Ruth Langer (Boston College), Jewish Prayers for Divine Vengeance. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies. Read more about Center for Jewish Studies-Medieval Studies Lecture in Medieval Jewish Culture and Society

Adrienne Williams Boyarin (University of Victoria), Jewish Women in Medieval England: New Tools for New Biographies. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies.

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Naama Golan (Kibbutzim College of Education and 2021-22 Associate at the Center for Jewish Studies), A Creative Interpretation within the Genre Constraints: A Study of Yehuda Uziel's Super-Commentary on Rashi. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies and the Committee on Medieval Studies. Attendance at the Starr Seminars is open to Harvard affiliates on a testing cadence; please RSVP to Sandy Cantave Vil... Read more about Center for Jewish Studies Starr Seminar

Rabbi Aaron Adler (Ohel Nechama Community Synagogue/Israel and Silver Fellow), Ashkenazic Versions of Prayers and Blessings in Maimonides' Codes. Attendance at the Starr Seminars is limited to Harvard faculty, students, and affiliates; please RSVP to Sandy Cantave Vil. Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies and the Committee on Medieval Studies. Read more about Center for Jewish Studies Starr Seminar

Chana Shacham-Rosby (Ben Gurion University of the Negev and Starr Fellow), Practice, Practicality and Periphery in Medieval Ashkenaz. Attendance at the Starr Seminars is limited to Harvard faculty, students, and affiliates; please RSVP to Sandy Cantave Vil. Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies and the Committee on Medieval Studies. Read more about Center for Jewish Studies Starr Seminar

Anna Sierka (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Starr Fellow), The Sense of Smell in Medieval Jewish Mysticism. Please RSVP to Sandy Cantave Vil. Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies and the Committee on Medieval Studies. Read more about Center for Jewish Studies Starr Seminar

Sophia Schmitt (Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich and 2021-22 Starr Fellow), On the Defensive and On the Offensive: Jewish Resilience in Fifteenth-Century Ashkenaz.  Please RSVP to Sandy Cantave Vil. Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies and the Committee on Medieval Studies. Read more about Center for Jewish Studies Starr Seminar

Sivan Nir (Tel Aviv University and Starr Fellow), Exempla Patterned after the Talmud: The Tales of The Sages in Neo Classical Medieval Midrash. Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies and the Committee on Medieval Studies. This seminar will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click... Read more about Center for Jewish Studies Starr Seminar

Kenneth Stow (University of Haifa emeritus), Baron or Graetz: Who Has Carried the Day? On Writing Medieval Jewish History. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click ... Read more about Center for Jewish Studies-Medieval Studies Lecture in Medieval Jewish Culture and Society

Katrin Kogman-Appel (University of Münster), A Jewish Perspective on World Politics: The Catalan Mappamundi (Majorca 1375). Co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies, the Mahindra Humanities Center Cartography Seminar, and the Mahindra Humanities Center Jewish Cultures and Societies... Read more about Center for Jewish Studies-Medieval Studies Lecture in Medieval Jewish Culture and Society

Katrin Kogman-Appel (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster), A Jewish Look at World Politics: The Catalan Mappamundi (Majorca, 1375). Co-sponsored with the Mahindra Humanities Center Cartography Seminar. CANCELLED Read more about Center for Jewish Studies-Medieval Studies Lecture in Medieval Jewish Culture and Society

A day-long symposium featuring presentations by Shady Nasser (Harvard University), Gabriel Said Reynolds (University of Notre Dame), Walid Saleh (University of Toronto), Devin Stewart (Emory University), Behnam Sadeghi (Oxford University), François Déroche (Collège de France), Alba Fedeli (University of Hamburg), Geoffrey Khan (Cambridge University), and Intisar Rabb (Harvard Law School). Sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Center for Jewish Studies, the Harvard Law School's Program in Islamic Law, and the Center for... Read more about The Transmission and Reception of the Qurʾān in Light of Recent Scholarship

Moshe Halbertal (Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School), Law and Emotions: Maimonides' Concept of Mourning. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies.

Sari Nusseibeh (Al-Quds University), Are Possible Facts Real? An Avicennian Vignette. Co-sponsored by the Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History, the Department of Philosophy, and the Center for Jewish Studies. Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

David Shyovitz (Northwestern University), Soul Food and Salvation: Eating Animals in Medieval Ashkenaz. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, and the Mahindra Humanities Center Jewish Cultures and Societies Seminar.

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