The Human Body in Sefer Asaf: Eurasian Inputs and Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah

For Current Fellows
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

Katz Center
420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

Contact:
Marci Seder
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At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting. Seminars are limited to fellows and invited guests only.

Featuring

Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim

Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim is a professor emerita in the History Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. She held their Wellcome University Award from 2010 to 2016. Her research addresses the transmission of medical knowledge along the so-called “Silk-Roads.” Recently, she has focused on early Tibetan medicine and early Jewish medicine, both of which are discussed in her 2021 book, ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters along the Silk Roads. Her current book project explores Sefer Asaf

Yoeli-Tlalim received her Ph.D. in the Study of Religions from SOAS, University of London.

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