Colloque “Mediterranean Visions: Journeys, Itineraries and Cultural Migrations” et symposium “History, Literature and Culture in a Mediterranean Frame” — Sorrente (Italie),13-15/06/2014

The Sant’Anna Institute (Sorrento, Italy) and the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, Massachusetts, USA) have the pleasure of presenting the first Conference entitled “Mediterranean Visions: Journeys, Itineraries and Cultural Migrations / Visioni Mediteranee: Viaggi, Itinerari e Migrazioni Culturali” (June 13-14, 2014)

Directors: Giovanni Spani (College of the Holy Cross) and Marco Marino
(Sant’Anna Institute)

Conference Venue: Sant’Anna Institute, Sorrento, Italy

“The Mediterranean is… the heart of the Old World, it is its necessary condition and its life.  Without it, it would be impossible to represent its history”  (G.W.F. Hegel, from “Lessons on the Philosophy of History”)

The subject of the conference is the “voyage” across the Mediterranean Sea understood as an itinerary through time and space, and, at the same time, as an interior journey within the confines of the symbolic territory that is the Mediterranean:  an environment overflowing with representations capable of synthesizing linguistic, cultural, social and religious analogies and contrasts involving three continents thanks to an infinite intertwining of relationships from the most remote past.

That “sea among the lands” is found at the center of human history for its immeasurable reach in the development of those populations who looked out onto its shores over the course of millennia.

This conference intends to focus on the possible perceptions of the journey, moving from an Italian, European and extra-European perspective (with specific reference to the American continent, which is so historically and culturally connected to the Mediterranean heritage and to its explorations), and concentrating moreover on the theme of immigration/emigration to/from the Mediterranean Basin, the result of centuries-old, intercultural exchanges occurring between its shores, as well as the new challenges (social and economic) facing the region from globalized society and from the increasingly urgent democratic requirements of the populations inhabiting it.

In this comparative and inter-Mediterranean perspective, submissions are welcome in Italian, English, French, and Spanish in any of the following disciplines:

– Literature
– History
– Philosophy
– Sociology and Anthropology
– Political Science
– Religious Studies
– Gender Studies
– Migration Studies
– Cinema
– Visual Arts
– Urban Planning

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