Date: Tuesday, March 17th
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Emory's Jones Room, Woodruff Library 3rd floor (540 Asbury Cir, Atlanta, GA 30322)
The Tam Institute for Jewish Studies (TIJS) at Emory University will feature Prof. Rowan Dorin of Stanford University as the speaker for this year’s Tenenbaum Family Lecture in Judaic Studies. The lecture, to take place on Tuesday, March 17th at 7:00pm, will address the topic: "The Road to 1492: Jews, Christians, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe." This free, on-campus event will be held in the Woodruff Library’s Jones Room, 3rd floor (540 Asbury Cir, Atlanta, GA 30322).
Although the experience of expulsion looms large in Jewish history and memory, scholars have paid little attention to the wider history of forced migration in premodern Europe. In this talk, Prof. Dorin will explore how this phenomenon became a pervasive feature of European law and politics—with consequences that continue to reverberate down to the present.
Although the experience of expulsion looms large in Jewish history and memory, scholars have paid little attention to the wider history of forced migration in premodern Europe. In this talk, Prof. Dorin will explore how this phenomenon became a pervasive feature of European law and politics—with consequences that continue to reverberate down to the present.
Rowan Dorin is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Stanford University, as well as core faculty of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies. His research and teaching focus on the history of premodern Europe and the Mediterranean, in particular Jewish-Christian relations, religious law, and digital humanities.