Hello everyone!

We are very excited for this coming year, and are looking forward to what is already shaping up to be a very interesting quarter. Soon Anna and I will be sending out an official Call for Papers, but in the meantime, below is sneak peak at some of the events coming up for us in the upcoming months.

Looking forward to seeing everyone, regulars and newcomers!

Oh, and Shana Tova!

Yiftach Ofek
Co-chair

Schedule, Autumn Quarter, 2015 (still subject to some changes)

• Tuesday, October 6, 6-7:30: Opening Dinner
  Details and Location to be Announced soon

• Sunday-Monday, October 18-19:  Conference – Martin Buber: Philosopher of Dialogue (The Spertus Institute with the University of Chicago Divinity School)
  In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Buber’s death, this two-day conference brings together leading scholars from around the country to generate new questions and reflections at the heart of Buber’s thought. See more at http://divinity.uchicago.edu/martin-buber-philosopher-dialogue

• Tuesday, October 20, 4:30-6: Dr. Toshihiro Horikawa (Uni. Heidelberg), “Hasidism and Taoism/Buddhism in Buber’s I-Thou philosophy”
  

• Tuesday, November 3, 4:30-6: Chelsie May (PhD Student, NELC), “Levantinism, Youth Aliyah and The Image of Jacqueline Kahanoff: The Authorship of RAMAT-HADASSAH-SZOLD: YOUTH ALIYAH AND CLASSICATION CENTRE”

• Tuesday, November 17, 4:30-6: David Cohen (MA Student, Divinity School), Subject TBD