Day One, Tuesday, 29/11/2016 (28 Heshvan)The Hecht Museum Auditorium

09:00-09:30 Gathering

09:30-10:00 Greetings Chair: Zur Shalev, Co-Director, Haifa Center for Mediterranean History Ron Robin, President, University of HaifaYona Yahav, Mayor of Haifa MunicipalityZvi Ben-Avraham, Head, Mediterranean Sea Research Center of Israel; Founding Director, Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences

10:00-11:00 Opening Remarks Chair: Gur Alroey, Dean, Faculty of Humanities, University of HaifaMs. Hélène Le Gal, French AmbassadorMr. Erez Bitton, PoetCoffee Break

11:30-13:10 Universal PerspectivesChair: Joseph Ziegler, University of HaifaDavid Abulafia, Cambridge UniversityHow to Write the History of a Sea?Ronnie Ellenblum, The Hebrew University of JerusalemFragile Affluence: An Outline for an Environmental History of the Mediterranean BasinLunch Break

14:20-16:00 Mediterranean UrbanitiesChair: Ouzi Elyada, University of HaifaGreg Woolf, Institute of Classical Studies, University of LondonThe Special Characteristics of Mediterranean UrbanismBrigitte Marin, Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme, Aix-Marseille University CNRSFeeding Mediterranean Cities Coffee Break

16:30-17:20 Mediterranean SpacesChair: Jeannine Horowitz, University of HaifaIrad Malkin, Tel Aviv UniversityThe Small Greek World and the Practice of Maritime Space in the Mediterranean

18:00 Concert, The Arab-Jewish Orchestra, the Dr. Hecht Arts Center

19:00 Gala Dinner, The Dr. Hecht Arts Center

The 4th Haifa Conference on Mediterranean Sea Research

The History of the Mediterranean

Day Two, Wednesday, 30/11/2016 (29 Heshvan)Aviva and Sammy Ofer Observation Gallery, 30th floor, Eshkol Tower

08:45 Gathering

9:20-11:00 Mediterranean Ideas in MotionChair: Hassan Khalilieh, University of HaifaDina Stein, University of HaifaTraveling Tales: Jewish Legends in the MediterraneanDavid Ohana, Ben-Gurion University of the NegevMediterranean Intellectuals in the 20th Century: An Egyptian Lighthouse; Taha Hussein, Najib Mahfouz, Edmond Jabes and Jacqueline Kahanoff

Coffee Break

11:30-13:10 Mediterranean Forms of ConnectivityChair: Jonathan Ben Dov, University of HaifaMiriam Frenkel, The Hebrew University of JerusalemJewels: Another Channel for the Study of Mediterranean Societies Achim Lichtenberger, University of MünsterMediterranean Studies and "Biblical Archaeology"Lunch Break

14:20-16:00 Mediterranean Harbors and Communication

Chair: Assaf Yasur-Landau, University of HaifaEric Dursteler, Brigham Young UniversityLanguage and Communication in the Multilingual Early Modern MediterraneanJoan Connelly, New York UniversityA Maritime Idyll: Maniki Harbor, Cape Drepanum, and Yeronisos Island off Western CyprusCoffee Break

16:30-17:20 Mediterranean Materialities

Chair: Uriel Simonsohn, University of HaifaPeter Miller, Bard CollegeArchaeology: A Mediterranean Inquiry

17:20-18:20 Closing DiscussionChair: Gil Gambash,Co-Director, Haifa Center for Mediterranean History

Tour of the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library

The 4th Haifa Conference on Mediterranean Sea Research

The History of the Mediterranean