16th Annual Mediterranean Studies Association Congress
Terceira, Azores, Portugal
Sessions Now Available
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These sessions are not in any particular order, except that the last 4 sessions were proposed as
complete sessions. Please make sure the following are correct:
 Title of your paper
 Your name
 Your university
If you are giving your paper in a language different from that indicated in the session, please give
us the paper title in the correct language. If you have suggestions for changes, please let us know.
However, also be aware that as people withdraw, sessions will change. Some sessions will
disappear and new ones will be created. We will try to accommodate your requests, but also
understand that if we move your paper to a different session, we must move someone else out of
that session. But if you believe your paper is not appropriate for the session in which it has been
placed, let us know. If you are willing to chair a specific session, send us a message. If you have
not submitted a paper or session proposal but would like to do so, it is not too late. We will
continue to accept paper abstracts and session proposals, on a case by case basis, until the program
is finalized in late April.
Send all changes to all three: Ben Taggie/Louise Taggie
(medstudiesassn@umassd.edu), and Geraldo Sousa (sousa@ku.edu).
By about April 15, these corrected sessions will be organized into the program,
which will be made available on the website.
REMEMBER: If you have not registered by April 15, YOUR PAPER WILL BE
REMOVED from the program.
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1. Ancient Mediterranean I
Chair: Susan O. Shapiro, Utah State University
Susan O. Shapiro, “Reciprocity and Justice in Catullan Invective”
Spyridon Tzounakas, University of Cyprus, “Caesar as Hostis in Lucan’s De Bello Civili”
Vaios Vaiopoulos, Ιόνιο Πανεπιστήμιο (Ionian University), “Hypermestra querens: Re-Reading
Ovid’s Heroides 14”
2. Ancient Mediterranean II
Chair:
Helen Dixon, University of Michigan, “Friend in Life, Symbol in Death: Understanding
Intentional Dog Burials from the Phoenician Levant”
Jan-Marc Henke, Centre of Mediterranean Studies (ZMS), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, “Network
Theory and Foreign Offerings in Greek Sanctuaries of the 7th and 6th Centuries B.C.E:
Evidence of ‘Trans-Mediterranean Networks’?”
Ana M. Mitrovici, University of California, Santa Barbara, “To the Ends of the Earth: Reception
of Hercules in Roman Dacia”
3. Turkish Music
Chair:
Zeynep Barut, State Conservatory of Music, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi (İTÜ), “An Analysis of
the Reflection of Turkish Music Culture on Western Music”
Şerife Güvençoğlu, State Conservatory of Music, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi (İTÜ), “A Master
of Turkish Classical Music: Itri”
Fatma Gödel, State Conservatory of Music, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi (İTÜ), “Non-Muslim
Composers in Turkish Music Tradition”
4. The Azores in History and Art
Chair:
António Félix Flores Rodrigues, University of the Azores, “Megalithic Discoveries in the
Azores”
Ana Patrícia Rodrigues Alho, Instituto de História da Arte, Faculty of Letters, University of
Lisbon, “Sistema Hidráulico Superior na Arquitectura Gótica em São Miguel—Açores:
Casos de Estudo”
Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, University of Winnipeg, “Conflict and Conflict Resolution in
Seventeenth-Century Terceira”
5. Art History I
Chair:
Patricia Zupan, Middlebury College, “Siena’s Crypt Frescoes (c. 1265-1270) as Virtual
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land”
Barbara J. Watts, Florida International University, “Dante, Simony, and Sixtus IV in the
Brancacci Chapel: Filippino Lippi’s Disputation between St. Peter and Simon Magus
before Nero”
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Ana Duarte Rodrigues, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, “The Importance of Gregorio de
los Rios’ Treatise for the Mediterranean Garden”
Cássio da Silva Fernandes, Universidade Federal de São Paulo—UNIFESP, “Jacob Burckhard,
Art Historian: Collectors in the Italian Renaissance”
6. Art History II
Chair:
Catherine Infante, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Captive Images: The Value and
Circulation of Visual Culture in the Early Modern Mediterranean”
Ufuk Serin, Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Middle East Technical University, Turkey), “The
Church of St. Clement in Ankara and Byzantine Cultural Heritage in Turkey”
