Bio: Giuseppe Cecere is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Bologna. He holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies (History and Philology) from the University of Florence (2007). He was Fellow Researcher in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the IFAO (Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale) in Cairo from 2010 to 2014. His researches focus on Sufi “presence” in the multicultural and multi-religious context of the Egyptian society, mainly in the Mamluk era and in contemporary times
Bio:Deborah Starr is Professor of Modern Arabic and Hebrew Literature and Film in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, and Director of the Jewish Studies Program. She received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan. She writes and teaches about identity and intercommunal exchange in the modern Middle East, with a focus on the Jews of Egypt. She is the author of Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema (University of California Press, 2020) and Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt: Literature, Culture, and Empire (Routledge, 2009). She is also the co-editor, with Sasson Somekh, of Mongrels or Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (Stanford University Press, 2011). Her research and teaching interests include cosmopolitanism, postcolonial studies, minorities of the Middle East, film, and urban studies. (link)
Course Information:
38961: Egyptian Cinema
This course will trace the development of the Egyptian film industry from the 1930s, through the "Golden Age" during the Nasser era, to the rise of gritty urban films int he 1970s. We will also discuss the decline in film production, and the challenges the film industry faces today.
Public Lecture: Crimes of Mistaken Identity in Togo Mizrahi's Alexandria
Selected publications
Books
Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema. (University of California Press, 2020). Open Access: www.ucpress.edu/9780520366206
Mongrels or Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff. Co-edited with Sasson Somekh. (Stanford University Press, 2011).
Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt: Literature, Culture and Empire. (Routledge, 2009).
Published Articles
“Reading, Writing, and Remembering: Ronit Matalon and the Literature of Egyptian Jewish Memory” (In Hebrew) Mikan: A Journal of Israeli and Jewish Literature and Culture. 18 (September 2018), 141-154.
“Chalom and cAbdu Get Married: Jewishness and Egyptianness in the Films of Togo Mizrahi.” The Jewish Quarterly Review. 107, no.2 (2017): 209-230. doi: 10.1353/jqr.2017.0007.
“Masquerade and the Performance of National Imaginaries: Levantine Ethics, Aesthetics, and Identities in Egyptian Cinema,” Journal of Levantine Studies 1, no.2 (2011): 31-57.
“Sensing the City: Representations of Cairo’s Harat al-Yahud,” Prooftexts, 26, no. 1-2 (2006): 138-162. doi: 10.1353/ptx.2007.0010
“Drinking, Gambling, and Making Merry: Waguih Ghali’s Search for Cosmopolitan Agency,” Middle Eastern Literatures 9, no. 3 (2006): 271-285. doi: 10.1080/14752620600999896
Revised and updated version printed in The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English, edited by Nouri Gana (University of Edinburgh Press, 2013).
“Recuperating Cosmopolitan Alexandria: Circulation of Narratives and Narratives of Circulation,” Cities. 22, no.3 (2005): 217-228. doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2005.03.009
“Reterritorializing the Dream: Orly Castel-Bloom’s Remapping of Israeli Identity,” in Mapping Jewish Identities, edited by Laurence J. Silberstein (NYU Press, 2000).
“Egyptian Representation of Israeli Culture: Normalizing Propaganda or Propagandizing Normalization?” in Review Essays in Israel Studies, Books on Israel 5, edited by Laura Eisenberg and Neil Caplan. (SUNY Press, 2000).
“Writing about Writing about Alexandria,” Politics/Letters. 13 (September 2018).
Interview with Diana Athill, The Diaries of Waguih Ghali: An Egyptian Manic Depressive in the Swinging Sixties, edited by May Hawas. Vol. 1 (American University in Cairo Press, 2017).
Interview with Samir Basta, The Diaries of Waguih Ghali: An Egyptian Manic Depressive in the Swinging Sixties, edited by May Hawas. Vol. 2 (American University in Cairo Press, 2017).
Bio: Phil Bohlman’s teaching and research draw upon diverse methods and perspectives in music scholarship to forge an ethnomusicology built upon foundations in ethnography, history, and performance. He is particularly interested in exploring the interstices between music and religion, music, race, and colonial encounter, and music and nationalism. The study of Jewish music in modernity has provided a primary focus for his research for four decades, and since 1998 has provided the context for his activities as a performer, both as the Artistic Director of the New Budapest Orpheum Society (a Jewish cabaret and ensemble-in-residence at the Humanities Division), and in stage performances with Christine Wilkie Bohlman (the College) of works for piano and dramatic speaker created during the Holocaust. With the New Budapest Orpheum Society, Phil has released four CDs, most recently As Dreams Fall Apart: The Golden Age of Jewish Stage and Film Music, 1925–1955 (Cedille Records 2014). His work in historical performance has been recognized with the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society and the Donald Tovey Prize from Oxford University. Since 2008, Phil has been conducting research India, especially in Kolkata, Varanasi, and rural West Bengal. His research on the Eurovision Song Contest is ongoing.
Course Information: THE CABARETESQUE IN JEWISH MUSIC
Word and song together join in this evening devoted to the cabaretesque in Jewish music. The cabaretesque, a term created for the evening, is a performative moment in which cultural, religious, and aesthetic differences of modern Judaism converge upon a stage, both metaphorical and physical, mediated by music to reframe the narratives of the everyday and of history
Publications
Heiner Müller and Heiner Goebbels’s Wolokolamsker Chaussee. Bloomsbury, 2021.
World Music: A Very Short Introduction. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2020.
Wie sängen wir Seinen Gesang auf dem Boden der Fremde! Jüdische Musik des Aschkenas zwischen Tradition und Moderne. LIT Verlag, 2019.
Sounding Cities: Auditory Transformations in Berlin, Chicago, and Kolkata (coedited with Sebastian Klotz and Lars-Christian Koch). LIT Verlag, 2018.
Song Loves the Masses: Herder on Music and Nationalism (with J. G. Herder). University of California Press, 2017.
Jazz Worlds / World Jazz (coedited with Goffredo Plastino). University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual (coedited with Jeffers Engelhardt). Oxford University Press, 2016.
This Thing Called Music: Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl (coedited with Victoria Lindsay Levine). Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
As Dreams Fall Apart: The Golden Age of Jewish Stage and Film Music, 1925–1955 (double-CD with the New Budapest Orpheum Society). Cedille Records, 2014.
The Cambridge History of World Music (ed. by Philip V. Bohlman). Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Revival and Reconciliation: Sacred Music in the Making of European Modernity. Scarecrow Press, 2013.
Hanns Eisler – In der Musik ist es anders (with Andrea F. Bohlman). Hentrich & Hentrich, 2012.
Balkan Epic: Song, History, Modernity (coedited with Nada Petković). Scarecrow, 2012.
Gramlich-Oka, Bettina. 2017. “‘Knowing the [Confucian] Way’ and the Political Sphere.” In Religion, Culture and the Public Sphere in China and Japan (Religion and Society in Asia Pacific), ed. Albert Welter, Jeffrey Newmark, pp. 87–114. Palgrave MacMillan.
グラムリヒ＝オカ・ベティーナ。2016年。「「道を知る」こと—学問の転換期と頼春水」小室正紀（編）『幕藩制転換期の経済思想』慶應義塾大学出版会, pp. 1–29.
グラムリヒ＝オカ・ベティーナ。2016年。「日本経済思想の文献のヨーロッパ言語への翻訳について — 十九世紀を中心に」川口浩（編）『時間と空間の中で経済思想史』、ぺりかん社, pp. 185–213.
グラムリヒ＝オカ・ベティーナ。2015年。「欧米における日本経済思想史研究」川口浩、石井寿美世、ベティーナ・グラムリヒ＝オカ、劉群芸 (著者) 『日本経済思想史—江戸から昭和』勁草書房, pp. 271–291.
グラムリヒ＝オカ・ベティーナ。2013年。「仙台藩医工藤平助と幕府の政策」『日米欧からみた近世日本の経済思想』川口浩、グラムリヒ＝オカ・ベティーナ (共編者), 岩田書院, pp. 163–228.
Gramlich-Oka, Bettina. 2013. “Tales from the North.” In An Edo Anthology Literature from Japan’s Mega-City, 1750–1850, ed. Sumie Jones and Watanabe Kenji, pp. 377–88. University of Hawai‘i Press.
Gramlich-Oka, Bettina. 2012. “Nagasaki: A Thorn in the Eye of the Shogunate?” In Nanny Kim, Anke Scherer and Keiko Nagase-Reimer (eds.), Leiden: Brill (Monies, Markets and Finance in China and East Asia, vol. 2).
Gramlich-Oka, Bettina. 2010. “A Domain Doctor and Shogunal Policies.” In Bettina Gramlich-Oka and Gregory Smits (eds.). Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan. ed. Bettina Gramlich-Oka and Gregory Smits, pp. 111–56. Leiden: Brill.
Gramlich-Oka, Bettina. 2010. “A Father’s Piece of Advice: Confucian Cultivation for Women in the Late Eighteenth-Century.” In The female as subject: reading and writing in early modern Japan. P. F. Kornicki, Mara Patessio and G. G. Rowley (eds.). Michigan University Press, 123–40.
Journal Articles
ベティーナ・グラムリヒ＝オカ。「只野真葛のキリシタン考」 、国際日本学研究所研究成果報告集『国際日本学』13号、法政大学, pp. 183–208.
Gramlich-Oka, Bettina. 2011.“Neo-Confucianism Reconsidered: Family Rituals in the Rai Household.” U.S.-Japan-Women’s Journal, 39: 7-37.
Co-author Anthony Grafton, "I have always loved the Holy Tongue". Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship, Cambridge Mass., January, 2011.
“A Rabbinic disquisition of Leviticus 26:3-16: A Utopian Vision between Jews and Christians” in Scriptural Exegesis. The Shapes of Culture and the Religious Imagination: Essays in honour of Michael Fishbane, Oxford University Press, 2008, 121-34.
“Abraham and the Nations in a late Midrash” in Brill Series in Ancient Judaism and early Christianity, 2010
“Azariah de' Rossi and Pythagoras, or what has Classical Antiquity to do with Halakhah?” in Tov Elem. Memory, Community and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Societies. Essays in honor of Robert Bonfil, Jerusalem, 2011, 178-87.
“La quête de Philon dans l’historiographie juive du XVIE siècle” in B. Decharneux and S. Inowlocki (eds) Philon d’Alexandrie. Un penseur à l’intersection des cultures gréco-romaine, orientale, juive et chrétienne. Turnhout (2011), 403-32.
This collection of articles deals with the notion of Eros from a broad range of historical, literary and cultural perspectives. One of the primary aims of the collection is to comprehend both the power and the problematic aspects of Eros and its contribution to the formation of family and community.
Considering the concept of Eros textually and theoretically, the variety of topics raised reflects the different disciplines of the authors as well as their interdisciplinary approach. Special emphasis was given to the historical aspect of Eros, its temporal location and contextualization.
Fine, Ruth, Kaplan, Yosef, Peled, Shimrit and Rinon, Yoav, eds. Eros, Family and Community. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2018
Pain studies, both in exact sciences and in the humanities, are a fast-shifting field. This volume condenses a spectrum of recent views of pain through the lens of humanistic studies. Methodologically, the volume is an interdisciplinary study of the questions pertaining to the accessibility of pain (physical or emotional) to understanding and of the possible influence of suffering on the enhancement of knowledge in private experience or public sphere. Undeterred by the widespread belief that pain cannot be expressed in language and that it is intransmissible to others, the authors of the essays in the collection show that the replicability of records and narratives of human experience provides a basis for the kind of empathetic attention, dialogue, and contact that can help us to register the pain of another and understand its conditions and contexts. Needless to say, the improvement of this understanding may also help map the ways for the ethics of response to (and help for) pain. Whereas the authors of the volume tend to share the view of pain as a totally negative phenomenon (the position taken in Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain), they hold this view applicable mainly to the attitudes to the pain of others and the imperative of minimise the causes of another’s suffering. They also consider this view to be culturally and temporally circumscribed. The volume suggests that one’s own personal experience of suffering, along with the awareness of the seriality of such experience among fellow sufferers, can be conducive to emotional and intellectual growth. The reading of literature dealing with pain can lead to similar results through vicariously experienced suffering, whose emotional corollaries and intellectual consequences may be conveyed through artistic rather than discursive means. The distinctive features of the volume are that it processes these issues in a historicising way, deploying the history of the ideas of pain from the Middle Ages to the present day, and that it makes use of the methodology of different disciplines to do so, arriving to similar conclusions through, as it were, different paths. The disciplines include analytic philosophy, historiography, history of science, oral history, literary studies, and political science.
Cohen, Esther, Consonni, Manuela, Dror, Otniel E. and Toker, Leona, eds. Knowledge and Pain. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2012.
Language Contact and the Development of Modern Hebrew is a first rigorous attempt by scholars of Hebrew to evaluate the syntactic impact of the various languages with which Modern Hebrew was in contact during its formative years. Twenty-four different innovative syntactic constructions of Modern Hebrew are analysed, and shown to originate in previous stages of Hebrew, which, since the third century CE, solely functioned as a scholarly and liturgical language. The syntactic changes in the constructions are traced to the native languages of the first Modern Hebrew learners, and later to further reanalysis by the first generation of native speakers. The contents of this volume was also published as a special double issue of Journal of Jewish Languages, 3: 1-2 (2015).
Bio: Arnold I. Davidson is currently Distinguished Professor of Humanities at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He teaches in several departments, principally in the Department of Jewish Thought and the Department of Romance Studies.
He is also the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, the Divinity School, and the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge. He has served as European Editor of Critical Inquiry, and he has also been a director of the France-Chicago Center. His major fields of research and teaching are the philosophy of Judaism, the history of contemporary European philosophy, the history of moral and political philosophy, the history of the human sciences, the history and philosophy of religion, and literature as a form of philosophical expression.
