© Charles Schulz.
Erik Dreff, PhD student at the Divinity School, will present his dissertation proposal, dealing with the issue of the Love of God in Spinoza’s thought. Please email Ori at owerdiger@uchicago.edu to be sent the text of Erik’s proposal. Scott Ferguson, PhD at the Divinity school will respond.
Swift 406. 4:30-6:00 pm. Tea, coffee, and other Hanuka related refreshments.
© Assaf Harel 2010
Assaf Harel, Phd candidate at the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers, works on the anthropology of time. Harel will speak with us about his research, conducted among West Bank Jewish settlers. In preparation for Assaf’s presentation, please read the articles by Eldar and Zertal and by Ravitzky, and also the Miracle Stories from the Gaza Strip. Yaqub Hilal, PhD student, Department of Anthropology, UChicago, will respond. co-hosted with the Literature and Philosophy workshop. Swift 208. 4:30-6:00. Tea, Coffee and refreshments.
© John Tenniel, 1865.
Larisa Resnik, PhD candidate at the Divinity School will present a chapter from her dissertation on Franz Rosenzweig. Please download the chapter here. Francesca Consolaro, visiting PhD student from the Università degli Studi di Verona will respond. Regenstein 503. 4:30-6:00 pm. Coffee and tea to keep you warm.
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David N. Myers, Professor of Modern Jewish thought and chair of the Department of History at UCLA, will discuss a chapter from his book project on the Satmar Hassidic community in Kirjas Joel, a Hasidic- only municipality in NY. Please read Professor Myers’s short introduction , his table of contents, and his chapter.
Professor Galit Hasan-Rokem, Max and Margarethe Grunwald Professor Emerita of Folklore at the Hebrew University, will be responding and then we will open it up for general discussion and questions.
Tuesday, October 22. 4:00- 5:30. Swift 106. (Please note: we will begin 30 minutes earlier than our usual schedule due to time constraints.) co-sponsored with CCJS and SAJE – the student alliance for Jewish enrichment. Coffee, tea and snacks will be served.
© 2013 Michal Na’aman
Welcome back to a new workshop year. This Autumn Quarter we will be meeting every second Tuesday between 4:30 and 6:00 pm, at the Joseph Regenstein Library, room 503 unless noted otherwise.
This year we are going to put an emphasis on the wider context of Jewish studies, as an academic field which cannot be studied separate from its cultural, geographical, intellectual and historical terrain. As you will notice, this quarter our focus is—what is called, anyway—modern. Next term will be more directed toward late antiquity and the medieval period. It is circumstance and schedule that dictates this, mostly; we are skeptical of rigid periodization, classification, all that.
If you are interested in presenting at our workshop this Winter or Spring, please contact Ori at owerdiger@uchicago.edu
October 8: opening party! at the home of Paul Mendes-Flohr—Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Modern Jewish Thought
Come to our first workshop of the year, meet new and old faces, drink something adult, and hear Professor Mendes-Flohr’s pedagogcal reflections—and introduction of our year—”Jewish studies as a field not a discipline.” (Note: Divinity students may consider this a craft-of-teaching event.)
7:30 P.M. Check back here for location information.
October 21 [Monday]: “Modernity Thinks with Judaism”—David Nirenberg, Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought; Director, Neubauer Family Collegium for Culture and Society
This meeting is hosted by the Political Theory Workshop. Professor Nirenberg will discuss a chapter from his book. 12:00–1:20 pm. Pick hall 506.
October 22: “A Hasidic Municipality in New York: As American as Apple Pie?”—David N. Myers, Professor of Jewish history and Chairman of the Department of History, University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA)
Professor Myers will discuss his recent research of the Hasidic community in Kiryas Joel, New York State. 4:00–5:30pm. Location: Swift 106.
November 5: “Rosenzweig’s Luther: Or, Germanness Gone ‘Mad'”—Larisa Resnik, Ph.D. candidate at the Theology program, University of Chicago Divinity School.
November 19: “The Times of Jewish Settlers in the West Bank”—Assaf Harel, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University
Harel works on the anthropology of time, and he will speak with us about his research, conducted among West Bank Jewish settlers. Co-hosted with the Philosohpy and Literature Workshop. Swift 208.
December 3: “Contributing to the study of Spinoza and his legacy: A Proposal—Erik Dreff, Ph.D. candidate at the History of Judaism Program, University of Chicago Divinity School. Scott Ferguson, PhD student at the Divinity school, will respond. Swift 406. Continue reading
Davi Strauss Bernstein (PhD student in History) will present his paper “The Bitburg Crisis.” Please download the paper here, and read it in advance.
Coffee, tea, and snacks will be served.
Tuesday, May 7th at 4:30 in Swift 208 (note change of location!)
If you are in need of special assitance, please contact shonkoff@uchicago.edu.
Shaul Magid (Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University) will present a chapter from his manuscript-in-progress, Hasidism Incarnate: Hasidism and the ‘Christianization’ of Modern Judaism. The chapter itself is entitled “Divinization and ‘Incarnational Thinking’ in Hasidism: An Overview.” Please download the chapter here and read it in advance. Also, in order to get a better sense of the project as a whole, see the table of contents here. Dr. Magid is the author of Hasidism on the Margin: Reconciliation, Antinomianism, and Messianism (Wisconsin University Press, 2004), From Metaphysics to Midrash: Myth, History, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbalah (Indiana University Press, 2008) and American Post-Judaism: Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society (Indiana University Press, 2013).
Rachel Elior, Visiting Professor at the U of C this quarter, will offer a brief response, and then we will open it up for general discussion and questions.
Coffee, tea, and whiskey will be served.
See you there!
If you are in need of special assistance, please contact shonkoff@uchicago.edu.
The Medieval Studies and Jewish Studies Workshops are pleased to invite you to a joint session, to be held on Friday, February 22, from 12-1:30 PM in Wieboldt 207.
John Tolan, Professor of History (Université de Nantes), will discuss his paper, “Western European Jewry in the first age of expulsion: 1182-1306.” David Frankel, PhD Student in History of Judaism, will offer a prepared response.
Coffee and tea will be served. Attendees are invited to bring a lunch and to read the pre-circulated paper: click here for the paper.
If you are in need of assistance, please contact shonkoff@uchicago.edu
Please join us as Professor Michael Fishbane will present his paper “Biblical Hermeneutics and Philosophical Theology: A Jewish Model.” The paper can be downloaded here. The program will include prepared responses from Professor Richard Rosengarten and Bevin Blaber (PhD student in Philosophy of Religions).
The event will take place on Tuesday, February 12th at 4:30pm in Swift 106.
A reception will follow in the Swift Hall Common Room. The event is co-sponsored by the Hebrew Bible Workshop and the Center for Jewish Studies.
If you have any questions, please contact shonkoff@uchicago.edu.
See you there!