Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies
21st Annual Conference Program
August 7-9, 2011
Crowne Plaza Hotel, San Diego

Sunday, August 7, 2011
4:00–5:00 pm Registration
5:00 Welcome
Seth Ward, University of Wyoming, Program Chair
Gloria Trujillo, VP for Conferences
Dolores Sloan, Mount St. Mary’s College, President

5:15-6:15 Session One. Chair:

Erin Graff Zivin, University of Southern California “Crypto-Narratives in the Americas”
Kathleen Anne Murphy, Charlottetown, PE, The Acadian “CryptoJews” of Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia
6:30–8:00 Dinner

Greetings: Rabino Carlos Vicente Salas Diaz, Congegración Hebraica de Baja California, Tijuana

8:00 Keynote Lecture
Roger Martinez, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Introduction
Rabbi Barbara Aiello, Italian Jewish Cultural Center in Calabria and Sinagoga Ner Tamid del Sud, The Jews of Sicily and Calabria – The Italian Anusim that Nobody Knows
Screening: Film trailer of Carl Perkal’s The Secret Jews of Calabria
Discussion

Monday, August 8, 2011
7:30– 8:30 am Breakfast
8:30–10:35 Session Two. Chair:
Seth Kunin, Durham University: Crypto-Judaism as Discourse

(five minute intermission to set up panel)

Panel: Writing Fiction About Crypto Jews: Issues of Identity, Appropriation and Agency.*

Dolores Sloan, Mount St. Mary’s College, Chair

Corinne Joy Brown, Denver CO: Fiction versus Reality—Transformative Lessons in the Crypto Jewish Journey

David Gitlitz, University of Rhode Island, Emeritus: Bringing converso stories to life

10:35–11:00 Break
11:00–12:30 pm Session Three. Chair:
Judith R. Cohen, York University, Library of Congress:”Os nossos – ou dos goios”—Music in the lives of Portuguese Crypto-Jews*

Yitzchak Kerem, Aristotle University and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Sabbatarians in Transylvania

Abraham D. Lavender, Florida International University: Crypto Jews (Neofiti) in Sicily: Comparisons and Contrasts to Spain and Portugal

12:30 Lunch
Lecture/Recital: Songs of the Sephardim Who Left and of Those Who Stayed*
Judith R. Cohen
2:30-3:30 Session Four. Chair:
Panel and Interactive Walk-Through: Crypto-Judaism as Muse*

Lois Rose Rose, Los Angeles: Gifted Hands: the Crypto-Jewish Artisan

Corinne J. Brown, Denver: Talking Pages: Bringing A Story To Life

Tour of gallery*

3:30-4:00 Break and time to view exhibit

4:00-5:30 Session Five. Chair:
M. Miriam Herrera, Malta NY: Fear of Snakes: The Dynamics of Fear and Hiding Among Survivors of Crypto-Jews. (A Prose/Poetry Piece)

Rogelio Quesada Cervantes, San Diego, California: Star of David Family Heirloom: The Cervantes Family

Arnold Trujillo, Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists: On the claim that Crypto-Jews of New Mexico learned about candle-lighting from Seventh-day Adventists

5:30-6:00 Free time to visit exhibits
6:00–7:15 Dinner
7:30 Judy Frankel Memorial Concert: Music of the Sephardim*
Introduction: John Bilezikjian, Oud

Tuesday, August 9, 2010
7:30–8:30 am Breakfast
8:30–10:00 Session Six. Chair:
Mary Anne Curray, La Jolla CA: My Personal Story

Carlos Larralde: Estefana Cavazos: South Texas’ “Cast Iron Matron” 1846-1867

Elena Saad, La Jolla CA : Professor Francisco Rivas Perigcerver

10:00–10:15 Break

10:15–11:15 Session Seven. Chair:

Roger L. Martinez, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs: The Inquisition’s Sacrificial Lambs: Evaluating the Collapse of a Family Network in 16th Century Spanish America

Matthew Warshawsky, University of Portland: Out of the Shadows and onto the Syllabus: The Iberian World through Jewish, Crypto-Jewish, Converso, and Morisco Perspectives

Adjournment
11:15 Annual Meeting of the Membership
Meeting of the incoming Board of Directors