Event Archive 2016 - Present

“To write a genealogy of survival is not to write a history of survival but instead to ask where such a history might begin. What are survival’s limits? What are its archives? What are its languages? And what field of translations mediates its generalizations?” “Who is speaking about survival?” These are some of the questions that Adam Stern (University of Wisconsin–Madison) asks in Survival (2021), an exploration of the notion of “survival” in Christian and Jewish tradition and in contemporary political discourse. Prof. Stern will be joined by respondents Sam Catlin (PhD student, Divinity School and Dept. of Comparative Literature) and Kirsten Collins (PhD student, Divinity School) and the discussion will be moderated by Sarah Hammerschlag, Associate Professor of Religion and Literature, Philosophy of Religions, and History of Judaism, Divinity School. To register for this virtual event, go to https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ofuqtpz8rHtAkYEhKaH-Zx6sNXp321MoV. 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.

Kirsten Collins, PhD student in the Divinity School, will present a paper for the Jewish Studies Workshop. The link for the zoom session and an advance copy of the paper will be available at the workshop website https://voices.uchicago.edu/jst_hb/. Papers and zoom links will also be pre-circulated via the Jewish Studies Workshop listserv. If you need further information or would like to be added to the workshop listserv, you can do so at https://voices.uchicago.edu/jst_hb/subscribe/, or email the workshop coordinators, Ido Telem telem@uchicago.edu or Benjamin Arenstein barenstein@uchicago.edu.

Matthew Chalmers, Visiting Assistant Professor in Religious Studies, Northwestern University, will present a paper for 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.

Professor and archaeologist Avraham Faust (Bar-Ilan University) and Joyce Z. Greenberg Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies for Spring 2020, will make an online (Zoom) presentation for the Hebrew Bible Workshop. This event is co-sponsored by the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies. The meeting can be joined at https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/96481860283. For the Zoom password or for other information, please contact Justin Moses at jpmoses@uchicago.edu or Nancy Pardee at npardee@uchicago.edu.