[Bilimsel Haber] CfP: Language and Cultural Mediation in the Mediterranean, 1200-1800 (25-28 March 2009, Florence & Montecatini Terme)

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Call for Papers: Language and Cultural Mediation in the Mediterranean,
1200-1800
 
Mediterranean Programme
10th Mediterranean Research Meeting
25-28 March 2009, Florence & Montecatini Terme (Italy)
 
Workshop 3
Directed by Eric Dursteler (Brigham Young University) / Natalie Rothman
(University of Toronto)
 
Abstract:
In recent years, the role of language in cultural mediation and
boundary-making in medieval and early modern societies has attracted
significant scholarly attention. Recent volumes have centered on "cultural
translation" and "translation and travel" to point to the close relationship
between practices of translation and emerging consciousness of sociocultural
and political boundaries. A growing literature now exists on the role of
language ideologies, institutions, and experts in colonial expansion in
Northern Europe, the Atlantic, and the Pacific. In studies of the
Mediterranean, however, the role of language in defining regions and people
as well as their inter-relations (like the concept of Lingua Franca), while
often acknowledged as essential to the constitution of sociocultural
boundaries, has not yet come into focus. This workshop thus aims to address
processes of cultural mediation in the Mediterranean by attending to the
ways in which language served as a central site for the elaboration and
contestation of sociocultural boundaries in the period from roughly 1200 to
1800.
 
Description:
The organizers seek empirically-grounded papers from scholars in all
pertinent disciplines (history, literature, linguistics, performance
studies, historical anthropology, etc.) whose focus falls within the
medieval and early modern Mediterranean (Iberia, North Africa, the Middle
East, the Balkans, Italy and France). Papers may address any aspect of the
following four clusters of questions:
 
1. What role did institutions such as chancelleries, academies,
universities, and schools, play in developing, defining, and standardizing
"official" vernacular languages and in distinguishing them from other
language varieties? What role did such institutions play in processes of
language instruction and socialization across metropolitan and peripheral
settings? How were these institutions themselves shaped by the range of
(often multilingual) milieus in which they operated? 2. To what extent, in
the contexts of colonial expansion, imperial consolidation and
inter-imperial rivalry, did specialized cadres-including diplomatic
interpreters, commercial brokers, missionaries, court scribes, notaries,
lexicographers, and philologists-develop to regulate linguistic and cultural
difference? 3. What language ideologies and practices emerged in the
inherently bilingual contexts of imperial frontier regions, such as Venetian
Dalmatia and the Eastern Mediterranean, Ottoman Bosnia, North Africa, and
Syria? 4. How were linguistic and cultural differences objectified and
mapped onto one another through a range of genres, from court records and
commercial manuals to geographies and polyglot comedies?
 
Format:
The purpose of this workshop is not only to facilitate the sharing of
expertise and empirical materials, but also to develop a more coherent,
methodologically complex, and explicitly transdisciplinary analytical
framework for future work. Papers may range in format and genre from
empirical case studies to methodological and conceptual reflections.
Participants are also encouraged, when appropriate, to provide transcripts
and translations of primary texts for further discussion at the workshop.
All papers will be pre-circulated, and rather than the oral delivery of
papers, workshop sessions will include:
 
1) Brief introductions by paper authors to recapitulate their main arguments
and to situate their pieces in a broader historiographical context
2) Comments on papers by designated commentator(s)
3) Ample time for group discussion of papers by all workshop participants
 
This format aims to foster an open dialogue about the intersections between
the different papers, and to ensure conceptual continuity between the
different sessions.  Participants will be able to engage each other's
materials, bring insights from their own field of expertise to a broader
methodological and conceptual discussion, and begin to draw out connections
between what are often seen as disparate fields of knowledge.
 
Please submit a proposal (up to 500 words) by 1 September 2008. Completed
papers of 15 to 30 pages will be due no later than 15 January 2009. Please
contact the workshop organizers by email (eric_dursteler at byu.edu,
rothman at utsc.utoronto.ca) for further information.
 
Workshop Description:
http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/Research/Mediterranean/mrm2009/desc_pdf/MRM2009_Ds03
.pdf
Call for Papers:
http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/Research/Mediterranean/mrm2009/pdf/MRM2009-Paperscal
l.pdf
Application Deadline: 1 September 2008
Application Form: http://www.rscas.org/medform.asp 
Paper Delivery Deadline: 15 January 2009
 
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E. Natalie Rothman
Assistant Professor of History
Department of Humanities
University of Toronto Scarborough
1265 Military Trail
Toronto, ON  M1C 1A4
Canada
rothman at utsc.utoronto.ca 

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