9.30 – 9.45 a.m. CEST
Opening and Setting the Stage
Kerstin Mayerhofer (Vienna)
and Sarah Abrevaya Stein (Los Angeles)

Panel 1: Text and Language
Chair: Lawrence H. Schiffman (New York)

9.45 – 10.15 a.m. CEST
Everyday Objects in Ibn Janāḥ's Kitāb al-uṣūl:
Actualising Exegesis as a Source for Material Culture
Lea Gzella (Munich)

10.15 – 10.45 a.m. CEST
The Mediterranean Zoo of the Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias
Hanna Zoe Trauer (Jerusalem)

10.45 – 11.15 a.m. CEST
Unsettling Boomerang Theory:
Hebraism at the Root of The Extractive Economy
Ishai Alon Mishory (New York)

11.15 – 11.30 a.m. CEST
Coffee/Tea

Panel 2: Networks and Migration
Chair: Dina Porat (Tel Aviv)

11.30 a.m. – 12.00 p.m. CEST
Visual Histories of Jewish Migration Processes across the Mediterranean in the 20th Century. Experiences and Infrastructures of (Im)mobility in the Port City of Marseille
Anna Sophia Messner (Düsseldorf)

12.00 – 12.30 p.m. CEST
One among Many, One of a Kind: The Jewish Refugee Movement across the Aegean Sea (1943–1944) and Its Entanglement with Other Forms of Migration in the Area
Julia Fröhlich (Vienna)

12.30 – 1.00 p.m. CEST
“From the Newborn Baby to the Grandfather”
Medical Aid for Moroccan Jews between the Holocaust and Decolonization
Julia Schulte-Werning (Vienna)

1.00 – 2.00 p.m. CEST
Lunch

Panel 3: Antisemitism, Persecution, and Resistance
Chair: Kerstin Mayerhofer (Vienna)

2.00 – 2.30 p.m. CEST
The Many Faces of Antisemitism in the Arab World:
The Merge of Muslim and Western Traditions of Jew-Hatred
Armin Lange (Vienna)

2.30 – 3.00 p.m. CEST
Dance as Refuge from the Holocaust in Morocco’s International City: A Microhistory of Tangier During the Second World War
Natalie Bernstien (Tangier / Los Angeles)

3.00 – 3.30 p.m. CEST
(Sur)Passing the Baton: Memorial Sites of National Socialism and their Managers since the 1990s
Beatrice Leeming (Cambridge)

3.30 – 3.45 p.m. CEST
Coffee / Tea

Panel 4: Culture, Identity, Nationality
Chair: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (Los Angeles)

3.45 – 4.15 p.m. CEST
On the Way to the Holy Land: The Mediterranean & Its People
in the Eyes of 19th Century Jewish Visitors to Ottoman Palestine
Samuel Kessler (Richmond, Virginia)

4.15 – 4.45 p.m. CEST
“Nonsense for the Masses”: Negotiating Jewish Vernacular Religion in Yemen
Tom Fogel (Tel Aviv / Vienna)

4.45 – 5.15 p.m. CEST
“From the Sea Eastward”: Traces of a Mediterranean Notion
from Maximalist Revisionism to the Canaanite Movement
Franziska Weinmann (Munich)

5.15 – 5.30 p.m. CEST
Wrap Up
Kerstin Mayerhofer (Vienna)