10:00 – 1:00
Walking-tour of Salamanca (pre-registration required). Please meet our guide in the Plaza Mayor at the entrance of the Ayuntamiento (Town Hall), where all the flags are flying.
Universidad de
Salamanca. Edificio Histórico. Patio de Escuelas, 1
6:30 Opening Session
7:30 Reception hosted by the University of
Salamanca
Universidad de
Salamanca. Edificio Histórico. Patio de Escuelas, 1
1A. Myth in the Mediterranean: A Diachronic Approach
Chair: Vaios Vaiopoulos, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
Athena Hadji, Open University of Cyprus, Nicosia, “Et in Arcadia ego: Flight or Return? The Mythological Dimensions of the Reception of the Greek Landscape”
Ioanna L. Hadjicosti, Open University of Cyprus, Nicosia, “The Weighing of Souls: The Motif of “Psychostasia” from Homer to Byzantium”
Stella Souvatzi, Open University of Cyprus, Nicosia, “Before and Behind Greek Myths or the Past in the Past: Symbolism, Ideology and Tradition in Greek Prehistory and Its Role in the Making of Memory and Continuity”
1B. Identity and Culture in the Western Mediterranean: Four Cases
from the Middle Ages
Chair: Carla Rahn Phillips, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Michelle Hamilton, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, “Identity and Death in a Hebrew aljamiado Version of the Danza de la muerte”
François Menant, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, “Identity and Emigration, 12th-14th Centuries: Shepherds, Ironworkers and Dockers from Bergamo throughout Italy and the Mediterranean”
Kathryn Reyerson, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, “Maritime Identity and Culture in Aigues-Mortes ca. 1300”
Mary Quinn, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, “Morisco Identity in Late Medieval Iberian Cultural Production”
1D. An Example of
Cultural Adaptation / Cultural Transformation: Settled Europeans in Alanya,
Turkey
Chair:
Yesim Ocak, Maltepe University, Turkey
Filiz Susar-Özdıl, Maltepe University, Turkey, “An
Applied Example, Used by Local Government, as a Means of Communication while
Searching for Solutions: The Assembly of Foreigners”
Mine
Saran, Ege University, İzmir, Turkey, “Intercultural Communication
Barriers and the Role of the Social Capital and the Social Network while
Overcoming Them: An Example: The Settled Europeans in Alanya”
Mustafa
Kara, Maltepe University, Turkey, “An Example of Time and Space Variation in
the Interaction of Different Cultures: Foreign Immigrants in Alanya: SNOW BIRDS”
Yesim
Ocak, “The Effect of the Foreign Immigrant and the Companies with Foreign
Investment on the Local Economy of Alanya”
1E. Early Modern Drama Part I: Cultural
Encounters
Chair: Gaywyn Moore,
University of Kansas, Lawrence,
Susan O. Shapiro, University of Kansas,
Lawrence, “Global Shakespeare: Black Tents and Trade Routes in 16th-century
Africa”
Gaywyn Moore, “Stranger Merchants and the
Stranger Monarch in James’ Royal Entry”
David Bergeron, University of Kansas, Lawrence, “Hamlet’s Letters”
Richard Raspa, Wayne State University,
Detroit, Michigan, “Petruchio’s Paradoxical Intervention in The Taming of the Shrew: Inducing Change
by Discouraging It”
2A. Transnational Identities II
Chair: M. Rebecca Leuchak, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island
Elizabeth A. Kuznesof, University of Kansas, Lawrence, “The Brazilian Family in the Atlantic World: A Transnational Nineteenth-Century Perspective”
Pedro de Brito, Porto, Portugal, “British and Portuguese at the Battle of Salamanca, or the Arapiles (1812)”
Martine Antle, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, “Mediterranean Travelers and Intercultural Gazes on the Other in Nerval’s Era”
Anita
Herzfeld, University of Kansas, Lawrence, “Catchers of identities: ‘Lunfardismos’ of the 21st Century”
