Monthly Archives: July 2022

Sociohistorical and Cultural Relations in Premodern Mediterranean Societies through Literature and Folklore between the 11th and 17th Centuries, 15 & 16 June 2023

This conference is organized by the research team of the ERC-funded research project Arabic Poetry in the Cairo Genizah (APCG), at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin. It takes place on 15 & 16 June 2023.

You can hand in papers until 31 September 2022.

Jewish Studies sessions at the IMC Leeds

The International Medieval Congress is back at the campus at Leeds, and with it many sessions and papers on Jewish Studies.

After a cancellation in 2020 and an online version in 2021, the IMC Leeds is (partially) back to being in-person and will start tomorrow, July 4 2022. As always, there are a multitude of papers on a great variety of topics within the Jewish Studies.

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Researcher of the Week

Rachel Richman

PhD Candidate
Princeton University, Department of Near Eastern Studies
Advisors: Marina Rustow and Eve Krakowski

“Rachel has been fascinated by the documents of the Cairo Geniza since she learned about them as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago. In particular, she is excited about what they can tell us about the lives of women in the premodern world. Her dissertation examines Geniza documents to understand the role of women in the medieval economy. By combing through wills, court cases, dowry lists, and letters, Rachel hopes to illuminate how women’s labor and property ownership impacted the women, their families, and the community at large. 

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