Jews in the frankish orbit
UARK ROME CENTER CONFERENCE
October, 17-18-19, 2024
SPEAKERS
Teacher in the exclusively liberal arts program of Thomas Aquinas College in Southern California
Dean of the Honors College, University of Arkansas
Professor of Art History and Humanities emeritus at Reed College
Professor of late antique and early medieval history at Freie Universität Berlin
Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies
Chair of Transregional Religious History, University of Regensburg
Professor of European medieval studies
University Research Professor in the Department of History at the University of Kentucky
Professor of late antique and early medieval History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Director of the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies
Professor of Art History at the University of Arkansas Rome center
Utrecht University Prof. dr. Leonard Rutgers Professor
Teacher of medieval European history at the University of Michigan
Associate Professor at the department of general history, and vice dean of humanities at the University of Bar-Ilan
Associate Professor of architectural history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Professor and associate dean of special collections at University of Alabama
Research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Paris
PROGRAM
- 6:00 pm Reception at the Rome Center, – in-house caterer.
- 9:00 pm Optional dinner “Giggetto at Portico d’Ottavia” (required reservation)
- 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.”
- 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)
- Optional site visit: Vigna Randanini Catacomb (upon reservation)