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Second Floor Common Room,
The Heyman Center for the Humanities
The Hispanic Institute at the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, and The Department of Anthropology, The Department of History, The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, The Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, The Institute for Religion Culture and Public Life, and The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University present:
Jewish Studies in Iberia and the Mediterranean
Jonathan Ray (Georgetown): “Centering the Marginal in Medieval Spain:
Reading Jews as Protagonists of their own History”
Paola Tartakoff (Rutgers): “Testing Boundaries: Jewish Conversion and Iberian Exceptionalism”
Sofía Torallas Tovar (CSIC, Madrid): “Jewish representations of the Greek other: 3 Maccabees and Philo’s Contra Flaccum”
David Nirenberg (Chicago): “1391: From Medieval Massacre to Modern Political Theology”
The password for the texts (PDFs): miracle
