Please register until June 18th: anmeldungen@geschkult.fu-berlin.de Please send a seperate e-mail to register for the dinner until June 9th: anmeldungen@geschkult.fu-berlin.de (Kosher food is available upon prior request in your registration e-mail)

Program

Part 1

Introduction and Moderation: Prof. Dr. Reimund Leicht, Freie Universität Berlin

• 14:05 - 14:25 Who was the delfinus gibosus? - Prof. Dr. Saverio Campanini, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
• 14:30 - 14:50 The Bite of the Wild Donkey: Scepticism inJewish Tradition - Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Veltri, Universität Hamburg
• 14:55 - 15:15 Succession: Jewish Merchant Wills in Eighteenth-Century Livorno - Prof. Dr. Francesca Bregoli, Queens College of the City University of New York
• 15:20 - 15:40 How to Not Get Eaten by the Lion: Predation and Preponderance in a 13th-Century Jewish Philosopher - Prof. Dr. Lukas Mühlethaler, Freie Universität Berlin
• 15:45 - 16:05 The Quest for a Kosher Shape: A Palaeographic and Conceptual History of the Letter Yod - PD. Pr. Annett Martini, Freie Universität Berlin

Coffee Break (16:05 - 16:30)

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Lukas Mühlethaler, Freie Universität Berlin

• 16:30 - 16:50 Die Renaissance spricht Hebräisch- was hat sie uns heute zu sagen? Positive Narrative gegen antisemitische Stereotype - Prof. Dr. Dagmar Korbacher, Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
• 16:55 - 17:15 Gershom Scholems ltalienische Reise - Prof. Dr. Gerold Necker, Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg
• 17:20 - 17:40 Paper Things: Secrets, Ephemerality, and the Everyday in Early Modern Ashkenaz -  Dr. Agata Paluch, Freie Universität Berlin

Part 2

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Silvana Greco, Freie Universität Berlin

• 18:00 - 18:10 Welcoming address by Prof. Dr. Verena Blechinger-Talcott, First Vice President of Freie Universität Berlin
• 18:10 - 18:20 Welcoming address by S.E. Fabrizio Bucci, Italian Ambassador in Germany
  
• 18:20 - 18:30 Welcoming address by Dr. Felix Klein, Federal Government Comissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight against Antisemistism
  
• 18:30 - 18:40 Welcoming address by Prof. Dr. Shabo Talay, Head of the Department for History and Cultural Studies at Freie Universität Berlin
• 18:40 - 18:55 Neue Sichtbarkeiten - Giulio Busis Beitrage zur Stellung des Judentums in der Kultur der Renaissance. Laudatio by Prof. Dr. Reimund Leicht, Head of the Institute for Jewish Studies at Freie Universität Berlin
• 18:55 - 19:10 Das Urgestein und die Giganten. Giulio Busi, die italienische Literatur und das ltalienzentrum. Laudatio by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Huss, Director of the Italy Center at Freie Universität Berlin
• 19:10 - 19:50 Kafkas jüdische Gespenster. Keynote Lecture by Prof. Dr. Andreas B. Kilcher, ETH Zürich- Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zürich
• 19:50 - 20:20 Concert "Hommage: Musik von Bach, Paganini Castelnuovo-Tedesco" von Luigi Attademo, Conservatorio Statale "Maderna-Lettimi" Cesena
• 20:20 - 20:30 Farewell message by Prof. Or. Silvana Greco, Freie Universität Berlin, and by Prof. Dr. Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, University of Oxford/ EPHE· École Pratique des Hautes Études, PSL, Paris

Dinner buffet starting at 20:30