2B. Roundtable Discussion. Up for Debate: The Usefulness of a
Mediterranean and Northern European Model in Addressing the Practice of
Clerical Concubinage in the Middle Ages
Chair: Michelle Armstrong-Partida, University of California, Los Angeles
P. H. Cullum, University of Huddersfield, UK, “Patterns of Marriage and Household Formation in North-West Europe and Mediterranean Europe: Possible Effects on Patterns of Clerical Concubinage in Late Medieval Europe”
Michelle Armstrong-Partida, “The Evidence from Two Spanish Kingdoms: Why a ‘Mediterranean’ Model of Clerical Concubinage is Problematic”
Anthony Perron, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, “Arma non sumant/Armis, non precibus, deo libamenta daturus: Clerical Reform and the Ambiguity of Violence in Scandinavia, 1150-1250”
2C. Multiculturalism in the Eastern Mediterranean
Chair:
Veloudia Papadopoulou-Sideri, University of Athens, Greece
Christos
G. Karagiannis, University of Athens, Greece, “The Expansion of Mediterranean
Judaism and the Synagogue of Delos: An Historical and Archaeological Approach”
Dimitrios
Panagiotopoulos, University of Athens, Greece, “John Chrysostom contra Judaism:
The Development of St. Paul’s Theology”
Marina
Kolovopoulou, University of Athens, Greece, “Alexandria: A City of Culture,
Major Representatives and Issues of its Spiritual Thought”
Ioannis
Panagiotopoulos, Open University of Cyprus, Nicosia, “The Christianization of
the Southeastern Mediterranean Judean Communities: Tolerance and Ferocity”
2D. Second Language Acquisition: Grammatical
Tradition of Portuguese Grammars to Learn Portuguese as a Second Language
Chair: Maria João Marçalo, University of Évora, Portugal
Ana Alexandra Silva, University of
Évora, Portugal, “A Portuguese and
English Grammar”
Maria João
Marçalo, University of Évora, Portugal,
“A comparative view of the Spanish and Portuguese Languages”
Maria do Céu Fonseca, University of Évora, Portugal, “La enseñanza del portugués como lengua extranjera en gramáticas antiguas”
1:15 – 3:00 Lunch (on your own)
Thursday 3:00 – 5:00
3A. Poets of the Italian Diaspora
Chair: Luigi Bonaffini, Brooklyn College, New York
Elis Deghenghi Olujić, Universitŕ di Pola Juraj Dobrila, Croatia, “La letteratura della Comunitŕ Nazionale Italiana (CNI) di Croazia e Slovenia”
Immacolata Amodeo, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany, “Literature of Authors of Italian Origin in Germany: Representation, Institutionalization, Aesthetics”
Giose Rimanelli, State University of New York, Albany, “Rethinking Poetry” CANCELLED
3B. Medieval History I
Chair:
Renan Frighetto, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba,
Brazil
Renan Frighetto, “Gens fortis et potentissima: la idea de
identidad en el reino hispanovisigodo de Toledo, según el pensamiento politico
de Isidoro de Servilla (siglo VII)”
Ieva Reklaityte, University of Zaragoza, “‘The Saracens are very skilled in constructing aqueducts’: The Importance and Uses of Water in the Medieval Islamic World”
Barbara
Boloix-Gallardo, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, “Nasrid Naval
Power in the Mediterranean Area (XIII-XV Centuries)”
3C. Aspects of the Past in the Eastern Mediterranean:
History, Strategies, and Perceptions
Chair:
Aristea Sideri-Tolia, University of Peloponnese, Kalamata, Greece
Kalomira
Mataranga, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, “Ruses of War and Stratagems in
the Classical Greek World”
Ilias
Giarenis, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, “Cyprus between Byzantium and the
Arabs (7th-10th Centuries): A Condominium?”
Georgios
Papaioannou, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, “Viewing the Past Digitally:
Digitizing and Promoting Multiculturalism in the Museum of Margariti,
North-Western Greece”
3D. Mediterranean Historicity and Diversity I.
