2005-2006 Lectures

 

September 12, 2005

“Human Cloning and Genetic Manipulation
in the Light of Jewish Medical Ethics”

Avraham Steinberg
Director of the Center for Medical Ethics
Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School

Co-sponsored by the Boniuk-Tanzman lecture series, the Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, and the Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies Program

 

September 12, 2005

“Snapshots: Moments of a Writing Life”

Michal Gorvin

Co-Sponsored by the Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures Department, the Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies Program, and the Committee on Comparative Literature

 

November 7, 2005

“Discovering My Voice”

Yehudith Rotem

Co-sponsored by the Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures Department, the Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies Program and the Committee on Comparative Literature

 

November 15, 2005

“Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East,
Jews and Arabs in France: Archaeology of a Conflict”

“Jewishness and Otherness in a Time of Conflict"

Esther Benbassachair, chair of History of Modern Judaism
and
Jean-Christophe Attias, chair of Rabbinical Judaism, 6th-17th centuries
École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris

Co-sponsored by the Pluralism, Politics and Religion Initiative (PPR) and the Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Studies Program

 

February 9, 2006

“Greek into Arabic into Ibn al-Arabi:
Aristotle’s De Interpretatione 1 Between Philosophy
of Language and Ontology”

Heidrun Eichner
Ph.D. Bochum University

Sponsored by the Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures Department

 

February 15, 2006

“Who Spoke the Qur’an?”

Tariq Jaffer
Ph.D. Yale University

Sponsored by the Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures Department

 

February 22, 2006

The 2006 Adam Cherrick Lecture in Jewish Studies

“Must A Jew Believe Anything?”

Menachem Kellner
Professor of Jewish Thought
University of Haifa, Israel

Sponsored by the Adam Cherrick Fund in Jewish Studies

 

March 3, 2006

“Genealogies, Prophetic Sayings, and the Iconisation
of the Prophet’s Companions: The Case of Sa’d b. Abi Waqqas”

Asad Ahmed
PhD, Princeton Univeresity

Sponsored by the Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures Department

 

March 23, 2006

"Beyond Philanthropy: The Society for Enlightenment and
Negotiated Jewish Modernity in Czarist Russia"

Brian Horowitz
Sizeler Family Chair of Jewish Studies, Director of Jewish Studies
Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
Tulane University

Co-sponsored by the History Department and the Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies Program

 

April 3, 2006

“Writing the Lives of American Jewish Women”

Prof. Elisabeth Perry
John Francis Bannon, SJ, Chair at St. Louis University

Co-sponsored by the History Department, the Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies Program, and the Women and Gender Studies Program

 

April 6, 2006

“Rachele and Her Loves:
Marriage and Divorce in a Revolutionary Age”

Prof. Lois C. Dubin
Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and Biblical Literature
Smith College

Co-sponsored by the History Department and the Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies Program