Paul Mann: "Reading Yehuda Halevi: A Personal Response"
May 19, 2010
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
The talk will connect the poems of Halevi with a narrative of Professor Mann’s own journeys toward Jerusalem and Torah.
David Biale: “Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought”
May 10, 2010
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Cowell 131
David Biale, the Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis, will deliver a public lecture entitled: “Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought.” He will discuss Zionism as a movement of Jewish secularism and its roots in the tradition of Jewish secular thought going back to Spinoza.
Courtney Bender: “The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination”
May 13, 2010
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
J. Baskin Engineering, Room 372
Courtney Bender, Associate Professor of Religion at Columbia University, will engage in a public dialogue with Professor Nathaniel Deutsch on her new book The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination.