SEPHARAD AS IMAGINED COMMUNITY LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND RELIGION FROM THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD TO THE 21st CENTURY

Organized by Mahir Şaul (Anthropology, UIUC) and José I. Hualde (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese & Linguistics, UIUC)

SEPTEMBER 2-3, 2014

Illini Union, Room 210

This conference will examine the formation and development of Judeo-Spanish in the Eastern Mediterranean lands of the Ottoman Empire and the varied cultural and identity-related roles that several oral and written manifestations of this language played for centuries and continue to play in the present for its speakers. The conference is focused in its topic, Judeo-Spanish, but broad in the spectrum of disciplinary perspectives on the themes that we would like to bring together, including perspectives from diverse fields such as Linguistics, History, Anthropology, Sociology, Literary and Cultural Studies and Religious Studies.

For more information, including the full program, click herehttp://www.sip.illinois.edu/sepharad/index.html

This conference is co-sponsored by

• Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
• Center for Advanced Study
• The Program in Jewish Culture and Society
• College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
• School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics
• Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
• Department of Anthropology
• Department of Linguistics
• Department of Religious Studies
• UIUC Library
• European Union Center
• Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
• Russian, East European and Eurasian Center