International Workshop "Jewish Commercial Cultures in Global Perspective", October 11-12, Indiana University, Bloomington

[June Samaras]

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From: Paris Papamichos Chronakis <pchro...@gmail.com>
Date: 23 September 2015 at 22:50

Dear friends and colleagues,

The Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University, Bloomington and the Modern Greek Studies Initiative at the University of Illinois at Chicago organize the international workshop “Jewish Commercial Cultures in Global Perspective” featuring new work on Modern Greek and Ottoman Jewry. The workshop is generously supported by an MGSA Initiative Grant.

The workshop aims to introduce the notion of “Jewish commercial cultures” to discussions about networks, mobility, empires, migration and material life. It examines Jewish merchants beyond trading diaspora frameworks, the overly determining contexts of “family” and “community”, and their stereotypical representations in anti-Jewish discourses. Instead, it views Jewish merchants anew as commercial citizens and legal agents from the early 18th- to the mid-20th centuries in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and Eastern Europe.

For more information please visit: http://www.indiana.edu/~merchant/

Jewish Commercial Cultures in Global Perspective

Advanced PhD and post-doctoral/early career workshop

Indiana University, Bloomington, 11-12 October 2015

 

Program

Sunday, 11 October 2015

 

10:00 - 10:15 am     Welcome & Opening Remarks (Paris Papamichos Chronakis, Constanze Kolbe)

 

10:15 - 11:45 am     Panel I: Legal Regimes and Trade Litigation

 

Discussant: Francesca Trivellato, Yale University

Jessica Marglin

Commercial Integration through Law: Jews and Notarization in Moroccan Sharī‘a Courts

Constanze Kolbe

The Business of Religion: Etrogim Trade and Litigation in the Nineteenth Century Adriatic

Alyssa Reiman

Commerce in the Courts: Italian Jews and the Consular Court System in Nineteenth Century Egypt

Hanna Sonkajärvi

Commercial Litigation between Alsatian-Jewish Merchants and Non-Jewish Merchants in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Brazil

 

                                

1:30 - 3:00 pm         Panel II: Cross National Networks, Marketing and Consumption

 

Discusant: Derek Penslar, University of Toronto

Cornelia Aust

Jewish, Polish, European: Bankers and Entrepreneurs at the Mid-Nineteenth Century: A Warsaw Perspective

Kevin D. Goldberg

Making Jewish Wine in Central Europe

Daniel M. Rosenthal

Carmel in the Shtetl: Palestinian Wine and the Marketing of Zionist Ideology in Eastern Europe, 1895-1939

 

 

3:15 - 4:45 pm         Panel III: Mobility across and beyond the Eastern Mediterranean

 

Discussant: Matthias Lehmann, UC Irvine

Ariane Wessel

Social Advancement in the period of Globalization. Jewish Grain Traders at the Berlin Commodity Exchange 1860-1914

Evangelia Mathopoulou

Jewish commercial practices in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1933-1939

Julia Phillips Cohen

Cosmopolitans for Empire: Ottoman Jews & Political Economy from the Margins

 

 

5:30 - 7:00 pm         Keynote speech by Francesca Trivellato (Yale University)

 

Self-Interest, “Difference,” and the Making of Europe's Commercial Society: Jewish-Christian Credit Relations before Emancipation

 

Many factors influence the flow of commercial credit: economic calculation, legal contracts, social ties, and cultural perceptions. This talk will argue that the study of the legal, economic, and cultural conditions under which Jews and Christians lent money to one other in the large commercial hubs of Western Europe before emancipation can offer a new narrative of Europe's transition from a society of status to a society of contract.

 

7:00 - 7:30 pm         Reception (open to public, Oak Room)

 

 

Monday, 12 October 2015

 

9:00 - 10:30 am       Panel IV:  Realigning identities

Discussant: Jonathan Karp, SUNY Binghamton

Paris Papamichos-Chronakis

Merchants who feared the Nation. Jewish Commercial Politics during the Balkan Wars, 1912-1913

Nadia Zysman

Factory, Workshop and Homework: A spatial dimension of labor flexibility among Jewish migrants in the early twentieth-century Buenos Aires

Stephanie Seketa

Economic Nationalism and the Making of a “British” Corporation: J. Lyons versus Thomas Lipton in WWI Britain

10:45 - 12:15 pm     Panel V: Marginality

 

Discussant: Matthias Lehmann, UC Irvine

Devi Mays

Becoming Illegal: Sephardi Jews in the Transnational Opium Trade

Niki Lefebvre

“The Other Essential Job of War”: Jewish American Merchants and the European Refugee Crisis after the Anschluss

 

1:30 – 3:00 pm        Roundtable discussion

Francesca Trivellato, Yale; Mathias Lehnmann, UC Irvine; Jonathan Karp, SUNY Bingahmton; Derek Penslar, University of Toronto; Mirjam Zadoff, Iindiana University

 

Workshop Organizers:

Dr. Paris Papamichos-Chronakis, University of Illinois at Chicago

Constanze Kolbe, Indiana University, Bloomington

The workshop is made possible with the generous support of:

The Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University,Bloomington

The Modern Greek Studies Association Initiative Grant

Mellon Innovating International Research, Teaching and Collaboration: Innovative Workshop in International Research, Teaching, and Collaboration, Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Indiana University, Bloomington

The Provost of International Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington

The Associate Dean for Graduate Education, Indiana University, Bloomington

The Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities and Undergraduate Education, Indiana University, Bloomington

The College of Arts and Humanities Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington

The European Union Center, Indiana University, Bloomington;

The Center for the Study of Global Change, Indiana University, Bloomington

The Departments of International Studies, Ottoman and Turkish Studies, French and Italian, Indiana University, Bloomington.

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Paris Papamichos Chronakis

Lecturer

Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies

University of Illinois at Chicago

601 South Morgan Street (MC 315), 1818 University Hall

Chicago, IL, 60607-7117

tel. 310 560 2732

skype name: pchronakis