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From: Olga Katsiardi <olkats at arch.uoa.gr>
Subject : To attend in Athens: Mediterranean and Its Seas
Date: September 18, 2009

Dear Colleagues,

please, see below the programme of our second Workshop on
"The Mediterranean and its Seas: Natural, Social, Political Landscapes and
Environments"

organised between the University of Athens and the University of
Minnesota, Athens, 1-3.10.2009, at the University of Athens.

Thank you very much

Yours

Prof. Olga Katsiardi-Hering
Faculty of History and  Archeology
University of Athens, University Campus Zografou, Athens 157 84
olkats at arch.uoa.gr

NATIONAL AND CAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
FACULTY OF HISTORY AND ARCH?EOLOGY
POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMME
http://www.arch.uoa.gr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=164&Itemid=132


The Mediterranean and its Seas:
Natural, Social, Political
Landscapes and Environments

Second in a Series of Three Workshops (2008-2010)

A Collaborative Project between  the University of Athens and
the University of Minnesota
Workshop II: University of Athens
Organizing Committee:
Olga Katsiardi-Hering, Anastasia Papadia-Lala, Maria Efthymiou, Katerina
Gardikas, Evanthis  Hatzivassiliou,  Katerina Konstantinidou,  Vasso
Seirinidou

1-3 October 2009, University of Athens, Drakopoulos Amphitheatre,
      Main Building, 30, Panepistimiou St. / Historical Archive, 45, Skoufa
St.

Thursday, October 1

Drakopoulos Amphitheatre

17.00: Opening addresses
Olga KATSIARDI-HERING, Professor of the Faculty of History and Archaeology
of the University of Athens
Ioannis KARAKOSTAS , Vice Rector of Student Affairs, Culture and
International Relations of the University of Athens
Konstantinos BURASELIS, President of the Faculty of History and
Archaeology of the University of Athens
Theofanis G. STAVROU, Professor of the Department of History of the
University of Minnesota
Evelyn DAVIDHEISER,  Director of Institute of Global Studies, University
of Minnesota, "Prospects of Bilateral Collaboration".






Session I
Shaping the Mediterranean Environment

Chair:  Chryssa MALTEZOU

17.45: Vasso SEIRINIDOU, Introduction: Environmental history in the
Mediterranean: historiographical traditions and comparative perspectives.
17.55: Michael DERMITZAKIS - Maria TRIANTAFYLLOU, ;Climate changes
and human civilizations: The geological record of the Eastern
Mediterranean;.
18.10: Mauro AGNOLETTI,;The environmental dimension of landscape
changes in Italy between the 19th and 20th century;.
18.25-18.40: Discussion

18.40-19.00 Break

Chair: Michael DERMITZAKIS

19.00: Maria GEORGOPOULOU, ;Sanitary measures in Venetian Candia,
Crete;.
19.15: Katerina GARDIKAS, ;Disease in the Mediterranean: malaria
between the tropics and the temperate zone".
19.30: Evi KAROUZOU,;Etat, propriete et et environnement en
Grece au XIXe siecle: interaction entre regime  foncier et
paysage;.
19.45: Christina PAPAKOSTA, ;Fishing in the Ionian sea in the
eighteenth century: the fish farms in the gulf of Amvrakikos;.
20.00-20.25: Discussion


Friday, October 2

Historical Archive

The Great Powers and the Mediterranean

Session II
The Ottoman Empire, Power, Perception and Perspectives

Chair: Theofanis G. STAVROU

9.15: Marinos SARIYANNIS, "Images of the Mediterranean in an Ottoman
pirate novel from the late seventeenth century".
9.30: Daniel PANZAC, "Constraints, duties and aims of the Ottoman
Navy (16th-20th centuries)".
9.45: Paris KONORTAS, "Collective Identities in Southeastern Europe: the
Ottoman  Census of 1905/6  in Thrace"
10.00: Eric WEITZ, "Germany and the Young Turks: Revolutionaries into
Statesmen".
10.15: John MAZIS, "Ethnic identity and European civilization: the
case of Dragoumis".
10.30-11.00: Discussion

