CJS Graduate Student Conference
Please join us for our annual Graduate Student Conference. This day-long event features presentations by PhD students in the Jewish Studies collaborative program. Professor Andrea Most will give the keynote address at 9:15am, entitled: "The Farmer's in the Shul: The New Jewish Food Movement."
Co-sponsored by the Shier Family Enhancement Fund and the Tikvah Fund.
Conference Program
8:30am–9:00am
Coffee and Tea
9:00am–9:15am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Jeffrey Kopstein, Acting Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies and Professor of Political Science
Brian Corman, Dean of the School of Graduate Studies, Vice-Provost, Graduate Education, and Professor of English
9:15am–10:30am
Keynote Address
Andrea Most, Associate Professor of English
“The Farmer’s in the Shul: The New Jewish Food Movement”
10:30am–10:45am
Break
10:45am–11:45am
Panel 1: Early Judaism
Chair and Respondent: Judith Newman, Associate Professor of Religion
Ryan Stoner, Department for the Study of Religion, “The Entering in of Years and the Going out of Times: Perspectives on the Periodization of Time in the Dead Sea Scrolls”
Sarit Kattan-Gribetz, Department for the Study of Religion, Princeton University, “Her Time: Temporality and the Laws of Menstrual Purity”
11:45am–12:15pm
Panel 2: Medieval Jewish History
Chair and Respondent: Mark Meyerson, Professor of History
Alexandra Guerson, Department of History, “Samuel Gracia and the Use of Christian Courts: Legal Acculturation in the Fourteenth-Century Crown of Aragon”
12:15pm–1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm–2:30pm
Panel 3: Holocaust Studies
Chair and Respondent: Doris Bergen, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies
Rebecca Carter-Chand, Department of History, “When Victims Admit Guilt: Postwar Statements of Guilt Among Christian Minority Groups in Germany and the Legacy of Antisemitism”
Natalie Mathieson, Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, “Mourning in the Clouds: ‘Luftleben’ in Jewish Poetry During and After the Holocaust”
2:30pm–3:30pm
Panel 4: Jewish Thought
Chair and Respondent: David Novak, J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Professsor of Jewish Studies
Christine Rooks, Department of Philosophy, “Franz Rosenzweig’s Strategies for Avoiding Nihilism in the Star of Redemption”
Lindsay Macumber, Department for the Study of Religion, “Banality Reconsidered: The Process from Ambivalence to Compliance, or ‘It is Pointless to Swim Against the Stream’”
3:30pm–3:45pm
Break
3:45pm–4:15pm
Panel 5: Hebrew Literature
Chair and Respondent: Karen Weisman, Associate Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of English
Yona Katz, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, “'From Crying Comes Light’: The Impact of Post-Traumatic Stress on the Poetry of
Amir Gilboa”
4:15pm–4:30pm
Closing Remarks
Doris Bergen, Graduate Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies
4:30pm
Reception
DATE & TIME
Wednesday, Apr 18th, 2012 8:30 AM
LOCATION
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100, 170 St. George St.
ATTACHMENTS
CJS Graduate Student Conference 2012.pdf
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