program
October, 17-18-19, 2024
THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER
- Reception at the Rome Center, 6 p.m. (in-house caterer).
- Participants have free range in Rome for dinner or we organize a dinner in the Jewish Ghetto.
FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER
- 09.00 Welcome: Consuelo Lollobrigida
- Lynda Coon, Dean of Honors College, University of Arkansas
- David Appleby, Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula CA
- 9.30-10.30 a.m.: Plenary Address: Johannes Heil (Ignatz-Bubis-Professur für Geschichte, Religion und Kultur, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg and Honorarprofessur der Universität Heidelberg), “Migration and Formation: The Transformation of the Western Diaspora, 711-950).
- 10.30-11.00 a.m.: Coffee and pastries.
- 11.30:12.30 a.m.-noon: Panel 1: Rome and Italy:
- Leonard Rutgers (Research Institute for History and Art History, Utrecht University, The Netherlands), “Jews in the Italian Diaspora.”
- Gregor Kalas (School of Architecture, University of Tennessee), “Old Testament Models for Charity in Eight-Century Rome.”
- Laura Lieber (Center for the Study of the Transregional History of Religion, University of Regensburg), “A Migration of Magic and Piety: The Case of Megillat Ahimaatz.”
- 12.30-2 p.m. Break for lunch (free range in Rome).
- 2-3:30 p.m.: Panel 2: Carolingians and the Law:
- Stefan Esders (Freie Universität Berlin, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Geschichte der Spätantike und des Frühen Mittelalters), “Forced conversions of Jews in 7th-century Italy: Places, chronology and historical contexts.”
- Abigail Firey (Department of History, University of Kentucky), “The Transmission of the Visigothic Conciliar Decrees in Francia.”
- Amélie Sagasser (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Deutsches Historisches Institut, Paris, Abteilung Mittelalter), “Jews in Light of Frankish Legal Sources.”
- 3:45-5:15 p.m.: Panel 3: Identities in Conflict:
- Michael Lovell (Medieval Studies, Florida Atlantic University), “Caesarius and the Jews of Arles: A Hostile Relationship.”
- Andrew Romig (Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University): “Manliness and Cultural Crisis: The Case of Bodo/Eleazar.”
- Consuelo Lollobrigida (University of Arkansas Rome Center), “Representing Jews in a Tenth Century Image of St. Helena.”
- Participants have free range in Rome for dinner.
SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER
- 9-10 a.m.: Plenary Address: Yitzhak Hen (Director, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmund J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, Israel): “Genu pro iudaeis non flectendum est: Jews and Judaism in Carolingian Liturgical Writings.”
- 10-10:30 a.m. Coffee and pastries.
- 10:30-noon: Panel 4: Biblical Objects and Properties:
- David Appleby (Thomas Aquinas College), “’Iudaica superstitio’ and Construction of the Frankish Christian Present in ninth-century Lyon.”
- Paolo Squatriti (Department of History, University of Michigan), “The Carolingians and the Hebrew Passover Loaf.”
- Noon-2 p.m. Break for lunch (free range in Rome).
- 2-3:30 p.m.: Panel 5: Legacies:
- Lorraine Madway (University Libraires, University of Alabama), “Linguistics, Logic, and Rashi’s Commentary on Talmud.”
- Yaniv Fox (Department of History, Bar-Ilan University, Raman Gan, Israel), “`He was called Charles the Great because he did great things’: The Carolingians in the Hebrew Chronicle of Yosef Ha-Kohen.”
- William Diebold (Department of Art History, Reed College), “Representing Carolingian Jews in Modern Germany: Jews and Judaism in the Exhibition Ex oriente(Aachen, 2023).”
- 3:30-7 p.m.: free time in Rome.
- 7-9 p.m.: Closing banquet at the Rome Center (in-house caterer).
SUNDAY 20 OCTOBER
- Optional site visit: Vigna Randanini Catacomb
- Optional site visit: Ancient Synagogue of Trastevere.
UARK ROME CENTER – Palazzo Taverna – Via di Monte Giordano, 36 – 00186 Roma