Special 10th Anniversary Conference

31 May - 1 June, 2011

This celebratory event will bring together some of the world's foremost scholars to reflect on decisive moments and processes of interaction between continuity and change in the development of Jewish religion, cultural praxis and aesthetic production in the modern era. The conference aims at presenting current topics, methodologies and case studies in Jewish Studies from a variety of perspectives and different scholarly fields. 

Keynote Speakers

Prof. dr. Geoffrey H. Hartman (Yale University) - Sacred and Secular: Creation's Theological Duty

Prof. dr. David B. Ruderman (University of Pennsylvania) - Mysticism, Science, and Moral Cosmopolitanism in Enlightenment Jewish Thought

Invited Speakers

Prof. dr. Aleida Assmann (Universität Konstanz) - From Book to Books: Hannah Arendt's Concept of Humanitas as a Literary Universe

Prof. dr. Richard I. Cohen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - Seven Visual Interpretations of Jewish History: Struggling with Tradition in Modernity

Prof. dr. David N. Myers (University of California, Los Angeles) - History, Memory, and Modernity

Prof. dr. Ilana Pardes (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers: The Song of Songs in Israeli Culture

Prof. dr. Elhanan Reiner (Tel Aviv University) - The Printed Talmud: A Project of Modern Jewish Culture

Prof. dr. Irene E. Zwiep (Universiteit van Amsterdam) - Bridging the Gap Between Past and Future: Going Dutch, Growing Jewish in the Low Countries (1796-1860)

Special Celebratory Event in Honor of Prof. dr. Geoffrey Hartman

Dr Michal Ben Naftali (Independent Scholar) - A Dis-Identity Card: Geoffrey Hartman on the Paul de Man Affair, After 25 Years

Prof. dr. Ortwin de Graef (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) & Dr. Pieter Vermeulen (Universiteit Gent)

Prof. dr. Vivian Liska (Universiteit Antwerpen) - Winged Words and Wounded Voices: Geoffrey Hartman on Midrash and Testimony