Open call for a Conference: “Images and Borderlands: Mediterranean basin between Christendom and Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Age”

Inês Coutinho Announcement
Location
Croatia
Subject Fields
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Borderlands, Early Modern History and Period Studies, Geography, Religious Studies and Theology

The COST Action “Islamic Legacy: Narratives East, West, South, North of the Mediterranean (1350-1750)” [CA 18129] is launching a call to participate in Conference entitled “Images and Borderlands: Mediterranean basin between Christendom and Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Age”. The event that we are disseminating is being organised within the this project, which as the purpose to provide a transnational and interdisciplinary approach capable of overcoming the segmentation that currently characterizes the study of relations between Christianity and Islam in late medieval and early modern Europe and the Mediterranean. We aim to create a network that will help to provide a comprehensive understanding of past relations between Christianity and Islam in the European context through the addressing of three main research problems: otherness, migration and borders. To know more about the project, please visit our website https://is-le.eu.

 

Scope: Following in the footsteps of Fernand Braudel, an increasing number of recent studies show that the Mediterranean basin might be considered as a “borderland” (Darling 2012), “borderscape” (Brambilla 2016) or “Frontier” (Castelnuovo 2000) suggesting that this area is not strictly a border between Christian and Muslim civilization, but a basin in which the two traditions and cultures meet and overlap, with an extraordinary variety of reactions to the hegemonic practices (acceptance, conflict, refusal, dissent). 

The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars who will discuss, from different perspectives and with a multidisciplinary approach, the variety of themes (topics) which revolve around the common issue of reflecting the problem of borderlands as a consequence of the encounter between Christendom and Ottoman Empire in the Early modern Mediterranean. The starting point of examination will be images, i.e. the usage of images (pictures, mental images, literaly images and other visual representations …) as historical evidences (Burke 2008).

 

Dates: 16-17 September 2020.

Place: Split (Croatia), City Museum of Split, Papaličeva 1

Scientific coordinators: Ivana Čapeta Rakić (icapeta@ffst.hr), Giuseppe Capriotti (giuseppe.capriotti@unimc.it)

 

Deadline for applications: 20th March 2020

 

For more information please visit the link: https://is-le.eu/calls/conference-images-and-borderlands-mediterranean-basin-between-christendom-and-ottoman-empire-in-the-early-modern-age/

 

Applicants are kindly requested to send their applications to icapeta@ffst.hr and giuseppe.capriotti@unimc.it.

 

Contact Information

Scientific coordinators: Ivana Čapeta Rakić (icapeta@ffst.hr), Giuseppe Capriotti (giuseppe.capriotti@unimc.it)

Contact Email
info@is-le.eu