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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Ed: I'm in Italy right now. I might come to next year's conference. But I have another question right now. Do you know anyone who is working on Jewish conversion texts in the medieval period? This can be any variety of conversion--Christian to Jewish/ Jewish to Christian/Islamic to Jewish/ Jewish to Islamic. The important feature is the Jew in the conversion activity. I will be guest editing an edition of Jewish History based on my panel at MAA last year. If you know anyone, please let me know. Brenda > italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies > > Dear Colleagues, > > 1. Friends in Italy tell me that Dario Fo did a Rai 3 television programme > in January-February, together with Giorgio Albertazzi, on Arabic influences > in Dante. Is it possible that someone out there has a video copy of the > programme? > > 2. In case any of you are wondering what happened to our series of > conferences on "Arabic and Judaic Influences in and around Dante Alighieri", > they auto-destructed over questions arising out of the Palestinian intifada. > > 3. However the spirit of these conferences lives on. It was, for instance, > embodied in our recent conference "Muwashshahaat: Arabic and Hebrew strophic > poetry and its Romance parallels" [SOAS, October 2004]. The proceedings of > that conference are now being prepared for publication and will be available > through the SOAS bookshop. > > 4. A further initiative in the same spirit will be the "Andalus Conference: > Cross-overs from the Arabic and Jewish Culture of al-Andalus into Early > Europe", to be held in Cambridge (UK) in September 2006. Papers in any field > pertaining to the topic are invited. If you are interested in presenting a > paper at this conference, please contact me at the above address. > > With best regards, > > Ed Emery > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > [log in to unmask] > For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html > Professor Brenda Deen Schildgen Comparative Literature Program 811 Sproul University of California, Davis, CA. 95616 ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html