https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/urban/2023/02/15/forms-of-inequality-and-the-legitimacy-of-governance/
Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, Italy – 28-31 July 2023
The aim of this network is to provide researchers with information about publications and congresses regarding the mediterranean area in modern and contemporary history. We strive to be a collaborative space for researchers coming from different research fields. Instead of only promoting discussions about each single country, or only discussing the concept of mediterranean history, the aim is to facilitate circulation and confrontation of ideas, methods, and theories.
https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/urban/2023/02/15/forms-of-inequality-and-the-legitimacy-of-governance/
Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, Italy – 28-31 July 2023
On the Margins of Shi‘r: Rethinking Histories of Poetic Modernism in the Twentieth-century Arab World
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The publication of Shi‘r (Poetry) magazine by Yusuf al-Khal in 1957 had a tremendous influence on the development of modern Arabic poetry, but is often presented as the only influential magazine in the field of modern Arabic poetry and poetics. More recently, scholars have begun to investigate the contributions of other figures, magazines, and discussions that moved Arabic poetics away from classical prosody towards what has been called the modernizing of poetic verse. This special
Round-Table on Immigration in Tunisia
March 2, 2023, 14h00
Faculté des Sciences Sociales de Tunis
Salle Fatma Hadded (programme attached)
The new issue of the Journal of Democracy (available free on ProjectMuse until February 14) presents a timely snapshot on the fate of freedom around the world, and particularly in Europe. Below are essays that may be of particular interest to H-Mediterranean readers:
Erik Jones
The government of Giorgia Meloni, the country’s first female prime minister, is popular, scary, and competent. Her far-right party also enjoys greater democratic legitimacy than any other Italian party in a long time.
“In Europe, Democracy Erodes from the Right”
Milan W. Svolik, Elena Avramovska