Wednesday, June 14
2:00-2:15 Welcome
2:15-3:00 Jörg Rüpke (University of Erfurt) “Construing Boundaries between Religions on the Ground and in Retrospective”
3:00-3:45 Nicola Denzey Lewis (Brown University) “Did the Jews of Ancient Rome Have Ritual?”
4:00-4:45 Rivka Ulmer (Bucknell University) “’Borderland Mentality’: Medieval Intellectual Discourse in Narbonne as Evidenced in Pesiqta Rabbati”
4:45-5:30 Michael Satlow (Brown University) “The Hassidim Rishonim: Ancient and Modern Fantasies”
7:00 Concert and Lecture "Zwischen Schtetl und Judería: Aschkenasische und sephardische Musik in Werken von Komponisten des 20. Jahrhunderts"
Thursday, June 15
9:00-9:45 Karen Stern (Brooklyn College of CUNY) “Devotional Practices in Mortuary Contexts among Jews, Pagans, and Christians in Late Antiquity - 1”
9:45-10:30 Eric Rebillard (Cornell University) “Devotional Practices in Mortuary Contexts among Jews, Pagans, and Christians in Late Antiquity - 2”
11:00-11:45 Jonathan Schorsch (University of Potsdam) “Olive Oil, Anointing, Ecstacy, and Ecology”
2:00-2:45 Claudia Bergmann (University of Erfurt) “Choices in Ritual Imagination: The Role of the Messiah in Early Jewish and Christian Texts about the Meal in the World to Come”
2:45-3:30 Jordan Rosenblum (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “The Unwashed Masses: Handwashing as a Ritual of Social Distinction in Rabbinic Judaism”
3:45-4:30 Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus (Wheaton College) “’Mitzvot of the Mouth’: Jewish Rituals of Eating and Reading, Eating and Talking About It”
4:30-5:00 Jessica van ’t Westeinde (University of Tübingen) “Ritual Practices as Tools of Inclusion and Exclusion. Some Methodological Considerations of Group Membership among Jews in Late Roman Sardis”
Respondent: Gerard Rouwhorst
5:00-5:30 Alessia Bellusci (Tel Aviv University) “The She’elat Halom: A Jewish Private Ritual for Acquiring Hidden Knowledge”
Respondent: Günter Stemberger
5:30-6:00 Katarzyna Kowalska (Open University/Leo Baeck College) “The Problem of Difference: Havdalah Ritual among Contemporary British Jews”
Respondent: Judith Frishman
Friday, June 16
9:00-9:45 Sarit Shalev-Eyni (Hebrew University) “Ritual and Gender in Hebrew Illustrated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books”
9:45-10:30 Sara Offenberg (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) “’All the World's a Stage’: Imagined Jewish Rituals in Medieval Christian Art and Drama”
10:30-12:00 Concluding Discussion and Remarks