“De-Framing the Mediterranean from the 21st Century: Places, Routes, Actors”, 19–29 September 2016, in Rethymno, Crete
The Academy will be held 19–29 September 2016, in Rethymno, Crete, and has been organized by the Forum in cooperation with the Max Weber Stiftung, the Centre Marc Bloch and the Insitute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH.
Recent developments ― revolutions and crises, new social movements, migrants and refugees, interventions and border regimes, civil wars and authoritarian restorations― have transformed the Mediterranean into a zone of fragmentation and disaster. Perceptions of the Mediterranean have long been shaped by European perspectives. The Mediterranean has been seen as an idyllic space of civilization, of exchange and mobility, a view related to re-translations of the Roman mare nostrum; to those nostalgic visions of nineteenth and early twentieth-century colonial cosmopolitanism; and to modern practices of tourism and food consumption. In view of newly emergent political and strategic challenges, current European approaches to the Mediterranean have increasingly focused on issues of (dis)order and security. However, Europe itself has become part of a more global Mediterranean space that extends far beyond its shores.
The Transregional Academy aims at discussing and generating new ideas, concepts, tools and methodologies for a better understanding of current dynamics. The idea is to provide a laboratory for rethinking and discussing the history of the Mediterranean, the Mittelmeer, the “White Sea” from todays’ perspectives and challenges.
Direction: Leyla Dakhli und Teresa Koloma-Beck (Centre Marc Bloch), Zaal Andronikashvili (Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin; Ilia State University Georgia), Marinos Sariyannis und Apostolos Delis (Institute for Mediterranean Studies), Carolina Kobelinsky (Centre for Ethnology and Comparative Sociology, Paris), Mayssoun Sukarieh (King’s College London).
Learn everything about the transregional academy, the participants and the program at our blog “Transregional Academies”.