The Marrano Approach: Jewish Hidden Tradition and Modernity
Symposium
The Marrano Approach: Jewish Hidden Tradition and Modernity
6-7 November 2024, Polish Academy of Sciences (Pałac Staszica)
Organisers: Hans Ruin (Södertörn University, Stockholm) and Agata Bielik-Robson (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
Place: IFIS PAN, Pałac Staszica, room 154
Wednesday, the 6th November
9.30 – 10.30 Welcoming Remarks
Agata Bielik-Robson, Jacob Frank, the Polish Marrano: Theology of Life as the Picaresque Novel
Chair: Ulrika Björk
10.30 – 10.45 Break
10.45 – 11.45
Hans Ruin, Derrida’s Secrets: Messianic Marranism and the Betrayal of Tradition (On the Work of Agata Bielik-Robson)
Chair: Agata Bielik-Robson
11.45 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.30
Louis Blond, Identity and the Uncanny: The Question of Hiddenness and Jewish Subjectification
Chair: Hans Ruin
14.30 – 14.45 Break
14.45 – 15.45
Elad Lapidot, Republic and Inquisition: Marranism in French Jewish Thought
Chair: Sophie Bäärnhielm Pousette
15.45 – 16.00 Break
16.00 – 17.00
Claudia Lindén, The Children of a Darkened Sun: Marrano Identity, Memory Loss and Reparative Literature of the Sami People in Sweden
Chair: Fanny Söderbäck
20.00 Dinner for the participants
Thursday, the 7th of November
9.30 – 10.30
Kitty Millet, The Hidden Kabbalah of Bruno Schulz
Chair: Lena Roos
10.30 – 10. 45 Break
10.45 – 11.45
Piotr Sadzik, “Split Within Itself”: Babelic Marranism of Teodor Parnicki
Chair: Johan Sehlberg
11.45 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.30
Eugenia Prokop-Janiec, Assimilators and Marranos. The Marrano Tropes and Themes in Polish Literature before 1914
Chair: Malin Norrby
14.30 – 14.45 Break
14.45 – 15.45
Adam Lipszyc, The Marrano Chronotope of a Boardinghouse in Piotr Sommer’s Prose
Chair: Agata Bielik-Robson
20.00 Dinner for the participants
The symposium is organized within research project Experimenting with Traditions: The Life and Afterlife of 20t Century Jewish Intellectual Culture in the Baltic Sea Region at Södertörn University and has been generously funded by
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies.
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