Studies in Second Temple Judaism:
A Global Enterprise
Chairs: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Gabriele Boccaccini, Rodney Caruthers, and Shayna Sheinfeld Dates: 10-13 January 2022 Secretary: Joshua Scott Location: Online
The study of Second Temple Jewish history, practice and belief is a global enterprise. The Frankel Institute for Advanced Studies and the Enoch Seminar have invited 44 scholars from across the globe to present their work and engage in a conversation about the present status and the future prospects of the field. Specialists and students in Biblical Studies, Judaic Studies, Classics, and Christian Origins are invited to attend.
See the conference webpage for more information, including a list of participants and a provisional schedule.
Present and Future Perspectives on the Study of Second Temple Judaism in Ibero-America
Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini, Magdalena Díaz Araujo, Paulo Augusto de Souza Nogueira, César Carbullanca, and Vicente Dobroruka Dates: 31 January - 3 February 2022 Language: Spanish/Portuguese Location: Online
This international congress proposes to bring together forty scholars from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, as well as researchers from those countries residing in North America, to address present and future perspectives on the study of Second Temple Judaism.
The study of the history, practices, and beliefs of Second Temple Judaism constitutes a vast field of research in Ibero-America. Under the auspices of the Enoch Seminar, the Pontificia Universidade Católica de Campinas, the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and the Universidad Nacional de La Rioja, this seminar will bring together leading scholars to share their work and participate in a conversation about the present and future prospects of the field. Specialists in Biblical Studies, Judaic Studies, Classics Studies, and early Christianism have been invited to attend.
From the different approaches and themes (historical, critical-philological, literary, theological, gender perspectives, semiotics, reception in art and popular culture, apocalyptic and apocalypticism, mysticism, among others), various textual fields can be approached: Old and New Testament, Jewish and Christian Apocalypses, Old and New Testament Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha, Dead Sea Scrolls, Targumim, Rabbinic Literature, Nag Hammadi Texts, Classical Literature, Hellenistic and Roman authors, among other diverse sources linked to Second Temple Judaism.
BOOK LAUNCH:
Jewish and Christian Women in the Ancient Mediterranean
Authors: Sara Parks, Shayna Sheinfeld, and Meredith J C Warren Respondents: Candida Moss, Eric Vanden Eykel, Francis Borchardt, and Rebecca Futo Kennedy Date: Monday 13 December 2021 Time: 2:00-3:30 PM Location: Online
Author: Steven D. Fraade Respondents: Timothy H. Lim, Vered Noam, and Lawrence H. Schiffman Date: Thursday 16 December 2021 Time: 10:00-11:00am EST Location: Online
Please join this discussion of the forthcoming The Damascus Document (The Oxford Commentary on the Dead Sea Scrolls; OUP, Dec 19, 2021).
Please join Professor Luca Bragalini for a lecture in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a Black King of the Bible in Duke Ellington's Symphonic Triptych "Three Black Kings".
Jazz composer, pianist, jazz orchestra leader, and symphonic orchestra conductor, Duke Ellington also composed some symphonic works of great complexity. Three Black Kings, a score for ballet, was his last major work. The first movement represents Balthazar, the Black king of the Nativity; the second portrays Solomon, King of Israel; and the third celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ellington's personal friend. Luca Bragalini will discuss Martin Luther King’s musical depiction in Three Black Kings, with an analysis of the implications of the Black King’s imagery in art history, political thought, and the importance that religion has had for the African American community.
Online video presentation, Thursday 27 January 2022, 3:00-5:00pm EST
*Luca Bragalini is Professor of Jazz History at the Music Conservatory of Brescia, Italy. He has discovered unpublished works by Duke Ellington, Chet Baker and Luciano Chailly; some of them he has had premièred and recorded. A published author and lecturer, Professor Bragalini was Distinguished Scholar at Reed College (Portland, OR) where he offered a series of lectures on Ellington. His book Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions—published in Italy in 2018, with an accompanying CD of première recordings and previously unpublished archival photos, all contents discovered by Bragalini—is the first volume entirely dedicated to Ellington’s symphonic music.
An ICAMus-The International Center for American Music event, sponsored by MCECS-Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies, in collaboration with the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and MES-Dept. of Middle East Studies, University of Michigan
Special Event in Honor of MLK Day
Please join Professor Luca Bragalini for this second lecture in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day - Jewish Blues in 20th-Century Classical Music.
The Blues, an expression of late 19th-century Southern African-American folklore, is a river with many tributaries. Jazz, gospel, pop music with all its branches ranging from Broadway songs to hard rock via rock'n’roll and funk, are some of them. But there is another stream, running through the classical music of the twentieth century. Many composers turned their attention to the blues, and the number of Jewish classical composers who wrote blues is striking. Just to name a few: Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Milhaud, Copland, Gershwin; and Ullmann and Schulhoff who perished in the Shoah. Along this journey significant connections will be discovered between the African American and Jewish musical traditions.
Online video presentation, Tuesday 1 February 2022, 3:00-5:00pm EST
*Luca Bragalini is Professor of Jazz History at the Music Conservatory of Brescia, Italy. He has discovered unpublished works by Duke Ellington, Chet Baker and Luciano Chailly; some of them he has had premièred and recorded. A published author and lecturer, Professor Bragalini was Distinguished Scholar at Reed College (Portland, OR) where he offered a series of lectures on Ellington. His book Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions—published in Italy in 2018, with an accompanying CD of première recordings and previously unpublished archival photos, all contents discovered by Bragalini—is the first volume entirely dedicated to Ellington’s symphonic music.
An ICAMus-The International Center for American Music event, sponsored by MCECS-Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies, in collaboration with the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and MES-Dept. of Middle East Studies, University of Michigan
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