Mediterranean Studies at Stanford University provides a forum for scholars to explore the interplay between societies, cultures, and communities around the Mediterranean bas in from the Middle Ages to the present. Its focus is on all aspects of co-existence and conflict that have marked these encounters in the empires, port cities, nation-states, and transregional and transnational social, religious, cultural, economic contexts of North Africa, the Levant, the Balkans, and southern Europe. It is also interested in the multiple relations of the Mediterranean with other regions and areas of the world.
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Orhan Pamuk Visits Stanford
Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel Prize winner in Literature in 2006, visited Stanford on October 22. Pamuk is described as someone "who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the class and interlacing of cultures." He drew an audience of 1600 at Memorial Auditorium.
The S.T. Lee Lecture was co-sponsored by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, the Division of International, Comparative and Area Studies, the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, the Office of the Provost and the Forum on Contemporary Europe.
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