Lectures and Conferences
The Judaic Studies Program sponsors, often in conjunction with other departments and programs, a rich offering of lectures and conferences in the many fields of Judaic Studies. Notices of these are sent to all enrolled students in Judaic Studies, who are strongly encouraged to take advantage of them. To receive notices of upcoming programs, contact renee.reed@yale.edu.
The Judaic Studies Faculty and Graduate Student Seminar
Approximately once every other week, faculty and graduate students interested in Judaic Studies meet over lunch in the Whitney Humanities Center for an informal seminar, the topic of which changes every semester. Presentations are made by Yale faculty, visiting faculty, and invited guests on subjects of their research relating to the semester's topic, with ample time for discussion by all of the participants. This provides an important opportunity for conversation across temporal and disciplinary boundaries within Judaic Studies as well as an informal opportunity to integrate Yale's impressive resources in Judaic Studies. Regular attendance is expected of all students enrolled in the Judaic Studies graduate program and of participating faculty. Lunch is provided. Topic for Spring 2012
Judaic Studies Lecture Series
March 20th, 5pm
Jonathan Garb
“The Return of the Soul: Psychological Theories in Modern Kabbalah.”
Harkness Hall, Rm. 117
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Program in Judaic Studies
&
The Yale-New Haven Yiddish Reading Circle
announce
The Sid Resnick Lectures for 2012
Samuel D. Kassow, Northam Professor of History, Trinity College
"Vilne Shtot fun Gayst un Tmimes" (in Yiddish)
Wednesday, March 21, 12:00-1:30pm
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“Emanuel Ringelblum and his Warsaw Ghetto Archive” (in English)
Wednesday, March 21, 4:30pm
Both talks: Slifka Center, 80 Wall Street (third floor)
(Questions? Contact victor.bers@yale.edu )
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Yale Colloquium in Jewish Thought
Thursday, March 22 - 4:00pm
Liliane Weissberg
Professor of German and Comparative Literature (U. Pennsylvania)
“Freud’s Conversions”
Judaic Studies Reading Room (335b-SML) – Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High St., New Haven
Kosher refreshments will be served
The Yale Colloquium in Jewish Thought brings together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars to address the contributions of the Judaic tradition to Western thought. >From the birth of Monotheism, through Scholasticism, Enlightenment, and Critical Theory Jewish thinkers have played a central role in the fashioning of medieval and modern intellectual life. Specifically, the Colloquium will reflect on Biblical, Talmudic, Kabbalistic and philosophical answers to universal questions such as, what constitutes the good life? What is does it mean to live in a state of Diaspora? Can power be ethical? Is there a boundary distinguishing Jewish from Western thought? What is the relationship between nationalism and religion? The colloquium is chaired by Paul Franks (Philosophy), Paul North (German), Eliyahu Stern (Religious Studies) and Marci Shore (History).
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Early Modern/Modern Jewish History Colloquium
Earl Modern/Modern Jewish History Colloquium are held from 12.00noon – 1.30pm
Silliman College Dining Room Annex
Feb 7 - Lila Corwin Berman, Associate Professor, Temple University
Feb 21 - Matthias Lehmann, Associate Professor, Indiana University
March 19 - Daniella Doron, Postdoctoral Fellow, Colgate University
March 26, Jonathan Gribetz, Rutgers University
April 3 - ChaeRan Freeze, Associate Professor, Brandeis University
April 17 - Julia P. Cohen, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
Kosher light lunch will be provided
Sponsored by the Howard M. Holtzmann Fund
Ancient Judaism Workshop
Ancient Judaism Workshops are held from 12.00noon – 1.30pm - location tba
Feb. 15 - Sara Ronis, Graduate Student, Yale University
Feb. 29 - Anathea Portier-Young,Associate Professor of Old Testament, Duke Divinity School
April 4 - EliseUusimäki, PhD Candidate, University of Helsinki
April 18 - Michael Rosenberg, PhD, Jewish Theological Seminary of America
April 25 - Jane Kanarek, Assistant Professor of Rabbinics, Hebrew College
Kosher light lunch will be provided
Sponsored by the Howard M. Holtzmann Fund
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Thank you for attending.................
