Mediterranean Topographies (Meditopos) is a workshop for students and faculty interested in exploring emerging issues of Mediterranean culture and identity. Since 2009 we’ve been meeting to discuss outside readings and our own academic work, as well as hosting guest speakers and organizing special events and conferences. Meditopos has always been interested in translation, particularly because many of the communities we examine have their origins in cosmopolitan, multilingual environments where translation was not a process to be undertaken but, rather, an unavoidable facet of everyday life..
On Monday October 8th, Nikolaos Michailidis, a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology from Princeton, will be visiting Ann Arbor to deliver a combined lecture and musical performance. Nikos’s work focuses on the relationship between multi-ethnic musical traditions and Turkish nationalism – he’s interested in how various groups of people with distinct languages, religions, and cultures have been absorbed into the modern conception of “Turkish” identity. Nikos is also an accomplished musician, and as part of his lecture he’ll be performing pieces of music from around the Black Sea.
Please join us on Monday, October 8th, at 4 pm in the Kalamazoo Room at the Michigan League for this event. Check out our website – sitemaker.umich.edu/meditopos – for more info!
