Thursday, March 27
13:00 Registration
14.00 Opening
14.15 Keynote
Paul A. Silverstein (Portland OR): Thinking through diaspora. Anthropologies of mobility across the Mediterranean
15.00 Coffee Break
Panel 1: Othering the Mediterranean - The Construction of the Mediterranean Other
Chairs: Pradeep Chakkarath (Bochum) / Dieter Haller (Bochum)
15.30
Christopher Schliephake (Augsburg): Ithaca Revisited. Othering and the imperialist imagination in Homer’s "Odyssey"
16.15
Felix Wiedemann (Berlin): Narrating the History of the Other(s). The Near East in European historiographical accounts of the 19th and 20th centuries
17.00 Coffee Break
17.30
Anna G. Piotrowska (Kraków): 'Zingarella' or How Mediterranean and Gypsy Merged. The story of a certain musical genre
18.15
Paolo Giaccaria (Turin): Mediterraneanism(s) at Work
Friday, March 28
Panel 2: Cross-Mediterranean Perspectives
Chairs: Nikolas Jaspert (Heidelberg) / Alexandra Cuffel (Bochum)
09.15
Julia Blandfort (Regensburg): Moving Stories. Roma and the oral tradition of a transnational people
10.00
Anna Tozzi Di Marco (Padua): The Mediterranean Cult of the Seven Sleepers. A counter-narrative vs. official Islamic representation
10.45 Coffee Break
11.15
Moti Benmelech (Gush Etzion): Image, Imagination, and Identity. The Jews and the Ten Lost Tribes in early modern Mediterranean
12.00
Cristina Balma-Tivola (Turin): Routes, Migrations, Stories. Counter-cultural discourses from multicultural theatre in Italy
12.45 Lunch Break
Panel 3: Mediterranean Models of Belonging and Integration
Chair: Volkhard Krech (Bochum)
14.00
Ferdaouss Adda (Bochum): A Never-Ending Struggle? Imazighen today: between acceptance and negation
14.45
Christoph K. Neumann (Munich): Non-Dominant Groups in the Near East in the (Post-)Ottoman Era
15.30 Coffee Break
16.00
Hratch Tchilingirian (Oxford): Native and Diasporic. Armenians in the Mediterranean
17.00 Refreshment
19.30
Public Panel Discussion [in German], Museum Bochum:
„Flüchtlinge in/und Europa: Grenzfragen des Mittelmeers als entgrenzende Fragen“
u.a. mit: Micha Brumlik (Publizist), Yvonne Rieker (Historikerin), Axel Schäfer (MdB), Tilman Zülch (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker)
Saturday, March 29
Panel 4: Mediterranean Counter-Narratives
Chair: Ilse Lenz (Bochum)
09.15
Sebastian Elsässer (Kiel): Coptic Counter-Narratives to Muslim-Dominated Nationalism in Egypt
10.00
Shlomo Lotan (Ramat Gan): Changing Attitudes toward the Muslims in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. The Crusaders and their varying images of the local population in the eastern Mediterranean basin
10.45 Coffee Break
11.15
Iain Chambers (Naples): Migrations, Modernities, Musics and a Minor Mediterranean
12.00 Refreshment
12.45 Keynote
Kristin Platt (Bochum): Closing Preferences. The idea of "identity" in the Mediterranean
13.15 Final Discussion