Schedule for the upcoming Arab Jewish Texts Conference! Tuesday, March 4 - Thursday, March 6 Regenstein Library, Room 122 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 Open to the public. All are welcome. Part of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society funded project, What are Arab Jewish Texts? Texts and Questions of Context. The conference will explore the ways in which Jewish political thought and literature were transformed in the medieval and modern periods as a result of their interactions with Muslim and Arab cultures. MARCH 4 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Welcoming Remarks David Nirenberg, Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society; Josef Stern, Director of the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies Introduction Orit Bashkin (UChicago) and Walid Saleh (Univ. of Toronto) Session 1: Rethinking Jewish Culture: Judeo-Arabic and the new Arab-Jewish Literary 10:30 a.m. – 11: 00 a.m. Ross Brann Arab-Jewish Literary Intellectuals of 11-12th Century al-Andalus 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Roxani Margariti The context of commerce: a thirteenth-century letter from Yemen in the Cairo Geniza 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Benjamin Hary Bible Translation in the Arab Jewish World: Saadia Tafsīr and Cairene and Ḥalabī Šurūḥ 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch (included) Session 2: The Arab-Jewish Religious 1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Walid Saleh and Ronny Vollandt Ancient Jewish Historiography in Arabic Garb: Sefer Josippon 2:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Galit Hasan-Rokem Early narrative dialogues on mobility and genealogy between Hebrew and Arabic sources 2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Martin Jacobs Linguistic Hybridity and the Muslim-Jewish Imaginary in Benjamin of Tudela’s Description of Baghdad 3:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Coffee/Cookies 3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Discussion 7:00 p.m. Dinner (conference participants only) MARCH 5 10:00 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. Welcome, Orit Bashkin (UChicago) Session 3: Arab Jewish Society: Language, Image, Memory 10:10 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. Zainab Saleh A Dying Dialect, A Vanishing Community: Iraqi Jews in the London Diaspora 10:40 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. Uri Horesh Palestinian Arabic in contemporary Jaffa: A (non-?) Jewish language in a (non-?) Jewish land 11:10 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. Chana Morgenstern “Let the People’s Men of Letters Come Out Into the Light”: The Palestinian and Arab-Jewish Communist Udaba and the Formation of Arab Socialist Realism in Israel/Palestine 11:40 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch (included) Session 4: The Promise of Arab-Jewish Modernity 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Jonathan Gribetz The PLOs Defense of the Talmud 1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Hanan Harif Judeo-Islamic Tradition: Pan-Semitic critique of the Zionist Culture 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Hillel Cohen The Arab-Jew in the Palestinian discourse 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Coffee/Cookies 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Discussion 6:30 p.m. Dinner & Poetry Session (conference participants and by invite only) MARCH 6 10:00 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. Welcome – Orit Bashkin (UChicago) Session 5: Modern Arab-Jewish Cultures 10:10 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. Orit Bashkin Arab Jewish Poetry 10:40 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. Deborah Starr Maurice Shammas’s “Café Lanciano” (1979): Voices from Cairo’s Ḥarat al-Yahud 11:10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Discussion 12:30 p.m. Lunch (included) The conference is funded by the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society with support from the Franke Institute for the Humanities, Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
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