Departing from his recently published The Fishing Net and the Spider Web (Palgrave, 2020), Prof. Fogu will explore various versions of the relationship between the Mediterranean and History elaborated by figures such as Fernand Braudel, Predrag Matvejevic, Peregrin Horden and Nicholas Purcell, Iain Chambers and others. Arguing for a more structural connection between the Mediterranean imaginary and the liquidity of the historical imagination, Fogu advocates for a “Mediterranean” form of historiographical orientation.
Claudio Fogu is a professor in the Department of French and Italian at UC Santa Barbara.
Sponsored by the History Department, the Department of French and Italian, OSU Center For Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and the Department of Comparative Studies.
