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March 2018

Jewish Physicians on Jewish Diseases: The Role of Science, Culture, and Religion in Pathography
Monday, March 19, 2018
Jewish Physicians on Jewish Diseases: The Role of Science, Culture, and Religion in Pathography
Featuring: Robert Jütte, Institut für Geschichte der Medizin (Stuttgart)
Some Little-Known Sixteenth-Century Astronomical Manuscripts and the Problem of the Study of Science in Ashkenaz
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Some Little-Known Sixteenth-Century Astronomical Manuscripts and the Problem of the Study of Science in Ashkenaz
Featuring: Pavel Sládek, Charles University

February 2018

"No Longer Alien Residents": Italian Jewish Texts in the Late Renaissance
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
"No Longer Alien Residents": Italian Jewish Texts in the Late Renaissance
Featuring: Alessandro Guetta, l'Institut des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris
Hasidism and Secular Knowledge
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Hasidism and Secular Knowledge
Featuring: Zalman Rothschild, Harvard University
The Soul as a Biological Concept in the Hebrew Bible
Monday, February 19, 2018
The Soul as a Biological Concept in the Hebrew Bible
Featuring: Yitzhaq Feder, University of Haifa
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