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SUMMARY:Whose Mediterranean? Some French Perspectives - Dr Julia Bray - Pr
 ofesseur de littérature arabe médiévale (Université Paris 8)
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CONTACT:Ignacio Sanchez
DESCRIPTION:This lecture is organised by the *Mediterranean and Middle Eas
 tern Network* based at *CRASSH*.\n\nThis year’s seminar series will crea
 te a forum for scholars to confront\, explore and/or challenge the now ubi
 quitous concept of ‘Mediterraneanism’\, as a useful category of inquir
 y.  Cultural anthropologists\; intellectual\, literary\, economic\, politi
 cal and art historians\; ethnobiologists\; geographers and musicologists h
 ave all appropriated the term - with varying levels of success - in an att
 empt to examine the shared (or otherwise) characteristics of the societies
  of that region throughout time.  How far might the ‘Mediterranean’ ex
 tend beyond its shoreline and its port cities before the designation sprea
 ds so thin as to be meaningless?  To what extent might Mediterraneanism be
  a helpful way to focus discussions about dissemination of goods\, flora\,
  fauna\, art\, ideas and literature between\, for example\, Baghdad and Pa
 ris?\n\nFor further information please visit:\nhttp://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk
 /page/385/med--middle-eastern.htm
LOCATION:CRASSH\, 17 Mill Lane\, Cambridge CB2 1RX
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