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About the Jewish Studies Seminar
Since its inception in 2001, the Duke-UNC Seminar on Jewish Studies has gained a reputation as one of the more acclaimed intellectual meeting grounds in the area, continue reading..
Upcoming meeting: November 22, 2009 with Steven Aschheim, Professor of History and the Vigevani Chair in European Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He will present “Bildung in Palestine: Zionism, Bi-Nationalism and the Strains of German-Jewish Humanism.”
paper available JSS-Aschheim
Next meeting: November 15, 2009 with Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History, Queen Mary College – University of London, “ecclesia and synagoga: Visual Dynamics and Historical Change”
powerpoint available
November 11, 2009 with Sylvie Anne Goldberg, Professor (Directrice d’études) at École des Hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris, “Questions of Times: Conflicting Time Scales in Historical Perspective”
paper available JSS-Goldberg
October 27, 2009 with Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College, “Intrigued with Islam: Jewish Scholars, Travelers, and Converts in Modern Europe”
paper available JSS-Heschel
Next meeting: October 4, 2009 with Prof. Amos Morris-Reich, University of Haifa, “Living in Two Dimensions: A Cultural History of ‘Territory’ (shetach) in Israeli Culture”
Morris-Reich: Living in Two Dimensions: A Cultural History of ‘Territory’ in Israeli Culture
Next meeting: October 4, 2009 with Prof. Amos Morris-Reich, University of Haifa, “Living in Two Dimensions: A Cultural History of ‘Territory’ (shetach) in Israeli Culture”
Papers available for the seminar:
jss-meyer-altmann_jewish-theology
jss-meyer-julius-guttmann-leo-strauss-and-political-theology
Since its inception in 2001, the Duke-UNC Seminar on Jewish Studies has gained a reputation as one of the more acclaimed intellectual meeting grounds in the area, continue reading..