Event
Space is limited and meals are provided, so if you would like to attend, RSVP to Carrie Love (carrielo@sas.upenn.edu) by December 4, 2013.
9:30 am Coffee
10:00 am
Welcome Anne Oravetz Albert, Katz Center
10:15 am
Opening Lecture
"I Have Never Heard of Using the Lash on Women": An Implicit Gender Boundary in Early Modern Ashkenaz Ada Rapoport-Albert, University College London/Katz Center
11:15 am
In the Eye of the Beholder: Gender in Rabbinic Text and Communal Archive Chair: Rachel L. Greenblatt, Harvard University/Katz Center
(In)visible Donors : Gender and Family in the Charity Records of Western Ashkenaz Debra Kaplan, Yeshiva University/Katz Center
The Maharal's Ontological Conceptualization of Gender Pavel Sládek, Charles University, Prague/Katz Center
12:45 pm Lunch (RSVP Required)
1:45 pm
Women in a Man's World: New Modes of Religious Participation? Chair: Fabrizio Lelli, University of Salento, Lecce/Katz Center
Women, the Liturgy, and the Vernacular: A Yiddish Mahzor from Sixteenth-Century Italy Lucia Raspe, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main/Katz Center
Illustrations of Women Performing Time-Bound Mitzvot in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Manuscripts from Italy Evelyn M. Cohen, Independent Scholar
From the Synagogue to the Confraternity and Back: The Jewish Women's Religious Sphere in Early Modern Italy Federica Francesconi, University of Oregon/Katz Center
3:45 pm Coffee break
4:15 pm
Closing remarks Chair: Adam Teller, Brown University/Katz Center
Kathleen Brown, University of Pennsylvania
Elisheva Carlebach, Columbia University/Katz Center
5:45 pm Dinner (RSVP required)
Lecture Series: Ruth Meltzer Seminar Series
For fellows, Penn faculty, and invited guests only
RSVP: Required
Event Contact: Carrie Love
Event Contact Email: carrielo@sas.upenn.edu
Event Contact Phone: 215-238-1290
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