Conflict and Conviviality around the Mediterranean and Beyond: Exploring Entanglements
This workshop will focus on the concepts of conflict and conviviality as generative tools for exploring the entangled histories that link Europe with the Middle East and North Africa. While conflict has been studied extensively in the Mediterranean, conviviality and everyday coexistence have received far less attention, with few notable exceptions. In the literature, conviviality can be understood as a way of bridging distance and engaging with ‘the other’, but it can also function as a coping mechanism or a form of superficial coexistence that obscures persistent and lingering tensions. It can also render certain intersectional identities and grievances (in)visible.
The workshop will provide an opportunity to share some preliminary findings from a project that Tamirace Fakhoury and Claire Bullen carried out as alumna and member of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA). While the workshop draws on Mediterranean cities as sites of encounter shaped by legacies of conflict and conviviality, we aim to broaden these reflections and explore the transferability of some of the project’s ideas to other regions and cities as well.
Kindly note that participation is by invitation only.
Date: 17 April 2026
Venue:
The Fletcher School
Medford, USA,
and online
Language: English