AJS Annual Conference
Posted by on Tuesday, November 11, 2014 in Past Events.
Shaul Kelner, Julia Cohen, Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman, and other faculty and graduate students from Vanderbilt’s Jewish Studies program will speak at this year’s Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland at the Hilton Baltimore.
Speakers:
Prof. Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman
- The Use of the Self in the Class Room – December 14, 2:30 to 4:00pm
- Jewish Law and Practice in the Medieval Islamic World – December 16, 10:15 to 11:45am
Prof. Julia Cohen
- Rethinking the Canon: New Sources and Approaches to Teaching Jewish History December 15, 3:00 to 4:30pm
- Works-in-Progress Group in Jewish Studies – December 16, 12:00 to 1:30pm
Prof. Jay Geller
- “It’s Clear as the Light of Day”: The Shoah in the Light of the Human-Animal Great Divide – December 16, 8:30 to 10:00am
Anne Grant
- The Hebraization of American Jewish Identity through Hillel T-Shirts – December 16, 10:15 to 11:45am
Prof. Ari Joskowicz
- Critical Crossroads: Jewish Responses and Experiences during the Refugee Crises of the Twentieth Century – December 14, 9:30 to 11:00am
Prof. Shaul Kelner
- Respondent, Marshall Sklare Memorial Lecture (Sponsored by the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry – December 14, 4:30 to 6:00pm
- Empathetic Listening in Jewish Tourist Encounters with Palestinians – December 16, 10:15 to 11:45am
Prof. Amy-Jill Levine
- “Holy Envy”? : The Judeo-Christian Borderland and its Implications for Jewish Studies – December 15, 5:00 to 6:30pm
Prof. Allison Schachter
- Archiving Modern Hebrew Literature, Part 1 – December 14, 2:30 to 4:00pm
- Weakness as Resistance in Hebrew Literature and Beyond – December 15, 10:30am to 12:00pm
Nicholas James Schaser
- The Masculinization of Israel in Song of Songs Rabbah – December 15, 8:30 to 10:00am
Caryn Tamber-Rosenau
- Jewish Motherhood: Cultural Images and Practices from Antiquity to Modernity – December 15, 8:30 to 10:00am
- The Biblical Bathing Beauty Who Asked for It: Bathsheba, Susanna, Judith, and the Manipulation of the Male Gaze – December 16, 12:00 to 1:30pm