11.00-11.15 Break

Session III
Imperial Russia: Glimpses to the South

Chair: Kostas RAPTIS

11.15: Theofanis G. STAVROU, "Russian cultural policy in the Middle
East at the end of the imperial period".
11.30: Peter WEISENSEL, "Pilgrimage and the Mediterranean in
imperial Russia".
11.45: Seymour BECKER, "From the Caucasus to the Mediterranean:
imperial Russian views".
12.00-12.20: Discussion

12.20-12.35 Break

Session IV
International Politics and the Mediterranean in the 20th century


Chair: Evanthis HATZIVASSILIOU

12.35: Manolis KOUMAS, "Malta, Cyprus and British Mediterranean
policy, 1935-1939".
12.50: Dionyssios CHOURCHOULIS, "The Anglo-American special
relationship and the control of the Mediterranean, 1945-1952".
13.05: Lykourgos KOURKOUVELAS, "?he West and the Soviet Bloc
proposals for the denuclearization of the Balkans and the Mediterranean,
1957-1965".
13.20: Sotiris ROUSSOS, "The Mediterranean: for whom it is
strategically important any longer".
13.35-14.00: Discussion


Session V
Maritime networks


Chair:  Kostas GAVROGLU

17.00: Katerina PAPAKONSTANTINOU, "Mapping Greek maritime trade: sea
routes and cargoes in the 18th century".
17.15: Maria FUSARO, "'After Braudel': a reassessment of
Mediterranean history between the northern invasion and the caravane
maritime (XVII-XVIII centuries)".
17.30: Maria-Christina CHATZIIOANNOU, "Mediterranean pathways of
Greek merchants to Victorian England".
17.45: Gelina HARLAFTIS, "Mediterranean maritime networks as global
insitutions. The paradigm of Greek maritime business linking 'thalassa'
with 'okeanos".

18.00-18.25: Discussion

18.25-18.45 Break

Chair: Katerina GARDIKAS

18.45: Dimitris KONTOGEORGIS, "?arine insurance enterprises in the
Eastern Mediterranean and the Lower Danube. A comparative approach for the
mid 19th century".
19.00: Gregory BRUESS, "The Greeks and the Sea of Azov".
19.15: Alexandra PAPADOPOULOU, "Spetses as a maritime centre and the
international Greek commercial network. The case of the Coutsis family
business, 19th century"
19.30: Apostolos DELIS, "Syros, a shipbuilding centre in the Eastern
Mediterranean, 19th c.entury".
19.45: Eleni BENEKI, From international trade to regional industry: the
Embiricos Mill in Andros (Cyclades), Greece
20.00-20.30: Discussion


Saturday, October 3

Historical Archive

Session VI
Mediterranean Family


Chair: Maria EFTHYMIOY

9.15: Katerina KONSTANTINIDOU - Anastasia PAPADIA-LALA, Introduction
9.25 Eleni TSOURAPA, "Family, politics and social identities in
Venetian Chania (16th-17th centuries)".
9.40: Athanassia STAVROPOULOU, "Getting married in Venetian Crete.
The case of the Cornaro family".
9.55: Katerina KARADIMA, "Male and female inheritance. Domestic
morality, property devolution and succession in the merchant families of
Trieste (1787-1850)".
10.10-10.30: Discussion

10.30-10.45  Break


Session VII
Mastering space: maps, government, depictions

Chair: Dimitris PAVLOPOULOS

10.45: Dimitris PAVLOPOULOS, Introduction
10.55: Anna TAHINCI, "Artists and the Mediterranean: Seascapes in
the Expanded Field".
11.10: Maria KATSANAKI, " Theodoros Rallis and Orientalism".
11.25: Natalia AGAPIOU, "The Pillars of Hercules: between myth and
reality".
11.40: Karl Frederick M?RRISON, "Alienating Illusion: John Covel's
(1638-1723) Report on Greco".
11.55-12.15: Discussion

