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October 2017

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Between Discourse and Discipline: Jews and Racial Pathology

September 2017

Monday, September 18, 2017

Science and Religion: Nature in Jewish Culture

Featuring: David Shyovitz, Northwestern University; Mira Beth Wasserman, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College; Debra Glasberg Gail, New York University

April 2017

April 23 - 24, 2017

Expanding Jewish Political Thought: Beneath, Between, and Beyond the State

December 2016

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Jewish Political Thought beyond Borders

November 2016

Monday, November 21, 2016

Is the Constitution Judeo-Christian?

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Quarantine in the Prague Ghetto

Featuring: Joshua Teplitsky, University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, November 3, 2016

Is Man a "Sabbatical Animal"? Giorgio Agamben, Franz Rosenzweig, and A. J. Heschel

Featuring: Bonnie Honig, Brown University

September 2016

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Representing the Holocaust

Featuring: Giddon Ticotsky, Stanford University

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Electoral Insights: Putting the 2016 Election in Historical and Constitutional Perspective (Part I)

Featuring: Rogers Smith

April 2016

April 17 - 18, 2016

Reason and Its Discontents: Exploring Affect in the Imagination in Jewish Culture and Beyond

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Masada and Noble Death in the Greek Shoah

Featuring: Steven Bowman, University of Cincinnati

March 2016

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Deliverance Denied: The Binding of Isaac in Jewish and Christian Art

Featuring: Yael Feldman, New York University

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Holocaust in the Family: First Hand Accounts of Survival

Featuring: Hannah Pollin-Galay, Katz Center

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Pass It On: The Transmission of Tradition in Literature and Law

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Film: The Muses of Bashevis Singer

Featuring: Kathryn Hellerstein, University of Pennsylvania; Asaf Galay