“El último sefardí” is a documentary directed by Miguel Ángel Nieto in 2003. The film follows Rabbi Eliezer Papo on his journey through the medieval Sephardic tunnel of time. During this journey, places such as Jerusalem, Istanbul, Thessaloniki, Split, Sarajevo, Curaçao and Toledo are visited and explored. The main objective is the search for a language, Ladino, and a people, the Sephardim, the Jewish people expulsed from Spain with the Edict of Expulsion in 1492. Throughout the documentary, old songs, ancient stories, dramatic experiences and beautiful words that have survived for more than five centuries in the memory of the Sephardim are recovered.
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All lectures take place in the Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Room 399
Friday 19 May
1.00-1.30 Pamela Patton and Therese Martin, Welcome
Beatrice Kitzinger, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
Opening Remarks: “The Treasury, a Material Witness to Long-Distance Contact and Pivot Point for Interdisciplinary Exchange”
1.30-2.00 Therese Martin, Instituto de Historia, CSIC
“Ivory Assemblage as Visual Metaphor: The Beatitudes Casket in Context”
2.00-2.30 Eduardo Manzano, Instituto de Historia, CSIC
“Beyond the Year 900: The ‘Iron Century’ or an Era of Silk?”
2.30-3.00 Discussion
3.00-3.30 Coffee break
3.30-4.00 Ana Cabrera, Victoria and Albert Museum, London/Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid
“Medieval Textiles in León: Material Culture and the Challenges of Conservation”
4.00-4.30 María Judith Feliciano, Independent Scholar and Director, Medieval Textiles in Iberia and the Mediterranean
“Medieval Textiles in León in the Iberian and Mediterranean Context: Towards a Cultural History”
4.30-5.00 Discussion
5.00-5.30 Ana Rodríguez, Instituto de Historia, CSIC
“Narrating the Treasury: What Medieval Iberian Chronicles Choose to Tell Us about Luxury Objects”
5.30-6.00 Julie Harris, Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
“Jews, Real and Imagined, at San Isidoro and Beyond”
6.00-6.30 Discussion
Saturday 20 May
10.30-11.00 Pamela Patton, Index of Christian Art, Princeton University
“Demons and Diversity in León”
11.00-11.30 Maribel Fierro, Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo, CSIC, and Luis Molina, Escuela de Estudios Árabes de Granada, CSIC
“Christian Relics in al-Andalus”
11.30-12.00 Discussion
12.00-2.00 Lunch break (on your own)
2.00-2.30 Jitske Jasperse, Instituto de Historia, CSIC
“Set in Stone: Questioning the Portable Altar of the Infanta Sancha (d. 1159)”
2.30-3.00 Amanda Dotseth, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University and Prado Museum, Madrid
“Medieval Treasure and the Modern Museum: Christian and Islamic Objects from San Isidoro de León”
3.00-3.30 Discussion
3.30-4.00 Coffee break
4.00-4.30 Ittai Weinryb, Bard Graduate Center
“The Idea of North”
4.30-5.00 Eva Hoffman, Department of Art and Art History, Tufts University
“Arabic Script as Text and Image on Treasury Objects across the Medieval Mediterranean”
5.00-5.30 Discussion
5.30-6.00 Jerrilynn Dodds, Sarah Lawrence College
Closing Remarks: “The Treasury, Beyond Interaction”
6:00 Wine and cheese reception for all attendees
Friday, April 7, 2017, 2:30pm to Saturday, April 8, 2017, 5:30pm
Penn Museum, Widener Lecture Room
CONSTRUCTING SACRED SPACE:
A Career Celebration for Robert Ousterhout
No registration necessary. This event is free and open to the public.
Evolution of Settlement and Habitat in the Bukhara Oasis between Antiquity and the Islamic Periods
Rocco Rante, Louvre Museum
Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 5:30 pm
Fisher Bennett Hall, University of Pennsylvania
Rooom 224, 3340 Walnut Street
This presentation focuses on the evolution of settlements in the Bukhara Oasis resulting by the several transformations of the Zerafšan delta and the evolution of urbanism between the late Antiquity and the Islamic period, mostly concentering on habitat space evolution. The recent geo-archaeological researches directed under the aegis of the Louvre Museum brought to light the water changes of the Zerafšan delta since Neolithic to the Antiquity. These transformations generated changes in human behavior in terms of the occupation of territory as well as of the urban space. This development should be now imputed to the resulting landscape changes that generated a demographic increase and thus an exponential increase of settlements.
