UCL DEPARTMENT OF HEBREW AND JEWISH STUDIES
Science versus popular culture
in medieval Jewish society
WORKSHOP
Monday 9th November 2015
Garden Room, Wilkins Building, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
PROGRAMME
9.30
10.00
11.05
11.35
12.35
13.30
14.30
15.45
16.45
18.15
Registration and coffee
EPHRAIM KANARFOGEL (New York): Jewish Law and Popular Custom in Medieval Ashkenaz
SACHA STERN (UCL): Women and common folk in medieval Jewish calendar texts
NADIA VIDRO (UCL): Scientific and popular calendars in medieval Jewish sources
Lunch
GABRIELE FERRARIO (Cambridge): Theory, Allegory and Practice in Medieval Alchemy: Jewish Sources and
their Context
ILANA WARTENBERG (UCL): Classical versus popular mathematics in medieval Hebrew mathematical and
calendrical treatises
GERRIT BOS (Cologne): Medieval Jewish traditions on memorization in medical and magical texts
KATELYN MESLER (Jerusalem): Beyond the Trachtenberg Paradigm: New Approaches to Popular and Learned
Traditions of Magic in Medieval Europe
End of workshop
ERC Advanced Grant project: Calendars in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
UCL Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
+44 (0)20 7679 3591
www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish/research/research-pro/calendars-antiquity-middle-ages
To register:
https://science-vs-popular
-culture-medieval-jewish-society.eventbrite.co.uk