Tomer Persico
Fellow and Scholar in Residence of the Shalom Hartman Institute and Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at U.C. Berkeley.
Title: TBA
September 20,2019
11AM
162 Mattin Center
Jeremy Kargon
Associate Professor
School of Architecture and planning, Morgan State Unversity
Under Construction: Alternative Spaces of Discourse at the National Library of Isreal
October 11 at noon
Merg 366
Tzahi Weiss
Associate Professor, The Department of Literature, Language and the Arts, The Open University of Israel.
Rethinking Kabbalah: Kabbalistic literature, Jewish myth and the myths about the emergence of Kabbalah
November 4, 2019
Noon -1:30
Mergenthaler 366
15th Lavy Colloquium
Aesthetic Theories in Yiddish
November 11 and 12
Smokler Center for Jewish Life, 3109 N. Charles Street
Marion Aptroot Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf
Implicit Ideas on Genre, Style and Aesthetics in 18th-Century Written Yiddish”
Marc Caplan
Dialogical Praxis: Multilingualism as Critique of the Kantian Sublime in Isaac Euchel’s Reb Henoch“
Ofer Dynes Hebrew University Jerusalem
The Verdict; or How to End a Yiddish Story”
Efrat Gal-Ed Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf
“On ‘Extraterritoriality’, ‘World Literature’ and ‘the Land of Yiddish’ in Programmatic Texts of the 1920s
Amelia Glaser University of California, San Diego
“Falshe Nayes?: Poetry and Polemics in Vokh, 1929”
Mikhail Krutikov University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Critics in Uniforms: Reading Soviet Yiddish Literature through NKVD (Secret Police) Reports, 1938-1948″
Agi Legutko Columbia University
Critics in Uniforms: Reading Soviet Yiddish Literature through NKVD (Secret Police) Reports, 1938-1948″
Barbara Mann Jewish Theological Seminary
The After Lives Had Gadya: Abstraction and Materiality in Yiddish Modernism
Harriet Murav University of Illinois
“Leyb Kvitko’s 1919: The Theory and Practice of Wild Poetry”
Samuel Spinner Johns Hopkins University
A Clinical Theory of the Novel”
Karolina Szymaniak University of Wroclaw
Cultural Study of Metaphor? Nachman Blumental’s metaphorology and literary theory in Poland in the 1930″s
Sunny Yudkoff University of Wisconsin, Madison
“The Aesthetics of Old Age”