Workshop / 11th Mediterranean Research Meeting (MRM)

ADRIATIC FRONTIERS:
COMMUNICATIONS ACROSS CULTURES, SPACE AND TIME

Deadline for abstracts: July 15, 2009.

CONCEPT

The workshop "Adriatic Frontiers: Communications Across Cultures,
Space and Time" seeks to provide a forum for the study of the
multifaceted history of a region that has remained on the margins,
despite the increased interest in the Mediterranean. Although
Fernand Braudel had early upheld the study of interactions of
Catholic, Muslim, Christian Orthodox, and Jewish cultures on either
side of political borders as a promising field of study, few efforts
have been made since then for a greater understanding of the Adriatic,
specifically, as an intercultural space. This zone of multiple
frontiers has suffered from the fact that it is also on the periphery
of specializations of Ottoman/Middle Eastern, Italian/European, and
Balkans/South Slavic histories and their respective sources and
literatures. Scattered efforts in recent scholarship, resulting in
somewhat astonishing findings, have demonstrated that we are still far
from understanding the workings of this space between, broadly, the
14th and 19th centuries. The proposed workshop seeks to bridge this
gap by bringing together an international group of scholars from
various disciplinary backgrounds who nonetheless share a common
interest in intercultural aspects of the Adriatic space in the past.
The proposed workshop will reframe earlier efforts in the quest to
further future scholarship on the matter. The organizers strive
to achieve a mixture of established scholars who have already made a
lasting contribution to the field and younger historians who would
benefit from the meeting in their future endeavours.
(Please also see the full concept [3 pages] at
http://www.eui.eu/RSCAS/Research/Mediterranean/mrm2010/desc_pdf/MRM2010_
Ds11.pdf)

COSTS

There will be no registration fee. Most selected participants are
eligible for a bursary. This will be a lump sum, unrelated to your
actual costs, and fixed according to your country of
residence/departure. Participants from Southeast Europe, Turkey and
Middle Eastern countries will receive a lump sum of 550 euros to
cover their expenses (airfare, accommodation). Participants from
Western Europe, the USA and Canada will receive a lump sum of 130
euros. Participants from within Italy are not eligible for a bursary.
For details, please see
http://www.eui.eu/RSCAS/Research/Mediterranean/mrm2010/pdf/MRM2010-InfoP
articipants.pdf#page=3

TRAVEL

Participants are expected to arrive in Montecatini Terme on Wednesday,
March 24, 2010, before 6PM and depart on Saturday, March 27, 2010,
after lunch (i.e. after 1PM). Shuttles from the nearby airports of
Florence and Pisa to the conference venue will be provided (on
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, as well as on Saturday afternoon and Sunday
morning). Montecatini Terme is located in a distance of approximately
45 km from Florence and Pisa.

ACCOMODATION

Participants will be accommodated in one of the hotels in Montecatini
Terme booked for the MRM. All hotels are within walking distance of
each other and offer the comforts of a 4-star hotel. The discount rate
prices per night at these hotels range from ca. 35 to ca. 75 euros,
hence totaling 100-250 euros, according to your preferences, for all
three nights. The participants will be required to pay for their rooms
themselves (see also section "Costs") upon check-out. Breakfasts,
lunches, and dinners are provided for, save for the dinner on Thursday,
March 25.

WORKSHOP, SCHEDULE AND VENUE

The workshop "Adriatic Frontiers" is one of approximately 20 workshops
organized simultaneously in the framework of the 11th Mediterranean
Research Meeting. Each workshop will comprise of 10-16 participants and
will begin with an inaugural lecture at 7PM on Wednesday. Presentations
will be held on Thursday and Friday between 9AM and 5:30PM, as well as
on Saturday from 9AM-1PM. Preliminary versions of papers to be presented

will be made available (to participants only) prior to the event and
must be submitted by January 15, 2010. The seminar rooms are within
walking distance of the hotels and are all equipped with data
projectors.

APPLY

Paper proposals must be submitted online before July 15, 2009.
Abstracts of 500-1000 words are to be pasted in, CVs of max. 5 pages
are to be uploaded to, the online form at
http://www.rscas.org/medform.asp

TIMELINE

July 15, 2009: deadline for submission of abstracts.
September 15, 2009: results of selection process announced
January 15, 2010: deadline for submission of papers

CONTACT

The workshop is directed by Maximilian Hartmuth
(hartmuthsu.sabanciuniv.edu) and Amanda Phillips
(amanda.phillipsorinst.ox.ac.uk) and hosted by the European
University Institute. Feel free to contact the workshop directors
for thematic concerns, but note that any question pertaining to
accommodation, transport, costs, etc. falls under the responsibility
of the MRM. Frequently asked questions are addressed at
http://www.eui.eu/RSCAS/Research/Mediterranean/mrm2010

See also the official call for papers at
http://www.eui.eu/RSCAS/Research/Mediterranean/mrm2010/pdf/MRM2010-Paper
scall.pdf