April 28–30, 2011
This conference offers a new kind of historical anthropology of the Mediterranean, one that illustrates how the sea has been recreated through the interaction between cross-boundary practices and official region-making processes. We aim to provide a forum for leading international scholars in the fields of anthropology, history, and literature of the Mediterranean to discuss recent developments in this emerging field. To do so in the most rigorous and debate-facilitating manner, the conference is structured around individual and comparable concrete cases—periods and places around which our interdisciplinary discussion of the Mediterranean and its place could develop.
For more information and for the full program: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k75136&pageid=icb.page378490
Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Program in Moroccan Studies, the Kokkalis Program, the Humanities Center, the Department of History, and the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
Organizers:
William Granara
Professor of the Practice of Arabic on the Gordon Gray Endowment, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.
Michael Herzfeld
Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, and Curator of European Ethnology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University.
Cemal Kafadar
Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, Department of History, Harvard University.
Graduate Student Organizers:
Naor Ben-Yehoyada
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
Daniel Hershenzon
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Michigan.