CRASSH Seminar on 19th-Century Historiography | German Presents, Jewish Pasts

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Submitted by Dr P.M. Kurtz on Sat, 03/03/2018 - 19:33

This coming week, CRASSH will be sponsoring a seminar on 19th-century historiography – the third of the Andrew W Mellon Foundation-funded project Religious Diversity and the Secular University.

For more details, see the official announcement.

Day One: Thursday 8 March 2018
10:30 - 11:00	Registration Tea and Coffee available
11:00 - 12:30	Session One Irene Zwiep (University of Amsterdam) Believers in the Nation? The Place of Religion in Jewish National Identification, 1815 - 1897 Response: Theodor Dunkelgrün (CRASSH, University of Cambridge)
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 15:00	Session Two Herman Paul (Leiden University) Confessional Antagonisms in Nineteenth-Century German Historiography Response: Paul Kurtz (University of Cambridge)
15:00 - 15:15	Break
15:15 - 16:35	Session Three Adam Sutcliffe (KCL) Nineteenth Century Economic History and the Jewish Purpose Question Response: Hartley Lachter (Lehigh University)

Day Two: Friday 9 March 2018
09:30 - 11:00	Session Four Perrine Simon-Nahum (CNRS/EHESS) What was “science” for Jewish scholars in nineteenth-century France? Response: Arthur Asseraf (University of Cambridge)
11:00 - 11:30	Break
11:30 - 13:00	Session Five Joshua Bennett (University of Oxford) Doctrinal History and Religious Diversity: August Neander in Germany and Britain Response: Gareth Atkins (University of Cambridge)
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:30	Session Six Philippa Levine (University of Texas, Austin) 'Going Naked for the Lord': Religious Beliefs, Secular Systems and Naked Bodies Response: Abelmajid Hannoum (University of Kansas)