The Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal and the Centre d’études médiévales de l’Université de Montreal are pleased to present the international conference “Rencontres, conflits, échanges: l’espace méditerranéen au Moyen Âge”.
Friday 23 and Saturday 24 March 2018
Université de Montréal
Carrefour des Arts et des Sciences, C-3061
Pavillon Lionel-Groulx
Following the recent focus of international researches on the Mediterranean as crossroad of cultures, people, arts and trades, the two days conference will be structured on three issues of discussion. The first one will be devoted to the flows – migratory, politic, artistic, cultural – from West to East, with special attention to the activities of the crusades. A whole panel, the richest of contributions, will be devoted to the Italian peninsula which, with its strategic position in the heart of the Mediterranean, was a crossroad of cultures and worlds. We will focus particularly on the role of the maritime powers of Pisa, Genoa and Venice, that opened migration and trade routes between East and West, on literary and politic influences from France and East, on the experiences of coexistence and conflict and on the cultural tensions that went across Southern Italy and especially Sicily, on the vitality of artistic and professional competences along the Tyrrhenian coast. The third issue will focus on ways and typologies of the dynamic of spread of Oriental spirituality, knowledges and arts in the West. Our Keynote speaker, Professor Francesco Carapezza (Università degli Studi di Palermo), will open the conference with a talk on the decoration of the ceiling at Palazzo Steri in Palermo as a meeting point of different artistic and literary experiences in the Mediterranean.
For more information: https://iicmontreal.esteri.it/iic_montreal/resource/doc/2018/02/01._brochure_programma.pdf
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Friday March 23rd 2018
Université de Montréal
Carrefour des Arts et des Sciences, Salle C-3061
Pavillon Lionel-Groulx
1:45pm Registration Opens
2:15pm Lectio magistralis Francesco Carapezza, Università degli Studi di Palermo;
Le plafond peint du Steri (1377-80) entre l’Europe et la Méditerranée: questions iconographiques et projet global.
FIRST SESSION
From West to East
Chair: Guadalupe GONZALEZ DIEGUEZ
3:15pm Andrea Tondi, Università degli Studi di Siena, École Pratique des Hautes Études;
Être exilé de la la mer: la croisade comme punition.
3:45pm Stephanie Plante, Université de Montréal;
Des manuscrits et des croisades. Le comte de Flandre et l’Orient latin dans la seconde moitié du XIIIe siècle.
4:15pm Cornel Bontea, Université de Montréal;
Une nouvelle forme de croisade au XIVe siècle: la ligue navale contre les Turcs (1327-1334).
4:45pm Coffee break.
5pm Presentation of the concert Rebecca Bain;
Musique et texte: le chant vernaculaire occidental, XIIe au XIVe siècles.
5:30pm Concert AMOR MI FA CANTAR! Musiques d’Italie et de la Méditerranée occidentale, XIIe-XIVe siècles.
Saturday March 24th 2018
Université de Montréal
Carrefour des Arts et des Sciences – salle C-3061
Pavillon Lionel-Groulx
SECOND SESSION
Between East and West, I
Chair: Serge LUSIGNAN
9am Alessio Marziali Peretti, Université de Montréal;
Une translation française du Chronicon pontificorum et imperatorum de Martin d’Opava.
9:30am Bogdan Cezar Smarandache, University of Toronto;
Fuyant les Firanj: une analyse comparative de l’émigration en Sicile médiévale et au Sahel de la Méditerranée orientale.
10am Virginie Turcot, Université de Montréal;
Entre France, Sicile et Jérusalem: les poèmes du comte d’Anjou.
10:30am Coffee break.
THIRD SESSION
Between East and West, II
Chair: Travis BRUCE
11am Francesco Moschetto, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”;
Continuity and changes after the Norman conquest of the territories between Lazio and Abruzzi: an archeological and topographical analysis of a frontier area.
11:30am Alexandra Sotirakis, Université Paris IV;
Mobilités d’artisans dans la mer Tyrrhénienne aux XIe et XIIe siècles: circulations artistiques et idéologiques.
12pm Massimo Siani, Università degli Studi di Salerno;
Settings of conflicts and encounters: università, provincia and city.
12:30pm Lunch – Salle C-2081/83.
FOURTH SESSION
From East to West, I
Chair: Gordon BLENNEMANN
2:30pm Benjamin Bourgeois, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III;
Manuscrits, savoirs, langues et objets en circulation pendant l’exil byzantin de Grigor Magistros (XIe siècle).
3pm Anna Perreault, Université de Montréal;
Le Liber Insularum Archipelagi de Cristoforo Buondelmonti (~1420): la cartographie comme outil de légitimation territoriale.
3:30pm Coffee break.
FIFTH SESSION
From East to West, II
Chair: Kristine TANTON
3:45pm Patrick Outhwaite, McGill University;
“What deceitful people they must be”: Mediterranean Folkloric Medicine for the Medieval West.
4:15pm Xavier Biron-Ouellet, Université du Québec à Montréal, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales;
Ange Clareno, Simone Fidati et la renaissance de la culture monastique orientale en Italie au XIVe siècle.
4:45pm Philippe Depairon, Université de Montréal;
Le matériau du voyage. Note sur la matérialité des pièces d’échecs en ivoire, ca. 1250.
5:15pm Conclusion.
5:30pm Vin d’honneur – Salle C-2081/83.