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

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 18, 2024** 

 12:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Barker Center, Room 110 (Thompson Room), 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138**  



 

 



 

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



 

 



 

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