8:30-9:00
Registration and gathering, coffee
9:00-9:45
Welcome notes
Chair: Ilana Zinguer
Monsieur Casa, Ambassadeur de France en Israël
Majid Al-Haj, Vice President, Dean of Research
Ilana Zinguer (Centre de recherche de Civilisation
Française)
9:45-10:45
Keynote I
Chair: Ilana Zinguer
Georges Molinié (Président, Sorbonne,
Paris IV)
Postures et images juives par rapport à la culture
baroque
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11:00-12:30
Kabbalah I
Chair: Bernard Cooperman
Lina Bolzoni (Scuola Normale di Pisa)
Giulio Camillo’s Memory Theatre and the Kabbalah
Roni Weinstein (University of Pisa)
Sixteenth-Century Jewish Mysticism as a Catholic Baroque
Phenomenon
Yossi Chajes (University of Haifa)
It's Good to See the King : Toward an Historical Anthropology
of Early Modern Jewish Cosmological Cartography
12:30
Lunch break
14:00-15:30
Kabbalah II
Chair: Lina Bolzoni
Bernard Cooperman (University of Maryland)
Kabbalistic Enthusiasms of a Rabbi for Hire. The Sermons
of Isaac di Lattes
Sheila Rabin (St. Peter's College)
Pico, Astrology, and Kabbalah
Dvora Bregman (Ben Gurion University)
Notes on the Poetry of Moses Zacuto
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15:45-17:30
Religious Identities and Contexts I
Chair: Frank Lestringant (Paris Sorbonne)
Ilana Zinguer (University of Haifa)
L'implicite à propos des Juifs de Rome (Journal de
Voyage, Montaigne)
Annie Molinié (Sorbonne, Paris IV)
and
Béatrice Perez (Université
de Rennes)
Les premiers jésuites
d'origine "conversa" (deuxième moitié
du XVIe siècle): Diego Lainez, Polanco et les autres
Giuseppe Veltri (University of Halle)
Defining Jewish “Rituals” in the Early Modern Period: History
of a Philosophical-Political Concept
17:30-18:00
Coffee break-------------------------
18:00-19:00
Keynote II
Chair: Abraham Melamed
Joanna Weinberg (Oxford University)
Jewish Wisdom and the Limits of Christian Hebraism
20:00
Reception (Consul de France, Haifa)
Frank Lestringant (Sorbonne, Paris IV)
Kabbale et cosmographie, de Guillaume Postel à Jacques
d'Auzoles-Lapeyre |
| 8:30-9:00
Gathering, coffee
9:00-10:30
Hebraism, Poetry, and Drama I
Chair : Ofir Haivry (The Shalem Center)
Lauren Silberman (CUNY)
Aaron, The Brother Who Proves the Rule: Typological Negotiations
in Titus Andronicus
Konrad Eisenbichler (University of Toronto)
Ancient Israel in the Religious Theatre of Renaissance Italy
Nancy Rosenfeld (University of Haifa)
'The Law of Moses as well as the Devil, Death, and Hell':
John Bunyan and Christian Kabbalah
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10:45-12:45
Hebraism, Poetry, and Drama II
Chair: Dvora Bregman (Ben Gurion University)
Elliott Simon (University of Haifa)
From Maimonides to Sir Philip Sidney: The Poet’s Prophetic
Voice
Chanita Goodblatt (Ben Gurion University
)
"Thy Firmness makes my Circles Just/And makes me end,
where I begunne": Abraham Ibn Ezra and John Donne as
Poet-Exegetes
Noam Flinker (University of Haifa)
“Free as the Road”: George Herbert’s Hebraic Texts
Philip Ford (Cambridge University)
The Place of Hebrew Poetry in the Teaching of Charles Utenhove
12:45
Lunch break-------------------------
14:15-15:45
Hebraism and Scholarship I: Antiquarianism and Philology
Chair : Philip Ford (Cambridge University)
Arthur Eyffinger (Huygens Institute)
Biblical Philology at Leiden University
Daniel Stein-Kokin (Yale University)
Egidio da Viterbo and Christian Hebraism in High Renaissance
Rome.
