Art in the Mediterranean Region (original) (raw)
2023
The Mediterranean is a whole world in miniature. This true cliché, hardly applicable in any other region on earth, is substantiated by a unique combination of geomorphological characteristics, historical trajectories, and artistic accomplishments, as well as philosophical, political, and scientific breakthroughs among others. A rich variety in the physical environment has been matched by the development of distinct yet intensely interacting cultures over time within a relatively small geographical space. Source of endless archetypes, the Mediterranean has launched a new school of historical thought through Fernand Braudel which explored how the physical environment influenced the civilizations that emerged in the shores of this sea through time. More recently, the geographical thought has proposed terms of theoretical analysis like ‘urban spontaneity’ and ‘Mediterranean cultural geography’ to account for facets and theoretical as well as experiential ways of conceiving the spatial in this intricate world. The international conference Diachronic Artistic and Spatial Convergences and Divergences in the Mediterranean, organized by the Module Art - Architecture - Urban Planning and the MA Art - Cultural Heritage - Development Policies, both of the Hellenic Open University, purports to explore some of the aspects of cultural interactions in the Mediterranean world, conceived as both the sea and the lands surrounding it, through time seen as continuum. Emphasis is placed on artistic, architectural, planning, archaeological, and spatial dimensions of these interactions. Conference themes -Art, architecture and planning in the Mediterranean through time. Styles, particular features, formal, vernacular, and impromptu creations. -Geographical features, landscape, memory, and artistic process in the Mediterranean. -Artistic traces of converging or clashing cultures and their eponymous or anonymous representatives in the Mediterranean. -Classical myth and the arts in the Mediterranean. -Aesthetically oriented theoretical dialogues in the Mediterranean. Geographies of travel and/for the arts. -20th and 21st c. and present artistic interactions between the Mediterranean and the global: Orientalism, modernity, postmodernity. -Processes of exchange during the beginning of modernity, starting from the 16th c. -What and where was the Renaissance in regard to appropriations and interpretations of Byzantium and the East. -Edward Said’s Orientalism and cultures of travel: The present narratives. Eastern art and architecture as Western history of art and architecture. -Post-war cultural dynamism of the USA as the new ‘Western’ frontier of art and art history.
Mediterranean Studies Abstracts: 7th Annual International Conference
2014
This abstract book includes all the abstracts of the papers presented at the 7th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, 14-17 April 2014, organized by the Athens Institute for Education and Research. In total there were 38 papers and 43 presenters, coming from 20 different countries (Canada, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA). The conference was organized into 9 sessions that included areas such as Political and Economic Issues in the Mediterranean Basin, Languages, Literature, Arts and Architecture (Modern and Classical), Education, Religion, Culture and Society, Historical and Classical Studies e.t.c. As it is the publication policy of the Institute, the papers presented in this conference will be considered for publication in one of the books of ATINER.
Mediterranean Studies Abstracts: 6th Annual International Conference
2013
This abstract book includes all the abstracts of the papers presented at the 6th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, 26-29 March 2013, organized by the Athens Institute for Education and Research. In total there were 56 papers and 60 presenters, coming from 25 different countries (Albania, Armenia, Belgium, Bosnia, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Greece, Iran, Italy, Israel, Japan, Korea, Libya, Malaysia, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and USA). The conference was organized into 13 sessions that included areas such as Politics and Society, the Eastern Mediterranean in the Later Ottoman Era, Economics and Business, Education-Culture and Society, Totems and Art in the Ancient and Islamic Mediterranean, The Mediterranean in the Medieval and Early Modern Era, Society and Economy of the Hellenistic and Roman Mediterranean, Women Issues, Economics, Business, Politics and Various Issues, Issues on History, Impressions of the Mediterranean in the Twentieth Century and Aspects of Ancient Culture and the Mediterranean e.t.c. As it is the publication policy of the Institute, the papers presented in this conference will be considered for publication in one of the books of ATINER.