Sponsored by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Pusan University of
Foreign Studies, Korea
Chair: Mohammed Selim, Kuwait University
Youn Yong Su, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Korea, “Arabic Neologism in the Medieval Ages”
Heejung Kim, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Korea, “The Melting Pot, Trieste: The Jews in Trieste”
Seoung-Yun Shin, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Korea, “A Study in Linguistic Interactions between Classical Hebrew and Aramaic in Ancient Israel”
Hwang Eui-Gab, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Korea, “A Study of the Pilgrimage”
3E. Mediterranean Cultural Studies I
Chair: Ana Clara Birrento, University of Évora, Portugal
Rengina Kasimati, Academy of Athens, Greece, “San Leo: A Questionable Tradition: An Ethnographic Approach to the Rhetorical Battles between two Villages of South Italy (Bova and Africo) about the Fathership of the Saint” CANCELLED
Jennifer
Roberson, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California, “Building
Authenticity: King Hassan II of Morocco”
Belén Senés García, Universidad de Granada, “Sustainable Development in Andalusian Cities through the City 21 Program”
Friday, May 28
Universidad de Salamanca. Edificio Histórico. Patio de Escuelas, 1
Friday 9:00 – 11:00
4A. Mediterranean
Perspectives
Chair: Ana del Campo Gutiérrez, Universidad de Zaragoza
Ana Clara Birrento, University of Évora, Portugal, “Victorian Perspectives on the Mediterranean”
Sheryl Lynn Postman, University of Massachusetts
Lowell, “La guerra nace con nosotros: Las guerrras de nuestros antepasados de Miguel Delibes”
Frank Runcie, Université de Montréal, Canada, “Midnight in Sicily: On the Possibilities of History-Writing”
4B. Medieval History II
Chair:
Lorraine Attreed, Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts
James F. Powers, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, “Interrupted Combat and the Gender of Interference: The Salamanca Example”
Jaime Leaños, University of Nevada, Reno, “Opportunism or Self Awareness: The Misunderstood Persona of Pope Pius II”
David D. Terry, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, “Jewish Life and Death in the Medieval Mediterranean: Latinate Wills from Venetian Crete”
Glenn W. Olsen, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, “Reflections on a Giotto Exhibit: Does Joseph Ratzinger’s The Spirit of the Liturgy Satisfactorily Draw the Liturgical Differences between East and West in the Late Middle Ages?”
4C. Literature I
Chair: Susan Rosenstreich, Dowling College, Oakdale, New York
Kathryn Klingebiel, University of Hawaii, Manoa, “Stando, sedendo: Formal and Semantic expression of permanence in the poetry of the troubadours”
Filippo Naitana, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, “Beyond the Mediterranean: Dante, Pulci and the Cosmography of Salvation”
Abdulla Al-Dabbagh, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, “The Components of Shakespeare’s Humanism”
4D. Bonaparte’s
Retreat
Regina
Mezei, Mercer County Community College, West Windsor,
New Jersey
A 1/2 hour documentary film describes
Joseph Bonaparte’s sojourn in America after Waterloo. He spent 18 years in
Bordentown NJ, while also owning property in and participating in the cultural
life of Philadelphia. The film focuses on his estate, his life in the town, and
his cultural contributions to the region. This film will be of particular
interest to those who may not be aware of the details of Joseph Bonaparte’s
exile in America. A discussion will follow.
4E. Mediterranean Cultural Studies II
Chair: Ieva Reklaityte, University of Zaragoza
Onur Yildirim and Seven Agir, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, “The Politics of Food in the Mediterranean: The Battle for Bread in the Eighteenth-Century Madrid and Istanbul”
Nedim Nomer, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, “The Idea of Culture: A View from Turkey”
Pinar Eraslan-Yayinoglu, Kocaeli University, Turkey, “Exploring Media Ownership and Publishing Policies among European Residents in a Cosmopolitan County Borough of Turkey: The Case of Alanya”
Ayhan Akman, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, “Politics, Religion and Civil Society in Turkey and Greece”
5A. Art History
Chair: Rogério Vieira de Almeida, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Mindy Nancarrow, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, “Representing Perpetual Perfection: Problems in the Iconography of the Virgin” CANCELLED
Annette Weber, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg, Germany, “Convivencia and Cultural Transfer: Jewish Architecture and Art in the Era of the Spanish Reconquistà and Beyond”
Memory Holloway, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, “Salazar’s Boots: Women, Power and Authority in the Work of Paula Rego”
Rogério Vieira de Almeida, “Why Can’t We Play? Rural Courtyards, Urban Squares: Popular Cultural Activity as a Spatial Defining Device in ‘Peripheral Central Places’”
5B. Ancient Greece and Rome
Chair: Mary M. Rowan, Brooklyn College, New York
Eleni Pachoumi, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece, “The Curse of Eros in the Greek Erotic Spells and defixiones of the Ancient Mediterranean world”
Jessica Ambler,
University of California, Santa Barbara, “Hannibal is Inside the Gates!”