Saygin Salgirli, Sabancı Üniversitesi, “Art Histories of the Medieval Mediterranean: In Search of
a Common Language”
Thomas Prasch, Washburn University, “‘The Attributes of His Ancestors’: John Thompson’s
Photographic Expedition to Cyprus, 1878”
7. Medieval Studies I
Chair:
Luigi Andrea Berto, Western Michigan University, “Praising and Criticizing Venetian Dukes in
the Early Middle Ages”
Glenn W. Olsen, University of Utah, “Sodomy’s Road from Anselm of Canterbury to Albert the
Great”
Rachid El Hour, University of Salamanca, “‘De nuevo sobre el cadiazgo periférico’: Andalusí en
época almorávide: el caso de iznájar (granada), España”
8. Medieval Studies II
Chair:
Ellen Lorraine Friedrich, Valdosta State University, “Either/Neither—How the Beaver Became a
Medieval Model for Gender Ambiguity”
Adam J. Goldwyn, Uppsala University, “Seas, Coasts and Sailing Ships: Ecocritical Approaches
to the Mediterranean in the Medieval Romance”
Esperanza Alfonso, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales-Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas, Spain (CCHS-CSIC), “Glosses in Romance in Hebrew
Biblical Commentaries”
9. Early Modern Studies
Chair:
Ronald Surtz, Princeton University, “Staging the Fall in Sixteenth-Century Spain: The Play of
Adam’s Sin”
Marianna D. Birnbaum, UCLA, “A Renaissance Manuscript Dipped in ‘The Great Ocean Sea’”
Maria Angeles Fernandez, University of North Florida, “‘Las leyes y la sangre’: Lope and the
Morisco Issue”
10. Europe and the New World
Chair:
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Patricia Granziera, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Mexico, “Evangelization in
Portuguese India and New Spain: European Reactions to Devotional Images of the Divine
Feminine”
Susan Rosenstreich, Dowling College, “Islands and Exiles: The Early Modern French Voyage to
the New World”
Elizabeth Kuznesof, University of Kansas, “Growing up in the Transatlantic Portuguese World:
Childhood and Education in Portugal and Brazil (1700-1900)”
Laurie Wilkie, University of California, Berkeley, “Material and Social Echoes of the Azores in
California”
11. Early Modern History I
Chair:
Dan Reff, Ohio State University, “Luis Frois’ Tratado (1585) and the Idea of
European/Mediterranean Culture”
Carol Beresiwsky, Kapiolani College, “Manila Galleons, Trade, and Diplomatic Relations
between Spain and Japan in the Early 17th Century”
Joshua M. White, University of Virginia, “Piracy, Slavery, and Subjecthood in the Early
Ottoman Mediterranean”
12. Early Modern History II
Chair:
Mark Emerson, Sul Ross State University, “A Question of Authority: Denying and Defying the
Power of the Portuguese Inquisition in Early Modern Portugal”
Ayse Baltacioglu-Brammer, Ohio State University, “‘Mi Faccio Turco’: An Examination of
Muslims in the Roman Inquisition and the Ottoman Reaction”
Angela Brandão, Universidade Federal de São Paulo—UNIFESP, “Livro dos regimentos dos
officiaes mecanicos: The Transposition of Handicraft and Artistic Work Model from
Portugal to Brazil”
Luiz César de Sá Júnior, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, “Renascens Platanus:
Rhetorical Authority and a Portuguese Scholar in the Republic of Letters”
13. Travel and Empire
Chair:
Russell Scott Valentino, Indiana University, “A Tale of Two Cities: Culture and Identity at the
Edges of Empire”
Vladislav B. Sotirovic, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania,“The Shaping of a
Modern Serbian Nation and State-Building and Territorial Decomposition of the Ottoman
Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy in the First Half of the 19th- Century”
Alexandra de Carvalho Antunes, University of Aveiro/University of Lisbon, “The Commerce
Square and Its Monumental Quay: Ceremonious Arrivals, in Lisbon, of Royal and Political
Personalities (1821-1957)”
Maria Antonia López-Burgos del Barrio, Universidad de Granada, “Archaeological Plundering
and Archaeological Tourism in Cyprus in the 19th and 20th Centuries as Depicted in
English Travel Accounts”
14. Greece
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Chair:
Christos Theofilogiannakos, University of California, San Diego, “The Perennial Periphery:
Culture, Identity and Politics on the Ionian Islands”
Gerassimos D. Pagratis, University of Athens, “Continuity and Discontinuity in the Ionian
Islands during the Napoleonic Wars: The Septinsular Republic (1800-1807)
James Nikopoulos, Nazarbayev University, “Greece’s Florentine Muse”
15. Literature & Culture
Chair:
James P. Gilroy, University of Denver, “The Modernity of Prevost’s Grecque modern”
Amy Aronson, Valdosta State University, “Inside the Veil: Perceptions of the Harem from the
Outside”
