The Winter 2020 Mediterranean Seminar Workshop
Friday & Saturday, 21 & 22 February 2020
University of Rochester
“Emotions, Passions and Feelings”
Historical studies of emotions have shown that emotions are constructs that are integral to socialization and culture. In exploring how past peoples have defined, experienced, expressed, constrained, and valued various feelings, historians of emotions have argued that these are culturally constituted and that they are intimately connected to other concerns. As a meeting point of multiple religious and cultural traditions, the Mediterranean offers scholars of emotions an opportunity to consider how emotions functioned as means to establish, to ascertain, and to communicate identity. For scholars of the Mediterranean, emotions are an under-explored aspect of the various kinds of inter-cultural contacts that define their field, and one which offers new ways to think about the Mediterranean world. Mediterranean Studies thus presents an ideal framework for considering the larger issues discussed in the history of emotions: their universality, relativity, purpose, their place in power structures, their differences depending on race, ethnicity, gender, and their significance and understanding (or lack thereof of) in inter-faith and inter-cultural relations.
Program & Papers
All sessions will take place at the Rush Rhees Library, Rossell Hope Robbins Library 416 (Fourth Floor) at 755 Library Road,
All papers are copyright the author and are not to be copied, distributed or cited without express written permission by same.
Click on the title to download the paper, and on the name for the bio.
Friday 21 February 2020
9:30-10:00 Coffee and Registration
10:00-10:30 Introductions
• Thomas Devaney (History, University of Rochester)
• Brian A. Catlos (Religious Studies, University of Colorado Boulder) and Sharon Kinoshita (Literature, University of California Santa Cruz), The Mediterranean Seminar
• The Participants
10:30-11:40 Workshop Paper #1
”Shahrazad’s Listening Cure: Avicenna’s Brain, the Qiyān, and the Psychological Foundations of Shahrazad’s Listening Cure in the Arabian Nights”
• Ryan Milov-Cordoba (Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center)
Response: Karla Mallette ( Italian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Michigan)
11:40-noon Coffee break
12:00-1:10 Workshop Paper #2
”Affective Voyages: Towards a Mediterranean Erotics of Grief “
• Megan Moore (French, University of Missouri)
Response: Oumelbanine Zhiri ( Literature, University of California San Diego)
1:10-2:30 Lunch (for speakers and registered participants)
Welles-Brown Room (1st Floor, Rush Rhees Library)
2:30-3:40 Workshop Paper #3
”Passionate Histories: Romancing Saladin”
• Christine Chism ( English, University of California Los Angeles)
Response: Andrew Devereux (History, University of California San Diego)
3:40-4:00 Coffee break
4:00-5:30 Keynote Lecture
"Trust and Faith in the Late Medieval Mediterranean"
• Naama Cohen-Hanegbi (History, Tel Aviv University)
7:00-? Dinner (see Practica, below)
Saturday 22 February 2020
10:00-10:30 Coffee and Registration
10:30-10:45 Introduction to Manuscripts exhibition
• Jeffrey Baron (History, University of Rochester)
10:45-12:15 Keynote Lecture
"Gender and Emotion in Venice's Mediterranean Empire”
• Erin Maglaque (History, University of Sheffield)
12:15-2:00 Lunch (for speakers and registered participants)
Welles-Brown Room (1st Floor, Rush Rhees Library)
2:00-3:15 Round Table 1
Are there “Mediterranean” emotions, and can we do their history?
Moderator: Brian A. Catlos
1. Nicole Archambeau (History, Colorado State University)
2. Tom Cohen (History, York University)
3. Jim Rankine (History, University of Rochester)
4. Marla Segol (Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Buffalo)
5. Giulia Vollono (Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology, SUNY Buffalo)
6. Oumelbanine Zhiri (Literature, University of California San Diego
3:15-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-4:45 Round Table 2
How has race/ethnicity/identity in the Mediterranean been defined by emotional norms?
Moderator: Sharon Kinoshita
1. Marcia Cristina Esteves Agostin (History, University of Rochester)
2. Francesca Bregoli (History, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY)
3. Andrew Devereux (History, University of California San Diego)
4. Elizabeth Terry-Roisin (History, Florida International University)
5. Justine Walden (Institute for Research in the Humanities,University of Wisconsin)
4:45-5:00 Concluding Remarks
• Brian A. Catlos, Sharon Kinoshita, Thomas Devaney, & audience
5:00 Reception – Humanities Center
Co-Organizer:
• Marianne Kupin-Lisbin (History: University of Rochester)
Participants:
• Michela Andreatta (Religion and Classics: University of Rochester)
• Lisette Balabarca ( Spanish: Siena College)
• Elizabeth Cohen (History: York University)
• Guiseppe Gerbino (Music: Columbia University)
• Richard W. Kaeuper (History: University of Rochester)
• Anna Leone (Italian: Syracuse University)
• Ana Méndez-Oliver (Spanish: Syracuse University)
• Sally Simpson (Classics: University of Colorado Boulder)
• Laura Ackerman Smoller (History: University of Rochester)
• Paola Ugolini (Italian: University of Buffalo)
• Elisabeth Woldeyohannes (Mobility of People and Economies along the River Ombrone (IMPERO))
• Ling Yang (History: University of Rochester)
Practica
Hotel:
Speakers and respondents will be lodged at Staybridge Suites Rochester University (1000 Genesee St, Rochester, NY 14611).
The hotel is approx. 7 minutes by taxi or 10 minutes by bus (#6 to Brooks & Genessee) from Greater Rochester International Airport (ROC), and 6 minutes by car or 12 minutes walking from Rossell Hope Robbins Library.
Workshop Dinner:
Friday 21 February, 7pm at The Brown Hound (Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue)
Speakers and respondents are invited; attendees who wish to join the dinner or who wish to bring a guest, please inquire with Marianne Kupin-Lisbin (mkupin@ur.rochester.edu) in advance, if at all possible.
Sponsors , Organization & Support:
This workshop is organized by Thomas Devaney (University of Rochester), Marianne Kupin-Lisbin (University of Rochester), Sharon Kinoshita (University of California Santa Cruz), and Brian A. Catlos (University of Colorado Boulder).
The Winter 2020 workshop is jointly sponsored by the University of Rochester Humanities Project, Office of the Dean of Research, Department of History, Department of Religion and Classics, Susan B. Anthony Institute, Central New York Humanities Corridor, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, and the CU Mediterranean Studies Group. The Mediterranean Seminar is supported by the University of Colorado Boulder.
Further Information can be found on the University of Rochester events page.