The 2011 Early Modern Workshop, “Egodocuments: Revelation of the Self in the Early Modern Period,” sought to examine how individuals in the early modern period wrote and thought about themselves. The workshop participants explore texts ranging from the obvious autobiographical texts to less obvious, such as ethical wills, Inquisition-prompted accounts of self, family diaries of births and deaths, travelogues, and others. Questions raised deal with issues of self-representation, reading, relationship with the divine, gender differences in self-representation, and motivations to write autobiographical accounts.
Keynote address by Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto: “Revealing, Concealing: Ways of Recounting the Self in Early Modern Times”
Special session with Gershon Hundert, McGill University: “Mining an Unusual Ego Text (or Two)”
Avriel Bar-Levav, The Open University, Tel Aviv: “Personal Life in the Context of Personal Death”
Francesca Bregoli, Queens College: “Autobiographical Accounts for a Non-Jewish Friend”
Yaakov Dweck, Princeton University: “The Travel Diaries of Hayim Joseph David Azulai”
Rachel Greenblatt, Harvard University: “’My Happiness Overturned’: Mourning, Memory and a Woman’s Writing”
Pawel Maciejko, Hebrew University: “Descent to the Abyss: Jacob Frank’s Going to Poland”
Sara Nalle, William Paterson University: “Generational Conflict in Converso Families, 1492-1550”
J.J. Schacter, Yeshiva University: “Rabbi Jacob Emden’s Megillat Sefer”
Keynote Address by Natalie Zemon Davis (preceded by opening remarks by Robert Abzug and Miriam Bodian)
The Keynote Address and individual presentation audio files are also available through iTunes U.
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| 2011 | ||
| Sunday, August 21st | ||
| 5:00 PM |
EMW 2011: Egodocuments: Revelation of the Self in the Early Modern Period EMW 2011 University of Texas at Austin 5:00 PM - 4:00 PM |
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| 6:00 PM |
Revealing, Concealing: Ways of Recounting the Self in Early Modern Times Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto University of Texas at Austin 6:00 PM |
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| Monday, August 22nd | ||
| 9:30 AM |
Mining an Unusual Ego Text (or Two) Gershon D. Hundert, McGill University, Montreal University of Texas at Austin 9:30 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Descend to the Abyss: Jacob Frank's going to Poland Pawel Maciejko, Hebrew University of Jerusalem University of Texas at Austin 11:00 AM |
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| 1:00 PM |
The Travel Diaries of Hayim Joseph David Azulai Yaacob Dweck, Princeton University University of Texas at Austin 1:00 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Autobiographical accounts for a non-Jewish friend: Joseph Attias' Letters to L.A. Muratori Francesca Bregoli, Queens College (CUNY) University of Texas at Austin 2:00 PM |
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| 3:30 PM |
Generational conflict in converso families, 1492-1550 Sara Nalle, William Paterson University of New Jersey University of Texas at Austin 3:30 PM |
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| Tuesday, August 23rd | ||
| 9:30 AM |
Introduction to Megillat Sefer by Rabbi Jacob Emden Jacob J. Schecter, Yeshiva University University of Texas at Austin 9:30 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Personal Life in the Context of Personal Death Avri Bar-Levav, Open University of Israel University of Texas at Austin 11:00 AM |
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| 1:00 PM |
'My Happiness Overturned': Mourning, Memory and a Woman's Writing Rachel Greenblatt, Harvard University University of Texas at Austin 1:00 PM |
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