Sunday, October 7th, 2018
9:45 am: Coffee/bagels
10:15 am: Welcome
10:30 am: Keynote Address by Marina Rustow, Princeton University
12:00 pm: Lunch
1:00-3:00 pm: Appropriation in Late Antiquity
Chair: Richard Teverson, Fordham University, Art History
- Sarit Kattan Gribetz, Fordham University
The Sabbath, the Lord’s Day, and Questions of Temporal Appropriation in Late Antiquity - Karina Martin Hogan, Fordham University
Christian Appropriation of Zion in 5 Ezra - Peter Sh. Lehnardt, Ben-Gurion University
A Lament on the Destruction of Jerusalem: Appropriation of Josephus, Hegesippus and Yossipon - Emanuel Fiano, Fordham University
The Appropriation of Theological Labels in the Fourth-Century Trinitarian Controversies
3:00-3:30 pm: Coffee break
3:30-5:00: Appropriation of Law and Traditions in an Islamic Context
Chair: Elisha Russ-Fishbane, NYU
- Daniella Talmon-Heller, Ben-Gurion University
The Vicissitudes of the ʿUthmani Qur’an: From Master Copy to Sacred Relic[s] to
a Museum Artifact - Nimrod Hurvitz, Ben-Gurion University
Making and Shaping Islamic Legal Sources - Wolfgang Mueller, Fordham University
Approaches to Comparative Legal History
6 pm: Dinner
Monday, October 8th, 2018
8:30-9:00 am: Breakfast
9:00-10:30 am: Appropriation in Medieval Aristocratic Culture
Chair: Christopher Rose, Fordham University
- Nicholas Paul, Fordham University
Always the Same Game? The Hunt and Social Status Between Latin and Muslim Aristocracies in the Crusader Levant - Uri Shachar, Ben-Gurion University
Dukus Horant: Bridal Quest on a Jewish Crusade - Susanne Hafner, Fordham University
“Mîn herze und mîn lîp diu wellent scheiden:” Friedrich von Hausen Goes on Crusade
10:30-11:00 am: Coffee break
11:00 am-12:30 pm: Appropriation in the Medieval and Early Modern World
Chair: Paola Tartakoff, Rutgers University
- Ephraim Shoham-Steiner, Ben-Gurion University
Appropriating the Figure of Rabbi Judah “the Pious” in 15th-century Folktales from Regensburg - Magda Teter, Fordham University
Appropriating Texts and Facts - Ebru Turan, Fordham University
The Myth of the Last World Emperor and the Making of Ottoman Universal Ideology in the Late Medieval Mediterranean
12:30-1:30 pm: Lunch
1:30-3:00 pm: Memory, Forgetting, and the Study of the Past
Chair: David Hamlin, Fordham University, History
- Haim Weiss, Ben-Gurion University
Shimon bar-Kosibah’s Letters in Modern Israeli Discourse - Dror Zeevi, Ben-Gurion University
Digitization as a Form of Silencing: The Armenian Genocide - Daniel J. Lasker, Ben-Gurion University
The Forgotten Documents in Leningrad/St. Petersburg and the Study of the Karaite Past
3:00-3.30 pm: Coffee break
3:30-4:30 pm: Round Table and Wrap-Up