahmutoglu, State
Conservatory of Turkish Music, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
“The Meşk
Method in Turkish Music Education”
Nermin Kaygusuz
“La soirée du Henné dans
la tradition turque”
Fulsun Komutan, State Conservatory of Turkish Music, Istanbul
Technical University, Turkey
“The Educational System and Institutions in
the Ottoman Empire”
Zeynep Barut, State Conservatory of Turkish Music, Istanbul
Technical University, Turkey
Saturday, June
2, 9:00 – 11:00
7A. Late Medieval & Renaissance Literature
Chair: Robert G. Collmer,
Baylor University, Waco, Texas
“Rodrigo Cota: A
Case of Converso Poetics?”
Amy Aronson-Friedman, Valdosta State University,
Georgia
“In Search of Constantinople: The
Mediterranean Adventures of Tirant lo Blanc”
Montserrat Piera,
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“Motherhood and Ritual Murder in Spain: The
Case of El Santo Niño de la Guardia”
Barbara F. Weissberger,
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
“John Donne: His Spanish Connections”
Robert G. Collmer, Baylor University, Waco,
Texas
7B. Portuguese History II
Chair: Francis Dutra, University of California at Santa Barbara
“Knights, Squires and Foot Soldiers—With
Reference to the 16th-Century Military Revolution in Portugal”
Pedro de Brito,
Porto
“Commendas da Ordem
do Hospital em
Paula Pinto Costa,
Universidade do Porto
“Populações vulneráveis:
histórias de vidas na Misericórdia de Évora—sécs XVII-XVIII”
Rute Pardal, Universidade de
Évora
7C. Art History II
Chair: Gilbert Fernandez, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville
“Tales of the Great Mosque of Cordoba”
Jennifer Roberson, Minnesota State
University, Moorhead
“The Late Medieval Allegory of Justice from Monsaraz”
Luís Urbano Afonso,
Universidade de Lisboa
“Ottoman Carpets in Holland: From Baroque
Painting to the Industrial Revolution”
Gulgun Yilmaz, University
of Thrace, Edime, Turkey
7D. Early Modern English Drama II
Chair: Susan O. Shapiro, University of Kansas, Lawrence
“Portia: Conniving or Evolving”
Elizabeth Acosta, University of Texas at El
Paso
“Host and Hostage: Caliban,
Prospero and The Tempest’s Hostil/pitality”
David Ruiter,
University of Texas at El Paso
“Visible Whispering, Audible Shouts, Enacted
Signs: The Making of Meaning in Macbeth”
Richard Raspa,
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
“Wherefore
David M. Bergeron, University of Kansas, Lawrence
8A. Mediterranean Cultural Studies II
Chair: Sheila Pelizzon,
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
“Marginalized in the Mediterranean: The Lack
of an African Presence in Mediterranean and Ottoman Economic History”
Sheila Pelizzon
“Mediterranean Studies: Cui Bono?”
Eyup Ozveren, Middle
East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
“From Prospective-Turks to Pseudo-Citizens:
Kurds and Citizenship in Turkey”
Mesut Yegen, Middle East
Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
“Mediterranean Landscapes along Waterways:
The Challenge of Heritage, Territory, and History”
Laura Verdelli,
University of Tours, France
8B. Modern Literature and Theater
Chair: Ricardo Bigi de Aquino, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco,
Brazil
“Telling stories of culture through literature:
D. H. Lawrence and the Mediterranean”
Ana Clara Birrento, Universidade de Évora
“Venting the Malaise of Contemporary Life:
Young Voices in Portuguese Theater”
Ricardo Bigi de Aquino
“Análise sociológico-literária
de três peças de Jorge Andrade”
Rosemari Bendlin Calzavara, Universidade Norte do
8C. Art History III
Chair: M. Rebecca Leuchak, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island
“Gaela Erwin:
‘Saintly’ Self-Portraits”
Dorothy Joiner, LaGrange College, Georgia
“Low Objects and Dead Things: Picasso and the
Still Life of War”
Memory Holloway, University of Massachusetts
Dartmouth
“‘But, Lady, Since I
Drank of Thee, I Never Have been Sated’: On Love Pots and Love Poems in
Medieval Rhodes”
Cristina Stancioiu,
University of California at Los Angeles
8D. Lusophone Literature
Chair: Maria Cristina
Firmino Santos, Universidade de Évora
“Liber Pater: O
Louvor de Baco da Antigüidade Greco-Latina ao Renascimento Luso-Italiano”
Luiza Nóbrega,
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Dido, Senhora do
Mediterrâneo”
Elisa Nunes Esteves,
Universidade de Évora
“‘Este luminoso e
magnífico céu azul’: reflexões queirosianas sobre o clima meridional”
Ana
Luísa Vilela, Universidade de Évora
8E. Modern Portugal and Spain
Chair: Gilbert Fernandez, Tennessee Technological
University, Cookeville
“Humanism and Physics in Ortega y Gasset,
a Quantum Leap?”
Joseph A. Agee, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia
“Portuguese Economy and Foreign Policy
Confronting Middle Eastern Crises: From 1956 to 1973”
Fernando Martins, Universidade
de Évora
“Ageing in Portugal: An Overview”
António M. Fonseca, Catholic University of Portugal,
Porto
1:15 – 3:00 Lunch (on your own)
Saturday 3:00 – 5:00
9A. Medieval Studies
Chair: James F. Powers, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts
“All Choked Up: The Portrayal of Asphyxiophila (Strangulation to Achieve Orgasm) in
Twelfth-Century Iberian Church Scripture”
Glenn Olsen, University of Utah, Salt Lake
City
“Sex and the Foreign Ambassador: Gendering
Diplomatic History and Other Challenges to Traditional Studies”
Lorraine Attreed, College of the Holy Cross,
Worcester, Massachusetts
“The Finance and Preparation of Royal Reception Ceremonies:
Reconsiderations of Models of Hegemony”
Luis X. Morera,
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
9B. Italian Cultural Studies
Chair:
“The Inferiority of the Mediterranean Race in Italian Positivist
Anthropology at the Turn of the Century”
Tulio Pagano, Dickinson
College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
“And the Journey Never Ended: Notes from the
Italian Transoceanic Emigration”
Sebastiano Marco Ciccio,
Università degli Studi di
Messina, Italy
“Genoa, the G8 and Globalization”
Vincenzo Binetti,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
9C. Music and Dance History
Chair: Juan La Manna, State University of New
York, Oswego
“Claude Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune: Sensuality and Innovation”
Juan La Manna
“Nijinksy’s ‘Faun’:
Tracing His Madness”
Ligia Ravenna Pinheiro,
Wittenberg University, Ohio
9D. Ancient Greece and Rome
Chair: Christos E. Evangeliou,
Towson University, Maryland
“Poetic Inspiration in Ancient Greek Poetry”
Catherine Collobert,
University of Ottawa, Canada
“Odysseus as Hellenic Cultural Hero”
Christos E. Evangeliou
“Hypermestra as Seen
by Ovid in Heroides
14”
Vaios Vaiopoulos, Ionian
University, Corfu, Greece
Saturday 5:30
Closing reception sponsored by MSA