ACTION COST – PIMO – Workshop WG4
Program in European Central Time (ECT)
Tirana, January 15, 2021
(Online Event)

Full Programme available here: Workshop, Tirana programme

11.00: Konstantinos Giakoumis
Welcome words and short introduction

PART 1: Languages of Imagination and Identification
Chair: Katrina O’Laughlin
11.15: Doris K. Kyriazis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Whence, Where and When? Comparing the ‘Chronicle of Dropull’ and the ‘Chronicle of John Muzaka’
11.35: Konstantinos Giakoumis, LOGOS University College, Tirana
Identity Processing in Seventeenth-Nineteenth Century Migration from Epiros and Albania
11.55: Q&A and Discussion

12.20: Lunch break

Chair: Cátia Antunes
13.30: Keynote Address: Marlou Schrover, Leiden University
Languages of Mobility Across the Mediterranean: The ‘Problem’ of Migration
14.15: Discussion and Q&A

14.30: Break

PART 2: Languages of Shipping and Trade
Chair: Cátia Antunes
14.40: Stefania Montemezzo, University of Padua
Merchant Letters and Court Records: A Language of Movement and Displacement of People and Goods in the Medieval Period
15.00: Giorgio Tosco, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Names and Etymologies of People and Ships Crossing the Mediterranean: Methodological Problems and Historiographical Solutions
15.20: Q&A and Discussion

15.40: Break

PART 3: Languages, Words and Feelings – A Contemporary Approach
Chair: Konstantinos Giakoumis
15.50: Brunilda Zenelaga, University of Tirana
The Nineteenth Century: Languages and Wordings of Movement and Displacement
16.10: Katrina O’Laughlin, Brunel University London
Creative Writing: A Language of Biographies of Mobility and Displacement – a Project

16.50: Cátia Antunes
Concluding Remarks.