Day 1: Monday, October 12 (Lundi, 12 octobre)

• Opening
  1. Welcome Address (Mot d’accueil): TBA
  2. Introduction: Geoffrey Herman
• 1st Session: Shaping the Past in the Bavli

• Monika Amsler: From Genre to Usage: Bibliography as Historiography

•       4. Meir Ben Shahar: The Babylonian Historian: Historiography and Ideology in the Bavli
• 2nd Session: Comparative Law and Legal Cases
•       5. Ayelet Hoffmann Libson: Comparison or Context? Rabbinic and Sassanian Laws of the Rebellious Wife
•       6. Aharon Shweka: Ma ‘ase listor? – Legal Cases in the Babylonian Talmud and their halachic Interpretation
• 3rd Session: Science and Style in the Bavli
•      7. Sacha Stern: Knowledge of Astronomy in the Babylonian Talmud
•      8. Reuven Kiperwasser: Clothes Make the Man: Rabbis, Silk Garments and Social Tensions

Day 2: Tuesday, October 13 (Mardi 13 octobre)

• 4th Session: Sources and Methodology  
•      9. Geoffrey Herman: Between Sources and History: Challenges in the Current Historical Methodology
•     10. Moulie Vidas: “The Talmud Between the Sasanians and the Abbasids”?
•     11. Adiel Schremer: “It was Not Stated Explicitly, but Rather Inferred from the Context”: On the Reliability of Talmudic Statements and its Implication for the Study of Babylonian Judaism during the Sasanian Period
• 5th Session: Magic and Society in Sasanian Babylonia
•     12. Siam Bhayro: The Jewish Aramaic Magic Bowls: How the Magic worked
•     13. Jason Mokhtarian: Identifying Religious Affiliations in the Aramaic Incantation Bowls: The Names of Beneficiaries and the Limits of Scribal Customization
• 6th Session: Method, History and the Jews of Babylonia
•    14. Conclusion: Meir Ben Shahar
•    15. General Discussion: Meir Ben Shahar and Geoffrey Herman