Event Archive 2016 - Present

In Landscapes of the Song of Songs (2017) Elaine James (Princeton Theological Seminary) “considers the way that the poetry of the biblical Song of Songs draws on human experience in landscapes, and how it creates human experiences of landscapes.” But she also poses a “larger,” and indeed “perennial,” question” — “What is the human place in the natural world?” It is a question, she writes, whose “significance is cross-cultural, and its domain … interdisciplinary.” Prof. James will be joined by respondents Aslan Cohen Mizrahi (PhD student, Divinity School) and Alexis Wolf (MA student, Divinity School) and the discussion will be moderated by Simeon Chavel, Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible in the Divinity School. To register for this virtual event, go to https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkduCoqjwpG9zr98beGmWv_fuo9qVhi1Tl. This event is part of the series Greenberg Book Conversations, sponsored by the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies and the Seminary Co-op Bookstore. For more information, contact the administrator of the Greenberg Center, Nancy Pardee, at npardee@uchicago.edu.

Jaime Waters, Associate Professor of Catholic Studies, DePaul University, will present a paper for the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Reception Workshop. For information and the zoom link, please contact the workshop coordinator, Doren Snoek, dsnoek@uchicago.edu.

In The Objects That Remain (2020), Laura Levitt (Temple University) draws on her own experience as a victim of rape as she revisits the material remains of acts of violence and their place in Holocaust memory. The “essence of this volume,” she writes, is the “resonance between artifacts and their power to witness to the crimes against humanity, against individuals, and their ability to make holy the profane.” It is a “meditation on the allure of once ordinary artifacts that were brushed by violence: on where they take us and how they become animate, the rites and rituals around them, and the arts of holding that transform them into sacred objects through our tender care.” Prof. Levitt will be joined by respondents Bevin Blaber (Teaching Fellow, Divinity School) and Tahel Goldsmith (PhD student, Dept. of History) and the discussion will be moderated by Leora Auslander, Professor of Modern European Social History, Dept. of History. To register for this virtual event, go to https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpfuivqTwuHNyZtGJuok6wfShA_CZu77gF. This event is part of the series Greenberg Book Conversations, sponsored by the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies and the Seminary Co-op Bookstore. For more information, contact the administrator of the Greenberg Center, Nancy Pardee, at npardee@uchicago.edu.

Erin Galgay Walsh - “Beware her Path: Eve in Greek and Syriac Poetry from Late Antiquity” 4:30 p.m. (Central) Erin Galgay Walsh, Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, University of Chicago Divinity School, will present a paper for a joint meeting of the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Reception Workshop and the Early Christian Studies Workshop. For information and the zoom link, please contact the workshop coordinator, Doren Snoek, dsnoek@uchicago.edu.