Events

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Upcoming:

  • Sep 24
    Professor Stephan Greenblatt

    Dealing with Literary Anitsemitism

    Time:  7:00pm

    Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of The Norton Shakespeare, he is the author of eleven books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern; Shakespeare’s Freedom; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Practicing New Historicism; Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World;and Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture. He has edited seven collections of criticism, including Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto, and is a founding coeditor of the journal Representations. His honors include the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize for Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England, the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation, the Wilbur Cross Medal from the Yale University Graduate School, the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre, the Erasmus Institute Prize, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Berkeley. He was president of the Modern Language Association of America and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

  • Nov 18
    Professor Elisheva Carlebach

    A Woman is Responsible for Everything

    Time:  7:00pm

    Professor Elisheva Carlebach, Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society, specializes in the cultural, intellectual, and religious history of the Jews in Early Modern Europe. 

 

Past Events:

  • Apr 8
    Headshot of Prof. Mark Roseman

    The Rescue of History: Uncovering Help for Jews in the Holocaust

    Time:  6:30pm

    We rightly celebrate altruistic individuals who rescued Jews in the Holocaust. But for Jews to survive, it took so much more than one person’s heroism. It is only now that historians are beginning to unearth the true history of rescue – one no less miraculous but far more complicated than the tales we are used to.

  • Feb 4
    Dr. Malka Simkovich

    Jewish - Christian Dialogue in Modern Times - A Talk with Dr. Malka Simkovich

    Time:  7:00pm

    In 1965, the Catholic Church embarked on one of the most remarkable religious transformations in human history when its Second Vatican Council retracted the accusation of deicide, God-murder, against the Jewish people. In the aftermath, leaders of the Church committed themselves to establishing good relations with the Jewish people and to disseminating the Council’s teachings. This lecture will explore how this work has become increasingly complex in recent years, and will consider the future of Catholic-Jewish relations, and Christian-Jewish relations more broadly, in a post October 7th world.