Oct 15 2007
About
R. Bonne, Carte de la Mer Méditerranée (1763) Map Collections, Regenstein Library
The Western Mediterranean Culture 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 a variety of background and disciplines, including many 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.
Regular meetings are held on alternate Fridays at 12:00 in Wieboldt Hall, Room 207, The University of Chicago.
Persons in need of assistance should contact the workshop coordinator, James Nemiroff, at jnemiroff@uchicago.edu.