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... will feature the following EMoDiR-panels:Early Modern Anti-Catholic Protestant PropagandaThu, March 22, 9:00 to 10:30am, Hilton Riverside Complex, Bridge RoomChair: Federico BarbieratoStefano Villani, University of Maryland, College Park: Catholics as Papists: Early Modern British Protestant Encounters with ItalySimone Maghenzani, University of Cambridge: "Is not Charles Borromeo a God?": Protestant Exiles and the Mockery of Counter-Reformation ItalyKelsey Champagne, Yale University: Protestant Propaganda and Catholic Identity in the British Atlantic, 1660–1714Blasphemy, Politics, Religious Controversies in Early Modern TimesFri, March 23, 9:00 to 10:30am, Hilton Riverside Complex, Quarter Deck Room C.Chair: Stefano VillaniFederico Barbierato, Università degli Studi di Verona: Mocking the Sacred: Misbelieving and Anti-Clerical Words and Metaphors in Seventeenth-Century VeniceAriel Hessayon, Goldsmiths, University of London: "A Swarme of Sectaries": John Taylor (1578–1653) and the Enemies of His ReligionXenia von Tippelskirch, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Antimystical Satire in Late 17th Century FranceEarly Modern Jewish-Christian Polemics in ContextFri, March 23, 4:00 to 5:30pm, Hilton Riverside, 3rd Level - Canal RoomChair: Bernard CoopermanFlora Cassen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: The “Jewish Badge:” A Mark of Shame and the Jews’ Resistance Against ItPaweł Maciejko, Johns Hopkins University: Jesus and Sabbatai Tsevi: A History of the SimileMartina Mampieri, Università degli Studi Roma Tre and Universität Hamburg: Melchiorre Palontrotti and the First Giudiata against the Jews of Rome (1647–48)Religious Polemics in Northern and Eastern EuropeFri, March 23, 11:00am to 12:30pm, Hilton Riverside Complex, Quarter Deck Room CChair: Simone MaghenzaniMaria Ivanova, University of Virginia: "Worthy of mockery": Attacking the Self in Ruthenian Polemical LiteratureSari Kivistö, University of Tampere, Finland; Paivi Mehtonen, University of Helsinki: Shoemakers as Dissident Reformers in Lutheran Germany and Sweden (Finland) Polemics from Both Sides&#160;