History of the Mediterranean Studies Association: An Eyewitness Account
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT: The formation of the Mediterranean Studies Association was the result of a chance meeting and new friendship established at an academic meeting at Notre Dame University in 1986. In the years that followed, the collaborations of Rick Clement and Benjamin Taggie led to the unanticipated establishment of the academic journal Mediterranean Studies, now in its twenty-eighth year of publication. In 1994 the Mediterranean Studies Association was formally established and in 1998 organized its first International Congress in Lisbon, Portugal. Over the next quarter century, overcoming many challenging situations and through the efforts of the original founders and including, since 2001, Louise Taggie, the organization has grown into a major organization devoted to interdisciplinary and international education and research, now with over sixteen hundred members worldwide. The MSA has also been an active participant and/or creator of such academic endeavors as the Nocciano Institute for the Arts and Culture, the University of Massachusetts Summer Sicily Program, and the Summer Program in Évora, Portugal.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".