Zeynep Akture, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey, “Theatre-Construction in the Cultural Milieu of the Roman Hispania: Precedents and Antecedents” CANCELLED
5C. Literature, History, & Philosophy
Chair: Joseph A. Agee, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia
Luis Cortest, University of Oklahoma, Norman, “Moshe Almosnino’s Regimiento de la vida as a Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean Portrait”
Paul S. Vickery, “The School of Salamanca, Moral Theology, and the New World” CANCELLED
Deina Abdelkader, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “Western Liberal Political Thought and the ‘Stillborn God’”
Joseph A. Agee,“Ortega y Gasset: Philosophy or Literature?”
5D. Theater and Film
Chair:
Ala Sivas, Istanbul Commerce
University, Turkey, “Nuovo Cinema Italia”
Flavia Laviosa, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, “Honor Crimes in the Mediterranean: Definitions, Sociology, and Legal Issues of this Cultural Practice and their Representations in Cinema”
A screening of “Un Chien Andalou” (dirs. Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, France, 1929, 17 mins.)
Phillip Drummond, “Textual Space in ‘Un Chien Andalou’”
5E. “Self” and “Others” Face-to-Face: Defining Identity in
Late Medieval Urban Iberia
Chair: José Antonio Jara Fuente, Universidad de
Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca
José
Antonio Jara Fuente, “Taxing
identities in medieval Castile: Short-circuiting privileged status in the city
of Cuenca in the fifteenth century”
Juan
Antonio Barrio Barrio, Universidad de Alicante, “The ‘Otherness’ within the ‘Otherness’: Forging of Identities among
Jewish Conversos in the Kingdom of
Valencia in the Late Middle Ages”
Hermínia Vasconcelos Vilar, Universidade de Évora, Portugal, “Towns and Cathedrals in Medieval
Portugal”
1:15 – 3:00 Lunch (on your own)
Friday 3:00 – 5:00
6A. Renaissance Studies I
Chair: William D. Phillips, Jr., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Susan Rosenstreich, Dowling College, Oakdale, New York, “The French in Florida: Making the World Right Again”
Jane Tar, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, “Mother Luisa de la Ascension, the Nun of Carrion: Celebrity and the Inquisition in Seventeenth-Century Spain”
Michelle McKinley, University of Oregon, Eugene, “Continuities and Disjunctures in Ibero-American Slavery”
6B. Discourses of Empire in Habsburg
Italy: Policies, Forms, and Ideas
Chair:
Thomas J. Dandelet, University of California, Berkeley
William
S. Goldman, Stanford University, California, “The Political Culture of Peace:
Spanish Foreign Policy during the Venetian Interdict Crisis, 1605-7”
Sabina
de Cavi, Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts, Brussels, Belgium,
“Burgundian Court Etiquette in Spanish Naples”
Thomas
J. Dandelet, “An Early Modern Symposium on Empire: The Neapolitan Academy of
the Spanish Viceroy, the Duke of Medinaceli”
6C. Literature II
Chair: Robert G. Collmer, Baylor University, Waco, Texas
Ana del Campo Gutiérrez, Universidad de Zaragoza,
“Ya por ojo la Muerte ve que vien: Los signos anunciadores del deceso y la
agonía en la Edad Media”
Sarissa Carneiro Araújo, Universidad de Chile,
Santiago, “Infortunio y virtud:
el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, lector de Petrarca y de Vives”
Faith Harden, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, “Angels, Demons, and Autobiographical Self-Fashioning in Jerónimo de Pasamonte’s Vida y trabajos”
Ana Luisa Vilela, and Fabio Mario da Silva, University of Évora, Portugal, “Two Iberian Authors of the 17th Century: Bernarda De Lacerda and Mariana De Luna”
6D. Mediterranean Cultural Studies III
Chair: Orna Almog, Kingston University, UK
Sen Yuksel, Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey, “Investigation of Antioch City in the Context of Mediterranean Architecture”
Orna Almog, “No More War: The Role of Leadership in the Arab-Israeli Conflict”
Liora Gvion,
Kibbutzim College of Education, Israel,
“‘I’d like to have hummus, tahini and shishlik’: Palestinian Restaurants in
Israel as Political Arenas for Experiencing Leisure”
Elena Moreddu, University of Sassari, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy, “Lingering over Play: The Status of Art in Relations between Men and Places”
Saturday, May 29
Universidad de Salamanca. Edificio Histórico. Patio de Escuelas, 1
Saturday 9:00 – 11:00
7A. El papel de la intolerancia
en el Renacimiento
Chair: María Martín Gómez, Universidad de
Salamanca
María Martín Gómez, “El poder de la intolerancia
en la Universidad salmantina del siglo XVI”
Doris Moreno Martínez, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona,
“El dominico Fray Juan de Villagarcía y su Diálogo llamado cadena de oro ...