Selected Publications:
Gli esercizi spirituali della musica. Improvvisazione e creazione. Mimesis Edizioni, 2020.
Series editor of the English translation of the courses of Michel Foucault at the Collège de France. Palgrave Macmillan, UK/USA. (This series will result in thirteen volumes.)
Co-author of Reflexões sobre o nacional-socialismo. Editora Âyiné, 2017.
Editor of Pierre Hadot, Studi di filosofia antica. Edizioni ETS, 2014.
Religión, razón y espiritualidad. Ediciones Alpha Decay, Barcelona, 2014.
Editor of Primo Levi, Vivir para contar. Escribir tras Auschwitz. Ediciones Alpha Decay, Barcelona, 2010.
Editor of La vacanza morale del fascismo. Intorno a Primo Levi. Edizioni ETS, 2009.
Co-editor of Michel Foucault. Philosophie. Gallimard, 2004 (an anthology of the writings of Michel Foucault).
Editor of Pierre Hadot. Exercices spirituels et philosophie antique.Albin Michel, 2002. (Translation into approximately ten languages, with a new preface in the Italian Edition.)
Editor of Foucault and His Interlocutors. The University of Chicago Press, 1997.
La philosophie comme manière de vivre (Co-authored with Pierre Hadot and Jeannie Carlier). Albin Michel, 2001. (Translated into approximately ten languages) - English translation: The Present Alone is Our Happiness: Conversations with Jeannier Carlier and Arnold I. Davidson (translated by Marc Djaballah), Stanford University Press, 2009.
“Spiritual Exercises, Improvisation, and Moral Perfectionism: With Special Reference to Sonny Rollins,” in Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies. Edited by George E. Lewis and Benjamin Piekut. Oxford University Press, 2016.
In the ever increasing volume of Byzantine Studies in recent years there seems to be one very apparent void, namely, the history and culture of the Byzantine Jewry, its presence and impact on the surrounding convoluted Byzantine world between Late Antiquity until the conquest of Byzantium (1453). With the now classic but dated studies by Joshua Starr and Andrew Sharf, the collective volume at hand is an attempt to somewhat fill in this void. The articles assembled in this volume are penned by leading scholars in the field. They present bird's eye views of the cultural history of the Jewish Byzantine minority, alongside a wide array of surveys and in-depth studies of various topics. These topics pertain to the dialectics of the religious, literary, economic and visual representation world of this alien minority within its surrounding Byzantine hegemonic world.
Bonfil, Robert, Irshai, Oded, Stroumsa, Guy G., and Talgam, Rina eds. Jews in Byzantium: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2012.
Bio: A scholar of Milton and early modern literature and intellectual history, Steve Fallon has written two books on Milton, one examining his materialism in light of seventeenth-century philosophical debates and the other exploring his anomalous self-representations against the background of conventional Puritan autobiography. He has also co-edited Milton’s Complete Poetry and Essential Prose for Modern Library and an essay collection, Immortality and the Body in the Age of Milton. A Guggenheim Fellowship is supporting his current book project on parallels in the thought of Milton and Isaac Newton. Fallon is on the editorial boards of the Yale Milton Encyclopedia and of Milton Studies; he is on the advisory board of Papers on Language and Literature, and he has served on the advisory board of PMLA. He has twice been an NEH Fellow as well as a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Named the Milton Society of America’s Honored Scholar in 2011, he later served as the Society’s president. With Clark Power, he co-founded a series of courses on literary and philosophical classics at the South Bend Center for the Homeless, and he is a founding member of the Faculty Steering Committee of the Notre Dame/Holy Cross Moreau Educational Initiative, which offers AA and BA degree programs at Westville Correctional Facility. He teaches courses on Shakespeare, Milton, and lyric poetry at the prison.
Selected Publications:
Immortality and the Body in the Age of Milton. Co-edited with John Rumrich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Milton, John. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose. Co-edited with William Kerrigan and John Rumrich. New York: Random House, 2007.
Milton’s Peculiar Grace: Self-representation and Authority. Ithaca: NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. (paperback edition, Cornell UP, 2008).
Milton among the Philosophers: Poetry and Materialism in Seventeenth-Century England. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991 (paperback edition, Cornell UP, 2006). Winner of Milton Society of America's Hanford Book Award.
“Milton, Newton, and the Implications of Arianism.” In Milton in the Long Restoration. Ed. Blair Hoxby and Ann Baynes Coiro. Pp. 319-34. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
“Milton in Intellectual History.” In A New Companion to Milton. Ed. Thomas N. Corns. Pp. 356-75. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2016.
"Wordsworth after Milton: Paradise Lost and Regained in 'Nutting.'" Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 13.2 (2015): 193-213.
“Milton as Narrator in Paradise Lost.” In The Cambridge Companion to ‘Paradise Lost.’ Ed. Louis Schwartz. Pp. 3-16. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
“Milton and Literary Virtue.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 42 (2012): 181-200.
“Nascent Republican Theory in Milton’s Regicide Prose.” In The Oxford Handbook to Literature and the English Revolution. Ed. Laura L. Knoppers. Pp. 309-26. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
"Milton on Himself." In Milton in Context. Ed. Stephen Dobranski. Pp. 46-57. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
"'The strangest piece of reason': Milton's Tenure of Kings and Magistrates." In The Oxford Handbook to Milton. Ed. Nicholas McDowell and Nigel Smith. Pp. 241-51. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
“Paradise Lost in Intellectual History." In ACompanion to Milton. Ed. Thomas N. Corns. Pp. 329-47. Oxford, Blackwell, 2001.
“Hunting the Fox: Equivocation and Authorial Duplicity in The Prince.” PMLA 107 (1992): 1181-95.
From the earliest Near Eastern urban civilizations to modern times, rulers and their retinues have disseminated ideological information with regard to the legitimacy of their status, their obligations, and their rights. The visual expressions of these royal statements were the subject of our research group, under the auspices of the Mandel Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and of its international workshop, ‘Picturing Royal Charisma in the Near East (Third Millennium BCE to 1700 CE)’ that took place at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, January 12–14, 2015. We thank Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center for supporting our project and providing us with a pleasant and welcoming home for developing our ideas concerning the various aspects of Middle Eastern sovereigns and their manifestation in the visual arts. Special thanks to Prof. Dani Schwartz, former Academic Head of Scholion, and Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten, its current Head, for their continuous support. This volume comprises some of the papers delivered at our workshop that dealt with the visual presentation of rulers around the ancient and medieval Eastern Mediterranean region. These contributions reflect the endurance of some royal themes and pictorial formulae that were used over a period of more than 4000 years. Considering the Eastern Mediterranean basin, Mesopotamia, and Iran as a geographically connected unit, we aimed to explore their interrelations synchronically and diachronically, through the imagery of rulers and power, from the late fourth millennium BCE to the later Islamic period c. 1600 CE.
