Mediterranean Connections

Programme
Day Session Schedule & Themes & Academic Teachers

10 Oct Introduction 17:00-19:30: Presentations by the organizers from all four universities. Introduction
to Mediterranean history and to the organization of the workshop

Joint Dinner 20:00: Reservation for 44 persons (Hafenhalle? Restaurant Hohenegg?)

11 Oct Frameworks and 09:00-09:15: Introduction to the panel topic

Infrastructures
09:15-09:45: Introduction to three individual themes
 Feichtinger: Epistolary Networks in the Late Antique Mediterranean
 König: Christian-Muslim Communication in the wider Mediterranean
 Drach: European Integration and the Mediterranean after World War II: a
Financial History Perspective

09:45-10:30: Student group session

10:30-11:00: Coffee break

11:00-11:45: Student presentations

11:45-12:30: General debate

Transfer of 13:30-13:45: Introduction to the panel topic

Knowledge
13:45-14:15: Introduction to three individual themes
 Malinova: Networks of Knowledge in the Medieval Islamic Mediterranean
 Chandelier: Was the Medieval Mediterranean really an area of scientific
exchange?
 König: The Legacy of Medieval Arabic-Latin Translation Movements

14:15-15:00: Student group session

15:00-15:30: Coffee break

15:30-16:15: Student presentations

16:15-17:00: General debate

12 Oct Mobility and 09:00-09:15: Introduction to the panel topic

Identity
09:15-09:45: Introduction to three individual themes
 Vassileva: Mobility and Identity in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
 Ianeva: In Search of New Professional Perspectives across the
Mediterranean: Case Studies from the 19th-century Ottoman Balkans
 Hantzaroula: Mobility in Times of Crisis: Holocaust and Post-Holocaust
Migration to Palestine/Israel and Egypt

09:45-10:30: Student group session

10:30-11:00: Coffee break

11:00-11:45: Student presentations

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 11:45-12:30: General debate

Religion and 13:30-13:45: Introduction to the panel topic

Social Interaction
13:45-14:15: Introduction to three individual themes
 Robu: Networks and Cultural Transfers in Ancient Mediterranean
 Tchoukourliev: The Solar Cults in the Mediterranean as Booster for the
Spread of Christianity (1st–4th cent. CE)
 Gara: Religion, Society and Politics in the Early Modern Mediterranean

14:15-15:00: Student group session

15:00-15:30: Coffee break

15:30-16:15: Student presentations

16:15-17:00: General debate

13 Oct Conflicts, Trauma 09:00-09:15: Introduction to the panel topic

and Memory
09:15-09:45: Introduction to three individual themes
 Esposito: Chronopolitics in the 18th-20th cent. Mezzogiorno
 Exertzoglou: Violence, Trauma and State-building in the "Long War" of 1912-
1923 in the Balkans and the Middle East
 Badescu: Conflict, Memory, and the Remaking of Urban Space in the 19th
and 20th Centuries

09:45-10:30: Student group session

10:30-11:00: Coffee break

11:00-11:45: Student presentations

11:45-12:30: General debate

Excursion 13:30-19:00: excursion to the “Pfahlbautenmuseum Unteruhldingen,” a

reconstruction of late stone age and early bronze age stilt houses on the border of
Lake Constance (https://www.pfahlbauten.de/ihre-tour/)

Joint Dinner 20:00: Reservation for 44 persons (Hafenhalle? Restaurant Hohenegg?)

14 Oct Final discussion 9-12, departure