Subject: The Mediterranean Reconsidered
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 96 10:03:12 EDT
Hi, I thought this might be of interest to some people on the group:
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T H E M E D E T E R R A N E A N R E C O N S I D E R E D /
L A M E D I T E R R A N E E R E C O N S I D E R E E
An Interdisciplinary Conference
October 16 to 19, 1996
Carleton University
Dunton Tower, Room 2017
Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian Museum of Civilization
100 Laurier Street, Hull, Quebec
The past decade has been a time of change for the countries of the
Mediterranean basin. Europe is no longer the same after the reunification
of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the growing strength of
the European Community. North Africa is witnessing increasing political
tension with the rise of religious fundamentalisms. In the Middle East
relations between Palestinians and Israelis seem to seesaw between
declarations of peace and acts of terrorist or state violence.
This conference will seek, among other things, to update our understanding
of the Mediterranean as a cultural entity, and, in so doing, to establish
the grounds for the dialogue that can take place between the many
different regions of the area.
Schedule:
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1996
6:00 - 10:00 pm Registration
Canadian Museum of Civilization: Friend's Lounge
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1996
9:00 - 9h15 am Welcome: Roger BLOCKLEY (Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies
Carleton University)
Welcome: H.E. Andrea NEGROTTO CAMBIASO
(Ambassador of Italy)
9:15 - 12:15 SESSION I: Questions of Representation (1)
Carleton University, Dunton Tower, Room 2017
Session Chair: David ANIDO (Canadian Institute
for Mediterranean Studies)
Artemis LEONTIS (Ohio State University): "Mediterranean Topographies
Before Balkanization"
William BOELHOWER (University of Trieste): "Where is Here? The
Immigrant-Migrant as Mediterranean Topologist"
Mauro PERESSINI (Canadian Museum of Civilization): "Tel Narcisse
penche sur la mer. Les Etats-Unis et la
Mediterranee a travers le National Geographic"
Vito TETI (University of Calabria): "L'invenzione della dieta mediterranea"
2:00 - 5:00 pm SESSION II: Questions of Representation (2)
Carleton University, Dunton Tower, Room 2017
Session Chair: Vincent DELLA SALA (Carleton
University)
Reda BENSAMAIA (Brown University) : "Media-terranee: a propos d'Un
passager de l'Occident de Nabile Fares"
Armando GNISCI (Universite de Rome): "Deux ou trois choses que je sais
de ma mer"
Jean-Yves DURAND (Laboratoire d'Ethnologie Mediterranee et
Comparative, Aix-en-Provence): "La Mediterranee,
le debat international et l'ethnologie
francaise. A native's point of view".
Francesco LORIGGIO (Carleton University): "Cognitive Mappings: The
Mediterranean as a Problem in Literature and the
Social Sciences"
8:00 - 9:00 pm Canadian Museum of Civilization: Theatre
Welcome: H.E. Jean-Alexander THOMOGLOU
(Ambassador of Greece)
Keynote Address: Michael HERZFELD (Harvard
University): "Taking Stereotypes Seriously:
`Mediterraneanism' Reconsidered"
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1996
9:00 - 9:15 am SESSION III: Emergencies (1)
Carleton University, Dunton Tower, Room 2017
Welcome: H.E. Tajeddine BADDOU (Ambassador of
Morocco)
Session Chair: Aida KAOUK (Canadian Museum of
Civilization)
Michel ORIOL (Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis): "Monde
mediterraneen et violence. Les cultures
populaires au defi des crises identitaires"
Ratiba HADJ-MOUSSA (Queen's University): "La revanche des oublies ou
la television reconsideree"
Hayat ZIRARI (Faculte des Lettres et Sciences Humaines Ben-M'Sik
Casablanca): "Statuts de meres mediterraneennes.
Similitude et differenciation"
11:30 - 12:15 Keynote Address: Mariella PANDOLFI (Universite de
Montreal) "De la terre du remords a la terre de la
resistance. Rhetorique feminine et strategies
narratives dans la Mediterranee."
2:00 - 4:15 pm: Emergencies (2)
Carleton University, Dunton Tower, Room 2017
Session Chair: Pierre BEAUDET (Alternatives)
Bruno RAMIREZ (Universite de Montreal): "The Promised Land: Italy in
the New Circuits of Mediterranean Migration, 1980
- 1995"
Joseph KHOURY (Carleton University): "The Distinction of a Lebanese
Identity? The Case of Elias Khoury"
Marie-Blanche TAHON (Universite d'Ottawa): "Algerie, la repetition? A
partir de la production romanesque publiee en
France"
4:25 - 5:10 pm Keynote Address: Abdelmalek SAYAD (Centre de
Sociologie de l'Education et de la Culture):
"L'exception kabyle dans le paysage actuel de
l'Algerie"
8:00 - 9:00 pm Canadian Museum of Civilization: Theatre
Welcome: H.E. Alfred SIEFER-GAILLARDIN
(Ambassador of France)
Keynote Address: Maurice AYMARD (Maison des
Sciences de l'Homme): "Actualite de la Mediterranee.
Eclatements et recompositions."
9:00 - 10:00 pm Reception at the Friend's Lounge of the Canadian
Museum of Civilization
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1996
9:30 - 11:00 am SESSION V: After Unity and Diversity (1)
Carleton University, Dunton Tower, Room 2017
Session Chair: Malika MOUSSAOUI (Canadian
International Development Agency)
Mikhael ELBAZ (Universite Laval): "Judeites de la Mediterranee. Errances
et parcours"
Mohamed MAHMOUD (Alternatives): "Identite individuelle et identite
collective. D'une Mediterranee a une autre"
11:10 - 11:55 am Keynote address: Naim KATTAN (Universite du
Quebec a Montreal): "The Middle-East and the West in
Twentieth Century Literature: Comparative
Perspectives"
2:00 - 3:00 pm SESSION VI : After Unity and Diversity (2)
Carleton University, Dunton Tower, Room 2017
Session Chair: Barbara GABRIEL (Carleton University)
Anastase-Jean METAXAS (University of Athens): "Sous-identites et sur-
identites dans les pays mediterraneens"
Kosta GOULIAMOS (University of Athens): "Enigma: The Mediterranean
Within the Information Society"
3:40 - 4:25 pm Keynote address: Vincent CRAPANZANO (City
University of New York): "Reflections on the
Conference"
Organized by: The Research Unit on Southern European Literature and
Culture and the Canadian Museum of Civilization, in
collaboration with the Canadian Institute for
Mediterranean Studies.
For further information please contact:
Kim Elliott
Tel: (613) 230-7714
e-mail: kelliott-AT-ccs.carleton.ca, or
Francesco Loriggio
Tel: (613) 520-2600, ext. 8035
e-mail: floriggi-AT-ccs.carleton.ca
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