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Konstantina Katsari Love of History Blog διαβάζουμε για ένα συνέδριο που θα πραγματοποιηθεί στο Παν/μιο του Leicester με θέμα
Mediterranean Identities. Formation and Transformation
26 – 28 Μαρτίου 2010
Παραθέτουμε στη συνέχεια αυτούσια την ανακοίνωση του συνεδρίου:
"Recent studies of the Mediterranean have been dominated by the construction, reinforcement, representation and renegotiation of identities. As a departure point, this conference will address theoretical approaches to the formation and transformation of these identities throughout time and space. Especially, the use of comparative methods in the history of communal identities in the Mediterranean Sea will highlight not only the course of their development but also will explain their extraordinarily long survival, e.g. Greek or Roman or other Identity.
Questions will include: 1) How are identities formed? 2) How are they represented? 3) How do communities and societies organize and express themselves spatially? How does their identity relate to that of surrounding spaces and surrounding communities? How permeable are the boundaries? 4) How is power distilled from heterogeneity? 5) To what extent is the formation of identities governed by economic considerations? 6) How do wars, revolutions and migrations affect collective identities? 7) How do identities develop and evolve over time? To what extent can we identify a ‘Mediterranean identity’? 9) Can we recognize patterns of identity that cut across different Mediterranean communities and cultures? 10) How far did the elite centres of Greece and Rome inform the ways peripheral communities and later societies deployed and understood their populations, geography and environment? 11) How should we approach the archaeology of identity?
This conference is part of a larger project that aims to assess the value of ‘identity’ as a tool of intellectual enquiry in the disciplines of archaeology, classics, history, literature and art history. It sets out to explore identities in the full range of spheres – social, political, cultural, religious and economic – and their value as a tool of historiographical enquiry into ancient and modern societies in the Mediterranean world. Furthermore, it seeks to depart from the ‘traditional’ social constructionist interpretations, who focus only on the impact of culture on the formation of identities.
List of Participants: Nicholas Purcell (Oxford), Almut-Barbara Renger (Berlin), Tamar Hodos (Bristol), David Engels (ULB), Paola Ceccarelli (Durham), Bill Cavanagh (Nottingham), Naoíse Mac Sweeney (Cambridge), Philippa M. Steele (Cambridge), Katerina Zacharia, Jim Roy (Nottingham), Antony Kaldellis (Iowa), Kostas Vlassopoulos (University of Nottingham), Lin Foxhall (University of Leicester), Vadim Vitkovskiy (Berlin), A. Fernández-Götz (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Guillermo-Sven Reher-Díez (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), Phil Perkins (Open University), Patty Baker (Kent), Hans Joachim Gehrke (Berlin), John Davis (Liverpool), Lynette Mitchell (Exeter), Hyun Jin Kim (Oxford), David Mattingly (Leicester), Anna Boozer (NYU), Youssri Ezzat Hussein (Durham), Janneke de Jong (Utrecht), Norberto Luiz Guarinello (Sao Paolo), Silke Knippschild (Bristol), Dorothea Rohde, Sebastian Brather (Freiburg), Kerstin Hofmann (Berlin), Robin Osborne (Cambridge), Melissa Vetters and Ann Brysbaert (Athens), Nick Ray (Leicester), Justin St. P. Walsh (Louisiana State University).
I would also like to thank the dozens of scholars who sent their proposals in order to be included in the conference. All of them were very interesting and of high scholarly value. However, the places were limited and we had to take some very, very tough choices. I still hope that we will see most of you at the conference. Your contribution to the discussion will be greatly appreciated."
