Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.5325/mediterraneanstu.28.2.0149
Benjamin F Taggie
abstract:The formation of the Mediterranean Studies Association was the result of a chance meeting and new friendship established at an academic meeting at Notre Dame University in 1986. In the years that followed, the collaborations of Rick Clement and Benjamin Taggie led to the unanticipated establishment of the academic journal Mediterranean Studies, now in its twenty-eighth year of publication. In 1994 the Mediterranean Studies Association was formally established and in 1998 organized its first International Congress in Lisbon, Portugal. Over the next quarter century, overcoming many challenging situations and through the efforts of the original founders and including, since 2001, Louise Taggie, the organization has grown into a major organization devoted to interdisciplinary and international education and research, now with over sixteen hundred members worldwide. The MSA has also been an active participant and/or creator of such academic endeavors as the Nocciano Institute for the Arts and Culture, the University of Massachusetts Summer Sicily Program, and the Summer Program in Évora, Portugal.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.5325/MEDITERRANEANSTU.28.2.0262
R. Raspa
abstract:In this essay, I remember my 20-year history of extraordinary moments in the Mediterranean Studies Association. From the first MSA conference I attended, the theme has always been discovery, new frontiers and expansion. The same theme characterizes the many memorable social interchanges I have enjoyed at the annual meetings. This essay traces my personal odyssey in the MSA. Others will have their own parallel though different experiences.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.5325/MEDITERRANEANSTU.28.2.0250
A. F. Lago
abstract:The role of congress host is essential to the success of MSA Congress, helping to connect the history of the venue of each congress to the organization's mission of building collegiality with scholars of the Mediterranean. The author was instrumental in planning the 2002 MSA Congress in the historic city of Granada and has continued to work with colleagues in Spain to host MSA Congresses in cities of historical importance on the Iberian Peninsula.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-13DOI: 10.5325/mediterraneanstu.28.1.0023
Carlino
abstract:The field of Italian literature of migration has seen rapid growth since the early 1990s, and one of the many voices in this literature is that of immigrants coming to Italy from Jewish communities in Arab countries. Unlike the writing of other migrant groups in Italy, the works of Jewish writers from Arab communities draw their themes from the legacy of Sephardic family origins, the compound experience of historical collective and individual migration, and the complex process of forming identities in the host culture. These themes are expressed in a porous Italian, open to influences from Arabic, Ladino, Hebrew, English, and French. This article considers these distinguishing characteristics in the prose of several writers who have come to Italy from Jewish communities in Arab countries over the past seventy years.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-13DOI: 10.5325/mediterraneanstu.28.1.0001
Nicholas D. Cross
abstract:The Panionia, the common festival of the Ionian Greeks of Asia Minor that took place in the Panionion sanctuary, was a focal point for the development of a common Ionian identity during the Archaic Greek period. The Archaic Ionian League, a loose collection of separate cities, grew to include both Ionians and non-Ionians, problematizing what it meant to be Ionian. The members negotiated their identities through the recitation of their civic origin stories at the Panionia festival, until a common cultural identity materialized by the late sixth century BCE. Upon this foundation, when geopolitical shifts in the region caused the Ionians to realign their foreign policies toward Athens, a common political identity also emerged, as reflected in the legendary account of a mass Ionian Migration from the Greek mainland to Asia Minor. It was within a ritual context, therefore, that the early Ionian League members forged their coherent identity.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-13DOI: 10.5325/mediterraneanstu.28.1.0088
E. Tounta
abstract:This article focuses on the Italo-Greek elite of the Sicilian kingdom in the twelfth century and examines how this elite, which owed its social status to the court offices it held, constructed a collective identity to ensure its prosperity and continuity as a sociocultural group. Since proximity to the king was the prime reason for the existence of this elite, the courtier role is the only facet of its identity that is represented in the sources. Therefore, the poems of two Italo-Greek courtiers, the so-called Anonymous Poet of Malta and Eugenius of Sicily, offer insights into how the Italo-Greeks perceived and represented their role as royal courtiers and came to forge a distinct collective identity. The Vita of Bartholomew of Simeri is considered to be part of the same identity construction strategy, since the saint is invested with traits of an Italo-Greek royal courtier.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5325/mediterraneanstu.28.2.0298
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