#  “Sign of the Times: Marking Jewish Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World” | a Symposium 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 18, 2024** 

 12:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge**  



 

 



 

 **This event is co-sponsored by the Jeanette and Ludwig Goldschmidt Bequest for the Benefit of the Center for Jewish Studies, the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Jewish Cultures and Societies Seminar Series and History of the Book Series at the Mahindra Humanities Center, and the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard.**

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###  Program:

 12:00 | David Stern, Harvard University: Opening Remarks  
12:10 | Ann Marie Rasmussen, Duke University  
“Wearing or Bearing a Badge: Contextualizing Discriminatory Badges  
in the Medieval World of Visual Affiliative Signs”  
12:40 | Sonja Drimmer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst  
“Marking Jewish Obsolescence: The Badge and the History of the Book”  
1:10 | Q & A  
1:30 | LUNCH BREAK  
2:00 | Thomas Rainer, University of Basel  
“The Vanished Torah Scroll and the Jewish Coats of Arms. Flags to Represent  
Jewish Communities between Zurich and Constance in the 14th and 15th Centuries”  
2:30 | Flora Cassen, Washington University in St. Louis  
“The Jewish badge in Renaissance Italy: A Mark of Shame and Jewish Resistance Against it”  
3:00 | Ann Jones, Smith College & Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania  
“A Renaissance Costume Book: Expelling the Jews?”  
3:30 | Q & A  
4:00 | COFFEE BREAK  
4:30 | Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University  
Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University  
Respondents  
5:15 | Q & A / Discussion



 

 



 

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