ARFFA CONFERENCE - POETRY & MYSTICISM
Sunday, February 26th, 2012
10:00am - 5:15pm
Comparative Literature Library – Bingham Hall, 8th Flr.
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Inaugural Lecture
"Encounters between Modernity and Jewish Philosophy"
Paul Franks
Professor of Philosophy (Yale)
Judaic Studies Reading Room(335b-SML) – Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High St., New Haven
Kosher refreshments will be served
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Kugel Lecture on February 9th, 5.30p.m.
"The Descent of the Wicked Angels and the Beginnings of Biblical Interpretation."
Professor James Kugel
Whitney Humanities Center, Rm. 208
Comparative Literature Department and the Program in Judaic Studies
presents
A lecture by
Professor Uri Cohen
Associate Professor, Hebrew & Comparative Literature, Tel Aviv UniversityAssistant Professor, Modern Hebrew Literature, Columbia University
“Retribution and Defection: Hebrew figures of war and the 1956 Suez Affair.”
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 @ 4.00pm
Comparative Literature Library, 8th floor – Bingham Hall
&
A lecture by
Professor Barbara Mann
Associate Professor, Simon H. Fabian Chair in Hebrew Literature Department of Jewish Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary
“Material Visions: The Poetry and Collage of Leah Goldberg's Native Landscape."
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 @ 4.00pm
Comparative Literature Library, 8th floor – Bingham Hall
Sponsored by the Comparative Literature Department and the Program in Judaic Studies
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FALL 2011 LECTURES & EVENTS
Judaic Studies Lecture Series
A lecture by
Gabriella Safran on her recent book,
Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky
Monday the 14th of November, 5pm
Whitney Humanities Center - Rm. 208
Co-sponsored with History & Slavic Languages & Literature Departments
Early Modern/Modern Jewish History Colloquium
September 20
Lara Rabinovitch, PhD candidate at New York University,
"Gypsy' Jews and Little Rumania: Foodways and Self-fashioning in Early 20th Century New York."
October 11
Jeffrey Shandler, Professor at Rutgers University,
"Keepers of Accounts: The Practice of Inventory in Modern Jewish Life."
November 1
Adam Teller, Associate Professor at Brown University,
"Tradition and Crisis? Eighteenth Century Critiques of the Polish-Lithuanian Rabbinate"
November 15
Israel Bartal, Visiting Professor at Rutgers University,
“Jeremy Bentham and Russian Jewry”
November 29
Adam Mendelsohn, Assistant Professor at College of Charleston,
"Shades of Gray: Reevaluating the impact of the Civil War on American Jewry"
December 6
Liora Halperin, Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University,
"The Search for a Universal Language: Hebrew, English, and Esperanto in the Zionist Imagination"
All Early Modern/Modern Jewish History Colloquium will be held at the
Silliman College, Dining Room Annex
12.00-1.30pm
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Ancient Judaism Workshop
September 21
Yoni Pomeranz, Graduate Student in the Department of Religious, Yale University
“Saving a Life on the Sabbath in the Mekhilta d'Rabbi Ishmael”
October 5
Azzan Yadin, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University
“Moses in Akiva's Classroom: A Response to Shlomo Naeh and to Daniel Boyarin”
October 26
Barry Wimpfheimer, Assistant Professor of Religion, Northwestern University
“Paradigms of Coherence in Jewish Law”
November 30
Dov Weiss, Assistant Professor of Religion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(TBD)
December 7
Rachel Scheinerman, Graduate Student in the Department of Religious, Yale University
“The Chronicler as Pentateuchal Exegete: A Case Study of the Passover Laws”
Ancient Judaism Workshop Location TBA
12.00-1.30pm
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