Jonathan Elukin (Trinity College Hartford)
The Urim and Thumim and Christian Hebraism
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16:00-17:30
Hebraism and Scholarship II: Chronology and Geography
Chair : Jonathan Elukin (Trinity College
Hartford)
Avner Ben Zaken (Harvard Society of Fellows)
Hebraist Motives, Pythagorean Itineraries, and the Galilean
Agendas of Naples: On the Margins of Text and Context
Zur Shalev ( University of Haifa)
Benjamin of Tudela, Spanish Discoverer
Fabrizio Lelli (University of Lecce)
The Role of Early Renaissance Geographical Discoveries in
Yohanan Alemanno’s Messianic Thought
17:30-18:00
Coffee break-------------------------
18:00-19:15
Religious Identities and Contexts II
Chair: Myriam Yardeni (University of Haifa)
Sina Rauschenbach (University of Halle)
Dealing with Jewish Knowledge: Menasseh Ben Israel and the
Christian Respublica Litteraria
Alessandro Guetta (INALCO – Paris)
The Debate on the Immortality of the soul in Early Modern
Italy:
a symptom of closer Jewish-Christian dialogue? |
8:30-9:00
Gathering, coffee
9:00-10:45
The Hebrew Language and Its Practice
Chair: Noam
Flinker (University of Haifa)
Arthur
Lesley (Baltimore Hebrew College)
Yohanan Alemanno's Formulation of Hebrew Rhetorical Practice.
Kenneth Stow (University of Haifa)
Negotiating Self-Governance: Hebrew in the Service of Running
the Jewish Università.
Yaacov Deutsch
(Hebrew University and Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard
University)
Converting the New Testament: Hebrew Translations of the New
Testament in the Early Modern Period
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11:00-12:30
Hebraism and Political Theory I
Chair: Arthur
Eyffinger (Huygens Institute)
Lea Campos
Boralevi (University of Florence)
The Rise and Fall of the Respublica Hebraeorum as
a Political Model in Early Modern Europe
Meirav
Jones (The Shalem Center)
Philo Judaeus and Jewish Harmony in Grotius’ Laws of War and
Peace
Yitzhak Lifshitz (The Shalem Center)
The Revival of the ideas of Medieval Ashkenaz in the 15th
Century Political Thought of R. Yisrael Iserlin
12:30
Lunch break
14:00-15:00
Hebraism and Political Theory II
Chair: Zur Shalev
(University of Haifa)
Ofir Haivry (The
Shalem Center)
Jewish Sources of John Selden’s Idea of Church-State Relations
Fania Oz-Salzberger (University of Haifa)
The social reading of the Bible by English Thinkers of the
Mid 17th Century
Coffee break-------------------------
15:15-16:45
Isaac Abravanel
Chair : Arthur Lesley
Cedric Cohen Skalli (Tel Aviv University)
Isaac and Yehudah Abravanel on Genesis: A Case of Jewish Reception
of Florentine Platonism
Vasileios Syros
(University of Helsinki)
The Political Function of Rhetoric in Don Isaac Abravanel’s
Political Thought
Abraham Melamed (University
of Haifa)
The Reception of Abravanel in Early Modern Political Thought
16:45-17:15
Coffee break-------------------------
17:15-18:15
Yehudah Abravanel
Chair : Georges Molinié (Sorbonne,
Paris IV)
Tristan Dagron (CNRS-Paris)
Giordano Bruno, lecteur des Dialoghi d’amore de Leone
Ebreo
James W. Nelson Novoa (Villanova
University)
Leone Ebreo’s Dialoghi d’amore as a Pivotal Document
of Judeo-Christian Relations in Renaissance Rome
18:15-17:00
Ending Note
David Baum (West Texas
State A&M University)
Anti-Semitism, Race and the Renaissance in Fascist Italy
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