ALL SESSIONS VIA ZOOM – Eastern Daylight Time given for all sessions.
October 27, 2024, is still Daylight Time in most of the U.S. but Europe and Israel return to Standard Time earlier that morning.
Please check time in your location carefully!
Thanks to Edgar Garcia, managing Zoom access for this online conference.

Session 1:  11:00 AM-12:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time

(10 Central, 9 Mountain, 8 Pacific Daylight Time / 3 PM London Standard Time, 4 PM Western Europe Standard Time and Morocco Time, 5 PM Eastern Europe and Israel Standard Time)

• Blanca Carrasco, President of SCJS. Welcome.
• Seth Ward, Program Chair
• Isaac Amon, M.C.

REFLECTIONS ON A NEW MEXICO CRYPTO-JEWISH SONG BOOK

• Seth D. Kunin, Session Chair and Panel Organizer: “Loggie Carrasco’s voice and the vitality of crypto-Jewish culture”
• Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, “Oscillating Technologies of Sephardi Transmission: The Role of Notebooks and Orality”
• Matthew D. Warshawsky, “‘A Woman So Perfect Keeping the Law’: The Crypto-Jewish Faith of Justa Méndez in Colonial Mexico”

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Session 2: 1:00 PM-2:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time

(12 Noon Central, 11 AM Mountain, 10 AM Pacific, 7 PM Israel)

CRYPTO-JUDAISM, CONCEALMENT AND PERSECUTION

• Mark Schneegurt, Session Chair
• Marie Theresa Hernandez, University of Houston: “A Book for those in Inquisition Jails: Miguel Sanchez’ Imagen de Virgen”
• Rebecca Wartell, Earlham College: “Notes from Coimbra: Trends in Converso Persecution in Early Modern Portugal”
• Dolores Sloan, “Crypto-Jews in Literature: Appropriation, Authenticity and Agency”
• Leonard Stein, “Victorian Gothic: The Crypto-Jewish Worldview of Grace Aguilar”

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Session 3: 2:45-3:30 PM EASTERN Daylight Time

(1:45 PM Central, 12:45 PM Mountain, 11:45 AM Pacific)

Lunch / Coffee Break / Open-mic Zoom conversations in breakout rooms.

Come and go as your schedule allows; meet and greet your fellow conference-goers. Join a conversation, move between breakout rooms, or have your own conversations. Continue chatting about a presentation; open up a new topic.

Suggested discussion topics: Crypto-Judaism: Inheritance, Choice and Identity / Critical Conversations in Real Time / Among Ourselves; Furthering Understanding / Open Discussions on Past and Present.

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Session 4: 3:30 PM-4:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time

(2:30 PM Central, 1:30 PM Mountain, 12:30 PM Pacific)

ARCHIVES & SOURCES

• Nancy Katz, Session Chair
• Sean Schifano, New Mexico State University: “The Crypto-Jewish Historical Archives: An Overview and Invitation”
• Genie Milgrom, “Digitization and Available Resources in Spain and Portugal on Conversos and Crypto-Jews”

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Session 5: 5:00-6:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time

(4 PM Central, 3 PM Mountain, 2 PM Pacific)

GENERATIONS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ORIGINS, EVOLUTION, AND MISSION OF THE SOCIETY FOR CRYPTO JUDAIC STUDIES

• Claudia Hagadus Long, Session Chair
• Corinne Brown, Introduction and Overview

Panel Discussion:

• Dolores Sloan, “The Early Years”
• Art Benveniste, “International Meetings and HaLapid”
• Blanca Carrasco, “Converso Connection”
• Ricardo Villarreal, “Finding a Sense of Community”
• Diane Mock, “Finding a Spiritual Home: San Luis 2023”
• Q&A and Open Discussion.

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Session 6: 7:00-8:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time

(6 PM Central, 5 PM Mountain, 4 PM Pacific)

Annual General Membership Meeting
Brief business meeting conducted by Blanca Carrasco, President of the Society. All are welcome.

THE STRATTON-PETIT SOSIN ADDRESS TO ADVANCE SCHOLARSHIP IN THE CRYPTO-JUDAIC ARTS

“Blood Secrets: Glimpses into the Hidden lives of the Conversos”

This year’s Sosin address features the authors of this rich collection of poems/commentary by esteemed New Mexico poets Joan Ryan and Andrea Watson and writer/artist Anita Rodriguez.

• Kathleen Alcalà, Session Chair
• Joan Ryan, “Magdalena”
• Andrea Watson, “Rena, Reina”
• Anita Rodriguez, “Pilgrimages to Parral”

CLOSING: 8:30-8:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time (7:30 PM Central, 6:30 PM Mountain, 5:30 PM Pacific)

• Isaac Amon, Some Final Thoughts

SEE YOU IN LOS ANGELES in AUGUST 2025!