Program

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