Calendar
| Date / Time | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|
| September 25, 2017 12:00pm | Swift Hall, Room 201 | Jacqueline Vayntrub - Sketching a Poetics of Description in Biblical Literature Jacqueline Vayntrub is assistant professor of biblical studies at Brandeis University. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago (NELC) in 2015. Her first book, Beyond Orality: Performance a... |
| October 03, 2017 4:30pm | Social Science Research, Tea Room | Eva Hoffman - 'AFTER GREAT WRONGS: Thinking about the Legacy of the Holocaust Today' Award-winning writer Eva Hoffman will deliver the Leo and Sarah (Bunny) Horvitz Memorial Lecture, speaking about the pre-Holocaust past, especially with respect to Jewish life in Poland, and the post-... |
| October 15, 2017 3:00pm | Seminary Co-op Bookstore | Amir Engel - 'Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography' Amir Engel discusses 'Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography.' He will be joined in conversation by Paul Mendes-Flohr. Presented in partnership with the Center for Jewish Studies at the Univers... |
| October 16, 2017 3:00pm | Swift Hall, Third Floor Lecture Room | The Celebration of the Zohar: Pritzker Edition The Zohar is the keystone of Kabbalah and a hidden gem of religious literature. Composed in Spain in the 13th century, it penetrates the Torah and reveals deeper layers of meaning. Among its concepts ... |
| October 22, 2017 3:00pm | Seminary Co-op Bookstore | Dorit Rabinyan - 'All the Rivers' Dorit Rabinyan will discuss 'All the Rivers.' Presented in partnership with The Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago. At the Co-op About the book: A controversial, award-win... |
| October 26, 2017 7:00pm | Logan Center, Screening Room 201 | 'Memories of the Eichmann Trial' with panel discussion Introduced by Yael Perlov; panel discussion following the film includes Leora Auslander (UChicago), Na'ama Rokem (UChicago), Noa Steimatsky (UC-Berkeley), and Joel Snyder (UChicago). David Perlov l... |
| Begins October 27, 2017 2:00pm | Wieboldt Hall, Room 408 | Book of J Workshop & Concert Book of J is engaged in new psalmody, drawing from Yiddish songs of ghosts and police violence, the rich biblical commentary of Black and White American traditional music, and piyutim (paraliturgical ... |
| March 07, 2018 4:30pm | Swift Hall, Common Room | Brauer Seminar: 'Roundtable on Religion, Gender and Sexuality' Religion, Gender and Sexuality Roundtable The Brauer Seminar Coordinated by Divinity School faculty members Sarah Fredericks, Sarah Hammerschlag, and Angie Heo With a roundtable event about th... |