2012-13 Events
Yiddish Song Part (Zingeray)!
Thursday, April 25
With special guest Yoni Battat, klezmer violinist
The Ancient Arabs: Some New Aspects
with Israel Ephal
Professor Emeritus, Hebrew Univresity, Jerusalem
Wednesday, April 24
Brandeis and the Dead Sea Scrolls
History, Science, and Interpretation
Tuesday, April 23
The National Center for Jewish Film's 16th Annual Film Festival
April 10-21
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Kendall Square Cinema
West Newton Cinema
Rachel L. Fish Dissertation Defense
Figuring Bi-Nationalism: The Transformation of Bi-nationalism in Palestine/Israel 1920's to Present
Tuesday, April 16
A Taste of NEJS
Open House with Kosher Chinese Food
Tuesday, April 16th
The Concubine of the Prophet: Who in the world was Mariya the Copt?
Dr. Elizabeth Urban
Madeleine Haas Russell Visiting Assistant Professor
Tuesday April 16, 2013
The Fiftieth Annual Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture
The Solitude of the Engaged Philosopher: Andalus and Sefarad
Sarah Stroumsa, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Wednesday, April 17
Jason M. Gaines Dissertation Defense
The Poetic Priestly Source
Thursday, April 11
Changing Texts in Changing Contexts: Mesopotamian Lamentations and Their Transmission Processes
Dr. Anne Lohnert
Lecturer on Assyriology, Harvard University and Assistant Professor of Assyriology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich
Thursday, April 11
Irina Astashkevich Dissertation Defense
The Pogroms in Ukraine in 1917-1920: An Alternate Universe
Tuesday, April 9
The Politics of Victimhood: The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch
Tuesday, March 12th
Ilana Szobel
Assistant Professor of modern Hebrew literature at Brandeis University
Poetics of Trauma: The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch.
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, and the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies.Dreaming in Time and Space: 1 Thessalonians and Paul's Apocalyptic Imagination
Professor Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre
Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Drew University Theological School, Madison NJ
Thursday, March 7
Presented in NEJS 130a: The New Testament: A Historical Introduction with Professor Brooten
Yiddish Lecture
Thursday, February 28
12 to 12:50 pm
Lown 315
Sponsored by the Martin-Weiner Fund and the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
Kraft-Hiatt Lecture
Recent Discussions of the Jewish Jesus: The Gospel of Mark as a Test Case
Lawrence Wills, Ethelbert Talbot Professor of Biblical Studies at Episcopal Divinity School
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Held in Professor Brooten’s course NEJS 130a “The New Testament: A Historical Introduction”Kraft-Hiatt Lecture
Same-gender Sexual Violence on the College Campus
Dean J. Gendron, Director of Student Rights and Community Standards at Brandeis
Jessamine L. Beal, Program Coordinator for Sexuality and Gender Diversity at Brandeis
Thursday, December 6
Held in Professor Brooten’s course NEJS 148b “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Jews and Christians: Sources and Interpretations”
Etty
Thursday, November 15
You can read about the performer and the play here and the Brandeis NOW article here.
Co-sponsors:
The Department of Philosophy
The Program in Coexistence and Conflict at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
The Program in Peace and Conflict Studies
The Theater Department
The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry
The Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
A Labor of Life, Change, and Love: LBGTQ People, Inclusion, and The Presbyterian Church
The Rev. Dr. Joan M. Martin, Associate Professor of Christian Social Ethics at the Episcopal Divinity School
Tuesday, 11/13
Held in Professor Brooten’s course NEJS 148b “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Jews and Christians: Sources and Interpretations”
Signs of Poetry Past: The Literariness of Pre-Biblical Hebrew Literature
Martin Weiner lecture with Ed Greenstein, Professor of Bible and Head of the Institute for Jewish Biblical Interpretation at Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and the Martin Weiner Fund
Arabic Movie Night
"Cairo Station (alternatively titled: The Iron Gate)", presented by the Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies program, with English subtitles
November 8
A Taste of NEJS
Open House with Kosher Chinese Food
Thursday, October 25
Preview Spring 2013 Courses
Meet our professors and UDRs
Arabic Movie Night
"The Yacoubian Building"
Presented by the Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies program, with English subtitles
A Special Screening of "See You Soon Again"
Meet the director Benadette Wegenstein
Thursday, October 4, 7 pm
Brides and Blemishes: Queering Women's Disability in the Babylonian Talmud
A guest lecture with Julia Watts Belser, Assistant Professor of Judaism at Missouri State University.
Thursday, October 4
The lecture will be held in Professors Brooten's course NEJS 148b
Intentionality and Irony: The Missed Encounter of Quentin Skinner and Hayden White
Guest Lecturer: Professor Martin Jay (History, UC Berkeley)
Thursday, September 20, 2:00-4:00PM
This event is co-sponsored by the History of Ideas Program, the Departments of History and Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, the Mandel Center for the Humanities, and the Martin Weiner Fund.
Tauber Colloquium
Tuesday, September 11, 12 - 2 pm
A special screening of "Orchestra of Exiles"
Meet the director Josh Aronson
Thursday, September 20, 7 pm
NEJS Welcome Reception
NEJS hosted a Welcome Reception for incoming graduate students — from four continents! South America, Asia, Europe, North America. Faculty and returning grad students mingled with the new students while enjoying delicious refreshments from Milk Street Cafe. Best of luck to all this semester!