Tenenbaum Lecture: The Road to 1492: Jews, Christians, & the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Eu

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." 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.