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February 2018

Photography and Ideologies of Vision
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Photography and Ideologies of Vision
Featuring: Amos Morris-Reich, University of Haifa
The Jewish World Map: From Second Temple Writings to Rabbinic Literature
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
The Jewish World Map: From Second Temple Writings to Rabbinic Literature

January 2018

Technology and Bourgeois Society: Modernization, Industrialization, and Marginalization in Engineering Cultures and Jewish Cultures in Germany and the U.S.,1700-1930
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Technology and Bourgeois Society: Modernization, Industrialization, and Marginalization in Engineering Cultures and Jewish Cultures in Germany and the U.S.,1700-1930
Featuring: Adelheid Voskuhl, University of Pennsylvania
The Untold Stories of Jewish Women in the Sciences
Sunday, January 28, 2018
The Untold Stories of Jewish Women in the Sciences
Diseased Eyes: Why Jews Cared about Trachoma (1882-1914)
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Diseased Eyes: Why Jews Cared about Trachoma (1882-1914)
Compiling Practical Knowledge in East Central Europe: Early Modern 'How-to' Books and the Ashkenazi Kabbalah
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Compiling Practical Knowledge in East Central Europe: Early Modern 'How-to' Books and the Ashkenazi Kabbalah
Gender, Animality, and Nature: Architectures of Domination in Rabbinic Stories of Sodom and Noah
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Gender, Animality, and Nature: Architectures of Domination in Rabbinic Stories of Sodom and Noah

December 2017

Jews and the Natural World: Bodies, Animals, Evolution
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Jews and the Natural World: Bodies, Animals, Evolution
Experience is Proof: Text versus Observation in Isaac Lampronti's Paḥad Yitzḥak
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Experience is Proof: Text versus Observation in Isaac Lampronti's Paḥad Yitzḥak

November 2017

From the Sefirot to the Spheres: The Imaginal Astronomical Discourse of Classical Kabbalah
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
From the Sefirot to the Spheres: The Imaginal Astronomical Discourse of Classical Kabbalah
Knowing Bodies: Appropriating Medical Knowledge and Expertise in Rabbinic Texts
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Knowing Bodies: Appropriating Medical Knowledge and Expertise in Rabbinic Texts
No God but Spinoza's: Spiritual and Philosophical Influences on Einstein's Thought
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
No God but Spinoza's: Spiritual and Philosophical Influences on Einstein's Thought
Featuring: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
A Lost Queen of the Sun? Tel Beth Shemesh, the Age of Amarna, and the Mysterious "Mistress of the Lions"
Monday, November 13, 2017
A Lost Queen of the Sun? Tel Beth Shemesh, the Age of Amarna, and the Mysterious "Mistress of the Lions"
Seth Pancoast and the Kabbalah: Medical Pluralism and the Reception of Physics in Late Nineteenth Century Philadelphia
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Seth Pancoast and the Kabbalah: Medical Pluralism and the Reception of Physics in Late Nineteenth Century Philadelphia

October 2017

Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe: Twenty-Five Years Later
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe: Twenty-Five Years Later
Featuring: David B. Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania