The Formation of The Mediterranean Identities In: “The Mediterranean of Cities”
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Alexandria—
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina's Alexandria and Mediterranean Research Center (Alex-Med) holds on the 15th of April the sixth and penultimate lecture of the cycle entitled Penser la Méditerranée or Thinking the Mediterranean.
The lecture entitled "The Mediterranean of Cities" will include presentations by three speakers from different origins reflecting the dialogue across the Mediterranean: Prof. Enrico Iachello, Prof. Paolo Militello, and Prof. Jean-Luc Arnaud. And it will focus on specific Mediterranean cities and the uniqueness of their cultural, economic, and geographic situation, that formed their unique urban identities.
The Italian Prof. Enrico Iachello, professor of Modern History and President of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at the University of Catania, will argue the role of the images and descriptions in the formation of the urban identity in the town of Catania during the modern age, in a lecture entitled "Catania: the City of the Volcano. Representations and Urban Identities (XVI–XIX Centuries)."
Prof. Paolo Militello, Associate Professor of Modern History at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at the University of Catania, will deliver a presentation entitled "Sicily of the Cities" focusing on the historical synthesis of the events relating to the formation of the urban identity in Sicily, examining the principal characteristics of Sicilian cities through different ages.
Prof. Jean-Luc Arnaud is a prominent French architect and historian, and he is Director of Research at the renowned National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). His presentation, "The Mediterranean: Sea of Cities" will focus on the unique balance found in the dynamic relationship between various Mediterranean cities located within the path of the Mediterranean trade routes.
This cycle of conferences, now nearing its end aims at becoming the meeting place of the most prominent contributors to the field of Mediterranean studies. The remaining event in the Thinking the Mediterranean series is that May 6th lecture entitled "Thinking the Mediterranean: Religious Space."