{"id":5273,"date":"2024-02-09T21:45:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T21:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/?page_id=5273"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:25:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:25:03","slug":"pre-modern-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/pre-modern-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Modern Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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2019-2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

September 19, 2020<\/strong>
\nLuke Yarbrough, UCLA
\n“Persuasion and Competition at the Sultan’s Court: Inferring the Themes of Mamluk Political Thought”<\/p>\n

November 8, 2019<\/strong>
\nClaudia Rapp, University of Vienna
\n“The Monastery of Saint Catherine: A Magnet for Medieval Christendom”<\/p>\n

February 18, 2020<\/strong>
\nPaul Kosmin, Harvard University
\n“Trading Values Ethnography and Exploration in the Ancient Indian Ocean World”<\/p>\n

March 4, 2020<\/strong>
\nAndrea Moudarres, UCLA
\n“Political Monsters: Centaurs in Renaissance Florence”<\/p>\n

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2018-2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

September 20, 2018<\/strong>
\nMaya Maskarinec, USC
\n“The Houses of Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome”<\/p>\n

February 7, 2019<\/strong>
\nAlessandro Schiesaro, Manchester University
\n“Roman Apocalypses and the Future of Empire”<\/p>\n

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2017-2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

January 19, 2018<\/strong>
\nColloquium: “Beyond Precarity and Trust: The Experience of Mobility Across Time”<\/strong><\/p>\n

C\u00e9dric Br\u00e9laz, University of Fribourg
\n“Deviating Soldiers: Officials on the Move and Local Communities at Risk in the Roman East”<\/p>\n

Adam Kosto, Columbia University
\n“Safety ‘Coming and Going’ in the Middle Ages”<\/p>\n

Juliette Bourdin, Universit\u00e9 Paris 8
\n“The Mechanisms of Trust: The Emigrants’ Response to the Dangers of the Overland Trails to Oregon and California in the 1840s”<\/p>\n

Emmanuelle Chevreau, Universit\u00e9 Paris 2, Panth\u00e9on-Assas
\n“Contractual Clauses Facilitating the Mobility of People and Goods in the Roman Empire”<\/p>\n

Rowan Dorin, Stanford University
\n“Migrant, Moneylenders and the Threat of Expulsion in Medieval Europe”<\/p>\n

Evelyne Oliel-Grausz, Universit\u00e9 Paris 1-IHMC\/ConfigMedERC\/
\n“Being a Foreigner at Court: Jews in Livorno, Mobility and Litigation in the 18th Century”<\/p>\n

Hiroshi Motomura, UCLA
\n“Legal Framework and Policy Issues Raised by Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Forced Migrants in the 20th Century US”<\/p>\n

Jennifer Devereaux, USC
\n“Human Mobility: From Vulnerability to Collectivity in the Ancient World”<\/p>\n

Susan Lape, USC
\n“Female Immigrants in New Comedy: Precarity and Accommodation”<\/p>\n

Jessica Goldberg, UCLA
\n“Becoming a Local: Migration and Identity in the Medieval Islamic World”<\/p>\n

Emily Ryo, USC
\n“Fostering Legal Cynicism in Immigrant Detention”<\/p>\n

Nayan Shah, USC
\n“Precarious Materiality and Visual Exhibition of Refugees”<\/p>\n

February 23, 2018
\nStephen Harrison, Oxford University
\n“An Issue of Genre and Form in Roman Literature: Expanded Epigram in Horace and Propertius”<\/p>\n

March 27, 2018
\nGiuseppe Pezzini, St. Andrews University
\n“Terence and the Speculum Vitae: A Journey into Comic Realism”<\/p>\n

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2016-2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

October 25, 2016<\/strong>
\nMartina Minas-Nerpel, Swansea University and Getty Scholar
\n“Ptolemaic Queens in Egyptian Temple Reliefs: Intercultural Reflections of Political Authority, or Religious Imperatives?”<\/p>\n

November 8, 2016<\/strong>
\nDavid Levene, New York University
\n“Historical Method and National Identity”<\/p>\n

January 19, 2017<\/strong>
\nEric Rebillard, Cornell University
\n“Frauds, Forgeries, Fictions: What Kind of Writings are the Acts of the Martyrs?”<\/p>\n

January 19, 2017<\/strong>
\nCavan Concannon, USC
\n“Trade, Networks, and Early Christian Difference: Deleuze, Latour, and Dionysios of Corinth in the Second Century”<\/p>\n

2015-2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

October 31, 2015<\/strong>
\nJoe Manning, Yale University
\n“Climate Change, Social Unrest, and the Economy in Hellenistic Egypt: Global Implications?”<\/p>\n

January 16, 2016<\/strong>
\nSt\u00e9phane Benoist, Universit\u00e9 Lille, CNRS, Minist\u00e9re de la Culture et de la Communication
\n“The Body Politic and the Roman Emperor: A Few Perspectives about the Body and Divinity of the Princeps, from Augustus to Constantine”<\/p>\n

April 13, 2016<\/strong>
\nE. Igor Mineo, Universit\u00e1 degli Studi di Palmero
\n“Political Mediterraneanism? About Conflictuality, Informal Powers, and Communities”<\/p>\n

