My paper proposal, “Maltese Narratives of Mediterranean Hybridity,” for the international conference on Shores of Encounter: Conflict and Conviviality in the Mediterranean organized and hosted by the Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta, in collaboration with the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Busan University of Foreign Studies, on the 28th of June 2019, has been reviewed by the conference committee, and has been accepted. Thanks to the conference organizers for this important initiative.
The conference ‘Shores of Encounter: Conflict and Conviviality in the Mediterranean’, will be held at the Ħursun Farmhouse, University of Malta Msida Campus, on 28 June 2019.
This Trans-disciplinary conference is organised by the Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta in collaboration with the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Busan University of Foreign Studies.
For more information on the conference and to register contact the conference conveners, Dr Norbert Bugeja at or Professor John Chircop.
Conference Programme
08:45 – 09:00
09:00 – 09:30
09:30 – 11:00
- Fluid Economies: Narrow-sea flows of exchange in the Central Mediterranean
Prof. John Chircop, University of Malta - Small marinas and major ports: cross-border trade between Southern Sicily and Malta (18th-19th Centuries)
Prof. Paolo Militello, University of Catania - Communications and Currency Flows in the Central Mediterranean: Hospitaller Malta and Sicily’s Monetary Economy in Early Modernity
Dr Ivan Grech, American University of Malta - ‘With wood, sail and rudder’: Communications and Commerce between Sicily and Malta in the Late Sixteenth Century
Prof. Carmel Cassar, University of Malta
11:00 – 11:15
11:15 – 12:45
- The Exiles of the members of the Geray Dynasty to the Mediterranean Islands
Prof. Hakan Kırımlı, Bilkent University - The Assimilation of Greek Refugees from Asia Minor (1922-1923) into the Greek Society: from Conflict to Harmony
Prof. Costas Tsiamis, Dr Chrisoula Hatzara, Prof. Georgia Vrioni, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Memories of WWI and Interpretations of Japanese activities in the Mediterranean and Asia
Prof. Noriko Sato, Pukyong National University - A Critique of Eurocentrism in Korea
Prof. Choon-Sik Choi, Busan University of Foreign Studies
12:45 – 14:15
14:15 – 15:45
- Design of an Electronic Field Note for Area Informatics
Prof. Sang Ho Moon, Busan University of Foreign Studies - View on International Relations Theory of Medieval Islamic Thought
Prof. Byoung Joo Hah, Busan University of Foreign Studies - Elements of Honour and Shame in Literature on the Mediterranean
Mr Gabriel Farrugia, University of Malta
15:45 – 16:00
16:00 – 17:30
- Encounters of ironising self-recognition: the case of the Libyan Jamahiriyya
Mr Ranier Fsadni, University of Malta - Maltese Narratives of Mediterranean Hybridity
Prof. Adrian Grima, University of Malta - Land and Sea Compromises in Fawzi Mellah’s Elissa (1988)
Dr Karima Arif, Independent Researcher - Post-Migrant Agency and the Politics of Return: Tahar Ben Jelloun’s A Palace in the Old Village
Dr Norbert Bugeja, University of Malta
17:30
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