12.15-12.30 Break


Chair: Olga KATSIARDI-HERING

12.30: Olga KATSIARDI-HERING, Introduction
12.40: Michael NORTH, "The sea as lieu de memoire/realm of
memory"
12.55: Marina KOUMANOUDI, "How to rule a colony: reflections on the
1459 commission to Leone Duodo, Duke of Crete".
13.10:Alexis MALLIARIS, "The Venetian map of the territory of Patras
(1689) as a depiction of the landscape and settlements".
13.25: Evangelos LIVIERATOS, "Key coastline depictions of the Morea
from Ptolemy to early 19th century cartography: relating maps with
geostrategy".
13.40: Giorgos TOLIAS, "The Mediterranean cartographic pattern and
15th century humanism".
13.55-14.20: Discussion


14.20-14.45: Anastasia PAPADIA-LALA - Maria EFTHYMIOY, Concluding remarks
                      Theofanis G. STAVROU, Future prospects





List of Participants

Natalia AGAPIOU,  Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
Mauro AGNOLETTI, University of Florence
Seymour BECKER, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Eleni BENEKI, Ionian University -  Pireus Bank Group Cultural Foundation
Gregory BRUESS, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Rapids
Konstantinos BURASELIS, University of Athens
Maria-Christina CHATZIIOANNOU, Institute for Neohellenic Research /
National ?ellenic Research Foundation
Dionyssios CHOURCHOULIS, Queen Mary, University of London
Evelyn DAVIDHEISER, University of Minnesota
Apostolos DELIS, Ionian University
Michael DERMITZAKIS, University of Athens
Maria EFTHYMIOY, University of Athens
Maria FUSARO, University of Exeter
Katerina GARDIKAS, University of Athens
Kostas GAVROGLU, University of Athens
Maria GEORGOPOULOU, The Gennadius Library, Athens
Gelina HARLAFTIS, Ionian University
Evanthis HATZIVASSILIOU, University of Athens
Katerina KARADIMA, University of Athens
Ioannis KARAKOSTAS, University of Athens
Evi KAROUZOU, Research Center for the Study of Modern Greek History /
Academy of Athens
Maria KATSANAKI, National Gallery Museum Alexandros Soutzos, Athens
Olga KATSIARDI-HERING, University of Athens
Paris KONORTAS, University of Athens
Katerina KONSTANTINIDOU, University of Athens
Dimitris KONTOGEORGIS, University of Athens
Marina KOUMANOUDI, The Institute for Byzantine Research / National
Hellenic Research Foundation
Manolis KOUMAS, University of Athens
Lykourgos KOURKOUVELAS, University of Athens
Evangelos LIVIERATOS,   Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Alexis MALLIARIS, Ionian University
Chryssa MALTEZOU, Hellenic Institute for Byzantine and Postbyzantine
Studies in Venice
John MAZIS, Hamiline University, St. Paul - Minnesota
Karl Frederick M?RRISON, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Michael NORTH,  University of Greifswald
Daniel PANZAC, University of Aix-en-Provence
Anastasia PAPADIA-LALA, University of Athens
Alexandra PAPADOPOULOU, Ionian University
Katerina PAPAKONSTANTINOU, University of Piraeus
Christina PAPAKOSTA, University of Athens
Dimitris PAVLOPOULOS, University of Athens
Kostas RAPTIS, University of Athens
Sotiris ROUSSOS, University of the Peloponnese
Marinos SARIYANNIS, Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Rethymnon - Crete
Vasso SEIRINIDOU, University of Athens
Athanassia STAVROPOULOU, University of Athens
Theofanis G. STAVROU, University of Minnesota
Anna TAHINCI, University of Minnesota
Giorgos TOLIAS, Institute for Neohellenic Research / National Hellenic
Research Foundation
Maria TRIANTAFYLLOU, University of Athens
Eleni TSOURAPA, University of Athens
Peter WEISENSEL, Macalester College, St. Paul - Minnesota
Eric WEITZ, University of Minnesota

With the kind support of

The University of Athens
THE J. F. COSTOPOULOS FOUNDATION
Bookstores Leader Books


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