April 21, 2016<\/strong>
\nLaurent Bricault, Universit\u00e9 Toulouse-Jean Jaur\u00e9s, Getty Villa Scholar
\n“From Alexandria to Rome: The Many Faces of Isis and Serapis on Ancient Coins”<\/p>\n

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2014-2015<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

November 17, 2014<\/strong>
\nJessica Goldberg, UCLA
\n“Reading Other People’s Mail: Perspectives from the Cairo Geniza”<\/p>\n

April 21, 2015<\/strong>
\nChristel M\u00fcller, Universit\u00e9 Paris-Ouest Nanterre La D\u00e9fense
\n“The ‘Common Emporion of Greece’: Groups and Subgroups of Foreigners in Late Hellenistic Delos”<\/p>\n

April 21, 2015<\/strong>
\nFr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Hurlet, Universit\u00e9 Paris-Ouest Nanterre La D\u00e9fense
\n“Spaces of Indignity: Being Deprived of Friendship of the Prince and Banned from Court”<\/p>\n

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2013-2014<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

September 18, 2013<\/strong>
\nJohn W.I. Lee, University of California, Santa Barbara
\n“Gender and Power in the West Anatolian Borderlands during the Achaemenid Period”<\/p>\n

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2012-2013<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

November 9, 2012<\/strong>
\nWilliam Harris, Columbia University
\n“Mental Illness according to Greek Medicine”<\/p>\n

November 26, 2012<\/strong>
\n“Humanities in Europe and in America”<\/strong>
\nPascal Arnuad, Universit\u00e9 Lyon 2
\nThomas Habinek, USC
\nPeggy Kamuf, USC
\nVanessa Schwartz, USC<\/p>\n

November 27, 2012<\/strong>
\nPascal Arnaud, Universit\u00e9 Lyon 2
\n“New Perspectives in Ancient Maritime History and Archaeology”<\/p>\n

February 7, 2013<\/strong>
\nIan Moyer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
\n“A Polis of Priests”<\/p>\n

April 29, 2013<\/strong>
\nBarbara Kowalzig, New York University
\n“Religion and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Greek Mediterranean”<\/p>\n

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2011-2012<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

September 23, 2011<\/strong>
\nChristelle Fischer-Bovet, USC
\n“The Use of Ethnicity in Administrative Categories: Comparing Hellenistic and Roman Egypt”<\/p>\n

October 3, 2011<\/strong>
\nJessica Marglin, Princeton University
\n“Jews in Islamic Courts: The Moroccan Legal System in the Nineteenth Century”<\/p>\n

October 21, 2011<\/strong>
\nClifford Ando, University of Chicago
\n“Improvisation in Legal and Religious Ritual in the Roman World”<\/p>\n

October 25, 2011<\/strong>
\nChristophe Picard, La Sorbonne
\n“The Defense of the Ports in the Islamic Mediterranean: Sources and Methods”<\/p>\n

November 28, 2011<\/strong>
\nSymposium: Beyond Braudel: Seas, Wars, and Long-Run Changes
\nJohn Wills, Jr., USC & R. Bin Wong, USC<\/p>\n

April 19, 2012<\/strong>
\nJay Rubenstein, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
\n“Fat Peasant, a Giant, and the Magic Swan: Looking Back at the First Crusade”<\/p>\n

April 26, 2012<\/strong>
\nJean-Luc Fournet, Directeur d’\u00e9tudes \u00e0 l’\u00c9cole Pratique des Hautes \u00c9tudes
\n“Multilingualism and Literacy in Greco-Roman Egypt”<\/p>\n

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2010-2011<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

September 29, 2010<\/strong>
\nAnn Marie Yasin, USC
\n“‘Sacred Places’ Wordy Walls: The Materiality of Early Christian Devotional Graffiti”<\/p>\n

October 28, 2010<\/strong>
\nMichael McCormick, Harvard University
\nPhi Beta Kappa Visiting Lecture: “Can we feel the pulse of ancient economies? Markets and Shipwrecks in the Late Antique and Medieval Mediterranean”<\/p>\n

October 29, 2010<\/strong>
\nMichael McCormick, Harvard University
\n“Ben Franklin, Charlemagne, and the Volcanoes”<\/p>\n

December 7, 2010<\/strong>
\nLucette Valensi, \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales
\n“Crossing the Mediterranean, 16th-19th. c”<\/p>\n

2009-2010<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

October 26, 2009<\/strong>
\nJean-Loup Amselle, \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
\n“What is at stake in the deconstruction of the West?”<\/p>\n

October 30, 2009<\/strong>
\nJocelyne Dakhlia, \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
\n“Lingua Franca: Conflict and Hybridity in the Mediterranean”<\/p>\n

November 12, 2009<\/strong>
\nBrian Catlos, University of California, Santa Cruz
\n“The Convenience Principle: Religious Identity and Politics in the Medieval Mediterranean”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":608,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5273","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPre-Modern Mediterranean - USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/pre-modern-mediterranean\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pre-Modern Mediterranean - USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/pre-modern-mediterranean\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-06-22T18:25:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dornsife.usc.edu\\\/emsi\\\/pre-modern-mediterranean\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dornsife.usc.edu\\\/emsi\\\/pre-modern-mediterranean\\\/\",\"name\":\"Pre-Modern Mediterranean - 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