The workshop sessions focused on the following aspects:
A. Connecting spaces: Connectivity has been seen as one of the main features of Mediterranean societies and cultures since the work of Braudel and, more recently, that of Horden and Purcell. Evaluations may critically reflect on these contributions or focus on other forms of mobility of goods and people and recent phenomena of connectivity, such as migration, networks or border encounters.
B. Constructing places: Another focus of comparative analysis and discussion was the multiple ways of constructing and perceiving places in the Mediterranean and giving meaning to them through changing social and cultural practices, such as the ‘sharing’ of shrines in the Mediterranean by different religions.
C. Constituting memories: Also welcomed in the forthcoming MedNet workshop was the studies of perceived continuity and tradition and the analysis of processes of constituting memories of shared experiences and conflicts in the Mediterranean as a region of comparison