November – December 2019 at the Polonsky weekly seminar the Fellows have presented the following talks:

Lucia Carminati – Improvising and Humble. The Nineteenth-Century Migrants Whom Statisticians and Historians Have Neglected

Orit Malka – Testimony and Oath in Ancient Legal Thought

Alberto Bardi – The Celestial Bodies and the Problem of Knowledge in Fourteenth-Century Constantinople

Ofri Ilany – Astrology, Judaism and Homosexuality in the Diaries of Yedidiah (Eduard) Chavkin

Carmen Dege – Religion and the Dialectics of Enlightenment: Making Sense of the Turn to the Axial Age