This lecture co-sponsored by Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, The Middle East Center, Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, and History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania
A public lecture by Professor Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet (Université de Paris, IV):
“Donner ce que l’on n’a pas. Les gestes paradoxaux du Testament de François Villon”
Tuesday, March 21, 5:30pm
543 Williams Hall – Cherpack Lounge
University of Pennsylvania
DVMA Spring 2017 Meeting
Johns Hopkins University
April 22
List of Speakers
Rachel Danford (Loyola University Maryland)
Erica Harman (University of Pennsylvania)—DVMA Paper Prize Winner!
Giancarla Periti (University of Toronto / CASVA)
Erin Rowe (Johns Hopkins University)
Elly Truitt (Bryn Mawr College)
The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) is now accepting applications for the 2017-2018 Visiting Research Fellowship program. Guided by the vision of its founders, Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, SIMS aims to bring manuscript culture, modern technology, and people together to provide access to and understanding of our shared intellectual heritage. Part of the Penn Libraries, SIMS oversees an extensive collection of pre-modern manuscripts from around the world, with a special focus on the history of philosophy and science, and creates open-access digital content to support the study of its collections. SIMS also hosts the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts and the annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age.
The SIMS Visiting Research Fellowships have been established to encourage research relating to the pre-modern manuscript collections at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, including the Schoenberg Collection. Affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, located near other manuscript-rich research collections (the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and the Rosenbach Museum and Library, among many others), and linked to the local and international scholarly communities, SIMS offers fellows a network of resources and opportunities for collaboration. Fellows will be encouraged to interact with SIMS staff, Penn faculty, and other medieval and early modern scholars in the Philadelphia area. Fellows will also be expected to present their research at Penn Libraries either during the term of the fellowship or on a selected date following the completion of the term.
Applications are due May 1, 2017. More information on eligibility and the application process is available here: https://schoenberginstitute.
For more information on SIMS, go to http://schoenberginstitute.
MANUSCRIPT SKILLS: WORKING WITH PRE-1600 EUROPEAN MANUSCRIPTS
A SUMMER COURSE CO-SPONSORED BY SAS GRADUATE DIVISION & THE SCHOENBERG INSTITUTE FOR MANUSCRIPT STUDIES
NICHOLAS HERMAN, AMEY HUTCHINS, WILL NOEL, & DOT PORTER
23rd May – 28th June 2017 (Summer Session 1), T—W—Th 10:00-12:00
Vitale Media Lab, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
This non-credit course will introduce graduate students working in medieval and Renaissance periods to the disciplines of manuscript studies, such as codicology and paleography, and will provide an opportunity for students to analyze manuscripts relevant to their research interests in Penn’s collections.
Students will develop familiarity with digital humanities as applied to manuscript studies and gain confidence in using manuscript catalogs, working in special collections libraries, handling pre-modern manuscripts, and reading manuscript text.
The course instructors are all staff members of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts: Will Noel, Director; Dot Porter, Curator of Digital Research Services; Nicholas Herman, Curator of Manuscripts; and Amey Hutchins, Manuscripts Cataloging Librarian.
The only requirement for course participation is an interest in working with manuscripts in research. While knowledge of Latin is useful, it is not required. We welcome graduate students, undergraduate students, and library staff from Penn and other local institutions. There is no fee for taking this course, but participants are encouraged to purchase the course textbook, Introduction to Manuscript Studies (Clemens & Graham).
The deadline for applying is April 3rd. To confirm your interest in participating in this course, please email Amey Hutchins at ameyh@upenn.edu, describing any past paleographical experience, knowledge of Latin and other languages, and reasons for wishing to take this course.
Registration Link: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/GAS/forms/paleography/paleography_signup.html
AUCTORITAS
The 9th Annual Medievalists@Penn Graduate Conference
Friday, March 17th
8:30 – 5:30pm
Van Pelt Library – Rm 626/627
Keynote Address – Larry Scanlon – “Nature’s Unnatural Authority”
To register please email pennmedieval@gmail.com. A detailed schedule will soon be available at medieval-auctoritas.tumblr.com