ILCAA Joint Research Project

The Mediterranean as a Connecting Sea

Keywords

• Mediterranean Sea
• History
• Connectivity
• Cross-border Movement

Areas

• Europe
• North Africa
• West Asia

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About the Project

Project term: April, 2022–March, 2025

From antiquity to the present day, the Mediterranean Sea has connected the regions along its coasts and enabled the movement of people, goods, information, and more. As the networks established by the sea were dynamic ones—rather than static ones—linked to the states controlling these lands, they created historical and regional diversities. This project focuses on the roles of people moving across diverse boundaries—be they political, sectarian, or ethnic— in the region. By so doing, it elucidates the formation of Mediterranean networks without losing this history to nationalist narratives. The project will involve researchers specializing in various periods and be based at the Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies (JaCMES) in Beirut.

Members

Coordinator

• Tomoaki SHINODA (Research Associate, ILCAA)

ILCAA Staff

• Hidemitsu KUROKI, Wakako KUMAKURA

Joint Researchers

• Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
• Abdulrahim Benhadda
• Felix Arnold
• Naoko FUKAMI
• Takashi OSHIO
• Georg Christ

Outputs

Meetings

The 2nd meeting

• Date/Time: Mon 20 Mar 2023 9:00–13:00
• Venue: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Beirut (JaCMES), Online meeting
• Language: English
• Organized by ILCAA

• The second meeting of the Joint Research Project, “The Mediterranean Sea as a Connected Sea”, will be held at JaCMES in Beirut on 20 March.

  The presenters are as follows:

  Felix Arnold (ILCAA Joint Researcher, German Archaeological Institute) “The Eastern Influence on a room of Alhambra Palace”

  Georg Christ (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Manchester) “Venetians in Alexandria and the Mediterranean World”

  Tomoaki SHINODA (ILCAA) “Learning agnosticism in Saadian Marrakesh”

  Haruka SUEMORI (Hokkaido University) “Ottoman-Venetian Maritime Regime on Piracy in the Early Modern Mediterranean”

  Chair: Tomoaki SHINODA

The 1st meeting ：報告書（和文）

• Date/Time: Tue 14 Jun 2022 16:00–18:00
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 16:00–16:20 All the participants

  Self-introduction

  16:20–16:40 Tomoaki SHINODA (ILCAA)

  Explanation of the joint research project's aim and details

  16:40–17:30 All the participants

  Discussion for each participant's research plan

  17:30–18:00 All the participants

  Discussion for the next workshop

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