Western Mediterranean
Culture Workshop
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The workshop addresses the cultures of five regions/countries (France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and North Africa, including parts of the Ottoman Empire). It deals with literatures in at least eight languages - Arabic, Catalan, French, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish - as well as visual arts, music, and other forms of cultural production. The workshop involves faculty members and graduate students from the Departments of Romance Languages and Literatures, Art History, Music, and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
The purpose of the workshop is to bring together faculty and graduate
students working on areas of the Western Mediterranean during the medieval
and early modern periods in order to develop a broader picture of historical,
linguistic, artistic and literary currents and exchanges in a site of
enormous cultural ferment. The workshop emphasizes the movement of people,
ideas, motifs, and objects among the different parts of the region. This
forum encourages graduate students to consider their work in a broader
context and gives them the opportunity to get important feedback from
colleagues in related disciplines. Graduate student papers are pre-circulated
before the workshop meetings.
All sessions will meet in Wieboldt 207 at 12 pm unless otherwise noted. Click here for a campus map. Any papers to be read before sessions will be distributed via the Workshop mailing list.