Wednesday, May 8, 5:30 pm: Pnina Shor & Gregory Bearman
Perserving and Digitalizing the Dead Sea Scrolls: Multi-Specral Imaging
one of Humanity's Greatest Treasures
CGIS- Tsai Auditorium
1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Wednesday, April 17, 5:00 pm: David Stern
The First Jewish Books and the History of Jewish Reading
CGIS - Room S-030
1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Thursday, April 25, 4:00 pm: Brian Copenhaver
Piety and Pornorthography in Papal Rome: Egidio da Viterbo's
Book on Hebrew Letters
CGIS, Room S153
1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Wednesday, April 10, 4:00 pm: Louise Hecht
"Transfer of Goods - Transfer of Knowledge: The Tobacco Monopoly and the Rise of the Modern Jewish Intellectual in the Habsurg Monarchy"
Mahindra Center for the Humanities, Barker Center, Room 133
12 Quincy, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Wednesday, April 3, 7:00pm: Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish
Screening and Discussion with the Director, Eve Annenberg
Fong Auditorium
Boylston Hall, Room 110
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Wednesday, March 13, 6:00pm: Rachel Rojanski
"Center and Margins: Yiddish, Cultural Hegemony and Collective Memory in Israel 1948-67"
Barker Center, Room 403
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Thursday, February 28, 4:00pm: Abraham Socher
"Culture, Criticism, and the the Common Reader: A Case Study"
Harvard Hall, Room 102
Harvard Yard, Near Johnston Gate
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Monday, March 4, 6:00 pm: Benjamin Moser
"What is Jewish about Clarice Lispector?"
Mahindra Center for the Humanities, Barker Center, Room 133
12 Quincy, Cambridge, MA 02138
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"Close Encounters Between Three Fields: Talmud, Astrophysics, and Film"
Paine Hall
1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Wednesday, November 14, 6:00 pm: Olga Litvak
"Law and the Inner Man: M.L. Lilienblum's Romantic Revolution"
Barker Center, Room 403
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Tuesday, November 13, 7:00 pm: Etgar Keret
"Is Reality Overrated?" Talk & Reading with Internationally-Acclaimed Israeli Writer Etgar Keret
Geological Lecture Hall, Harvard Museum of Natural History
24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Monday, November 12, 6:00 pm: Ilana Pardes
"Agnon's Ethnographies of Love: The Songs of Songs in Israeli Culture"
This lecture sets out to explore the response of Israel's Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon to the privileged position of the Song of Songs in Israeli culture. Special attention will be given to Agnon's short story "Edo and Enam", available in Hebrew and English
Please visit the Mahidra Center for the Humanities Website for the reading: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/agnons-ethnographies-love-song-songs-israeli-culture
Mahindra Center for the Humanities, Room 133
Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Wednesday, October 17, 4:00pm: Leah Garrett
"Jewish American War Novels of the 1940s"
Mahindra Center for the Humanities, Room 133
Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Friday, October 12, 10:00am: Amnon Wolman
"Music Experimentation as an Artistic Activity, and as a Form of Questioning Hierarchical Structures"
Sever Hall, Room 202
Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Friday, September 28, 12:00 pm: Galit Hasan-Rokem
"Singing with Sirens: Probing the Boundaries of Interpretation"
Mahindra Center for the Humanities, Room 133
Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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CJS 2012 Starr Seminar Series
Schedule
For more information, please contact the Center for Jewish Studies: CJS@fas.harvard.edu