David, Arlette, Milstein, Rachel, and Ornan, Tallay eds. Picturing Royal Charisma: Kings and Rulers in the Near East from 3000 BCE to 1700 CE. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2023
Bio: John Lie (pronounced "Lee") was born in South Korea, grew up in Japan and in Hawaii, and attended Harvard University where he received A.B. magna cum laude in Social Studies in 1982 and Ph.D. in Sociology in 1988. Currently he is C.K. Cho Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Taking literally C. Wright Mills's notion of the sociological imagination to study the intersection of biography, history, and social structure Lie's sociological imagination trilogy has explored his Korean origins and Korean diasporic trajectories. The trilogy includes Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots (with Nancy Abelmann, Harvard University Press, 1995), Han Unbound: The Political Economy of South Korea (Stanford University Press, 1998), and Multiethnic Japan (Harvard University Press, 2001). A recent addition to this corpus is Zainichi (Koreans in Japan): Diasporic Nationalism and Postcolonial Identity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008). An envoi, The Korean Diaspora, is forthcoming. Link.
Public Lecture: ‘Cultural Divergence in Japan and South Korea? A View through Popular Music’
Selected Publications:
2008 Zainichi (Koreans in Japan): Diasporic Nationalism and Postcolonial Identity, University of California Press
2004 Modern Peoplehood Harvard University Press (paper ed by University of California Press)
2001 Multiethnic Japan Harvard University Press
1998 Han Unbound: The Political Economy of South Korea Stanford University Press
1995 Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots Harvard University Press (with Nancy Abelmann)
Published Articles and Chapters
2012. "Asian Studies / Global Studies"
2012 "What Is the K in K-pop?"
2008 "Social Theory, East Asia, Science Studies"
2008 "Zainichi Recognitions"
2007 "Political Sociology" (with Ryan Calder)
2007 "Global Climate Change and the Politics of Disaster"
Bio: Yukio Lippit received his B.A. (1993) in Literature from Harvard University and his M.A. (1998) and Ph.D. (2003) in Art and Archaeology from Princeton University. He specializes in Japanese painting of the medieval and early modern periods. His book Painting of the Realm: The Kano House of Painters in Seventeenth-Century Japan (University of Washington Press, 2012) explores the ways in which attendant painters to the Tokugawa shogun developed a genealogical mode of painting that conditioned emerging historical views of Japanese painting. Painting of the Realm was awarded both the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award by the College Art Association and the John Whitney Hall Book Prize by the Association for Asian Studies.
Bio: John Ma joined the Department in 2015, after working at Corpus Christi College and the Faculty of Classics at Oxford for fifteen years. Before that, he worked in the Classicss Department at Princeton (during which period he lived in New York). He received a B.A. (Literae Humaniores) and D.Phil. (Ancient History) from Oxford University. His main interests lie in the history of the ancient Greek world and its broader context (including the ancient near-east). Within Greek history, he is particularly interested in the handling of epigraphical and archaeological evidence, historical geography, and the complexities of the Hellenistic world. His research tries to combine philological attentiveness (especially in the case of Greek inscriptions), interpretive awareness (for literary but also documentary evidence), groundedness in materiality and concrete space, and a feeling for legal, social and economic realities.
Selected Publications:
Antiochos III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor (ed. 2 2002).
"Chaironeia 338: Topographies of Commemoration", JHS 128 (2008), 72-91.
Department: History of Humanities and International Relations
Bio: After studying history, political science and Islamic studies at the Saarland University as well as a study visit to Damascus / Syria, Sabine Mangold-Will received her doctorate from Elisabeth Fehrenbach with a scholarship from the Saarland State Graduate Fund and as a research assistant at the Chair for Newer and Newcomers History of the Saarland University. From 2003 to 2009 she was a research assistant at the Chair for Modern History / Jean Monnet Chair for European Integration at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal with Franz Knipping. From 2010 to 2016 she was junior professor for modern and contemporary history with a focus on the history of science and international relations at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. In 2010 she completed her habilitation and received the Venia legendi for the subject of modern and contemporary history. In 2010/11 she was a substitute professor for Modern and Contemporary History / Western Europe at the University of Duisburg-Essen . In 2015 she was a Senior Fellow at the Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Visiting Professor at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . In 2016 she was professeure invitée at the École normal supérieure(ENS), Paris, as part of the Labex TransferS. Since 2016 she has been Academic Senior Councilor at the University of Cologne at the Chair for Modern and Contemporary History at Ute Planert .
Mangold-Will's research areas are the history of science and transfer with a focus on Europe-Middle East relations, the transnational Weimar Republic, the history of oriental studies and the reception of the Orient, German-Turkish relations and Jewish orientalism.(link)
Bio: Joseph Maran is professor of pre- and protohistory at Heidelberg University. Since 1994, he has directed the German Archaeological Institute excavation at Tiryns, and since 2013 he has been codirector of the Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context.” His current research interests are related to issues of interculturality and changing lifeworlds, of the nexus between architecture and social practice, as well as between material culture and social memory in societies between the fourth and second millennia B.C.E. at the Mediterranean interface between Europe and Asia.
Course Information:
Transformation of East Mediterranean societies from the 13th to the 12th cents. BCE
The destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 CE, which put an end to sacrificial worship in Israel, is usually assumed to constitute a major caesura in Jewish history. But how important was it? What really changed due to 70? What, in contrast, was already changing before 70 or remained basically – or “virtually” -- unchanged despite it? How do the Diaspora, which was long used to Temple-less Judaism, and early Christianity, which was born around the same time, fit in? This Scholion Library volume presents twenty papers given at an international conference in Jerusalem in which scholars assessed the significance of 70 for their respective fields of specialization, including Jewish liturgy, law, literature, magic, art, institutional history, and early Christianity.
Schwartz, Daniel R. and Weiss, Zeev eds. Was 70 CE a Watershed in Jewish History? On Jews and Judaism before and after the Destruction of the Second Temple. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2012.
Bio: Lorenzo Perrone is Professor of Early Christian Literature in the Department of Classics and Italian Studies at the University of Bologna. His research interests are the history of the Holy Land in Late Antiquity, the history of monasticism and Eastern Christianity, the study of Origen and the history of biblical interpretation.
The quest for personal and social identity is an existential and fundamental aspect of human existence. It affects how relationships are formed within national, religious, and ethnic groups. This construct of identity is the focus of the papers collected in this volume organized by ou research group "Question of Identity", which were offered at its 2017 international conference. Topics explored include: minority groups within the Persian Achaemenid Empire; Jews in Sasanian Babylonia and Palestine; Jewish identity in the Hellenistic world; archaeological tools for the study of identity; and challenges to dichotomous views on religious and national identities in the Early Modern and Modern eras.
Rivlin-Katz, Dikla, Hacham, Noah, Herman, Geoffrey, Sagiv, Lilach. A Question of Identity: Social, Political, and Historical Aspects of Identity Dynamics in Jewish and Other Contexts. Oldenbourg: De Gruyter, 2019.
