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，这种范式几乎是不存在的。因此，该网络旨在超越独立历史编纂的碎片化，并获得该地区近代晚期的综合视图。它侧重于1800年至2000年间该地区的动态和转变。该网络将探索这个空间是如何在现代被发明和塑造的，而不是将地中海作为一个自然的给定。与地中海统一、连续性和独特性的地中海主义神话相反，该地区被认为是非洲、亚洲和欧洲之间的接触区，与世界其他地区相连，并可与之媲美。该网络的成员和嘉宾将在德国地中海研究中心（德意志历史研究所罗马，德意志-意大利研究中心威尼斯，贝鲁特东方研究所，伊斯坦布尔东方研究所，<s:1>中部大学研究中心波兴，柏林现代东方中心）会面，以探讨当前地中海历史辩论的核心主题：现代和传统，港口城市和岛屿，流动性和边界，意识形态和宗教，知识和代表性，跨国和全球历史。对该网络的讨论将产生若干出版物，其中包括一本选集，收集代表现代地中海新史学的文本。通过这种方式，地中海历史将不仅作为一个创新的历史研究领域，而且作为一种新的方法，能够以一种富有成效的方式结合欧洲和非欧洲的观点，帮助我们了解当前和未来该地区的利害关系。

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.