Upcoming Events:
| Wednesday 02/22/12 |
4:30 p.m. | Ishay Rosen-Zvi - "Constructing Otherness: The Talmudic Invention of the GOY" Ishay Rosen-Zvi is a Professor and the Head of the Talmud and Late Antiquity section in the department of Hebrew Culture Studies at Tel-Aviv University, where he teaches Talmudic literature and culture. His main interests are: Midrashic hermeneutics; the formation of the Mishna; Temple rituals in rabbinic literature; and gender and sexuality in late antiquity. Among his publications are The Rite that Was Not: Temple, Midrash and Gender in Tractate Sotah (Magness Press, 2008; an English version is forthcoming in the JSJ-Supplement Series, Brill, 2012) and Demonic Desires: YETZER HARA and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011). Religion Department Lounge - 1879 Hall |
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| Monday 02/27/12 |
4:30 p.m. | Naphtali Meshel - "Bull, Ram, Bird, Lamb: A Grammar of Israelite Ritual Sacrifice" Religion Department Lounge - 1879 Hall |
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| Saturday 03/17/12 |
8:00 a.m. | Symposium - Slavery, Race and Gender in Islamic Societies; A Comparative Perspective The Conference is free and open to the public. Dickinson Hall 211 |
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| Tuesday 03/27/12 |
4:30 p.m. | Dr. Denis Nosnitsin, University of Hamburg - Preserving the African Archive: Field Research on Early Manuscripts and Monasteries in Northern Ethiopia In this talk, Dr. Nosnitsin will present information about his innovative project Ethio-Spare based at Hamburg University, funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant, and focused on digitizing the most important monastic libraries and archives in Ethiopia and creating searchable databases that will allow quantitative and qualitative research into Ethiopian literature. He will then present his own historical and philological research on two of the more important Ethiopian hagiographies. 127 East Pyne Hall |
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