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Upcoming Events, Lectures, and Special Presentations


Spring 2008
A Roundtable Discussion on Rousseau, Kant, Nietzsche and the Jews     

April 24, 2008
4:00-6:15
Academic A007



1.    On Rousseau and the Jews:

JONATHAN D. MARKS 
Associate Professor of Politics, Ursinus College

2.  On Kant and the Jews:

SUSAN MELD SHELL
Chair, Department of Political Science, Boston College

3.  On Nietzsche and the Jews:

WERNER J. DANNHAUSER
Professor Emeritus, Department of Government, Cornell University


Brief individual presentations will be followed by a general discussion. 


This event is co-sponsored by the Judaic Studies Department and the Philosophy Department and is open to the public.  
           



Community Lecture

Saturday, March 8, 11:45 am

"Shabbat in Liberal Jewish Philosophy," by Assistant Professor Randy Friedman.  The talk will be given at Temple Israel in Vestal (4737 Deerfield Place).

Yedida Kalfon Stillman Memorial Lecture

Thursday, February 28. 7:30 pm

The Judaic Studies Department will be sponsoring the annual Yedida Kalfon Stillman Memorial Lecture.  The speaker will be Professor Kimmy Caplan of the Department of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University. A renowned expert in his field, Professor Caplan is the author of two recent books dealing with Orthodox Jewry: 1) Orthodox Judaism in the New World: Immigrant Rabbis and Preaching in America, 1881-1924 (2002) and 2) Internal Popular Discourse in Israeli Haredi Society (2007).  Both books are for the time being available only in Hebrew. 

His lecture is entitled   "The 'Israelization' of the Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the State of Israel." It will be held at 7:30 p.m in Fine Arts 258 and is free and open to the public.  For additional information, please contact Allan Arkush at 607-777-2926.


 Latkes & Hamantashen Debate   

Tues., Feb 19, 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
   
Professor Allan Arkush in favor of latkes

v.

Professor Randy Friedman in favor of hamantashen


Latkes and Hamantashen will be served!
Event Location: Room 133 Old Union
Binghamton University Binghamton, NY 13850


Stay tuned for details about the upcoming Film Festival and Hebrew table . . .
Fall 2007
“TURN LEFT AT THE END OF THE WORLD”
        ⇐
COME AND SEE A RECENT ISRAELI MOVIE
TOGETHER WITH THE JUDAIC STUDIES FACULTY

(and Israeli refreshments)

  
Date:  Monday, November 12th    
Time:  7:00 – 10:00 pm        
Where: Lecture Hall 9

Rousseau, Kant, Nietzsche and the Jews
Postponed

 1.    On Rousseau and the Jews:

JONATHAN D. MARKS 
Associate Professor of Politics, Ursinus College, Fall 2006-

 2.  On Kant and the Jews

Susan Meld Shell
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
Boston College

 3.  On Nietzsche and the Jews

Werner J. Dannhauser,
Professor Emeritus, Cornell University
Department of Government