The Mediterranean of Modernity : Global and Regional Perspectives
Partner
ModMed, University of Konstanz
Dates
04-07 October 2022
Place
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin
Language
English
Abstract
A convergence is taking place within the humanities and the social sciences : While global historians rediscover micro- and regional levels of analysis, area studies are refashioning themselves as transregional. What does this mean for the study of the modern Mediterranean ? Current conflicts and crises have turned our attention to the region. Mediterranean studies are booming.Yet, since the latter continue to be a domain of scholars of pre-modern times and non-Western societies, the modern Mediterranean remains a historiographical blind spot. Though historical research on the Mediterranean of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century has grown massively during the last decade, the paradigm is still hardly established within the field of modern history where sub-, trans- and non-Mediterranean frameworks of analysis prevail. Since those area studies that do cover parts of the region (North Africa, Middle East, Western and Southeastern Europe, the Ottoman empire and Turkey) are either also in an early stage of trans-regionalization or limit themselves to intraregional dynamics, a comprehensive view is missing. In order to change this, our workshop will revisit the genealogy of Mediterraneanism, a genuinely modern representation system that excluded the region from the master narratives of modernity (1); discuss the place of the modern Mediterranean in the field of world history (2); compare the approaches of Mediterranean studies with those of neighboring and connected areas (3) and seas (4), and, finally, reflect upon the question how a history of the modern Mediterranean can be written (5-6). On a methodological level, we wish to define the relation of Mediterranean and global history with regard to the modern age, during which processes of regional and global integration overlapped and influenced each other on an unprecedented scale.
Programme
https://www.modmed.uni-konstanz.de/geplante-veranstaltungen/
Organisation of the video recording or videoconference
Only the morning section on October 6 will be held in a hybrid form. The rest will be followed in presence (link Zoom below).
Name(s) of organiser(s)
The sixth workshop of the DFG Research Network Modern Mediterranean: Dynamics of a World Region 1800 | 2000 is organized by Manuel Borutta, Malte Fuhrmann, Nora Lafi, Esther Möller and Daniel Tödt in cooperation with Forum Transregionale Studien, Historicity of Democracy in the Arab and Muslim Worlds (HISDEMAB), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) and Universität Konstanz.
Contact : Jovo Miladinovic (jovo.miladinovic@uni-konstanz.de)
Zoom-Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83367815133?pwd=WkF1VkdRc0JCUVJFa09WY0pJN1paUT09
Meeting-ID: 833 6781 5133Kenncode: 624726
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Céline Regnard (5 octobre 2022). The Mediterranean of Modernity : Global and Regional Perspectives. GLOBALMED. Consulté le 17 novembre 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/p3jc



