Center for Jewish StudiesMonday, March 7, 2016
Perkins Library, Room 217
9:00 – Light reception (coffee and refreshments)
9:45 – Greetings by Laura Lieber.
9:50 – Welcome by Oded Zinger.
First Session (20 minutes lectures, 5 minute response, 15 minutes discussion)
Chair: Ellen McLarney.
10:00 – Daniel Lord Smail – “Debt Collection and the Making of Medieval Justice”
Respondent: Timur Kuran.
10:40 – Verena Kasper Marienberg - "Jewish Individuals before the Early Modern Viennese Imperial Court – Choices, Strategies, Options"
Respondent: Adam Kosto
11:20 – Mathieu Tillier. “Qadis and their social networks: defining the judge’s neutrality in Abbasid Iraq”
Respondent: Boğaç Ergene
12:00 – Lunch and break.
Second Session
Chair: Abdullah Antepli.
1:30 – Marina Rustow – “Rights, Institutions and Documentary Culture in the Medieval Middle East.”
Respondent: Bruce Hall
2:10 – Flora Cassen – “Philip II of Spain and his Italian Jewish Spy”
Respondent: Caroline Humfress
2:50 – Sara McDougall – “Bastards and thrones in medieval Europe: Law and practice”
Respondent: Jehangir Malegam
3:30 - 4:00 - Break.
Third Session
Chair: Mona Hassan.
4:00 – Timur Kuran – “The Financial Power of the Powerless: Socio-Economic Status and Interest Rates under Partial Rule of Law”
Respondent: Jessica Goldberg
4:40 – Tamer El-Leithy - Shibboleths under Hats: Material Culture, Fiscal Records, and Medieval Arabic Documentary Regimes
Respondent: Brinkley Messick
5:20 – Andrew Berns - 'Women who love to go out:' Jewish women as peddlers in Renaissance Italy
Respondent: Rena Lauer.
6:00 – Finished!
7:00 – Dinner.
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Thomas Room, Lilly Library
Workshop: Session I (30 minutes papers, 5-10 minute response, 20-25 minutes discussion)
Chair: Joseph Shatzmiller
9:00 – Rena Lauer. "Converts and their Jewish Families in the Courtrooms of Venetian Crete"
Respondent: Andrew Berns
10:00 – Rachel Furst. “Managing Marital Conflict: Husbands and Wives in the Jewish Courts of Thirteenth Century Ashkenaz”.
Respondent: Mark R. Cohen
11:00-11:30 Break.
Workshop: Session II
Chair: Laura Lieber.
11:30- Pinchas Roth - 'My precious books and instruments': The divorce of David Bonjorn and Esther Caravita, Catalonia 1337
Respondent: Thomas Robisheaux.
12:30 - Lunch
14:00 – Oded Zinger, “Toward a Social History of Responsa”
Respondent: Eve Krakowski.
15:00 – Conclusions
15:30 – Done!