May 31, 2018
As part of the official presentation of the Anneliese Maier Research Award to Alan Mikhail on September 12, 2018, Cornel Zwierlein is convening a workshop with the following invited guests and program:
- Erik de Lange (Univ. Utrecht): A sea of threat. Piracy, security and empire in the Mediterranean of the early nineteenth century
- Henning Schuler (EUI Florence): The Perception of the Levant by British and French Consuls at the close of the Eighteenth Century
- Kathrin Kleemann (Rachel-Carson Center, LMU Munich): A Mist Connection: The Laki Fissure Eruption of 1783
- Fredrik Kämpe (University of Stockholm): Convoys, Tributes, and Consuls – The Swedish Convoy Office and the Safety of Neutral Shipping in the Mediterranean 1724–1867
- Sebastian Jeßegus (Univ. Bochum): Cusanus haereticus? The reception of the DCC in post-Tridentine Rome
- PD Dr. Heinrich Lang (University of Bamberg): Levantine Objects as seen through Florentine accounting practices in the 16th century
- Dr. Johann Petitjean (Univ. Poitiers): News and the shape of the Mediterranean, 16th-17th century
- Dr. Onur Idal (Univ. Hamburg): Izmir and Its Hinterland: An Environmental History of an Ottoman Port-City
- Prof. Dr. Yavuz Köse (Univ. Hamburg): Title TBA
- Prof./PD Dr. Cornel Zwierlein (Bamberg/Erfurt): Transcultural hybrid zones and/or Laboratories of Segregation? - European Merchant Colonies in the Levant