An international conference organized by:
\nThe Medici Archive Project\u2028, Beit Venezia – The Venice Center for International Jewish Studies, il Comitato \u201cI 500 anni del Ghetto di Venezia\u201d Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies \u2013 Jewish Scepticism Soprintendenza belle arti e paesaggio per Venezia e laguna.<\/p>\n
Sala del Piovego – Palazzo Ducale – Venice 5th & 6th May 2016<\/p>\n
Thursday, 5 May 2016<\/strong> Welcome Introduction Opening lecture PANEL ONE<\/p>\n The Ghetto in its Historical Dimension<\/strong> Friday, 6 May 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n PANEL TWO<\/p>\n The Architectures of the Venetian Ghetto<\/strong> PANEL THREE<\/p>\n The Venetian Ghetto and its Philosophical Legacy<\/strong> PANEL FOUR<\/p>\n Arts and Theatre in the Venetian Ghetto<\/strong> The Birth and Evolution of the Venetian Ghetto (1516-1797) An international conference organized by: The Medici Archive Project\u2028, Beit Venezia – The Venice Center for International Jewish Studies, il Comitato…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academia"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n13:00 Registration Opens<\/p>\n
\n14:00 Representative of the Office of the Mayor of Venice\u202814:10 Emanuela Carpani (Soprintendenza belle arti e paesaggio per Venezia
\ne laguna)\u202814:20 Paolo Gnignati (Comunit\u00e0 Ebraica, Venezia)\u202814:30 Giuseppe Veltri (Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies,
\nHamburg)<\/p>\n
\n14:40 Alessio Assonitis (The Medici Archive Project, Florence)<\/p>\n
\n14:55 Piergabriele Mancuso (The Eugene Grant Research Program on Jewish History and Culture in Early Modern Europe \u2014The Medici Archive Project) – The Ghetto of Venice and the Making of Early Modern Jewry.<\/p>\n
\nChair: Simon Levis Sullam (Universit\u00e0 Ca\u2019 Foscari Venezia)
\n15:40 Giacomo Corazzol (Tel Aviv University) – The Prehistory of the Venetian Ghetto in the Eyes of a Cretan Jew: Venice, 1509 16:05 Piercesare Ioly Zorattini (Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Udine) – Il Ghetto e il S. Uffizio di Venezia: una storia di lunga durata (secc. XVI-XVIII)
\n16:30 ZrinkaPodhra\u0161kiC\u030cizmekandNaidaMihalBrandl(Universityof Split\/University of Zagreb) – Mercanti ebrei fra le due sponde dell’Adriatico nel XVIII secolo
\n16:55 Coffee Break
\n17:25 Stefania Silvestri (The John Rylands Library \u2013 University of Manchester) – Jewish Women from Venice: A Portrayal through the Study of their Ketubbot
\n17:50 Alessandro Guetta (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Paris) – Italian Citizens of Jewish Faith: The Italian texts of David de Pomi and Leone Modena
\n18:15 Panel One Closes 18:30 Day One Closes<\/p>\n
\nChair: Donatella Calabi (Universit\u00e0 Iuav di Venezia)
\n9:00 Elisa Bastianello (Independent Scholar) – Il Ghetto: aperture urbane e sociali
\n9:25 Gianmario Guidarelli (Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Padova) – Le sinagoghe del Ghetto di Venezia nel contesto della architettura del Rinascimento veneziano
\n9:50 Alessandra Ferrighi (Universit\u00e0 Iuav di Venezia) – Dopo il Ghetto. La nuova contrada Riunione e le trasformazioni nella prima met\u00e0 dell\u2019Ottocento
\n10:15 Stefano Zaggia (Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Padova) – Dalle contrade ebraiche ai ghetti nelle citt\u00e0 della Repubblica di Venezia (secc. XV-XVI)
\n10:40 Panel Two Closes
\n10:45 Coffee Break<\/p>\n
\nChair: Giuseppe Veltri (Director, Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, Hamburg)
\n11:15 Abraham Melamed (University of Haifa) – When did Judaism Become a Religion? The Case of Simone Luzzatto
\n11:40 Anna Lissa (Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies) – Scepticism and Politics in Simone Luzzatto\u2019s Works
\n12:05 Evelien Chayes (CNRS \u2013 IRHT, Paris) – Christians Studying in the Venetian Ghetto: Talmud and Scepticism 1630-1640
\n12:30 Michela Torbidoni (Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies) –
\nL\u2019esercizio serio-giocoso del rabbino Simone Luzzatto: un dibattito scettico
\nsull\u2019anima
\n12:55 Panel Three Closes
\n13:00 Lunch Break<\/p>\n
\nChair: Shaul Bassi (Universit\u00e0 Ca\u2019 Foscari Venezia)
\n14:45 Rafael D. Arnold (Universit\u00e4t Rostock) – Contrasting Sepulchral Traditions in Venice (Ashkenazic and Sephardic)
\n15:10 Erith Jaffe-Berg (University of California, Riverside) – The Ghetto and Performance Making in Venice and Mantua in the Early Modern Period
\n15:35 Michele Osherow (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) – The Problem of Conversion in Shakespeare\u2019s Merchant of Venice
\n16:00 Elizabeth Rich (Independent Scholar) Mois\u00e8 da Castellazzo,the Consiglio dei Dieci and Copyright Privileges: How a Jewish artist protected his creation of a picture-Bible in 1521
\n16:30 Panel Four Closes\u202816:35 Closing Remarks & Final Discussion 17:00 Drinks Reception\u202818:00 End of Conference<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"