Bio: Giuseppe Cecere is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Bologna. He holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies (History and Philology) from the University of Florence (2007). He was Fellow Researcher in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the IFAO (Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale) in Cairo from 2010 to 2014. His researches focus on Sufi “presence” in the multicultural and multi-religious context of the Egyptian society, mainly in the Mamluk era and in contemporary times
Bio:Deborah Starr is Professor of Modern Arabic and Hebrew Literature and Film in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, and Director of the Jewish Studies Program. She received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan. She writes and teaches about identity and intercommunal exchange in the modern Middle East, with a focus on the Jews of Egypt. She is the author of Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema (University of California Press, 2020) and Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt: Literature, Culture, and Empire (Routledge, 2009). She is also the co-editor, with Sasson Somekh, of Mongrels or Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (Stanford University Press, 2011). Her research and teaching interests include cosmopolitanism, postcolonial studies, minorities of the Middle East, film, and urban studies. (link)
Course Information:
38961: Egyptian Cinema
This course will trace the development of the Egyptian film industry from the 1930s, through the "Golden Age" during the Nasser era, to the rise of gritty urban films int he 1970s. We will also discuss the decline in film production, and the challenges the film industry faces today.
Public Lecture: Crimes of Mistaken Identity in Togo Mizrahi's Alexandria
Selected publications
Books
Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema. (University of California Press, 2020). Open Access: www.ucpress.edu/9780520366206
Mongrels or Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff. Co-edited with Sasson Somekh. (Stanford University Press, 2011).
Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt: Literature, Culture and Empire. (Routledge, 2009).
Published Articles
“Reading, Writing, and Remembering: Ronit Matalon and the Literature of Egyptian Jewish Memory” (In Hebrew) Mikan: A Journal of Israeli and Jewish Literature and Culture. 18 (September 2018), 141-154.
“Chalom and cAbdu Get Married: Jewishness and Egyptianness in the Films of Togo Mizrahi.” The Jewish Quarterly Review. 107, no.2 (2017): 209-230. doi: 10.1353/jqr.2017.0007.
“Masquerade and the Performance of National Imaginaries: Levantine Ethics, Aesthetics, and Identities in Egyptian Cinema,” Journal of Levantine Studies 1, no.2 (2011): 31-57.
“Sensing the City: Representations of Cairo’s Harat al-Yahud,” Prooftexts, 26, no. 1-2 (2006): 138-162. doi: 10.1353/ptx.2007.0010
“Drinking, Gambling, and Making Merry: Waguih Ghali’s Search for Cosmopolitan Agency,” Middle Eastern Literatures 9, no. 3 (2006): 271-285. doi: 10.1080/14752620600999896
Revised and updated version printed in The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English, edited by Nouri Gana (University of Edinburgh Press, 2013).
“Recuperating Cosmopolitan Alexandria: Circulation of Narratives and Narratives of Circulation,” Cities. 22, no.3 (2005): 217-228. doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2005.03.009
“Reterritorializing the Dream: Orly Castel-Bloom’s Remapping of Israeli Identity,” in Mapping Jewish Identities, edited by Laurence J. Silberstein (NYU Press, 2000).
“Egyptian Representation of Israeli Culture: Normalizing Propaganda or Propagandizing Normalization?” in Review Essays in Israel Studies, Books on Israel 5, edited by Laura Eisenberg and Neil Caplan. (SUNY Press, 2000).
“Writing about Writing about Alexandria,” Politics/Letters. 13 (September 2018).
Interview with Diana Athill, The Diaries of Waguih Ghali: An Egyptian Manic Depressive in the Swinging Sixties, edited by May Hawas. Vol. 1 (American University in Cairo Press, 2017).
Interview with Samir Basta, The Diaries of Waguih Ghali: An Egyptian Manic Depressive in the Swinging Sixties, edited by May Hawas. Vol. 2 (American University in Cairo Press, 2017).
Bio: Phil Bohlman’s teaching and research draw upon diverse methods and perspectives in music scholarship to forge an ethnomusicology built upon foundations in ethnography, history, and performance. He is particularly interested in exploring the interstices between music and religion, music, race, and colonial encounter, and music and nationalism. The study of Jewish music in modernity has provided a primary focus for his research for four decades, and since 1998 has provided the context for his activities as a performer, both as the Artistic Director of the New Budapest Orpheum Society (a Jewish cabaret and ensemble-in-residence at the Humanities Division), and in stage performances with Christine Wilkie Bohlman (the College) of works for piano and dramatic speaker created during the Holocaust. With the New Budapest Orpheum Society, Phil has released four CDs, most recently As Dreams Fall Apart: The Golden Age of Jewish Stage and Film Music, 1925–1955 (Cedille Records 2014). His work in historical performance has been recognized with the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society and the Donald Tovey Prize from Oxford University. Since 2008, Phil has been conducting research India, especially in Kolkata, Varanasi, and rural West Bengal. His research on the Eurovision Song Contest is ongoing.
Course Information: THE CABARETESQUE IN JEWISH MUSIC
Word and song together join in this evening devoted to the cabaretesque in Jewish music. The cabaretesque, a term created for the evening, is a performative moment in which cultural, religious, and aesthetic differences of modern Judaism converge upon a stage, both metaphorical and physical, mediated by music to reframe the narratives of the everyday and of history
Publications
Heiner Müller and Heiner Goebbels’s Wolokolamsker Chaussee. Bloomsbury, 2021.
World Music: A Very Short Introduction. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2020.
Wie sängen wir Seinen Gesang auf dem Boden der Fremde! Jüdische Musik des Aschkenas zwischen Tradition und Moderne. LIT Verlag, 2019.
Sounding Cities: Auditory Transformations in Berlin, Chicago, and Kolkata (coedited with Sebastian Klotz and Lars-Christian Koch). LIT Verlag, 2018.
Song Loves the Masses: Herder on Music and Nationalism (with J. G. Herder). University of California Press, 2017.
Jazz Worlds / World Jazz (coedited with Goffredo Plastino). University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual (coedited with Jeffers Engelhardt). Oxford University Press, 2016.
This Thing Called Music: Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl (coedited with Victoria Lindsay Levine). Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
As Dreams Fall Apart: The Golden Age of Jewish Stage and Film Music, 1925–1955 (double-CD with the New Budapest Orpheum Society). Cedille Records, 2014.
The Cambridge History of World Music (ed. by Philip V. Bohlman). Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Revival and Reconciliation: Sacred Music in the Making of European Modernity. Scarecrow Press, 2013.
Hanns Eisler – In der Musik ist es anders (with Andrea F. Bohlman). Hentrich & Hentrich, 2012.
Balkan Epic: Song, History, Modernity (coedited with Nada Petković). Scarecrow, 2012.
Gramlich-Oka, Bettina. 2017. “‘Knowing the [Confucian] Way’ and the Political Sphere.” In Religion, Culture and the Public Sphere in China and Japan (Religion and Society in Asia Pacific), ed. Albert Welter, Jeffrey Newmark, pp. 87–114. Palgrave MacMillan.
