October 11-12, 2007
9AM-6PM
The Smokler Center
for Jewish Life,
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building
3109 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

Phone: 410.516.6625
Fax: 410.516.7586

E-mail: jewish.studies@jhu.edu

Web:http://web.jhu.edu/jewishstudies
Thursday, October 11
8:30 Breakfast (kosher catered at Smokler Center)
9:00 Jas Elsner, University of Chicago. “ Pharoah’ s Army’ Got Drownded: Some Reflections on Jewish and Roman Genealogies in Early Christian Art”
10:00 Kathleen Corrigan, Dartmouth College“Visualizing the Divine: the Sinai Icon of the 'Ancient of Days'“
11-11:15 Coffee Break (kosher catered at Smokler Center)
11:15 Sara Lipton, State University of New York at Stony Brook, “Jewish Eyes, 1150-1175"
12:30-1:30 Lunch (kosher catered at Smokler Center)
1:30 Madeline H. Caviness, Tufts University and Charles G. Nelson, Tufts University "Immunity of person and property accorded to Jews in the Sachsenspiegel picture books: Compensation and Recuperation"
2:30 Achim Timmermann, University of Michigan. “Frau Venus, the Eucharist, and the Jews of Landshut”
4:00-4:15 Coffee break (kosher catered at Smokler Center)
4:15 Mitchell Merback, DePauw. “Lord’s Supper and Passover Sacrilege: Shared Images and the Confrontation of Rituals in the Northern Renaissance Altarpiece”
5:15 Francisco Prado-Vilar, University of London, "In the Hall of Mirrors: Illuminating the Jews in Medieval Iberia"

Friday, October 12

8:30 Breakfast (kosher catered at Smokler Center)
9:00 Marcia Kupfer, The Johns Hopkins University. “Abraham Circumcises Himself: a Scene at the Endgame of Jewish Utility to Christian Art in Late Fourteenth-Century France and Fifteenth-Century Spain”
10:00 Felipe Pereda, University of Madrid, “Social Discord and the Evolution of Image Theory in Early Modern Castile.”
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break (kosher catered at Smokler Center)
11:15 Dana Katz, Reed College, “The Gaze and the Ghetto in Early Modern Venice”
12:30-1:30 Lunch (kosher catered at Smokler Center)
1:30 Stephen Campbell, The Johns Hopkins University "Renaissance Naturalism and the Jewish Bible: Ferrara and Brescia 1520-1540."
2:30 Margaret Olin, Art Institute of Chicago, “Jewish Art and the National Past(t)ime”
3:30-3:45 Coffee Break (kosher catered at Smokler Center)
4:00 Yve-Alain Bois, Institute for Advanced Study, "Barnett Newman's Covenant"
5:00 Concluding discussion