Call for Papers: Coasts – Cultures – Constructs: Impulses from Emerging Research for a Trans-Mediterranean Perspective
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14. July 2025
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Call for papers
Coasts – Cultures – Constructs: Impulses from Emerging
Research for a Trans-Mediterranean Perspective
Graz, April 17-18, 2026
Deadline for submissions: October 5, 2025
As part of the doctoral programme of the core research area “Trans-Mediterranean Entanglements: Mobilities and Relations in the Mediterranean and Beyond” at the Faculty of Humanities, we warmly invite you to an interdisciplinary workshop on “Coasts, Cultures, Constructs: Impulses from Emerging Research for a Trans-Mediterranean Perspective”. The workshop, which will take place on April 17 and 18, 2026, at the University of Graz, is aimed at early-career researchers.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together PhD students and postdoctoral researchers as well as Master’s students from various fields within the humanities, and to create an open forum for exchange, discussion and networking. Besides the presentation of individual projects, we want to highlight methodological impulses and conceptual as well as thematic intersections, to foster synergies, and to open up interdisciplinary perspectives on the Mediterranean and its multifaceted representations. The concept of ‘trans-Mediterranean entanglements’ serves as a framework to focus particularly on inter- and transcultural exchange, on open and dynamic constructions of identity, and on the resulting imaginations and artefacts. To further develop the synergies generated, a round table will be held to identify connections between the contributions, which will be visualised in an AI-supported digital mind map intended for online publication.
Presentations of (dissertation) projects should be approximately 20 minutes long, followed by a ten-minute moderated discussion. Master’s students are invited to present their work in the form of a poster. PhD and postdoc researchers may choose to contribute either a presentation or a poster. A dedicated timeslot for poster presentations will be scheduled between the talks. Interested participants are kindly asked to submit an abstract of 250–300 words (indicating whether a presentation or a poster is planned), along with a brief biographical statement (working title of the dissertation or Master’s thesis, academic discipline, home institution) by October 5, 2025, to: transmediterranean@uni-graz.at.
Accepted contributions will be announced by early December. A certificate of participation can be issued upon request, and we will make every effort to partially cover travel and accommodation costs if needed. For further questions, please feel free to contact us by email (transmediterranean@uni-graz.at).
The organisation team:
Hannah Barmüller
Juliana Reinisch
Hans Scherer
Contact
transmediterranean@uni-graz.at
The complete Call for Papers as PDF can be found here.
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