Conference: "Sign of the Times: Marking Jewish Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World"

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Committee on Medieval Studies, and the Department of the History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University

Opening Remarks: Prof. David Stern of Harvard University

Speakers:

Ann Marie Rasmussen of Duke University: "Wearing or Bearing a Badge: Contextualizing Discriminatory Badges in the Medieval World of Visual Affiliative Signs"

Sonja Dimmer of UMass Amherst: "Marking Jewish Obsolescence: The Badge and the History of the Book"

Thomas Rainer of the University of Basel: "The Vanished Torah Scroll and the Jewish Coats of Arms: Flags to Represent Jewish Communities between Zurich and Constance in the 14th and 15th Centuries"

Flora Cassen of Washington University in St. Lewis: "Enforcing Identity: Jewish Badges and Hats, and the Policing of Appearance in Early Modern Italy"

Ann Jones of Smith College & Peter Stallybrass of the University of Pennsylvania: "A Renaissance Costume Book: Expelling the Jews?"

 

Respondents:

Stephen Greenblatt of Harvard University

Jeffrey Hamburger of Harvard University