Workshop Program

Workshop sessions will feature two to three pre-circulated papers each, followed by comments by a senior scholar, and will focus on such themes as inter-imperial rivalry, governmentality and subject-making, religious politics, and the circulation of persons, artefacts, and texts--especially of non-elite and non-metropolitan provenance--across political, religious, and linguistic frontiers. Special sessions will include a discussion on the pedagogical challenges and aims of early modern Mediterranean survey courses, and a plenary session on the development of a companion website. This website, currently under development, will feature an array of interactive materials, including visual imagery, translations of primary texts, digital facsimiles of manuscripts, bibliographies, syllabi and guides to digital resources for researchers, teachers, undergraduate and graduate students.

Friday, Oct. 12, Miller Lash House (130 Old Kingston Road),
University of Toronto Scarborough

12:00-1:30 Gathering & lunch
 
 1:30- 3:00 Session I: Moving Objects
 
Moderator/commentator: Suzanne Conklin Akbari
 
Avner Ben-Zaken: Objects in Motion: Science, Networks and Trust across the Mediterranean
 
Bronwen Wilson: Francesco Lupazolo's Isolario dell'Arcipelego (1638), Cartographic Writing, and the Horizon
 
3:00- 3:30 Coffee Break
 
3:30- 4:30 Session II: Moving Subjects (Part I)
 
Moderator/commentator: Cornell Fleischer
 
Emine Fetvaci: A Venetian Ottomanized: Chief White Eunuch Gazanfer Agha and His Artistic Patronage
 
Gillian Weiss: Slaves into Subjects: Barbary Captivity and Early Modern France
 
Coffee break
 
5:00- 6:00 Session III: Moving Subjects (Part II)
 
Moderator/commentator: Adnan Husain
 
Natalie Rothman: Interpreting Dragomans: The Making of Trans-Imperial Subjects in Early Modern Istanbul
 
Ebru Turan: A True Constantinopolitan between the Ottoman, Venetian, and Habsburg Empires in the 16th Century: The Extraordinary Career of Alvise Gritti (c. 1480-1534)
 
7:00 Dinner reception at Natalie Rothman's home

Saturday, Oct. 13, Burwash Hall Senior Common Room,
Victoria University (89 Charles St. West)

 9:30-10:00 Coffee
 
10:00-11:00 Session IV: Comparisons & Confluences (Part I)
 
Moderator/commentator: Nabil Matar
 
Gerard Wiegers: The Moriscos and their Mediterranean Network in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century
 
Tijana Krstic: Between the "Old Grecians" and the "(New) Turks": Narratives of Conversion to Islam in the Age of Humanism and Confessionalization
 
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
 
11:30-12:30 Session V: Roundtable: Teaching the Early Modern Mediterranean
 
Moderator: Ebru Turan
 
Virginia Aksan, Elizabeth Cohen, Tom Cohen and workshop participants
 
12:30-2:30 Lunch break
 
 2:30- 3:30 Session VI: Website brainstorming
E. J. Pratt Library (71 Queen's Park Crescent East), Room 306
 
Workshop participants and undergraduate and graduate students
 
3:30- 4:00 Coffee break
 
4:00- 5:30 Session VII: Comparisons & Confluences (Part II)
 
Moderator/commentator: Mark Meyerson
 
Giancarlo Casale: The Limits of Mediterranean Networks of Interaction
 
Martin Jacobs: Between Panegyrics and Polemics: Capsali of Candia, a Venetian Rabbi and his Ottoman Chronicle (1523)
 
Sean Roberts: Witnessing Violence and Apostasy in Tintoretto's Miracle of the Slave
 
5:30- 6:00 Coffee break
 
6:00- 7:00 Session VIII: Roundtable: Closing remarks
 
Cornell Fleischer, Nabil Matar, Mark Meyerson and workshop participants
 
7:00 Dinner
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