program
October, 17-18-19, 2024
THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER
- 6:00 pm Reception at the Rome Center, – in-house caterer.
- 9:00 pm Optional dinner “Giggetto at Portico d’Ottavia” (required reservation)
FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER
- Welcome Greetings
- Barbara Spaccini, Assistant Director for Academic, UARK Rome Center
- Consuelo Lollobrigida, Academic Coordinator of Arts and Humanities, UARK Rome Center
- Lynda Coon, Dean of Honors College, University of Arkansas
- David Appleby, Thomas Aquinas College
- Plenary Address
- Chair: David Appleby
- 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.
- 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Panel 1: Rome and Italy
- Chair: Jennifer Hoyer, Director, Jewish Studies, University of Arkansas
- 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.
- 2-3:00 p.m.: Panel 2: Carolingians and the Law
- Chair: David Appleby, Thomas Aquinas College
- 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, “Some considerations on the importance of Reginon of Prüm for Jewish-Christian history (9th-11th centuries)”
- 3:15-4:45 Coffee and pastries.
- 4:15-5:45 p.m.: Panel 3: Identities in Conflict
- Chair: Paolo Squatriti, Department of History, University of Michigan
- 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, “Protest Embodied: the Case of Bodo/Eleazar.”
- Consuelo Lollobrigida, University of Arkansas Rome Center, “Representing Jews in a Tenth Century Image of St. Helena.”
SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER
- 9-10 a.m.: Plenary Address
- Chair: Consuelo Lollobrigida, University of Arkansas Rome Center
- 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.
- 10:30-12:00: Panel 4: Biblical Objects and Properties
- Chair: Lynda Coon, Honors College, University of Arkansas
- 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.”
- 12:00-2:00 p.m. Break for lunch (free range in Rome).
- 2-3:30 p.m.: Panel 5: Legacies
- Chair: Laura Lieber, Transregionale Religionsgeschichte der Spätantike, University of Regensburg
- Lorraine Madway, University Libraires, University of Alabama, “Framing Text and Context: The Impact of Rashi’s Torah Commentary of Peshat (Text) and Midrash (Rabbinic Interpretation) on Jews in the Frankish Orbit.”
- 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.: Optional site visit: Vigna Randanini Catacombs with Dr. Elsa Laurenzi, PhD
(upon reservation)
SUNDAY 20 OCTOBER
- Optional site visit: Vigna Randanini Catacomb (upon reservation)
UARK ROME CENTER – Palazzo Taverna – Via di Monte Giordano, 36 – 00186 Roma