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has addressed the Critically Mediterranean international symposium at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, where he was invited to address questions of melancholy politics and postcoloniality in the contemporary Mediterranean. The Symposium included presentations by Mediterranean Studies scholars of note, including Peregrine Horden, Michèle Hanoosh, Claudio Fogu and John Baldacchino. Convened by Edwige Tamalet and Yasser Elhariry, the Symposium focussed on issues of immanence and modernity, slow time, haunting, remembrance and anachronicity, and other discursive deployments in relation to the Mediterranean littoral.

Dr Bugeja’s presentation opened up the question of melancholy as a historically dialectical resource that is more pertinent than ever today, as the region experiences continued urgencies of discursive and material shelter in a moment of exhaustion for received notions of ideology, belief and partisan alignment.

Dr Bugeja is Research Fellow in Postcolonial Studies at the Mediterranean Institute.