January 16, 2006
Lecture series on Muslim Mediterranean begins
Jan. 23
The Center for World History is presenting a lecture series
this winter and spring titled "Itineraries in the Muslim
Mediterranean, 1350-1950: Individuals, Change and Memory in
a World Region." The lectures are open to the public and
are intended to make available different perspectives on the
transformation of the Muslim Mediterranean in modern times.
The series will explore the transformation of the Muslim culture
zone in the Mediterranean from the 14th to the 20th Centuries
as seen through the lives of six notable men and women, Muslim
and non-Muslim. The lectures begin with a talk on January 23
by UCSC history professor Terry Burke. The complete schedule
is listed below.
January 23 Terry Burke
(history, UCSC), Ali al-Hammi, Mamluk of Napoleon
February 13 Julia Clancy-Smith
(history, Arizona), Khayreddine al-Tunisi: A Mediterranean
Odyssey, 19th Century
February 27 Akram Khater
(history, North Carolina State-Raleigh), Hindiyya, Maronite
Nun: Christian Visions, Satanic Deceptions
April 10 Abdesselam
Cheddadi (history, Mohammed V-Rabat), Ibn Khaldun:
Cosmopolitan Intellectual and Man of Action
April 21 Ross E. Dunn
(history, SDSU), Ibn Battuta and the Indo-Mediterranean
World (Stevenson College Fireside Lounge, 7 p.m.)
May 8 Daniel Schroeter
(history, UC Irvine), Meir Macnin and the Lost World of
Arab Jews
All lectures are in the Cowell College Conference Room at 3:30
p.m. unless otherwise specified.
For more information and a complete schedule of lectures, go to http://cwh.ucsc.edu/itinerariesmm.html or contact the Center for World History at (831) 459-2287.
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