Thursday November 2
2:30pm Welcome by Francesca Trivellato (Yale University)
2:45-5pm LANGUAGES IN EXILE
Laura Minervini (University of Naples) The Making of a Nation: Sephardic Exiles and the Emergence of Judeo-Spanish
David M. Bunis (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The Acquisition of Turkish by the First Generations of Judezmo Speakers in the Ottoman Empire
Chair and Discussant: Jonathan Ray (Georgetown University)
Reception
Dinner for invited guests
Friday November 3
9:30-11:45 TRANSLATION AND MULTILINGUALISM
Claire Gilbert (Saint Louis University) Transmission and Translation: Narratives of Arabic Study in Early Modern Spain
Eric Dursteler (Brigham Young University) “Women Learned in the Tongues”: Gender and Communication in the Multilingual Mediterranean
Chair and Discussant: Ryan Szpiech (University of Michigan)
Lunch break
1:00-3:15pm LANGUAGE AND EMPIRE
Valeria López Fadul (Wesleyan University) Names and the Secrets of Nature: The Case of Francisco Hernández and the History of the Plants of New Spain
Tijana Krstić (Central European University) An Ottoman Prince Who Wanted to be the Emperor of Illyria? Yahya Sultan and an Early Modern South Slavic Linguistic and Imperial Project
Chair and Discussant: Guillaume Calafat (Paris I-Sorbonne)
Wrap-up discussion
Venue Location
Comparative Literature Library
Bingham Hall, 8th Floor
300 College St., New Haven
With Thanks to the Following Sponsors
European Studies Council at the MacMillan Center; Council on Middle East Studies; USDE Title VI National Resource Centers grant; The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; Judaic Studies Program; and the Economic History Program