Modern Mediterranean: Dynamics of a World Region 1800-2000

由于当前的冲突、危机和战争，地中海重新回到了社会科学的议程上。然而，在近代史领域，这一范式几乎没有。因此，该网络的目的是超越分散的史学研究，对该地区近代晚期的情况有一个完整的认识。它侧重于1800至2000年间该区域的动态和变化。该网络不会把地中海视为理所当然的东西，而是探索这个空间是如何在现代被发明和塑造的。与地中海统一、连续性和奇点的地中海神话相反，该地区被设想为非洲、亚洲和欧洲之间的联系地带，与世界其他地区相连并可与之媲美。该网络的成员和来宾将在地中海的德国研究中心(德国历史研究所、德国意大利研究中心、贝鲁特东方研究所、伊斯坦布尔东方研究所、波鸿东方研究所、波鸿东方研究所、柏林现代东方研究所)会面，以探索当前关于历史的辩论的核心主题：现代性与传统、港口引用与岛屿、流动性与边界、意识形态与宗教、知识与代表、跨国与全球历史。该网络的讨论将产生一些出版物，其中包括一本收集代表现代地中海新史学的文本的选集。这样，地中海历史不仅将被作为一个创新的历史研究领域提出，而且还将作为一种新的方法，能够以富有成效的方式结合欧洲和非欧洲的观点，帮助我们了解该区域目前和未来的利害关系。

Due to current conflicts, crises and wars, the Mediterranean is back on the agenda of the social sciences. Yet, in the field of modern history this paradigm is almost absent. The network therefore aims to transcend the fragmentation of separate historiographies and get an integrated view of the late modern period of this region. It focuses on the dynamics and transformations of the region between 1800 and 2000. Instead of taking the Mediterranean as a natural given, the network will explore how this space was invented and shaped in the modern age. Against Mediterraneanist myths of Mediterranean unity, continuity and singularity, the region is conceived as a contact zone between Africa, Asia and Europe that was connected to and is comparable with other regions of the world.The members and guests of the network will meet at German research centres of the Mediterranean (Deutsches Historisches Institut Rom, Deutsch-Italienisches Studienzentrum Venedig, Orient Institut Beirut, Orient Institut Istanbul, Zentrum für Mittelmeerstudien Bochum, Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin) in order to explore themes which are at the core of current debates on Mediterranean history: modernity and tradition, port cites and islands, mobility and borders, ideology and religion, knowledge and representation, transnational and global history. The discussions of the network will result in a number of publications, among them an anthology collecting texts representing the new historiography of the modern Mediterranean. In this way, Mediterranean history will not only be presented as an innovative field of historical research but also as a new approach that is able to combine European and non-European perspectives in a productive way helping us to understand what is at stake in this region at the moment and in the future.