Calendar
| Date / Time | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|
| October 22, 2018 4:00pm | Rockefeller Chapel | Memorial Service for Moishe Postone A celebration of the life and work of Moishe Postone (1942–2018), AB’63, AM’67, will be held in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn Avenue, on Monday, October 22, 2018, at 4:00 pm. A recepti... |
| October 26, 2018 4:00pm | Smart Museum of Art | Humanities Diversity Mixer The Division of the Humanities Dean's Advisory Committee on Diversity & Inclusion will host a mixer on Thurs, Oct 26. We hope to have many diverse graduate students, faculty, and staff who are committ... |
| October 29, 2018 12:30pm | Swift Hall, Common Room | Gil Anidjar - 'Friends Like These (A Comico-Political Essay)' Gil Anidjar, professor in the Department of Religion at Columbia University, will present a paper for the Jewish Studies Workshop. Lunch will be provided. For more information, contact Joel Swanson, a... |
| November 02, 2018 4:30pm | Harper Memorial Library, Room 130 | Simona Forti - 'Primo Levi's Hidden Philosophy of Power' Simona Forti, Professor of Political Philosophy at the Università del Piemonte Orientale and the New School, will deliver a lecture on Primo Levi. This event is presented by the Department of Romance ... |
| November 05, 2018 5:00pm | Swift Hall, Room 201 | Ethan Schwartz - 'Rethinking the Comparative Study of Biblical and Ancient Mediterranean Prophecy' Ethan Schwartz will present a paper for the Hebrew Bible Workshop. For information, contact the workshop coordinator, Aslan Cohen Mizrahi, at aslancmiz@uchicago.edu. |
| November 05, 2018 5:00pm | Swift Hall, Room 200 | Sam Catlin - 'We Non-Europeans: Auerbach, Freud, and Said on the Politics of Biblical Criticism and Jewish Authorship' Sam Catlin, PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and the Divinity School, will present a paper for the Jewish Studies Workshop. For more information, contact Joel Swanson, at joelhswanson@uchicago.... |
| November 07, 2018 5:00pm | Harris School of Public Policy Studies, Lecture Hall 142 | Israel's New Nation-State Law and Global Jewish Responses: A Roundtable Discussion The Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies and the June and Harold Patinkin Fund in Modern Israeli Studies will present a roundtable discussion on Israel's new Nation-State Law and its reception worldwid... |
| November 12, 2018 5:00pm | Swift Hall, Room 201 | Matthew Susnow - 'House of the Deity: A Perspective from Bronze Age Canaan' Matthew Susnow will present a paper for the Hebrew Bible Workshop. For information, contact the workshop coordinator, Aslan Cohen Mizrahi, at aslancmiz@uchicago.edu. |
| November 12, 2018 5:00pm | Swift Hall, Room 200 | Sonali Thakkar - 'The Representation of Jews and Jewishness in Frantz Fanon's Writings' Sonali Thakkar, assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago, will present a paper for the Jewish Studies Workshop. For more information, conta... |
| November 19, 2018 5:00pm | Swift Hall, Room 200 | Amy Levine - 'Generality and Revolt in Rosenzweig's 'The Star of Redemption' Amy Levine, PhD student in Philosophy, will present a paper for the Jewish Studies Workshop. For more information, contact Joel Swanson, at joelhswanson@uchicago.edu. |
| November 26, 2018 5:00pm | Franke Institute for the Humanities | Conference - Linguistic Homelands: Modern Hebrew, Yiddish, and German This conference will explore the intimate relations and tensions that accrue between Hebrew, Yiddish, and German. How were they variously marked as linguistic “homelands,”and why did that sense of hom... |
| November 26, 2018 5:00pm | Swift Hall, Room 201 | Justin Moses - 'The Meaning of אות in Exodus 3:12' Justin Moses, a PhD student in Biblical Studies in the Divinity School, will present a paper for the Hebrew Bible Workshop. For information, contact the workshop coordinator, Aslan Cohen Mizrahi, at a... |
| November 28, 2018 9:00am | Swift Hall Third Floor Lecture Room | Conference to honor Paul Mendes-Flohr When a Great Tradition Modernizes: Judaism and Its Engagements with Politics and Culture (A conference honoring the scholarship and teaching of Paul Mendes-Flohr). Paul Mendes-Flohr is the Dorothy ... |