Behavioral Practice, Social Boundaries and the Marking of Identity in the Early Modern Era
Behavioral Practice, Social Boundaries and the Marking of Identity in the Early Modern Era
The University of Maryland and Tel Aviv University will co-sponsor a workshop examining the making of identity worldwide in the Early Modern Era. Professors Bernard Cooperman and Stefano Villani.from the UMD History Department and Professor Tamar Herzig from Tel Aviv have organized this workshop and will also be presenters.
Joint Tel Aviv University-University of Maryland Workshop
Sunday-Tuesday, 14-16 June 2015
Gilman Humanities Building, Room 133, Tel Aviv University
Sunday, 14 June 2015
14:00 Gathering
14:30 Greetings
Raanan Rein, Vice President of Tel Aviv University
14:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Bernard Cooperman (University of Maryland)
City Space/Jewish Space: Marking Urban Territory in Early Modern Europe
NUDITY, SEXUALITY AND THE CREATION OF SOCIAL BOUNDARIES
Chair: Kinneret Lahad (Tel Aviv University)
16:00 Sefy Hendler (Tel Aviv University)
Gracious and Beautiful Monster: Considering Nudity and Sodomy in Agnolo Bronzino’s Portrait of Dwarf Morgante
16:35 Alex Kerner (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Nakedness, Clothing and the European Construction of Social and Political Hierarchies in Early Colonial America
17:10: Coffee break
17:40 Umberto Grassi (International Research Group for Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism)
Ambiguous Boundaries: Religious Minorities, Natural Law and the Control of Sexuality in Early Modern Spain and the New World
18:20 Tamar Herzig (Tel Aviv University)
Jews and Sodomy in Early Modern Italy
19:00 Comment: Kinneret Lahad
Monday, 15 June 2015
BEHAVIORAL PRACTICE AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITY
Chair: Iris Rachamimov (Tel Aviv University)
9:00 Benjamin Arbel (Tel Aviv University)
Being a Jewish Woman in Sixteenth-Century Candia
9:45 Coffee break
10:15 Adelisa Malena (University of Venice, Ca’ Foscari)
Gender Roles and Catholic Piety: WomenChrists and Female Messiahs in Seventeenth-Century Italy
11:00 Zur Shalev (University of Haifa)
European Responses to Religious Diversity in Ottoman Lands
11:45 Comment: Iris Rachamimov
12:00: Lunch
ETHNIC MINORITIES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY
Chair: Aya Elyada (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
13:30 Miriam Eliav-Feldon (Tel Aviv University)
Fear of Nomads: The Persecution of the Gypsies
14:10 Yaacov Deutsch (David Yelin College)
Jewish “Otherness” in Early Modern Christian Descriptions
14:50 Vera Kaplan (Tel Aviv University)
Being a Foreigner and Behaving Like a Foreigner in Early Modern Russia
15:30 Comment: Aya Elyada
Tuesday, 16 June 2015
PRACTICE AND BELIEF IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Chair: Uriel Simonsohn (University of Haifa)
9:45 Moshe Sluhovsky (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Attention, Intention, Action: Practice/Belief in Early Modern Catholicism
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Stefano Villani (University of Maryland)
Unintentional Dissent: Heterodox Behaviors and Religious Identity among Protestant Converts in Early Modern Livorno
11:45 Katherine Aron-Beller (Tel Aviv University)
Did Jews Desecrate Christian Images? Practice and Belief according to Inquisitorial Investigations
12:30 Comment: Uriel Simonsohn (University of Haifa)
13:00 Lunch
GRADUATE STUDENTS’ SESSION:
GENDER, SEXUALITY AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN THE EARLY MODERN ERA
Chair: Sivan Balslev (Tel Aviv University)
14:30 Ronnie Hirsch (Tel Aviv University)
Ailment in the Community: Coping with Illness in the Convent of San Vincenzo in Prato
15:15 Shai Zamir (Tel Aviv University)
The Image of the Jewish Woman in the Trent Blood Libel (1475)
16:00 Meytal Cohen (Tel Aviv University)
Morals and Gender Roles in Early Modern Descriptions of the Witches’ Sabbath
16:45 Comment: Sivan Balslev
17:00 Coffee break
17:30: CONCLUDING REMARKS
Bernard Cooperman (University of Maryland)
Tamar Herzig (Tel Aviv University)
Stefano Villani (University of Maryland)