International Congress “Sephardic Identity and Memory: History and Present day” | 15 . 17 June | Bragança | 2017

Land(s) of Sefarad – Encounters of Jewish-Sephardi Cultures | 15 to 18.06.2017 | Bragança I Portugal

International Congress “Sephardic Identity and Memory: History and Present day” | 15 . 17 June | Bragança | 2017

Thursday, 15th June

Auditório do Teatro de Bragança
2.30pm | Opening Session
Paulo Mendes Pinto (Coordinator of the Executive Committee of the Congress); Maria de Fátima Reis (President of the Scientific Committee of the Congress / President of Cathedra of Sephardic Studies «Alberto Benveniste» of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon); António Pinto Dias Rocha (President of the Board of the Portuguese Jewish Network – Routes of Sefarad); Hernâni Dias (Mayor of Bragança)

3pm
Claude Stuczynski (Bar Ilan University): “Bragança, Metrópole do Criptojudaísmo’: Os Cristãos-Novos e a Inquisição”

3.45pm
Jorge Martins: Marranismo e identidade
Abraham Gross (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Inês Nogueiro (Inst. P. de Bragança): Contaminações da Genética na História ou Caminhos para uma abordagem plural da Memória

5.30pm
Myriam Silvera (University of Rome Tor Vergata): The Messianic Idea of a Jewish Thinker born in Braganza: Isaac Oróbio de Castro (born in Bragança, died in Amsterdam, 1687), his messianic ideas
Andrew L. Gluck: Iberian medieval philosophical elements in the thinking of Leone Ebreo (Judah Abrabanel) from the three Abrahamic faiths and how they were blended into his contemporary Italian Renaissance thought
Arthur Kiron (University of Pennsylvania Libraries): Remembering Sepharad in an Atlantic Context

Friday, 16th June

9am | Auditório do Teatro de Bragança
Javier Castaño (Spanish National Research Counsil – CSIC): “O tempo dos judeus.” Iberian Perspectives on Transmontane Jewry: The Castilian-Leonese Background
Elvira Mea (University of Porto; Member of the World Union of Jewish Studies): Do antissemitismo ao compellere intrare
Abraham Haim (President of the Council of the Sephardic community in Jerusalem): Nos 750 anos da Comunidade Sefardita de Jerusalém: um panorama Histórico e Cultural

11am
Saúl António Gomes (University of Coimbra): Presença judaica e cristã-nova na antiga Estremadura portuguesa
Maria Antonieta Garcia (University of Beira Interior): Judeus de Belmonte no labirinto da (s) identidade (s)
Harm Den Boer (University of Basel): The Portuguese Rabbi Samuel Mendes de Sola

2.30pm | Auditório Paulo Quintela | Auditório Centro
Cultural Adriano Moreira
Thematic Symposia

5pm | Auditório do Teatro de Bragança
Pieter Vlaardingerbroek (University of Utrech): The Portuguese Synagogue Sephardic Architecture in Amsterdam
Heide Warncke (Curator of the Ets Haim Library, Amesterdam)
Yosef Kaplan (Professor of the Hebrew University and member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities) “Proselytes and Conversion in the Early Modern Portuguese Community of Amsterdam”

Saturday, 17th June

9am | Auditório do Teatro de Bragança
Sandra Neves da Silva (University Nova de Lisboa) Susana Bastos Mateus (Cathedra of Sephardic Studies «Alberto Benveniste»)
Carla Vieira (Cathedra of Sephardic Studies «Alberto Benveniste»)
Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço (Cathedra of Sephardic Studies»Alberto Benveniste»)

11.30am
António Andrade (University of Aveiro): De Antuérpia a Ferrara: as memórias do caminho trilhado pelos cristãos-novos portugueses
Marina Pignatelli (University of Lisbon): Os Luso-Anussim: etnografia dos descendentes de judeus e cristãos-novos em Portugal

Closing

* This Program is provisional and it is subject to alterations.
** Simultaneous translation at the conferences | PT | EN | SP

Scientific Coordination: Cathedra of Sephardic Studies «Alberto Benveniste» of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon Scientific Committee: Maria de Fátima Reis (President), A. A. Marques de Almeida, Elvira Mea, José Augusto Ramos, Paulo Mendes Pinto, Susana Milão, Adriano Vasco Rodrigues Executive Committee: Paulo Mendes Pinto (Coordinator), Carla Vieira, Inês Nogueiro, Maria Fernanda Guimarães, Miguel Lourenço, Susana Bastos Mateus, Susana Milão Executive Secretariat: Rui Lomelino de Freitas (sefardi.international.congress@gmail.com)

Call for papers:
It is occurring, until the 31 March, the call for papers opened to all the researchers who wish to participate and present communications at “Sephardic Identity and Memory: History and Present day”. The proposals for the communications, that will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee, should be sent to the following e-mail address: sefardi.international.congress@gmail.com

Registrations:
Participation in this congress is free but registration is required
The application should be sent to the e-mail address: sefardi.international.congress@gmail.com (alternative address: terrasdesefarad.producao@gmail.com) indicating: Name, Institution to which the proponent is affiliated (if it applies), E-mail address of contact

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