Research Seminar Programme 2013-14
As was the case last year, this year's seminars tend to have an Israel Studies theme. Please note that the Israel Studies seminar programme will only run in semester one, taking place on Thursdays at 16:00 in room A7 in Samuel Alexander Building (Building 67 on the Campus Map, see directions). Our seminar programme is open to all (for free) and there is no need to book, but please see the statement below on University events open to the public.
SEMESTER ONE
3 Oct: Raphael Cohen-Almagor (Hull)
Avoiding the Destruction of the Third Temple: Separating State and Religion in Israel
17 Oct: Marc Hecker (IFRI, Paris)
A French Intifada? How France is importing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (see related article)
7 Nov: Yaron Peleg (Cambridge)
Secularity and Its Discontents: Religion and Cinema in Israel
21 Nov: Tanja Müller (Manchester)
What Makes a Refugee? The case of Eritrean immigrants in Tel Aviv
5 Dec: Tamar Drukker (SOAS)
Home away from home: Israelis abroad in contemporary Israeli literature
30 Jan: Julie V. Gottlieb (Sheffield)
Becoming My Mother's Daughter. Memory, Mourning and Maternal Inheritances: A Daughter's Reading of her Mother's Holocaust Memoir (Special Seminar for Holocaust Memorial Day)
SEMESTER TWO
27 Feb 2014: Aron Sterk (Manchester)
Jews in the Latin West in Late Antiquity: forgotten communities and texts
27 Mar 2014: Tamar Drukker (SOAS)
Home away from home: Israelis abroad in contemporary Israeli literature
1 May 2014: William Tooman (St Andrews University)
Reflections on Diachronic and Synchronic Approaches to Hebrew Biblical Texts
OTHER JEWISH STUDIES RELATED EVENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY
The Ehrhardt Seminar for Staff and Postgraduates (mostly Samuel Alexander A7, but check!). Second Semester 2013-2014 (Thursdays at 2.00 for 90 minutes and then tea). SA = Samuel Alexander Building. A7 and A201 are at the front (North) of the building; SG 1 is just off the South Foyer.
SEMESTER TWO
13 Feb Bernard Jackson Legal and Narrative Aspects of the Book of Ruth SA A201
20 Feb Ingunn Aadland (Oslo) Salvation through Punishment? A Rereading of 4Q185 SA SG1
27 Feb Alex Samely The Analysis of Ancient Jewish Literature: A Database Approach SA A7
6 Mar Timothy Lim (Edinburgh) Scribal Features of the Rabbinic Concept of Canon SA A7
27 Mar Philip Alexander Jewish Politics in Palestine from Judas the Maccabee to Judah the Prince, and the Problem of “Continuing Exile” SA A7
8 May Hanne von Weissenberg (Helsinki) Is Scripture Sacred at Qumran? SA A7
SEMESTER ONE
Thu 26 Sept, 2pm: George Brooke (Manchester)
Covenant and Election in Pre-Sectarian Compositions from Qumran
(A3.7, Ellen Wilkinson Building, 77 on Campus Map).
Thu 10 Oct, 4pm: Maria Haralambakis (Manchester)
Moses Gaster’s Romanian Bird and Beast Stories (1915) and its treatment of the Romanian sources
(A7, Samuel Alexander Building, 67 on Campus Map).
Thu 14 Nov, 4pm: Renate Smithuis (Manchester)
Manchester and the Cairo Genizah
(A7, Samuel Alexander Building, 67 on Campus Map).
Thu 5 Dec: William Tooman (St Andrews)
Rethinking Textual Authority in Jewish Antiquity: The Evolution and Redeployment of Laws Regarding Intermarriage in the Hebrew Bible
(A2.16, Ellen Wilkinson Building, 77 on Campus Map).
Vinaver Lecture, organised by the French Studies section
12 Mar, 5pm: Anne Freadman (Melbourne) 'The Days Pass… Writing and Reading “Time” in Three French Jewish Diaries 1940-1944' A101
The CIDRAL programme includes:
Tue 3 Mon 2 Dec, 5pm 6pm: Max Silverman (Leeds)
Public lecture: Palimpsestic Memory and the Ethics of Storytelling
(note: there is a Holocaust dimension to this talk)
Venue: John Casken Lecture Theatre, Martin Harris Building tbc
Wed 4 Mon 2 Dec, 11.00-12.30pm 2:00-3:30pm: Max Silverman with Janet Wolff (Manchester)
Masterclass (for staff and students only)
Tue 22 Oct: Ella Shohat (Professor of Art and Public Policy, NYU)
Public Lecture: The Sephardic-Moorish Atlantic - CANCELLED
Wed 23 Oct: Ella Shohat (Professor of Art and Public Policy, NYU)
Masterclass (for staff and student only) - CANCELLED
UNIVERSITY EVENTS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: A NOTE ON CONTROVERSIAL VIEWS AND THE ACADEMY
The critical exchange of academic ideas, interpretations, and arguments must flow freely on any topic. University seminar papers are one of several proper settings for the critical scrutiny of all academic arguments. To provide the setting for such academic exchange is one of the core duties of Universities. Speakers are invited because their work has demonstrated significant research quality or achieved research impact, and the scrutiny does not proceed by pre-judging/judging the personal motivations of speakers. It proceeds by exposing the claims of seminar speakers to critical and evidence-based responses, both in the longer term and on the day. The speakers’ positions as well as the scrutiny and responses they receive from others in the field become part of the ongoing review of new claims that characterises all University subjects. This always takes time, but it is the ultimate source of all informed discussion which takes place outside the University as well. Thus a seminar series fulfils a vital function in the exchange and critical scrutiny of ideas, data, interpretations and evidence. Please see the University's Statement on Academic Freedom.
Archive: Previous CJS Research Seminars
