ILCAA Joint Research Project

The Mediterranean as a Connecting Sea (jrp000281)

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

ILCAA Staff

• Hidemitsu KUROKI

Joint Researchers

• Abderrahim Benhadda
• Felix Arnold
• Haruka SUEMORI
• Naoko AIISO
• Naoko FUKAMI
• Takashi OSHIO
• Georg Christ
• Wakako KUMAKURA

Outputs

Meetings

The 5th meeting

• Date/Time: Sun 19 Jan 2024 13:00–17:10
• Venue: 303
• Language: English
• Organized by ILCAA

• 13:00–13:10 Welcome Address: Tomoaki SHINODA (ILCAA Joint Researcher)

  13:10–13:50 Naoko AIISO (Keio University)

  Official Captains in the Ottoman Navy at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century

  13:50–14:30 Haruka SUEMORI (Hokkaido University)

  Formation of the Ottoman Maritime Regime in the Seventeenth Century Mediterranean: Analysis of ‘Ahd-nâmes granted to Venice

  14:30–15:20 Tomoaki SHINODA

  The Most Unfortunate People in the World: The Converts in Sixteenth-Century Morocco

  15:20–15:40 Coffee Break

  15:40–16:20 Felix ARNOLD (ILCAA Joint Researcher, German Archaeological Institute)

  How far do Ideas Travel? Defining Regional Architectural Schools across the Mediterranean

  16:20–17:00 Naoko FUKAMI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, JSPS Cairo Research Station)

  The Mediterranean Sea from the viewpoint of the Islamic Architectural History; Focusing on Techniques Part II

  17:00–17:10 Closing remark: Tomoaki SHINODA

The 4th meeting

• Date/Time: Mon 16 Sep 2024 13:00–17:00
• Venue: German Archaeological Institute
• Language: English
• Organized by ILCAA

• 13:00–13:10 Welcome Address: Tomoaki SHINODA (ILCAA)

  13:10–13:50 Wakako KUMAKURA (Keio University), Agriculture: How did humans adapt & improve upon the environmental conditions and dynamics for survival?

  13:50–14:30 Felix ARNOLD (German Archaeological Institute), Palace Architecture in East and West

  14:30–14:40 Coffee Break

  14:40–15:20 Tomoaki SHINODA, A Dominican Redeemer’s travel to the Saʿdid Marrakech

  15:20–16:00 Abderrahim BENHADDA (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies), Title undecided

  16:00–16:40 Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA), An Unrealized Plan of Maltese Migration to Palestine, 1919

  16:40–16:50 Closing remark: Tomoaki SHINODA

The 3rd meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sat 16 Mar 2024 13:00–17:00
• Venue: 302
• Language: English
• Organized by ILCAA

• The third meeting of the Joint Research Project, "The Mediterranean Sea as a Connected Sea", will be held at ILCAA in Tokyo on 16 March.

  The presenters are as follows:

  Felix Arnold (ILCAA Joint Researcher, German Archaeological Institute) “Garden architecture across the Mediterranean from the 10th-15th century”

  Naoko Fukami (ILCAA Joint Researcher, JSPS Cairo Research Station) “The Mediterranean Sea from the viewpoint of the Islamic Architectural History; Focusing on Techniques”

  Takashi Oshio (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Seinan Gakuin University) “Muslim Pilgrimages from 15th Century Iberia to Mecca: A Journey from Avila (1491-1495)”

  Peter Kitlas (American University of Beirut) “Scribal Spaces and Diplomatic Knowledge Production in the Eighteenth-Century Muslim Mediterranean”

  Naoko Aiiso (Keio University) “Navigating a Connected Sea: Ottoman Captains and their Promotions in the 16th Century Ottoman Empire”

  Chair: Tomoaki Shinoda

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• 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) “Domed audience halls across the Mediterranean in the 14th century CE”

  Georg Christ (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Manchester) “A Transmediterranean Network? Multilayered statehood and trade connectivity in the Mediterranean and Red Sea”

  Tomoaki SHINODA (ILCAA) “Muslims or Christians? 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 ：Report (Japanese)

• 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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