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Lunchtime Seminars
The lectures meet from 12:30 to 2pm in the Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall at HBI. A kosher lunch will be provided. Click here for schedule.
Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective: A Talk with Joy Ladin
Thursday, February 7th, 2019 from 5:00-7:00pm
Shapiro Campus Center, Multi-Purpose Room, 2nd Floor
Book signing and reception to follow.
This event is a part of 'Deis Impact.
Joy Ladin, the first openly transgender professor in an Orthodox institution, will read from her new book, "The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah From a Transgender Perspective" (Brandeis University Press/HBI Series on Jewish Women). Ladin will discuss the need for this trans perspective, as well as her process and journey. She is a professor of English at Stern College/Yeshiva University.
Co-Sponsors: Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Jewish Feminist Association of Brandeis, Keshet, Ruach HaYam
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We are Still Accepting Book Proposals
Thursday, February 7th, 2019 from 5:00-7:00pm
Shapiro Campus Center, Multi-Purpose Room, 2nd Floor
Book signing and reception to follow.
This event is a part of 'Deis Impact.
Joy Ladin, the first openly transgender professor in an Orthodox institution, will read from her new book, "The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah From a Transgender Perspective" (Brandeis University Press/HBI Series on Jewish Women). Ladin will discuss the need for this trans perspective, as well as her process and journey. She is a professor of English at Stern College/Yeshiva University.
Co-Sponsors: Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Jewish Feminist Association of Brandeis, Keshet, Ruach HaYam
Sexual Harassment: The Law, The Politics, and The Movement
Did you miss this lecture? Watch it here!
HBI was proud to host Catharine A. MacKinnon, the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School for our annual Diane Markowicz Lecture on Gender and Human Rights, October 14, 2018. Her lecture is titled, “Sexual Harassment: The Law, The Politics, and The Movement.”
Long before the #MeToo movement, Professor MacKinnon pioneered the legal claim for sexual harassment and, with Andrea Dworkin, created ordinances recognizing pornography as a civil rights violation and proposed the Swedish model for abolishing prostitution. The Supreme Court of Canada has largely accepted her approaches to equality, pornography, and hate speech, which have been influential internationally as well.
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