Harvard Center for Jewish Studies

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...