para atraer a los herejes (1562)”
Rosa Benéitez Andres, Universidad de Salamanca,
“La ‘contra-representación’ de las identidades en François Rabelais y Enrique
Marty: dos maneras de convivir con la intolerancia”
7B. Renaissance Studies II
Chair:
James F. Powers, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts
Lorraine Attreed, Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts, “Places in the Heart: Architecture & the Politics of Gender in the Life of Margaret of Austria (1480-1530)”
Javier Quinteros Cortés, Universidad de Almería,
“Mercado Negro y Redes Económico-Políticas: el clan Rey en el Reino de Murcia
(1474-1504)”
Cássio da
Silva Fernandes, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil, “The Commentarii de Piccolomini and the
Narrative of the Vita in the Italian Renaissance”
Dan Crews, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, “Deconstruction of Valdesian Justification, 1542-1525”
7C. Music and Drama
Chair: Flavia Laviosa, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Incoronata Inserra, University of Hawaii at Manoa, “Re-imagining the Mediterranean through the Southern Italian Folk Music Revival”
Zeynep Barut, İstanbul Technical University, State Conservatory of Turkish Music, Turkey, “An Overview of Classical Turkish Music”
Şerife Güvençoğlu, İstanbul Technical University, State Conservatory of Turkish Music, Turkey, “Ottoman’s Harem and Music”
Rosemari Bendlin Calzavara,
Universidade Norte do Paraná, Londrina, Brazil, “A interpretação dramática da
história”
7D. Mediterranean Historicity and Diversity
II. Sponsored by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Pusan University of
Foreign Studies, Korea
Chair: Mohammed Selim, Kuwait University
Jayoung Che, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Korea, “A Shift of the Military and Social Structures of the Byzantine Empire : On the Mutation of the Thema System”
Nina Chang, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Korea, “En quoi peut contribuer IMS (Institute for Mediterranean Studies) à l’étude méditerranéenne en Corée?”
Juin Lim, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Korea, “Novelas ejemplares y amorosas: la identidad femenina y el honor”
Jae-Hoon Choi, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Korea, “A Study on the Cognition and Responses to Middle Eastern Terrorism”
8A. Medieval History III
Chair: James D. Ryan, CUNY, New York
Luigi
Andrea Berto, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, “Narrating a Crisis: The
Decline of the Lombards in the Chronicles
of Saint Benedict of Cassino”
Anna
Katharina Angermann, University of Heidelberg, Germany, “The ‘Franks’ and the
‘Saracens’ – Exploring narratives of border and transgression: A case study of
the raid on Alexandria in 1365”
Teresa
Sartore Senigaglia, University of Heidelberg, Germany, “The Empty Ghetto:
Transcultural Interactions in Medieval Rhodes”
8B. Political Thought and the Art of
Government in the Wake of Machiavelli
Chair:
Dan Reff, Ohio State University, Columbus
Dan
Reff, “Machiavelli, the Jesuits, and Reason of State”
Beatriz
Helena Domingues, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil, “Machiavellianism
and Thomism in the Writings of the Portuguese Jesuit Antonio Vieira”
Luiz
César de Sá Júnior, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil, “Damião de
Gois between Lusitanitas and the Christian Republic: Notes about the Insertion
of the Humanist among Erudite Entourages in Europe, 1533-1542”
8C. Mediterranean Cultural Studies IV
Chair: Joseph A. Agee, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia
Evy Johanne Håland, Bergen, Norway, “Saints, Snakes and Healing in Modern and Ancient Greece and Italy”
Olga Solodyankina, Cherepovets State University, Vologda, Russia, “The Mediterranean in Foreign Governesses and Tutors’ Activity in Tsarist Russia”
Manos Perakis, University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece, “An Eastern Mediterranean Island during the Era of Nationalism: Muslim Departure and Land Redistribution in Crete during the Autonomy Period (1898-1913)”
Robert G. Collmer, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, “A Twisted Trail: Borges and Me (and Eco and Theroux)”
Afternoon free
Saturday 7:30
Patio de Escuelas Menores
Closing reception sponsored by MSA.