Spring & Summer Schools
Spring School 2024 Mediterranean History: Empires, Religions, Mobilities, 19-21 March 2024
Empires, Religions, Mobilities: Mediterranean Spring School 2024
19-21 March 2024, University of Konstanz, room K7
This Spring School brings together researchers and students from Konstanz and abroad. Starting with key note lectures by distinguished experts of individual epochs (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Early Modern Period, 19th-21st century), we will analyse crucial problems of Mediterranean history on the basis of selected sources and literature: processes of imperial expansion and techniques of imperial governance, the emergence and relationship of monotheistic religions as well as the infrastructural preconditions and cultural practices of different forms of mobility (e.g. pilgrimage, tourism and migration). Therefore, our guiding questions are as follows:
1. What kinds of spatial orders did empires, religions and mobilities establish?
2. How did empires manage diversity?
3. How did religions function within imperial frameworks?
4. What kind of mobilities did empires and religions produce?
By looking at the similarities and differences, transfers and transitions between different periods, we aim to identify phenomena of long duration, reciprocal references, ruptures and turning points in order to understand what constituted and transformed the Mediterranean across the ages.
Programme:
19.03.24 Tuesday - Arrival
room K7 at the University of Konstanz
16:30 Welcome & Introduction
18:00 Key Note Speech (t.b.a.)
19:00 Buffet
20.03.24 Wednesday - Ancient Mediterranean
room K7 at the University of Konstanz
09:00 Key Note Lecture: Ulrich Gotter
10:00 Group Work with Sources
12:00 Lunch at the University Canteen
Medieval Mediterranean
13:00 Key Note Lecture: Eric Böhme
14:00 Group Work with Sources
16:30 Bus to Konstanz
17:00 Guided Historical Walking Tour
21.03.24 Thursday - Early Modern Mediterranean
room K7 at the University of Konstanz
09:00 Key Note Lecture: Achim Landwehr/Jovo Miladinović
10:00 Group Work with Sources
12:00 Lunch at the University Canteen
Modern & Contemporary Mediterranean
13:00 Key Note Lecture: Manuel Borutta/Sven Reichardt/Pavel Kolář
14:00 Group Work with Sources
16:30 Presentation of Master’s Programme
22.03.24 Friday - Departure
09:00 Catamaran Trip to Friedrichshafen (optional)