The symposium will be held on November 15-16, 2024, with the first day’s events taking place at the Stanford Humanities Center and the second day’s events taking place at Berkeley’s Townsend Center for the Humanities. The symposium will center around a series of roundtables on themes inspired by Braudel’s La Méditerranée. In addition to the roundtables, the symposium will also feature keynote lectures by Barbara Fuchs (UCLA) and Alessandro Stanziani (EHESS). The two morning sessions will be devoted to discussion of six pre-circulated papers by graduate students.