グラムリヒ＝オカ・ベティーナ。2016年。「「道を知る」こと—学問の転換期と頼春水」小室正紀（編）『幕藩制転換期の経済思想』慶應義塾大学出版会, pp. 1–29.
グラムリヒ＝オカ・ベティーナ。2016年。「日本経済思想の文献のヨーロッパ言語への翻訳について — 十九世紀を中心に」川口浩（編）『時間と空間の中で経済思想史』、ぺりかん社, pp. 185–213.
グラムリヒ＝オカ・ベティーナ。2015年。「欧米における日本経済思想史研究」川口浩、石井寿美世、ベティーナ・グラムリヒ＝オカ、劉群芸 (著者) 『日本経済思想史—江戸から昭和』勁草書房, pp. 271–291.
グラムリヒ＝オカ・ベティーナ。2013年。「仙台藩医工藤平助と幕府の政策」『日米欧からみた近世日本の経済思想』川口浩、グラムリヒ＝オカ・ベティーナ (共編者), 岩田書院, pp. 163–228.
Gramlich-Oka, Bettina. 2013. “Tales from the North.” In An Edo Anthology Literature from Japan’s Mega-City, 1750–1850, ed. Sumie Jones and Watanabe Kenji, pp. 377–88. University of Hawai‘i Press.
Gramlich-Oka, Bettina. 2012. “Nagasaki: A Thorn in the Eye of the Shogunate?” In Nanny Kim, Anke Scherer and Keiko Nagase-Reimer (eds.), Leiden: Brill (Monies, Markets and Finance in China and East Asia, vol. 2).
Gramlich-Oka, Bettina. 2010. “A Domain Doctor and Shogunal Policies.” In Bettina Gramlich-Oka and Gregory Smits (eds.). Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan. ed. Bettina Gramlich-Oka and Gregory Smits, pp. 111–56. Leiden: Brill.
Gramlich-Oka, Bettina. 2010. “A Father’s Piece of Advice: Confucian Cultivation for Women in the Late Eighteenth-Century.” In The female as subject: reading and writing in early modern Japan. P. F. Kornicki, Mara Patessio and G. G. Rowley (eds.). Michigan University Press, 123–40.
Journal Articles
ベティーナ・グラムリヒ＝オカ。「只野真葛のキリシタン考」 、国際日本学研究所研究成果報告集『国際日本学』13号、法政大学, pp. 183–208.
Gramlich-Oka, Bettina. 2011.“Neo-Confucianism Reconsidered: Family Rituals in the Rai Household.” U.S.-Japan-Women’s Journal, 39: 7-37.
Co-author Anthony Grafton, "I have always loved the Holy Tongue". Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship, Cambridge Mass., January, 2011.
“A Rabbinic disquisition of Leviticus 26:3-16: A Utopian Vision between Jews and Christians” in Scriptural Exegesis. The Shapes of Culture and the Religious Imagination: Essays in honour of Michael Fishbane, Oxford University Press, 2008, 121-34.
“Abraham and the Nations in a late Midrash” in Brill Series in Ancient Judaism and early Christianity, 2010
“Azariah de' Rossi and Pythagoras, or what has Classical Antiquity to do with Halakhah?” in Tov Elem. Memory, Community and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Societies. Essays in honor of Robert Bonfil, Jerusalem, 2011, 178-87.
“La quête de Philon dans l’historiographie juive du XVIE siècle” in B. Decharneux and S. Inowlocki (eds) Philon d’Alexandrie. Un penseur à l’intersection des cultures gréco-romaine, orientale, juive et chrétienne. Turnhout (2011), 403-32.
This collection of articles deals with the notion of Eros from a broad range of historical, literary and cultural perspectives. One of the primary aims of the collection is to comprehend both the power and the problematic aspects of Eros and its contribution to the formation of family and community.
Considering the concept of Eros textually and theoretically, the variety of topics raised reflects the different disciplines of the authors as well as their interdisciplinary approach. Special emphasis was given to the historical aspect of Eros, its temporal location and contextualization.
Fine, Ruth, Kaplan, Yosef, Peled, Shimrit and Rinon, Yoav, eds. Eros, Family and Community. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2018
Pain studies, both in exact sciences and in the humanities, are a fast-shifting field. This volume condenses a spectrum of recent views of pain through the lens of humanistic studies. Methodologically, the volume is an interdisciplinary study of the questions pertaining to the accessibility of pain (physical or emotional) to understanding and of the possible influence of suffering on the enhancement of knowledge in private experience or public sphere. Undeterred by the widespread belief that pain cannot be expressed in language and that it is intransmissible to others, the authors of the essays in the collection show that the replicability of records and narratives of human experience provides a basis for the kind of empathetic attention, dialogue, and contact that can help us to register the pain of another and understand its conditions and contexts. Needless to say, the improvement of this understanding may also help map the ways for the ethics of response to (and help for) pain. Whereas the authors of the volume tend to share the view of pain as a totally negative phenomenon (the position taken in Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain), they hold this view applicable mainly to the attitudes to the pain of others and the imperative of minimise the causes of another’s suffering. They also consider this view to be culturally and temporally circumscribed. The volume suggests that one’s own personal experience of suffering, along with the awareness of the seriality of such experience among fellow sufferers, can be conducive to emotional and intellectual growth. The reading of literature dealing with pain can lead to similar results through vicariously experienced suffering, whose emotional corollaries and intellectual consequences may be conveyed through artistic rather than discursive means. The distinctive features of the volume are that it processes these issues in a historicising way, deploying the history of the ideas of pain from the Middle Ages to the present day, and that it makes use of the methodology of different disciplines to do so, arriving to similar conclusions through, as it were, different paths. The disciplines include analytic philosophy, historiography, history of science, oral history, literary studies, and political science.
Cohen, Esther, Consonni, Manuela, Dror, Otniel E. and Toker, Leona, eds. Knowledge and Pain. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2012.
Language Contact and the Development of Modern Hebrew is a first rigorous attempt by scholars of Hebrew to evaluate the syntactic impact of the various languages with which Modern Hebrew was in contact during its formative years. Twenty-four different innovative syntactic constructions of Modern Hebrew are analysed, and shown to originate in previous stages of Hebrew, which, since the third century CE, solely functioned as a scholarly and liturgical language. The syntactic changes in the constructions are traced to the native languages of the first Modern Hebrew learners, and later to further reanalysis by the first generation of native speakers. The contents of this volume was also published as a special double issue of Journal of Jewish Languages, 3: 1-2 (2015).
Bio: Arnold I. Davidson is currently Distinguished Professor of Humanities at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He teaches in several departments, principally in the Department of Jewish Thought and the Department of Romance Studies.
He is also the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, the Divinity School, and the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge. He has served as European Editor of Critical Inquiry, and he has also been a director of the France-Chicago Center. His major fields of research and teaching are the philosophy of Judaism, the history of contemporary European philosophy, the history of moral and political philosophy, the history of the human sciences, the history and philosophy of religion, and literature as a form of philosophical expression.
