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THE JEWS IN ITALY DURING THE LONG RENAISSANCE The University of Maryland (College Park), Johns Hopkins, Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, the Italian Research Program of National Interest-PRIN 2015 The Long History of Anti-Semitism, and the International Research Group in Early Modern Religious Dissents & Radicalism – EMoDiR have organized an exciting series of three conferences during 2018–20 on the history of Jews in Italy during what is called the “long Renaissance.” These meetings seek to explore forms of cooperation, imitation, exchange, alliance, and interaction between Jews and Christians in early modern Italy. The research project seeks to challenge the traditional paradigm that looks at the history of Christian-Jewish interactions only through the prism of anti-Semitism. We seek to demonstrate strategies of coexistence between different religions and cultures, strategies that helped to shape early modern European political and social history and were instrumental in defining what has been defined as modernity. The first conference on “Sabbateanism in Italy and its Mediterranean Context” will be hosted in Rome on January 20-22, 2019. Participants will investigate the Sabbatean excitement and the movement’s activities in Italy. Others will address the aftermath of this messianic movement in later generations on the Peninsula. We hope to broaden the conversation in several ways, first through consideration of other millenarian preaching and excitement among Jews during the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries. Also participants have been encouraged to compare Sabbateanism with millenarian and heretical movements among Christians and Muslims in Italy, in the Mediterranean, and in Europe more widely. The conference will go beyond the enthusiasts themselves to describe the various types of reaction they elicited—whether celebration or suppression, passive disregard or active discipline The second conference on “State Building and Minorities: Jews in Italy” will be held at the University of Maryland, College Park and at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, May 5–7, 2019 and will focus particularly on the social history of Italian Jews and their interaction with the Christian society. We want to investigate the reasons that lead Italian princes and republics to refuse the Spanish policy on Jews (expulsion), in favour of an ‘Italian way’ (concentration in ghettos) of structuring Christian-Jewish relations. Our aim is principally to insert the study of Jewish institutions, norms and behaviours into the broader context of Italian and Mediterranean history. The third conference will be held in Jerusalem in January 2020 and deal with “Translations and Traditions: Mobilities of the Early-Modern Bible.” This meeting will move the focus to the intellectual and material culture of Italian Jews. We seek to cast light on the deep influence exercised by Jews in intellectual and material transformations that are considered typical of Italian Renaissance: philosophy and esotericism, printing and book culture, literature, music, artistic and non-artistic objects, figurative arts, housing and styles of living, religion and spirituality, trajectories of wealth and poverty, artistic patronage and antiquarianism.
The byzantine period was, without a doubt, an era when the practice of violence played a key role in the public affairs, as in any other medieval realm. Violence was initiated either from the lowest or the highest levels of society, the latter orchestrated by the bearers of power themselves. Common ground of these palace coups and court conspiracies was violence, in same cases extreme violence, utilized as an instrument of politics. A typical example is the case of the assassination of the Mouzalones brothers, in 1258, organized by the founder of the Palaeologan dynasty, Michael VIII. Upon Michael’s guidance, foreign mercenaries serving under his orders, murdered the protovestiarios George Mouzalon, regent of the young emperor John IV Laskaris, inside the monastery where the late emperor’s memorial service was held. That led Michael to become regent and co-emperor. A few months later, in a new display of violence, Michael blinded young John and remained sole ruler. The incident of the Mouzalones is a textbook case of a political assassination following a long tradition throughout byzantine history. A young and ambitious aristocrat, supported in secret by some members of the land aristocracy and the clergy, plans the murder of his adversary towards power. Through the study of these events our aim is to examine if, and in what extent, violence was deliberately used as a means of power, at first when Michael was trying to ascend to the throne and throughout the establishment of his dynasty. Other issues examined is the reaction of the Church, since the murder took place at a monastery, the social background of the main characters in this episode, as well as the use of violence as a policy until Michael VIII’s death.
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Decenterings and Regionalisms: An Intercrossed History of the Havana and Dakar Biennials This research intends to investigate the role of two strategic projects in the visual arts field – the biennials of Havana (1984) and Dakar (1990/92) – in view of political, intellectual and cultural exchange between Africa and Latin America during the 1980s and 2000s. These exhibition platforms are discussed with regard to their programs, agents and discourses, and reviewed in light of the recent contributions from the history of exhibitions to the discipline of Art History, from a non-European perspective. In order to map and confront their historical and social insertion modalities, I make use of the notion of Histoire Croisée, put forth by Michael Werner and Bénédicte Zimmermann, as a methodological tool in the field of relational theories. This premise enables a broader contextualization of the exhibition platforms at hand, putting in perspective the emancipatory projects carried out by the non-aligned countries during the Cold War, the emergence of the notions of pan-Africanism and blackness in the Senegalese context, and Cuba’s anti-imperialistic ideology and cultural policies outlined between the 1950s and the 80s. In addition, it is worth noting that this research is underpinned by a set of perspectives that converse with the fields of anthropology of art, sociology of culture and political geography.
This paper discusses how the poet and novelist Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693) created an individual artistic persona in his semi-autobiographical work Saikaku nagori no tomo, by fashioning himself as ‘the Western Crane’, an accessory of a tsukurimono (decorative ‘set-up’) of Mount Penglai, which can be identified as the castle of the daimyo of the Akashi Domain, Matsudaira Nobuyuki. This reveals intriguing connections between artistic persona, imaginary places and regional politics.
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Introduces non‐history majors to the methods of the discipline by undertaking a series of case studies in historical inquiry. Each case study will consist of a close examination of a single historical question, covering the general background to that question and exploring relevant primary and secondary sources. Students will then use this evidence to propose well‐reasoned solutions to the question at hand.
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Z. B. Simon and L. Deile (eds.), Historical Understanding: Past, Present, and Future. London, Bloomsbury, 2022. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/historical-understanding-9781350168794/ The first decades of the new century shake old certainties. In a whirlwind of profound changes, do we have more history or less? Does history overwhelm us in all domains of life or is historical understanding in yet another crisis? The answers do not come easily. The recent demise of humanities education, the technological alterations of our social lifeworlds and the human condition, the anthropogenic changes in the Earth system, the growing sense of memory, trauma and historical injustice as alternative approaches to the past, seem to entail contradictions and complexities that do not fit very well with our existing notions of historical understanding. Historical thought as we know it is facing manifold challenges, and we struggle to grasp a larger picture that could encompass them. Boasting a range of contributions from leading scholars, this volume attempts just that. In an innovative collection of short essays, Historical Understanding explores the current shape of historical understanding today, by surveying a variety of historical relations to the past, present, and future in the face of socio-political, ecological and technological upheavals. This book is an invaluable research tool for students and researchers alike, presenting a kaleidoscope-like overview of manifold new ways which we navigate “historically” in coping with present-day challenges, both in wider society and in historiography
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