Behavioral Practice, Social Boundaries, & the Marking of Identity in the Early Modern Era
Behavioral Practice, Social Boundaries, & the Marking of Identity in the Early Modern Era
Please join the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for a two-day workshop entitled Behavioral Practice, Social Boundaries, & the Marking of Identity in the Early Modern Era on Wednesday, September 30 and Thursday October 1. This event is the second half of a series sponsored by a collaborative effort between the University of Maryland and Tel-Aviv University. The first workshop was held in Tel Aviv in June of this year.
Please RSVP at millercenter@umd.edu or leave word at 5-4299 to reserve lunch on one or both days.
PROGRAM
Wednesday, September 30
10:00-12:00 National Identities:
Christopher Celenza, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
The Problem of the Latin Language in the Italian Renaissance.
Stefano Villani, University of Maryland, College Park
Becoming Italian: Early Modern British Converts and the Inquisition
Shai Zamir, Tel Aviv University
The Image of the Jewish Woman in the Trent Blood Libel (1475)
1:45-5:00 Gender, Sexuality and Behavioral Practices:
Pawel Maciejko, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sexuality and Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschütz
Hugo Brulhart, University of Maryland, College Park
Sodomy and Crime in 16th-Century Geneva
Tamar Herzig, Tel Aviv University
Being a 'Jewish Nun' in Early Modern Italy
Eyda Merediz, University of Maryland, College Park
Canary Islands Malinches with Happy Ending? Foundational Couples in the Canary Islands.
Thursday, October 1.
9:10-10:45 Change in the Marketplace; Change in the Environment.
Robert Friedel, University of Maryland, College Park
Beer, Cheese, and Bread. Men, Women, and Work in Early Modern Britain.
Noel Johnson, George Mason University, Virginia
Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks
11:00–12:30 Labeling People:
Ira Berlin, University of Maryland, College Park
What’s In a Name?
Bernard Cooperman, University of Maryland, College Park
Race, Slavery, and Synagogue Honors
Holly Brewer, University of Maryland, College Park
Identifying People as Property. Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its Empire
1:45–4:30 Cultural Shifts
Andrea Frisch, University of Maryland, College Park
"Moving History: Affect and National Memory after the French Wars of Religion"
Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland, College Park
Lucretius' New World: Cannibalism, Materialism, and Humanism in the Early Modern Encounter with the Americas
Jonathan Allen, University of Maryland, College Park
Excluding and Defending Tomb-Visitation in Early Modern Ottoman Islam?