Selected Publications:
Gli esercizi spirituali della musica. Improvvisazione e creazione. Mimesis Edizioni, 2020.
Series editor of the English translation of the courses of Michel Foucault at the Collège de France. Palgrave Macmillan, UK/USA. (This series will result in thirteen volumes.)
Co-author of Reflexões sobre o nacional-socialismo. Editora Âyiné, 2017.
Editor of Pierre Hadot, Studi di filosofia antica. Edizioni ETS, 2014.
Religión, razón y espiritualidad. Ediciones Alpha Decay, Barcelona, 2014.
Editor of Primo Levi, Vivir para contar. Escribir tras Auschwitz. Ediciones Alpha Decay, Barcelona, 2010.
Editor of La vacanza morale del fascismo. Intorno a Primo Levi. Edizioni ETS, 2009.
Co-editor of Michel Foucault. Philosophie. Gallimard, 2004 (an anthology of the writings of Michel Foucault).
Editor of Pierre Hadot. Exercices spirituels et philosophie antique.Albin Michel, 2002. (Translation into approximately ten languages, with a new preface in the Italian Edition.)
Editor of Foucault and His Interlocutors. The University of Chicago Press, 1997.
La philosophie comme manière de vivre (Co-authored with Pierre Hadot and Jeannie Carlier). Albin Michel, 2001. (Translated into approximately ten languages) - English translation: The Present Alone is Our Happiness: Conversations with Jeannier Carlier and Arnold I. Davidson (translated by Marc Djaballah), Stanford University Press, 2009.
“Spiritual Exercises, Improvisation, and Moral Perfectionism: With Special Reference to Sonny Rollins,” in Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies. Edited by George E. Lewis and Benjamin Piekut. Oxford University Press, 2016.
In the ever increasing volume of Byzantine Studies in recent years there seems to be one very apparent void, namely, the history and culture of the Byzantine Jewry, its presence and impact on the surrounding convoluted Byzantine world between Late Antiquity until the conquest of Byzantium (1453). With the now classic but dated studies by Joshua Starr and Andrew Sharf, the collective volume at hand is an attempt to somewhat fill in this void. The articles assembled in this volume are penned by leading scholars in the field. They present bird's eye views of the cultural history of the Jewish Byzantine minority, alongside a wide array of surveys and in-depth studies of various topics. These topics pertain to the dialectics of the religious, literary, economic and visual representation world of this alien minority within its surrounding Byzantine hegemonic world.
Bonfil, Robert, Irshai, Oded, Stroumsa, Guy G., and Talgam, Rina eds. Jews in Byzantium: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2012.
Bio: A scholar of Milton and early modern literature and intellectual history, Steve Fallon has written two books on Milton, one examining his materialism in light of seventeenth-century philosophical debates and the other exploring his anomalous self-representations against the background of conventional Puritan autobiography. He has also co-edited Milton’s Complete Poetry and Essential Prose for Modern Library and an essay collection, Immortality and the Body in the Age of Milton. A Guggenheim Fellowship is supporting his current book project on parallels in the thought of Milton and Isaac Newton. Fallon is on the editorial boards of the Yale Milton Encyclopedia and of Milton Studies; he is on the advisory board of Papers on Language and Literature, and he has served on the advisory board of PMLA. He has twice been an NEH Fellow as well as a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Named the Milton Society of America’s Honored Scholar in 2011, he later served as the Society’s president. With Clark Power, he co-founded a series of courses on literary and philosophical classics at the South Bend Center for the Homeless, and he is a founding member of the Faculty Steering Committee of the Notre Dame/Holy Cross Moreau Educational Initiative, which offers AA and BA degree programs at Westville Correctional Facility. He teaches courses on Shakespeare, Milton, and lyric poetry at the prison.
Selected Publications:
Immortality and the Body in the Age of Milton. Co-edited with John Rumrich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Milton, John. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose. Co-edited with William Kerrigan and John Rumrich. New York: Random House, 2007.
Milton’s Peculiar Grace: Self-representation and Authority. Ithaca: NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. (paperback edition, Cornell UP, 2008).
Milton among the Philosophers: Poetry and Materialism in Seventeenth-Century England. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991 (paperback edition, Cornell UP, 2006). Winner of Milton Society of America's Hanford Book Award.
“Milton, Newton, and the Implications of Arianism.” In Milton in the Long Restoration. Ed. Blair Hoxby and Ann Baynes Coiro. Pp. 319-34. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
“Milton in Intellectual History.” In A New Companion to Milton. Ed. Thomas N. Corns. Pp. 356-75. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2016.
"Wordsworth after Milton: Paradise Lost and Regained in 'Nutting.'" Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 13.2 (2015): 193-213.
“Milton as Narrator in Paradise Lost.” In The Cambridge Companion to ‘Paradise Lost.’ Ed. Louis Schwartz. Pp. 3-16. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
“Milton and Literary Virtue.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 42 (2012): 181-200.
“Nascent Republican Theory in Milton’s Regicide Prose.” In The Oxford Handbook to Literature and the English Revolution. Ed. Laura L. Knoppers. Pp. 309-26. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
"Milton on Himself." In Milton in Context. Ed. Stephen Dobranski. Pp. 46-57. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
"'The strangest piece of reason': Milton's Tenure of Kings and Magistrates." In The Oxford Handbook to Milton. Ed. Nicholas McDowell and Nigel Smith. Pp. 241-51. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
“Paradise Lost in Intellectual History." In ACompanion to Milton. Ed. Thomas N. Corns. Pp. 329-47. Oxford, Blackwell, 2001.
“Hunting the Fox: Equivocation and Authorial Duplicity in The Prince.” PMLA 107 (1992): 1181-95.
From the earliest Near Eastern urban civilizations to modern times, rulers and their retinues have disseminated ideological information with regard to the legitimacy of their status, their obligations, and their rights. The visual expressions of these royal statements were the subject of our research group, under the auspices of the Mandel Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and of its international workshop, ‘Picturing Royal Charisma in the Near East (Third Millennium BCE to 1700 CE)’ that took place at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, January 12–14, 2015. We thank Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center for supporting our project and providing us with a pleasant and welcoming home for developing our ideas concerning the various aspects of Middle Eastern sovereigns and their manifestation in the visual arts. Special thanks to Prof. Dani Schwartz, former Academic Head of Scholion, and Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten, its current Head, for their continuous support. This volume comprises some of the papers delivered at our workshop that dealt with the visual presentation of rulers around the ancient and medieval Eastern Mediterranean region. These contributions reflect the endurance of some royal themes and pictorial formulae that were used over a period of more than 4000 years. Considering the Eastern Mediterranean basin, Mesopotamia, and Iran as a geographically connected unit, we aimed to explore their interrelations synchronically and diachronically, through the imagery of rulers and power, from the late fourth millennium BCE to the later Islamic period c. 1600 CE.
