Sephardic Program in the Associaion of Jewish Studies – AJS – Boston

For those who are attending this year’s AJS conference in Boston, here is a list of panels and papers that may be of interest to all.  Remember that the Sephardi/Mizrahi Caucus Lunch will be held on Monday, December 16, 12:45 to 2:15 pm @ Independence West. Those who do not have tickets can, of course, still join us; bring your own lunch, if you’d like.  See you all soon!!

Adriana Brodsky

SEPHARDIC PROGRAM

Sunday, Dec 15 2013, 4:15 to 6:15pm
Building/Room: Sheraton Boston, Berkeley A/B

Sephardim and Other Identities across National Borders
Chair: Farideh Dayanim Goldin (Old Dominion University)

A Conversion to Citizenship? Migration and Belief among the Children of Menashe.
*Yulia Egorova (Durham University)
Sephardim-Mizrahim: Transnational Perspectives, 1925-1930
*Yehuda Sharim (Rice University)
“A Love Story from the Old World that Ended in Tragedy in the New”: Migration, Marriage, and Domestic Violence in the 20th Century Sephardic World
*Devi Mays (The Jewish Theological Seminary)
Africa: Challenging Central Contemporary Jewish Paradigms
*Marla Brettschneider (University of New Hampshire)

Monday, Dec 16 2013, 11:00 to 12:45 pm.
Building/Room: Sheraton Boston, Gardner B

Jewish Life in the Late Ottoman Port City: Urban Transformations and Associational Life in Istanbul, Izmir, and Salonica
Chair and Respondent: Michelle Campos (University of Florida)

Société Juive de Gymnastique, “Maccabi”: An Ottoman Jewish Civic Association
*Murat Cihan Yildiz (University of California, Los Angeles)
Jewish Associational Life in Late Nineteenth-Century Izmir, the “Little Paris of the Orient”
*Dina Danon (Stanford University)
Redefining the Social, Reconfiguring the Political: Jewish Associations in Salonica during the Second Constitutional Period, 1908–1912
*Paris Papamichos Chronakis (Brown University)

Tue Dec 17 2013, 9:00 to 11:00am
Building/Room: Sheraton Boston, Dalton A/B

From Brooklyn to Tehran: Transnational Conversations and Judeo-Islamic Cultural Productions
Chair: Ari Ariel (Bryn Mawr College)

Muslim-Jewish Musical Culture in Brooklyn: Expressions of a Paradoxical Identity
*Samuel R. Thomas (CUNY Graduate Center)
Transnational Cyber-Music Encounters: The Case of Rita, the Iranian-born Israeli Pop Music Diva
*Galeet Dardashti (New York University)
The Poetics of Insults: Verbal Sparring between Jews & Muslims in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains
*Sarah Frances Levin (University of California, Berkeley)
Cosmopolitanism or Sephardi Ascendancy? The Politics of Ethnic Identity in Stories about ‘Old Jerusalem’
*Dana Hercbergs (University of Maryland)