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November 2017

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
Between Discourse and Discipline: Jews and Racial Pathology
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Between Discourse and Discipline: Jews and Racial Pathology

September 2017

Science and Religion: Nature in Jewish Culture
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

Expanding Jewish Political Thought: Beneath, Between, and Beyond the State
April 23 - 24, 2017
Expanding Jewish Political Thought: Beneath, Between, and Beyond the State

December 2016

Jewish Political Thought beyond Borders
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Jewish Political Thought beyond Borders

November 2016

Is the Constitution Judeo-Christian?
Monday, November 21, 2016
Is the Constitution Judeo-Christian?
Quarantine in the Prague Ghetto
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Quarantine in the Prague Ghetto
Featuring: Joshua Teplitsky, University of Pennsylvania
Is Man a "Sabbatical Animal"? Giorgio Agamben, Franz Rosenzweig, and A. J. Heschel
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Is Man a "Sabbatical Animal"? Giorgio Agamben, Franz Rosenzweig, and A. J. Heschel
Featuring: Bonnie Honig, Brown University

September 2016

Representing the Holocaust
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Representing the Holocaust
Featuring: Giddon Ticotsky, Stanford University
Electoral Insights: Putting the 2016 Election in Historical and Constitutional Perspective (Part I)
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Electoral Insights: Putting the 2016 Election in Historical and Constitutional Perspective (Part I)
Featuring: Rogers Smith

April 2016

Reason and Its Discontents: Exploring Affect in the Imagination in Jewish Culture and Beyond
April 17 - 18, 2016
Reason and Its Discontents: Exploring Affect in the Imagination in Jewish Culture and Beyond
Masada and Noble Death in the Greek Shoah
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Masada and Noble Death in the Greek Shoah
Featuring: Steven Bowman, University of Cincinnati

March 2016

Deliverance Denied: The Binding of Isaac in Jewish and Christian Art
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Deliverance Denied: The Binding of Isaac in Jewish and Christian Art
Featuring: Yael Feldman, New York University