Maria Soledad Fernandez Utrera, University of British Columbia, “Primera Proclama de Pombo”
16. Networks and Migration: New Perspectives
Chair:
Simona Wright, The College of New Jersey, “Mediterranean Tales: Italy and the Other”
Emanuela Nan, “The Mediterranean Port Cities from Ancient Genomes to New Paradigms”
A. Bahadir Kaynak, Istambul Kemerburgaz University, “Does Political Trilemma Exist? Lessons
from Turkish and Brazilian Experiences in the Last Decade”
17. Cultural and Religious Cross-currents
Chair:
João Lupi, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, “Maypole and Maybaum in Brazil”
Tony Fogacci, University of Corsica, “The Worship (Cult) of Saint Martin in Corsica and in the
Mediterranean Sea”
Noriko Sato, Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea, “Reshaping the Ancient Christian
Tradition and Confirming Modern Syrian Identity: The Case of Syrian Orthodox Christians
in Syria”
18. Mediterranean Studies I
Chair:
Maria Gagliardi, Università la Spienza di Roma, and Mathilde Marengo, Università degli Studi
di Genova, “‘Mare nostrum’: The Mediterranean as a Brand”
Jennifer Roberson, Sonoma State University, “An Uneasy Coexistence: The Islamic Monuments
in the 20th Century”
Amikam Nachmani, Bar Ilan University, Israel, “A Most Vicious Weapon: Rape and War”
19. Mediterranean Studies II
Chair:
Alma Jean Billingslea, Spelman College, “Black Disaporas in the Mediterranean”
Lucia Carminati, University of Arizona, “Turn-of-the-Century Egypt: Working-class
Cosmopolitanism and Shifting Boundaries of Belonging”
Nuno Ornelas Martins, University of the Azores, “Power, Maritime trade, and the Change from a
Mediterranean-centered Economy towards an Atlantic-centered Economy”
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20. Mediterranean Studies III
Chair:
Sarah Inglis, Simon Fraser University, Canada, “Greek Enigma: Greek Participation in the
Spanish Civil War”
Ayhan Onu Kutlu, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, “Comparative Analysis of Female
Labour Force Participation in Turkey, Spain, Italy, and Greece: Understanding the
Divergence in Turkey”
Byung-Pil Lim, Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Korea, “A Study of the Interrelationship of
the Fixed Idea and Intercultural Communication: Focused on the Arabic Caricatures about
the UN”
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21. Re-orienting the Veil
Chair: Martine Antle, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Sahar Amer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, “Teaching Muslim Women and Veiling:
A Pedagogical Model”
Martine Antle, “Veiling in Art across the Mediterranean”
Maria Ersilia Marchetti, University of Catania, “Veiling Practices in the Mediterranean:
Comparing the French and the Italian Gaze”
Asli Cirakman Deveci, State Conservatory of Music, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi (İTÜ),
“Modern Conservative Self-Image: Urban Veiled Women in Turkey”
22. Towards the Central Mediterranean: Trade Routes and Travels to Naples and Sicily
(18th-19th Centuries)
Chair: Salvatore Bottari, University of Messina
Salvatore Bottari, “Sicilian Foreign Trade in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century”
Mirella Mafrici, University of Salerno, “The Russian-Neapolitan Treaty and the Commercial
Relations between the Two States (1787-1806)”
Rosa Maria Delli Quadri, University of Naples “L’Orientale” (Italy), “From the New to the Old
World: Americans in Naples and in the Mediterranean (1800-1850)”
23. Language, Linguistics, & Lexicography
Chair: Anita Herzfeld, University of Kansas
Anita Herzfeld, “Lunfardo, The Argentine Catalyst of the Creolization of European Operas”
Paul M. Chandler, University of Hawaii, “Mejoremos la enseñanza del vocabulario”
Yoon Yong Soo, Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Korea, “The Acceptance of Foreign
Languages and Languages Fusion in Tunisia”
Kathryn Kingebiel, University of Hawaii, “The Alienability Difference: New Evidence from
French”
24. The Global Renaissance
Chair: Geraldo U. de Sousa, University of Kansas
Richard Raspa, Wayne State University, “Misreading the Text: The Limits of Classical Virtue in
Titus Andronicus”
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Geraldo U. de Sousa, “‘President of My Kingdom’: Boundaries in a Globalized World in Antony
and Cleopatra”
Gaywyn Moore, University of Kansas, “Lost and Found in the Azores: Redefining Worth and
Wealth in Thomas Heywood's The Fair Maid of the West”
David M. Bergeron, University of Kansas, “Thomas Middleton, Thomas Middleton: London
1613”
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