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September 12, 11:30AM. Lunch to be served.
All sessions will be followed by Q&A.
Session 1: Word Play: Shifting Applications of Language
Netta van Vliet, Department of Cultural Anthropology
"Explaining 'A Politics of the Unspeakable: The Differend of Israel:' Responses from the Field."
Annegret Oehme, German Department
“A Hebrew Summer at Middlebury”
Ben Gordon, Religion Department
"Herem Property in Early Judaism"
Session 2: New Ideas about Modernity
Giuseppe Prigiotti, Department of Romance Languages
“Dealing with Modernity: A Common Challenge for Italian Jews and Catholics in the Beginning of the XX Century”
Daniel Bessner, History Department
"Expanding Jewish History: Hans Speier and Intellectual Transfer."
Eric Brandom, History Department
“Georges Sorel and the Jews: French Antisemitism and the Liberal Historians”
Session 3: Ritual and Practice: Visual Arts, Eating, and the Creation of Identity
Sean Burrus, Religion Department
“Image and Empire: Jewish Identities and Visual Arts under Rome”
Alan Todd, Religion Department
"The Early Rabbinic Table: Dining to be Jewish"
Emma Woelk, German Department
“Yiddish Theater in Berlin”