[Bilimsel Haber] Blood in Jewish History and Culture - University of Florida, Gainesville, Feb. 17-19, 2007

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

A Conference on the Significance of Blood in Jewish History and Culture.
University of Florida, Gainesville, Feb. 17-19, 2007

This conference will explore the relationship between Jews and blood
from different disciplinary and methodological perspectives. While we
welcome papers dealing with the familiar (e.g., blood libel), we
especially would like submissions about relatively unexplored themes.
These might include, but are of course not limited to the following:

-new work on limpieza de sangre
-blood and Jewish folk beliefs and practices
-Jews and vampires
-blood and healing
-blood and Jewish feminist thought
-comparative work (blood in Judaism and Christianity, Jews and
African-Americans,etc.)
-the role of blood in Zionist narratives
-blood in the mystical Jewish tradition
-the impact of Harvey's discovery on Jewish hermeneutics

This conference will result in a published volume. Participants,
therefore, should be committed to submitting publishable versions of
their essays no later than June 30, 2007. (All reasonable travel costs
will be covered, as will accommodation and meals.)

Send an abstract or conference proposal (no more than two double-spaced
pages) and a C.V. by August 20, 2006 to: Professor Mitchell Hart,
Department of History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611

Prof. Mitchell Hart
Department of History
University of Florida
025 Keene-Flint Hall
Gainesville, FL 32611
USA

Email: hartm at ufl.edu

Visit the website at http://web.jst.ufl.edu/events.shtml#CJS2007