The aim of this network is to provide researchers with information about publications and congresses regarding the mediterranean area in modern and contemporary history. We strive to be a discussion space for researchers coming from different research fields. Instead of only promoting discussions about each single country, or only discussing the concept of mediterranean history, the aim is to facilitate circulation and confrontation of ideas, methods, and theories.

- Call for Papers: Rethinking the Politics of the Past in Cyprus  Rebecca Bryant <rbryant2@gmu.edu> - Call for Papers: Language and Cultural Mediation in the Mediterranean, 1200-1800 E. Natalie Rothman <rothman@utsc.utoronto.ca> - Call for Papers: Spaces for Change. Mena region  Sylvia Bergh <sibergh@yahoo.com> - Call for Papers: Mediterranean Colonial Sea  <mborutta@uni-koeln.de> - Call for Papers: Convivencia: representations, knowledge, identities  <convivencia2009@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de> - Query: Ottoman architect Atik Sinan(???-1471)  Arnold Reisman <arnoldreisman@sbcglobal.net> - Call for Papers: Jewish Studies: Gender  Helene J. Sinnreich <hjsinnreich@ysu.edu>

Reviewer: Yucel Terzibasoglu Title: Ottoman Survey Register of Podolia (ca. 1681): Defter-i Mufassal-i Eyalet-i Kamanice, The Author: Dariusz Kolodziejczyk; Foreword by Victor Ostapchuk Reviewer: Vincent Guigueno Title: L'administration generale des phares de l'Empire ottoman et la societe Collas et Michel, 1860-1960 Author: Jacques Thobie Reviewer: Samuel Pierce Title: Creating Spaniards: Culture and National Identity in Republican Spain Author: Sandie Holguin