The Mediterranean Institute would like to invite the University’s academic staff and students to its forthcoming conference, titled ‘MediterrAsians: Affinities in Society, Geography, History, Culture’. The conference is organised by the Institute in collaboration with the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Busan University.
‘MediterrAsians’ is a one-day conference with a transdisciplinary brief: to explore the modes of connectivity that, in diverse ways and through myriad perspectives, link the Asian continent to the Mediterranean basin. Starting from an ethos of people-to-people relations across the two geographic zones, the conference will tap into a range of scholarly interests that explore their connections that go far beyond the mere relation of the two cartographies and their geo-physical proximity.
‘MediterrAsians’ will look into questions of shared and diversified material cultures, intertwined historiographies, travel writing, modes of alterity, otherness and othering in cultural and humanistic representation, the connection of political, communal and cultural imaginaries, intersections in geo-politics, geo-political relations and economies, as well as modes of cultural translation through a transnational purview.
‘MediterrAsians’ will look into questions of shared and diversified material cultures, intertwined historiographies, travel writing, modes of alterity, otherness and othering in cultural and humanistic representation, the connection of political, communal and cultural imaginaries, intersections in geo-politics, geo-political relations and economies, as well as modes of cultural translation through a transnational purview.
The conference will be held on Thursday 16 February at the Mediterranean Institute, ir-Razzett tal-Ħursun, University of Malta Msida Campus. Those interested in attending are kindly requested to email the convenor Dr Norbert Bugeja at norbert.bugeja@um.edu.mt or call on +356 9902 6484 to confirm their attendance.
The general public is very welcome to attend.