David, Arlette, Milstein, Rachel, and Ornan, Tallay eds. Picturing Royal Charisma: Kings and Rulers in the Near East from 3000 BCE to 1700 CE. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2023
Bio: John Lie (pronounced "Lee") was born in South Korea, grew up in Japan and in Hawaii, and attended Harvard University where he received A.B. magna cum laude in Social Studies in 1982 and Ph.D. in Sociology in 1988. Currently he is C.K. Cho Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Taking literally C. Wright Mills's notion of the sociological imagination to study the intersection of biography, history, and social structure Lie's sociological imagination trilogy has explored his Korean origins and Korean diasporic trajectories. The trilogy includes Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots (with Nancy Abelmann, Harvard University Press, 1995), Han Unbound: The Political Economy of South Korea (Stanford University Press, 1998), and Multiethnic Japan (Harvard University Press, 2001). A recent addition to this corpus is Zainichi (Koreans in Japan): Diasporic Nationalism and Postcolonial Identity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008). An envoi, The Korean Diaspora, is forthcoming. Link.
Public Lecture: ‘Cultural Divergence in Japan and South Korea? A View through Popular Music’
Selected Publications:
2008 Zainichi (Koreans in Japan): Diasporic Nationalism and Postcolonial Identity, University of California Press
2004 Modern Peoplehood Harvard University Press (paper ed by University of California Press)
2001 Multiethnic Japan Harvard University Press
1998 Han Unbound: The Political Economy of South Korea Stanford University Press
1995 Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots Harvard University Press (with Nancy Abelmann)
Published Articles and Chapters
2012. "Asian Studies / Global Studies"
2012 "What Is the K in K-pop?"
2008 "Social Theory, East Asia, Science Studies"
2008 "Zainichi Recognitions"
2007 "Political Sociology" (with Ryan Calder)
2007 "Global Climate Change and the Politics of Disaster"
Bio: Yukio Lippit received his B.A. (1993) in Literature from Harvard University and his M.A. (1998) and Ph.D. (2003) in Art and Archaeology from Princeton University. He specializes in Japanese painting of the medieval and early modern periods. His book Painting of the Realm: The Kano House of Painters in Seventeenth-Century Japan (University of Washington Press, 2012) explores the ways in which attendant painters to the Tokugawa shogun developed a genealogical mode of painting that conditioned emerging historical views of Japanese painting. Painting of the Realm was awarded both the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award by the College Art Association and the John Whitney Hall Book Prize by the Association for Asian Studies.
Bio: John Ma joined the Department in 2015, after working at Corpus Christi College and the Faculty of Classics at Oxford for fifteen years. Before that, he worked in the Classicss Department at Princeton (during which period he lived in New York). He received a B.A. (Literae Humaniores) and D.Phil. (Ancient History) from Oxford University. His main interests lie in the history of the ancient Greek world and its broader context (including the ancient near-east). Within Greek history, he is particularly interested in the handling of epigraphical and archaeological evidence, historical geography, and the complexities of the Hellenistic world. His research tries to combine philological attentiveness (especially in the case of Greek inscriptions), interpretive awareness (for literary but also documentary evidence), groundedness in materiality and concrete space, and a feeling for legal, social and economic realities.
Selected Publications:
Antiochos III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor (ed. 2 2002).
"Chaironeia 338: Topographies of Commemoration", JHS 128 (2008), 72-91.
Department: History of Humanities and International Relations
Bio: After studying history, political science and Islamic studies at the Saarland University as well as a study visit to Damascus / Syria, Sabine Mangold-Will received her doctorate from Elisabeth Fehrenbach with a scholarship from the Saarland State Graduate Fund and as a research assistant at the Chair for Newer and Newcomers History of the Saarland University. From 2003 to 2009 she was a research assistant at the Chair for Modern History / Jean Monnet Chair for European Integration at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal with Franz Knipping. From 2010 to 2016 she was junior professor for modern and contemporary history with a focus on the history of science and international relations at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. In 2010 she completed her habilitation and received the Venia legendi for the subject of modern and contemporary history. In 2010/11 she was a substitute professor for Modern and Contemporary History / Western Europe at the University of Duisburg-Essen . In 2015 she was a Senior Fellow at the Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Visiting Professor at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . In 2016 she was professeure invitée at the École normal supérieure(ENS), Paris, as part of the Labex TransferS. Since 2016 she has been Academic Senior Councilor at the University of Cologne at the Chair for Modern and Contemporary History at Ute Planert .
Mangold-Will's research areas are the history of science and transfer with a focus on Europe-Middle East relations, the transnational Weimar Republic, the history of oriental studies and the reception of the Orient, German-Turkish relations and Jewish orientalism.(link)
Bio: Joseph Maran is professor of pre- and protohistory at Heidelberg University. Since 1994, he has directed the German Archaeological Institute excavation at Tiryns, and since 2013 he has been codirector of the Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context.” His current research interests are related to issues of interculturality and changing lifeworlds, of the nexus between architecture and social practice, as well as between material culture and social memory in societies between the fourth and second millennia B.C.E. at the Mediterranean interface between Europe and Asia.
Course Information:
Transformation of East Mediterranean societies from the 13th to the 12th cents. BCE
The destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 CE, which put an end to sacrificial worship in Israel, is usually assumed to constitute a major caesura in Jewish history. But how important was it? What really changed due to 70? What, in contrast, was already changing before 70 or remained basically – or “virtually” -- unchanged despite it? How do the Diaspora, which was long used to Temple-less Judaism, and early Christianity, which was born around the same time, fit in? This Scholion Library volume presents twenty papers given at an international conference in Jerusalem in which scholars assessed the significance of 70 for their respective fields of specialization, including Jewish liturgy, law, literature, magic, art, institutional history, and early Christianity.
Schwartz, Daniel R. and Weiss, Zeev eds. Was 70 CE a Watershed in Jewish History? On Jews and Judaism before and after the Destruction of the Second Temple. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2012.
Bio: Lorenzo Perrone is Professor of Early Christian Literature in the Department of Classics and Italian Studies at the University of Bologna. His research interests are the history of the Holy Land in Late Antiquity, the history of monasticism and Eastern Christianity, the study of Origen and the history of biblical interpretation.
The quest for personal and social identity is an existential and fundamental aspect of human existence. It affects how relationships are formed within national, religious, and ethnic groups. This construct of identity is the focus of the papers collected in this volume organized by ou research group "Question of Identity", which were offered at its 2017 international conference. Topics explored include: minority groups within the Persian Achaemenid Empire; Jews in Sasanian Babylonia and Palestine; Jewish identity in the Hellenistic world; archaeological tools for the study of identity; and challenges to dichotomous views on religious and national identities in the Early Modern and Modern eras.
Rivlin-Katz, Dikla, Hacham, Noah, Herman, Geoffrey, Sagiv, Lilach. A Question of Identity: Social, Political, and Historical Aspects of Identity Dynamics in Jewish and Other Contexts. Oldenbourg: De Gruyter, 2019.
