Studies in Second Temple Judaism:
A Global Enterprise
We are very proud to report that the "Studies in Second Temple Judaism: A Global Enterprise" Conference (10-13 January, 2022) was a smashing success. We had around 500 registered participants, an average of 100 attendees for each session, and hundreds and hundreds of additional viewers for the sessions that were broadcast live on Facebook. Our thanks go to the chairs Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Shayna Sheinfeld, and Rodney Caruthers, valiantly assisted by Joshua Scott, and to the Frankel Institute of the University of Michigan, who co-organized the event.
Special Event in Honor of MLK Day
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 He has discovered unpublished works by Duke Ellington, Chet Baker and Luciano Chailly; some of them he has had premièred and recorded.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Ellington’s Symphonic Visions—published in Italy in 2018, with an accompanying CD of première recordings and previously unpublished archival photos, all contents discovered by Bragalini—is the first volume entirely dedicated to Ellington’s symphonic music.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
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.
Call for Papers Opens: 1/19/2022
Call for Papers Closes: 3/15/2022
PAUL WITHIN JUDAISM
This year we will have one invited and one open session, both on the theme “Visions of Judaism Contemporaneous with Paul.” For the open session we invite papers on universalist and Israel-centric visions of Judaism respectively, focusing in particular on Israel and the gentiles, and the relationship between Jews and gentiles and their respective relationship to the Torah in texts preserved for instance in the Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha.
Program Unit Chairs: Karin Hedner Zetterholm; Kathy Ehrensperger
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