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A workshop dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the Mediterranean. The theme of this annual workshop is "Turning Points." Turning points in Mediterranean history for several reasons.  First, one of the goals of oceanic and maritime histories is to ask whether such histories challenge more conventional periodizations.  Second, certain turning points in Mediterranean history (like the Pirenne thesis) enjoy a well-developed historiography but many others (such as the transition from the medieval to the early modern) are far more fuzzy.  Finally, we will take up the debateover whether the Mediterranean disappears in the modern period (however defined.)