List of panels and papers
List of panels and papers
INTRODUCTION
Renata Vinci (University of Palermo), Looking Back, Looking Forward: Tracing the Journey of the MeTChE Project
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PANEL 1: First Glimpses of the Mediterranean: Arab Knowledge and Early Chinese Accounts
Chair: Renata Vinci
• Victoria Almonte (Tuscia University of Viterbo) e Daniele Sicari (University of Palermo), The Role of Arab Sources in Shaping Chinese Geographical Knowledge from the IX to the XIV Century
• Margaret Kim (Tsinghua National University, Taiwan), Princely Power and Empire in Rabban Sauma’s Account of the Western Mediterranean in the “History of Mar Yahballaha and Rabban Sauma”
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PANEL 2: Mapping the Mediterranean in Sino-Missionary Sources
Chair: Miriam Castorina
• Paolo De Troia (Sapienza University of Rome), Mediterranean World in Sino-Jesuit Geographical Sources
• Federica Casalin (Sapienza University of Rome), 19th-Century Geographic Writings in Chinese and Their Depictions of the Mediterranean Region: An Overview of Agencies and Approaches
• Laura Lettere (Sapienza University of Rome), Did Religion Shape History? On William Muirhead’s (1822-1900) “Dili quanzhi” 地理全志 and its Influence on Early Chinese Travelogues to Europe, with a Focus on the Representation of Religions Across the Mediterranean
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PANEL 3: Maritime Imaginaries and Global Horizons
Chair: Victoria Almonte
• Mathieu Torck (Ghent University/KU Leuven), Dietary Practices and Provisioning at Sea: Comparative Insights from Mediterranean, Spanish Pacific and Chinese Maritime Traditions (16-18th century)
•Alexander Jost (LMU München), Changing Perceptions of the Northern Terra Incognita Across Eurasia from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
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PANEL 4: Routes and Reflections: Chinese Travellers in the Mediterranean in the Late Qing Era
Chair: Federica Casalin
• Miriam Castorina (University of Florence), Beyond the Well: The Mediterranean Landscapes of Guo Liancheng
• Federico Masini (Sapienza University of Rome), Liang Qichao and the Mediterranean: Maritime Traces and Inspirations
• Yu Yating (University of Florence), Travellers in the Late Qing Dynasty on the Political Landscape of the Mediterranean
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PANEL 5: Cultural Encounters and Representation in Early Modern and Modern Times
Chair: Renata Vinci
• Antonio Leggieri (University of Palermo), Quotation as a Cognitive Act in Zhang Deyi’s Acquaintance of the Mediterranean
• Feng Lisi (Nankai University), Italian Renaissance Art and China's New Culture Movement
• Alessandra Brezzi (Sapienza University of Rome), “Only the Waters of the Mediterranean Flow Westward”. Sheng Cheng and his “Jindong” (近东): Near Eastern Europe or Western Asia? (1929)